说实话,文艺片没看懂,跟《布达佩斯大饭店》一样,没有跌宕起伏的剧情,只有无限遐想的留白。


奥兰多从一开始的身为一名男性,从背叛开始“the treachery of men”,到失败的爱情“the treachery of women”,转而投身到精神追求中,我觉得是受到嘲讽吧——之后转身投入事业中。

可以看到一个男性,包括在现在社会也是,的大致历程是这样的。

后面他性格转变,由男性变成女性后,社会对女性的恶意逐渐凸显:大肆谈论女性的诗人却不懂尊重女性,反而在为自己的行为狡辩;女人不能拥有财产只能拥有“使用权”;女人必须要依附一个男人,必须要有儿子才能保留下自己的财产…这是奥兰多身为一个男性的时候根本没有过的体验。

爱情部分就不说了,不懂——到底是男人深情邀请她远走高飞,还是女人绝情拒绝他;到底是女人深情请男人留下来跟她生孩子,还是男人拿追求自由当谎言要逃离?

Anyway,我也不是很清楚。我只是很佩服她能够平静且微笑地送他离去——反正我做不到,我只觉得如果我能活200年我也应该行。


后来,她穿越了过去现在,抵达了未来。带着她的孩子,一个女孩儿,回到了一百年前她曾失去的家。最后的时候,坐在树下的奥兰多哭了——我也不知道她为什么哭,也许是平静回顾了这400年的人生,那些好的不好的,都已经是过去了:放下过去,就会迎来新生。

女儿问她,你为什么这么悲伤?如同400年前萨沙问他的问题一致,只不过那个时候的他,没有安全感,总觉得幸福会结束、提前为无法永存的幸福悲伤;而这一次,她说,这不是悲伤,是开心的。她指了指天空,让女儿看到了在天空中飞舞的天使,他是这么唱的:

I am coming! I am coming!
I am coming through!
Coming across the divide to you
In this moment of unity
feeling an ecstacy
to be here, to be now
At last I am free
Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me
I am coming! I am coming!
Here I am!
Neither a woman, nor a man
We are joined, we are one
With the human face
We are joined, we are one
With the human face
I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying
I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying
I am coming! I am coming!
I am coming through!
Coming across the divide to you
In this moment of unity
feeling an ecstacy
to be here, to be now
At last I am free!
Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me
Yes at last, at last
to be free of the past
and the future that beckons me
I am coming! I am coming!
Here I am!
Neither a woman, nor a man
Oh we are joined, we are one
with the human face
Oh we are joined, we are one
with the human face
At last I am free!
At last I am free!
I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born and I am dying
I am on earth
And I am in outer space
I'm being born, I am dying
At last I am free!
At last I am free!!!
Yes at last, at last, at last I'm free!
Yes at last, at last, at last I'm free!

没太懂,也许是还没到那个心境;

不想懂,因为懂了就会不一样了。