好朋友Buddies(1985)的劇情介紹
Theelusivefirstfilmaboutthat“new”diseaseofthe80s,AIDS.
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Gay-porn-director-turned-indie-film-makerArthurBressan(whoalsomadeABUSE)dealsdirectlywiththesubjectofthediseasebyhavingDavid,ayoungtypesetter(DavidSchachter)undertakevolunteerworkasa‘buddy’tovisitAIDSpatientsinaNewYorkhospital.HisassignmentisRobert(GeoffEdholm),who’sdownandnearlyoutforthecount,butstillpassionateaboutthepoliticsbehindthedisease.AlthoughDavidiscurrentlyprocessingabookabouttheillnessfromallpointsofview–medical,religious,etc–hefindsthere’smoretolearnfirst-handaboutattitude.?
Bressankeepstheviewpointexclusivelyonthetwobuddiesandmakestheunusualchoicetoblockoutallotheractorsinthemovie–ittookmeawhiletorealisethatwewereonlyhearingpeople’svoices(onthephone,intheadjacentroom,ontaperecorders)ornotseeingwhotheywere(filmedfromtheback,behindshowercurtains,outoffocus,etc).Notunexpectedlyforanindiefilmit’slow-keyandlow-budget,withanerraticlevelofperformance,butnice-lookingandwithasuitablysimplescoreforstringquartet.Asapieceofcinema,it’sofinterestprimarilyforhistoricalreasons,butsurveyorsoftheNYIndiesceneorthosewithaninterestinalternativecinemamaywanttocheckitout,too.
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Gay-porn-director-turned-indie-film-makerArthurBressan(whoalsomadeABUSE)dealsdirectlywiththesubjectofthediseasebyhavingDavid,ayoungtypesetter(DavidSchachter)undertakevolunteerworkasa‘buddy’tovisitAIDSpatientsinaNewYorkhospital.HisassignmentisRobert(GeoffEdholm),who’sdownandnearlyoutforthecount,butstillpassionateaboutthepoliticsbehindthedisease.AlthoughDavidiscurrentlyprocessingabookabouttheillnessfromallpointsofview–medical,religious,etc–hefindsthere’smoretolearnfirst-handaboutattitude.?
Bressankeepstheviewpointexclusivelyonthetwobuddiesandmakestheunusualchoicetoblockoutallotheractorsinthemovie–ittookmeawhiletorealisethatwewereonlyhearingpeople’svoices(onthephone,intheadjacentroom,ontaperecorders)ornotseeingwhotheywere(filmedfromtheback,behindshowercurtains,outoffocus,etc).Notunexpectedlyforanindiefilmit’slow-keyandlow-budget,withanerraticlevelofperformance,butnice-lookingandwithasuitablysimplescoreforstringquartet.Asapieceofcinema,it’sofinterestprimarilyforhistoricalreasons,butsurveyorsoftheNYIndiesceneorthosewithaninterestinalternativecinemamaywanttocheckitout,too.
好朋友Buddies(1985)的影評
這是一部政治電影,但在我看來它也是一個愛情故事。”——小阿瑟·J·布雷桑從1981年7月13日紐約時報第一次公開提及“艾滋病"這種新型病毒開始泛濫起,這場昔日的世紀大屠殺如今已逐漸淡出了人們的記憶。并非是人們不知道有過數百 ...
80年代的艾滋恐慌,像舞台劇的移植。病房的逼仄和紐約城市的空曠。愛在瘟疫蔓延時的無助與死到臨頭的面對自我和溫情。
——你說得對但讓我們先拍兩大段的病房自慰戲,再舉個標牌出去遊行(笑死了,難以想像第一部艾滋片是戰鬥宣言,主流沒來得及反對就被驕傲的姿態羞辱了哪
這片子大半是在說我們向你展示了一位垂死的鬥士,現在請你繼承他的精神,也有所行動
在非常有限的成本下,拍了這樣一部對于艾滋危機和酷兒曆史都極具意義的作品,劇作和表演本身雖然都有強烈的舞台劇感,然而探讨的主題和其中的訊息卻深刻而曆久彌新。在死亡氣息蔓延的NYC酷兒群體中,在醫院病房裡去體會生而為人的勇氣與愛,而當David走上街頭,舉起抗議的picket時,我們再次被提醒關于the resistance and protest at the core of queerness 的意義。
mubi展映Arthur的兩個,劇情片比起紀錄片弱了
在驕傲遊行當天看本片特别有意義,因為電影裡有電視報道80年代同樣的一天同樣的一群人走上街頭釋放驕傲。主角是艾滋危機中一位出櫃順利、家庭和睦、感情穩定的青年,他來到同志服務中心做義工,陪伴那些無人看護的臨終艾滋病患者,電影沒有着重強調病患的痛苦和疾病的殺傷力,而是在用病人的經曆改變主角的思維,讓他打破長久以來自己生活的幸運的氣泡——即“出櫃與否是自己的事與他人無關”,在艾滋危機中不僅要互相成為“buddy”幫助他人,每個人都站出來發聲更是很有必要的。電影雖然鏡頭和故事都比較簡單,但情感真摯動人,兩位演員也很不錯,是認知紐約艾滋危機的又一好例