2010年4月16日星期五

雙情路("Brothers") ----- A film about relationships of any kind, nearly!!!
























Film : Brothers (2009)(USA)
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Written by David Benioff
Starring Tobey Maguire/ Natalie Portman/ Jake Gyllenhaal/ Sam Shepard/ Clifton Collins, Jr./ Mare Winningham
Music by Thomas Newman
Duration : 105mins

1. 片的idea很不錯,可以有很大的發揮,戲裡每一種關係都存在conflicts!不過,亦因此太多東西要說,兩小時的戲實在不夠,三個小時會好些!有很多感覺的變化沒法慢慢develop,所以覺得有點去得不夠natural!我相信要去到整齣戲高潮位的爆發是需要更多感情蘊釀的描寫!

2. Opening Credit見到"Winter" --- Performed by U2成個人醒咗,突然對套戲更有期待,而且覺得好俾面U2,好少戲的opening會咁樣出,背後的故事容後再談!

3. Tobey Maguire(Sam)個樣真係唔似阿哥,Jake Gyllenhaal(Tommy)似大過佢,不過原來蜘蛛仔已34歲,真係大過斷背山幾年,Natalie Portman(Grace)都唔似有兩個女啦!

4. 戲裡涉及的感情衝突有很多,有兄弟情,愛情,曖昧之情,親情,父子情,父女情,姊妹情,友情,實在沒法在一齣戲內取得平衡!看得出導演在每一種關係上都有著墨,只是最終要把整件事集中到主角三人的身上,必須作出取捨!其實導演要係咁短時間處理咁多感情,功力已算很不錯,不應要求過高!

5. 我覺得好看,起碼那種情緒到完場後仍留在我心內一段時間,代表對我有impact,只是這樣的一個故事,應該可以更加好!

6. 最有張力的兩場戲大概是那兩場飯枱戲,用一席飯的時間營造張力,也同時在那席飯爆發,尤其是第二場看得我多麼集中,拍得好正!

7. Tommy與Grace在火爐邊的那場戲,播著U2的舊歌,他們談起從前,Tommy還笑Grace覺得她會是聽'Nsync的(90s好紅的boyband,字幕只譯流行曲),點知他們都是非常喜歡U2,我完全明白在音樂上的共鳴感可以是"一觸即發'的(電影上亦然),亦令事情來得較make sense!

8. 看看下,我開始驚齣戲會有個完整的ending,因為反而會感覺很怪,不切實際!

9. Isabelle的角色(Grace的大女)演得很不錯!"Accept yourself, everyone will love you!",是否真的?!

10. Tommy還車,Grace開門在門口的那場戲Natalie Portman做得也不錯 ------ 那種再也冷靜不來要块堤的感覺!

11. Sam的角色其實相當複雜,他內心那種沒法向外人道的壓抑及他對妻子的懷疑導致他破壞與所有至親的關係,也令自己走向瘋狂其實是可以理解的!突然又令我想起"人間失格"的內容,那種夫妻間的關係那種微妙的心理變化描繪得很好!Tobey Maguire演得不錯,他真的瘦了很多,不過突破了形象,好事!他的角色性格形成其實有很多東西可以討論!
12. 至於那個道德問題,真的很難找到答案,戲亦一點沒提,只看到那個後果!
 
13. 導演原來是愛爾蘭人,如果美國人拍又可能看到那些大美國主義,通常講軍人講阿富汗都會滲D,不過此片是以人性出發,難得!
 
14. 好彩無睇過trailer,穿咗太多嘢!睇翻發覺有D shots電影無用到,可能其實有個三小時版!
 
15. U2是愛爾蘭Band,與導演原來是朋友,是導演要求他們為套戲寫歌,結果用了"Winter"這歌作為片尾曲,原來這歌原本是放在他們2009年的大碟裡,不過由於與主題不夾所以放棄了!而此歌也曾用於電影"Linear"內,不過較band sound,個intro卻編得超正!而"Brothers"內的是比較acoustic,用了很多piano!!!
p.s. U2 is my most favourite band in the whole wide world! 如果我有生之年可以親眼睇到佢地live performance都算無憾!當然此時此刻是邊播著U2的歌邊寫這遍隨想!
 
16.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpByhl_3ac&feature=related ------- U2 -- Winter ("Brothers" Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QGlH8551Sk&feature=related ------ U2 -- Winter ("Linear" Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObmFIUSqmk&feature=related ------ U2 -- Bad (''Brothers'' Soundtrack)(火爐旁播著的歌)

p.s. 我幾鍾意戲最後的對白,不知大家感覺如何?

5 則留言:

  1. "Winter" by U2

    The yellow sun
    Well, it took the hand
    Of a country boy
    To a city in a far-off land

    We made no mark
    No shadow at all
    On the ancient, holy streets
    Where I learned to crawl

    The broken and the bruised
    The young and the used
    The sure and confused
    All here

    Words will then land on me
    Then abandon me
    Mangle, untangle me
    Leave me on the floor
    Rhymes, they sprang in me
    Summer sang in me
    But summer sings in me no more

    Now I'm twenty-five
    And trying to stay alive
    In a corner of the world
    With no clear enemies to fight

    It's hot as hell
    We're like butter on toast
    But there's no army in this world
    That can fight a ghost

    The broken and the bruised
    The young and the used
    The sure and confused
    All here

    Words will then land on me
    Then abandon me
    Leave me stranded
    In guard of the door
    Rhymes began in me
    Summer sang in me
    But summer sings in me no more

    Listening to the cries
    The strangers
    The silence of the foreign grave
    Listening to the thunder
    The sky is strange
    Stretched over everyone
    Listening to the tales
    The child sings
    That goes for days and days
    Listening to the calls
    Shouts, frustration

    At twenty-one
    I was born a son
    And on that day I knew
    I could kill

    To protect the ones
    We put bullets in guns
    Or anything it takes
    To take a life until it's still

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  2. "Brothers" Version的歌詞似乎作出了改動,不過我找不到!以上是用在"Linear"電影內的版本!

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  3. 唔駛客氣,我樂意的,只是成日搞到無得瞓!好多時日夜顛倒都係因為寫blog!

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  4. 我覺得最好睇係Sam眼見同伴已在死亡邊緣, 在同伴,家人,國家作出抉擇的一刻,人性就變得脆弱,最慘是以為自己附出的沉重代價換取家人, 回來不是預期的模樣, 真是會使人崩潰的!

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  5. 是的!只是他的家庭所產生的變化是無可避免的(雖然我仍感覺快了點),沒有人需要負責任,其實最可悲就是這樣,好似把問題推回自己身上,Sam應看到自己的瀕臨崩潰會令事情變得更壞,不過他實在再沒法抑壓自己!

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