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    这是我看的第二个凯文·史密斯的电影，比《疯狂店员》差远了。主题很简单，就是讲爱情那码事的，中译名《猜·情·寻》简明扼要地概括了大意。故事的一点新意体现在对女主角身份的设定上，是同性恋，而又在向异性恋靠拢。但是我觉得这个演员表演不到位，怎么看怎么别扭，本·阿弗莱克还凑合。其他的嘛，情节没什么特别之处（如果有，也“特别”得牵强，不合情理，最后阿弗莱克那个解决办法实在是突兀得不象话），毕竟一辈子能写出一个《疯狂店员》那样的本子就该知足了。其实我们看凯文的电影，主要兴趣是在美国另类文化和美国青年的另类生活方式上，电影和这有关的也就是一个漫画大会，凯文还不失时机地顺带着又提了提星战，仅此而已。台词也找不到多少精妙之笔，有很多卖弄的嫌疑，男主人公真情告白那段倒是堪称经典，简直像是从十部爱情经典中提炼出来的，但也仅此而已。……这样来看,这个片子也就看着玩吧……

True touch of life emotions. honest, raw, melodramatic, but its all part of life.

The movie deals things among friends, lovers and anything in between. How are we define our loving feelings towards another human being, how are we identify ourselves emotionally and sexually, how are we cope with one's past and what they are thinking about us.

True love is that hard to find, but when we find it, we try everything on it, we question, we test, we doubt, we wonder. It is human nature, we want to vindicate over and over again, that love is unique, is pure, is never be touched by anyone. I guess we just want to feel special, but we are special, with or without. Love is powerful, but lovers can be damaged for good. When we desperately seek equality and balance in love, it tilts unexpectly to the other side.

There are two kinds of people in the world, 90% is narrative, about one tenth are episodic. When I say narrative, it means people are affected and shaped by what they experience, something in the past can change someone's character; while episodic people don't believe past things can change them, they see their past and future separately. Maybe Alyssa is an episodic, but that doesn't mean people look at the way she thinks everyone looks at her. It partly explains why she falls back to her own way in the end.

Love is easy, loving a person is never easy (apart from living with one). We are sometimes forced to confront their issues past, present and future, we get frustrated easily. But the power comes from within, that willingness to take on that person wholly and completely, believing that he/she is really the missing part of the puzzle, and accepting the aching truth that he/she's done something you don't want to acknowledge.

Next time, when love comes along, don't hesitate, don't question, just enjoy the company of another soul that really gets you.

又看了一齣90年代電影的DVD——Chasing Amy。記得公園仔在公國和MTO裡已經先後提過此片幾次。自己當年沒有看過﹐那個年頭﹐大概連誰是 Ben Affleck 也完全不知道吧﹖小本經營﹐沒有甚麼卡士﹐而且英文片名難以歸類的電影﹐要我掏腰包看實在不容易。不過﹐如果當年知道這電影在香港上映時譯名為引人入勝的「猜．情．尋」﹐我大抵會乖乖購票入場。

其實這個譯名放在甚麼愛情片都可以﹐愛情路上﹐誰沒有尋覓過﹖誰沒有猜度過﹖不過﹐看完電影﹐最想說的是男女追逐﹐很多時都有猜拳的感覺﹐你每一步都沒有必勝的把握﹐萬事都有與其相剋的東西﹐是勝是負總要看對方的對策。粵語把「剪刀﹑石頭﹑布」的猜拳叫做「猜情尋」或「包剪揼」﹐其中「包」是布﹐「剪」是剪刀﹐「揼」是石頭。我邊看這齣電影﹐一邊就不斷在想這個中文譯名﹐與電影主題的關係﹕情人的過去﹐你應該計較嗎﹖

看了100分鐘﹐終於讓我領悟到﹐電影的總結是﹕應該出 「包」——包容的包。

片中 Ben Affleck 將本是 Lesbian 的女友 Joey Lauren Adams 追到了﹐他能夠接受她與近年與多位女子的關係﹐卻接受不到她十年前曾經一次同時與兩個男人發生關係。當然﹐這是他個人的性觀念問題﹐其實人越大﹐越來越難以計較伴侶的性經驗了﹐今時今日的開放社會﹐如果不對此放開一點﹐包容一點﹐還是諸多計較﹐也許就得孤獨終老了。有段戲是他倆討論甚麼是 virgin ﹐還討論到此字的定義與 penatration 的關係﹐對白很露骨﹐但也很真實地探討到﹕如果情侶之間的性觀念有分歧﹐又不努力拉近的話﹐關係不容易長久。但成年人此等觀念根深蒂固﹐要徹底改變﹐其實談何容易﹖

Stannum 業餘評分﹕棧棧棧棧棧棧棧棧（十個棧滿分）

原文來自個人網誌﹐各位如有回應﹐請到原文留言﹐謝謝﹗
http://blog.cosine-inn.com/2006/02/274/

一段复杂也简单的爱情，一个典型的男人很理智地做了错事，一个典型的女人做了很多错事才变得理智，他俩一起走到了各自的交叉路口...

庸俗地提示下，这是个关于一个男人爱上一个女同性恋，一个女同性恋爱上一个男人的故事。呵呵

电影里的每句台词都很认真，很聪明。

力荐男女都看，但很多人可能会觉得：闷