今天和朋友一起看完了Frances Ha,我们都很喜欢这部电影。黑白片,多少有点法国新浪潮的意思。剧情棒,拍摄手法也很好。

Frances Ha并不是多么稀有的女孩,她笨拙、单纯、每天有22小时活在自己的时间里,想着伍尔夫、普鲁斯特和舞蹈,剩下的2小时用来担忧房租和钱。因为她沉浸在自己的世界里,所以往往忽视了他人的处境。尽管她说着:“Shophie and I are the same person with different hair colors.”但是她却不知道,Sophie看上了另一个区的公寓。这话不是说她太自我中心,而是她还没有长大,还是个青春期的少女,不太清楚世界运转的规则,也不太清楚获取信息的手段。如此稚嫩,仿若一头清晨从草地上掠过的鹿,身上还有些露水。少女,我所喜爱的,想要描写的就是这样的少女。

Sophie其实和Frances是硬币恰恰相反的两面。只不过,二者皆是一枚硬币。这样的“对映”在太多太多文学作品里都已经出现过了,比较有名的——Lila和Lenu,比较没名的——戴男式帽子的少女和海伦 · 拉戈奈尔(她在《情人》里就出现了几张纸,但是我真的很确定,她和少女是“对映”的关系)。(讲到这里,Frances和海 · 拉多少有点相似,都十分“undateable”)所有这些青春期的少女,互补,竞争,沉浸在对方的目光里,多多少少为了对方而努力活着。这种关系就是我想写的关系。 最后摘录一段Frances的独白:

I want this one moment in a relationship, which might explain why I am single now. It’s that thing when you’re with someone, and you love them, and they know it. And they love you, and you know it. But it’s a party. And you’re both talking to other people. They’re laughing and shining, and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes… But not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual. But because that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.

在Frances Ha的末尾,Frances 和 Sophie就是这样在人群中对望的。尽在无言中。

跳出这部电影来单独看独白,也非常美,而且这段有一种跨文化的连结。从前我有另一个朋友给我写过一句话: “满堂兮美人,忽汝与余兮目成。” 那是在我们看了《杀死汝爱》之后,她说艾伦金斯堡和Lucien在派对中的相见就是这样。