长篇影评
1 ) 因果浮世绘
许多人都只会关心自己及身边发生的事情,但只要宏观地看这世界,其实在我们与许多不认识的人之间,都可能存在我们看不到的因果关系。
这是一部缩小世界众生版图,和拉近各地人与人之间关系的电影。影片由几个小章节串连而成,当中牵涉不同身份、地域、语言和遭遇,每个小故事的角色所面对的心理难题都不一样,但有一个共通点互相连系。
我之所以喜欢这部电影,是因为当中传达了很玄的因果讯息,而这类题材向来深得我心。
其实这戏带出的讯息不少,你可以看成是每个人都会面对人生交叉口,选那一条路都会给自己截然不同的命运;你也可以看成这戏是在描绘世上不同的情感关系。只是,我较为喜欢的一部份,是戏中连着每个故事的因果关系。
只要细心地看,不难发现几个故事都展现了「如果不是……就不会……」的模式。好像那名出差丈夫若不是召妓不成,也不会留言给妻子以表思念;妻子若不是收到丈夫的留言,也不会跟小男朋友分手。小男朋友因为不忠,他本来的女朋友也离他回乡去;假如女朋友不是要分手回乡,也不会碰上那名释囚;若然她不是打算跟这名陌生男子(她不知他是释囚)任性一晚,也不会留下字条给那名女儿失踪的父亲,而字条当中的一番任性感言,也不会辗转落入那名心猿意马的红帽妇人耳里,因而影响她的离婚决定……
如此种种因果牵引充斥着每个小故事;独立来看是单一的影响,退后一步,却是一个命运连着一个命运的繁复千丝万缕;更甚者,这边厢一段关系的结束,其实是因为要成就那边厢另一段关系的开始。
本片看似松散,每个小故事也未必有足够篇幅经营好每段情感蹉跎。然而,宏观地看这电影,会发现编导志不在建构几段戏剧性的情爱关系,而是透过每个章节之间的联系,令观众明白到言者轻描淡写又或是妄下评语,听者都可能上心在意,又或有感当头棒喝。结果在处于每个抉择交叉口上,不知不觉受到别人的无心快语或无意的行为影响一生。
几个故事间轻轻的连系,表面轻弱无力,实际传达了富哲理的讯息,也给观众一番想象和思考机会。假如编导稍为在彼此的关连下重手,就变得太戏剧化而失真了。
祁佳仕
2 ) 精巧的结构
很精巧的结构与人物关系,轻描淡写的衔接与融合。影片并不是完全的分段式结构,人物最初的铺陈随着各自故事的展开,自然而然地交织在一起,同时又相互支撑一同拓展了空间。《上帝之城》的导演,放下了紧张与暴力,从容地走向了温情。
3 ) monologue
我觉得这是一个很好的多线叙事的范例,不知道为什么有人说差。Anyway,Anthony Hopkins的那段,让我印象极其深刻。我不喜欢看老人戏,但是老戏骨太牛掰,那一个眼神一个表情都直达你的内心。我觉得他那一大段monologue,如果被别人说来,我一定早就出戏了。结果被他说得。。。以后有男同学要去试镜,需要准备monoloque,这段真正好!(扒下来之后觉得,台词真一般,被他说过之后的味道才这么好!!!)
"see you next time"
they're 4 innocent enough words
but they went through me like a knife.
because in that moment I realized to them I'd become a familiar face.
A joke. You know, the British guy who's running a one-man campaign stubbornly scratching away,
refusing to do what you've all been urging me to do for years and years.
You move on, let go and all that stuff.
Yeah, it's not easy.
I got sober a long time ago out in Los Angeles. 35, 36 years ago.
I was crazy, insane. I was sickened to death, drunk and insane and…
I was sentenced to AA meetings and I hated the damn things.
I hated all this.. "God" stuff. I made me wanna puke.
Move on, let go, let God… surrender and win… I was a winner.
I've been a winner all my life.
And...
but I was fighting all the time and…
Anyway, cut a long story short, there was this old man, a priest.
A Jesuit priest.
His name was Father Joe Riley.
And I'll never forget him as long as I live.
And one night I was about to leave the meeting.
He stood in my way. Said "where the hell do you think you're going?"
I said you get out of my way.
He said you're not going anywhere.
He looked up to my face, had these piercing blue eyes
and a cigarette in his mouth and he said "you know…"
he said "You look like, to me, you look like you're busted, disgusted and not to be trusted."
And he was right.
I wasn't to be trusted by anyone. I'd never trust myself even.
And one day I asked him, "Okay, Father…"
I called him Father and he got a kick out of that.
I said "you know all the answers, you must be a smart guy. What's the shortest, most powerful prayer in the world?"
I needed quick answers
So I wanted to be back on the fast track.
I said "What is the fastest, most powerful prayer in the world?"
Fastest, most powerful prayer in the world, he looked at me, he said:
"Fastest, most powerful prayer in the world, I'm afraid is Fuck It."
Father Joe Riley. He was a Jesuit priest. Fuck it. Can you believe it?
He said "It's the prayer of release and surrender" and I felt the whole weight of the world going off my shoulders.
And just before Father Riley died I asked him. I said: "How do I get it? How do I know?"
He said: "You will see when you're ready to see; You will hear when you're ready to hear."
He said "You're a particularly tough nut".
And the weird thing is it happened 2 days ago.
I was traveling on my way here with a young girl from Brazil. She was a kid.
Beautiful little thing. Her name was Laura.
And there was a snow storm at Denver.
Flights were delayed and we arranged to have dinner and when I showed up she wasn't there.
But she left me this note. Can I… Hold on, let me…
And… she said "Ran into someone cute. Never done this kind of thing before. But you only live once. How many chances do we get?"
Out of the mouths of babies and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.
The guy was right whoever wrote that stuff.
And it's taken me all these years.
And I tell you, if my… if my daughter is alive, she knows where I am, where to find me.
And her silence means that she's probably made the choice not to be in touch.
But if she's dead… then she's dead.
And she's gone for ever.
And I have to move on and forget and let go.
Weird stuff.
Wow, I tell you, it's a mystery, all of it.
Anyway, I'll shut up now. Thanks for listening.
4 ) 记录看过的电影
大概是从上了大二开始,喜欢上看慢节奏的电影,或者说是文艺电影。这类电影就适合一个人看,手边有茶的喝茶,有水的喝水。更适合旅行的时候,每次出发前下载下来,在高铁上看,也可以消磨网络诈尸的旅途。
今晚的回家路看完了《圆舞360》,它很真实的描述了现实的爱情,也展示了不同人在社会中的生活图画。商人、牙医、犯人、心理医生、拉皮条的、黑道的、妓女、被男朋友背叛的女孩、女儿失踪的父亲。
每个人物都用平淡的方式,讲述它并不平淡又在情理之中的生活。所有人都直接或间接的有接触,让你在感叹世界真小的同时,更感叹同人不同命,命运的参差不齐。
我喜欢这种看完后可以回味很久的电影,喜欢它里面的冲突,喜欢它悲剧但又现实的故事。
人间砧板,说的就是我吧。
5 ) 惊喜大多数是有惊无喜
-Come on!
-Where r u going?
-I dont know. Come.
-I can't. I'm waiting for my sister.
-Let's go, come on.
-To do what?
-i don't know.
-when r u coming back?
-i dont know.
-You don't know that either?
-No. Come on.
-I can't.
-Come on, let's go. Come on.Come on.
-Okay.
A wise man once said: if there's a fork in the road, take it.
Dear Sister, today i reached my fork and I took it. Jumped in with both feet. We are on separate paths now. Who knows what our journeys are? Where our paths will take us? Don't be angry I letf so suddenly. You always told me I should take more risks! Live a little!
Well ,now I am! Cross your fingers for me. Wish me luck. As I do for you.
Maybe one day...the forkds we have taken...and those others have taken before us, will lead us back together again...
最后乖乖女妹妹和陌生保镖私奔,并对妓女姐姐的一段对白。
我不介意导演可以营造的生活是个圈这种好像很牵强的结构,人物足够打动人心,那就好了。有的好,纯粹是因为莫名其妙的共鸣。
6 ) Reading is for dreamers
这样的剧本必须要强有力的演员阵容,一是在演技上才撑得住场子,二是如果一不小心落了差评则至少还有吸引观众的卖点。
这片儿和王家卫可谓璧合啊。拍出过《上帝之城》的导演也有这样的文艺腔。
不知道为什么想起了传染病/Contagion,不过后者更平淡无味。
既然叫《360》,这个故事根本就不圆嘛,也完全没有轮舞那种螺旋交织的乐趣。作为多线故事,这部影片还是有点太散了,缺少那种环环相扣的乐趣。还不如重看一遍马克斯·奥菲尔斯那版
如果遇到岔路口。那就选一条路。
好几门外语啊~~~~听得我都晕了。。。。。每个故事单拿出来都不错的。演员也有趣,但是讲故事不能太贪,一个讲好就不容易了,别求每个都好还要故事之间有内在逻辑。。。
恰到好处的因果圆舞,风光甚美~
多线叙事,环形结构,大牌明星群戏,≪上帝之城≫导演,但是太无聊了,大卡斯带来的大垃圾。
关于爱情与选择的故事
看的伦敦电影节开幕场,有点太长太平淡了。Idea是很好,可惜没高潮没让人激动的地方。
圆形叙事、全球背景、哲学意义的片名,都没能焕发出该有的神采;叙事散乱、线索不清晰、故事浅尝辄止,本该引发的思考停留在蜻蜓点水的状态。也许,这都是导演追求的效果,意在给观者更大的空间,但本人以为,这部片子要比《巴别塔》弱了很多。
吾之毒药,彼之蜜糖。
神马啊,根本没怎么转圈圈,故事也太零碎,没交集,白开水
这是要把世界各个国家都拉进来么?结果就是各国的操各种语言的演员的走马观花的大罗列,多线叙事的安排拙劣无力,毫无自然的衔接,每个故事的发展又极尽不合逻辑,除了配乐其余相当失败
每一段独立的都很舒服,拼凑起来有有点弱。。。演员都很好,anna妹妹实在太赞了
OST当收,卡司大亮。但个人不喜欢把这些故事故意串起起来。原本random的设定昭揭的是一种无处不在的概率一种人类社会的必然。找根线头栓在一起就变成了一种机缘巧合的关联一种命中注定的难逃。就算墨镜王也不会做这么刻意的附会。
环形结构下包裹的剧情如同一潭死水,剧本的薄弱令这个多线性故事显得那样不堪一击,好像环与环之间的连接随时都会散掉一样。影片以“选择”为主题,最后不过是出轨夫妇回归家庭,作奸犯科者重新做人这样的陈词滥调,角色间的碰撞也是点到即止,浪费了像安东尼·霍普金斯这样的好演员。
演员和剧情都不错,很多熟脸,剧情也有张力。电影结束有一种值得回味的感觉。
头重脚轻。
剧作受奥地利作家亚瑟·施尼茨勒的《轮舞》启发,以全球化的地域和人物来探讨现代人的爱情,剧本显得笨拙臃肿,缺少新意,高潮平淡。多线叙事,关系交织的人物都是应景般的蜻蜓点水。几位明星配上一对陌生的面孔,戏剧性薄弱,故事欠缺力度,白白浪费了一堆好演员,电影似乎走马观花啥都没说。★★
华丽丽滴演出阵容
冈萨雷斯把这种多人的叙事方法又带火之后,这种题材的电影越来越多。但把这种故事说好是很看导演功力的。电影很取巧,但不足够好看。缺点很明显,想当然的情节也很多。人为的推动过于明显。
在欧洲生活的外国人必看。摄影风格无需多言,看预告就知道是我的大菜。此类小故事人物关系串联被此片玩到极致了,好累,感觉我不会再拍了。结局出人意料得圆满,看惯了现实残酷的觉得偶尔看个小团圆也好,能把这么俗的结尾拍出feel来算丫本事。