【推荐】GOOD WILL HUNTING

2005-06-03 16:35 | Random

如果不是有人推荐,恐怕我不会留意到这部封面如此阳光的影片,但看完全片,已感动得不行了。不过片中其实并没有刻意的或是看起来刻意的煽情成分,而是处处都处于“收”的状态,但正是这种将痛咽下的强颜欢笑,才更能让人落泪。

该片在1997年获得了两项奥斯卡奖,当然这并非看点,主要的看点如下:首先,这部影片让两个年轻人从生活窘困转而平步青云,这两人就是该片的编剧兼男主配角Matt Damon和Ben Affleck,该片的剧本花了两人五年的时间写成,两个演员的第一个电影剧本获得Academy Award,是不是奇迹呢?其次,该片导演就是04年以Elephant获得Golden Palm的Gus Van Sant,该片中依然可以看到许多导演独特的处理方法,再有就是Robin Williams在该片中感人至深的演技,必定会使你印象深刻的,虽然他得的是男配角奖,其实我觉得他的角色在剧中已经可以成为男主角,因为整个故事都是因他的出现而发生了改变。

这是一部现实主义题材的心理片,也是我最喜欢的片种之一,故事讲的是一个天才少年由于心理问题接受治疗的故事,但这一句话实在无法包含全片所反映出的许多人生态度,除了主人公Will Hunting对自己的心理疾病和自己未来的看法转变之外,Robin对妻子的感情和与同窗好友Lambaeu在人生成功问题上态度的分歧,以及Will的死党Chuckie对Will的真实看法,还有Will和Skylar从最初的玩玩到后来难舍难分的感情,或许观看的时候感受不那么强烈,但回味起来却意犹未尽。

喜欢该片的另一个理由也是个人的癖好所致,我看电影喜欢收集大段的精彩独白或演讲,Patton、The Great Dictator、Scent of a Woman中的演说我都有收藏,而该片中Robin Williams在湖边的一长段独白《Your move, chief.》,不如前三段那么铿锵有力,但我哭了,能带着淡淡的笑容说出这段话的,只有曾经深深地伤痛过,才能做得到,因为一切都已变得如此淡了,这是全片精华中的精华,也是Robin最精彩的一段表演,相信你也会被打动的。

不过该片仍然是有瑕疵的,坦白地说,首先的一个大问题是导演的剪辑感太差,使得片中许多场景明显不接,剪辑师只能生硬地把两场戏交叉剪辑起来,否则无法独立使用,如果导演在拍摄之前有过比较详细的设计,使得两场戏之间互相呼应,那片中就不会有这么多气氛不对位的情节,比如Lambaeu和Sean在饭店里谈话,中间插一段Will等人玩耍的镜头,有些不合适。不过这并不是剪辑师的错,因为该片的Editor可是大名鼎鼎的Pietro Scalia啊^^,如果仔细看的话片中有好多原本不接的镜头被他一剪就接得非常顺畅了,片首Chuckie第一次走到Will家门口敲门后转身的那个剪辑点就是一个典型,呵呵,实际上下镜头人物方向转了180度,但视觉上却是顺畅的。

我看了该片之后一直觉得,患有抛弃症的人,一定存在于Damon和Affleck两人之中,而Robin对妻子的深深的爱,也一定存在于他们两人之中,如果没有刻骨铭心的爱,怎么可能写得出《Your move, chief.》那段如此动人的话语。而Damon的经历也为该片提供了极好的帮助,Damon进好莱坞是在Harvard辍学之后的事情,有多少人有这个魄力呢?而片中对Harvard的聪明女孩的设置更是与众不同,一个与天才相爱的女孩,多数人都会选择一个聪明漂亮的女演员,以反衬出Will的魅力和两人分开的惋惜,但该片的女主角,说实话并不漂亮,酒吧里第一次出场的时候穿吊带衫,肩上还有好多麻点,真不能算好看,而且口音也十分怪异(英音?),但看到后面却会觉得这个女孩的可爱之处实在是那些花瓶所无法比拟的,玩具店变魔术、街边休闲区的骗吻、酒吧里说黄色笑话的几场戏,你会发觉这女孩实在太可爱了,我相信Damon在哈佛真的遇到过这样的女孩,或许与他相爱或许没有,但这个人是必定存在的,否则怎能如此生动活灵活现?^^

说到两人相遇的头一场戏,就是酒吧碰到卖弄学识的男学生那场,写得实在精彩,因为这场戏里把Chuckie的表演天分、哈佛烂学生的做作、Will的年轻气盛和知识渊博、Skylar的聪明狡猾和眼光敏锐都在一场戏里集中展现了出来,同时以Chuckie作先驱,来显出Will比Chuckie更聪明百倍,更重要的是,在展现Will知识渊博的同时,也埋下了“Will所知全是书本知识”的伏笔,使得后来Sean在湖边的那番话合情合理,也显示出Sean不凡的眼力。

但片中并没有把Sean描写成一个完人,第一次见Will的时候,观众或许会认为他会和前几个医生不同,会一下镇住Will,但他没有,他也发怒了,因为他也是个普通人。但不同与别人的地方是他的真诚打动了Will,而他虽然是个心理医生,
自己却有着严重的心理障碍(这点和我们可爱的Lecter医生一样哦),使得他从来都不敢去参加同学聚会,因为他内心深处觉得自己是个失败者,虽然和lambaeu的争论时口头上并不承认。而妻子的去世对Sean来说更是雪上加霜,对于Sean和妻子之间的故事,片中并没有提多少,他妻子是个怎样的人,他们是如何认识的,片中都交代得十分含糊,而我们能看到的,是Sean对妻子的无限深情,而也能知道他妻子是如何去世的,妻子去世时Sean是怎样在医院中陪着她的——虽然Sean并未直接说,但我想每个人都能理解那段话的含义。

片尾,Will终于去追寻他的爱情和梦想了,到那时候你才会明白,为什么全片要以Chuckie到Will家敲门为开头了。其实第一次看的时候,我以为这是一部类似A Beautiful Mind的影片,但看完以后真的觉得,A Beautiful Mind的视角实在太俗套了。

看完全片,说真的,我实在无法理解数学天才究竟是什么样的天才,包括物理和化学天才。我可以理解Rain Man的数字记忆力,我可以理解Selma听音起舞甚至忘记自己正走向绞架,我可以感受到Amadeus说的“我是个粗俗的人,但我的音乐不粗俗”,甚至每次想起这句话我会激动得眼睛一湿,但我实在无法理解,为什么有人会成为数学物理化学天才?那些东西不是要学了相关的知识才能解的吗,不是有许多初级和高级的不同公式和理论吗,怎么可能天生就明白这些?我无法理解这一点,所以我在片首看到Will身为一个清洁工却做出了高难度的数学题时觉得很假,呵呵,理解缺憾。



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Sean: You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking
about.You've never been out of Boston.So if I asked you about art you’d probably
give me the skinny on every art book ever written...Michelangelo? You know a
lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual
orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells
like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up
at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that.....If I asked you about women you'd probably
give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a
few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman
and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I ask you about war, and you'd probably--uh--throw
Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've
never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and
watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you
about love y'probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman
and been totally vulnerable. Known someone could level you with her eyes. Feeling
like! God put an angel on earth just for you...who could rescue you from the
depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it’s like to be her angel and to
have that love for her to be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer.
You wouldn't know about sleeping sittin’ up in a hospital room for two months
holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term visiting
hours don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only
occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever
dared to love anybody that much. I look at you; I don't see an intelligent,
confident man; I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius, Will.
No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But
you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and
you ripped my fuckin' life apart. You're an orphan right? Do you think I'd know
the first thing about how hard ! your life has been, how you feel, who you are
because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't
give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from
you I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who
you are. And I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport?
You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.