《通靈感應》的英文片名，讓我想起N年前在電影節看的加拿大導演Atom Egoyan 的 The Sweet Hereafter（《莫失莫忘》），兩部電影都從災難過後探討人如何走出死亡的陰影，哀而不傷。《通靈感應》由已年過八十的奇連依士活執導，近年他的電影愈拍愈有火，前作《擊情》和《驅。逐》中他已觸及死亡議題，今次這部《通靈感應》，他開宗明義大談死亡，明顯收起了之前的火氣，暴烈的麻辣鍋變成了溫潤的老火湯。
電影由三段獨立的故事組成，法國女主播在海嘯中劫後餘生，腦裡經常出現瀕死時所見的景象；倫敦小男孩忘不了在車禍中喪生的哥哥；麥迪文飾演的靈媒不想知道別人的秘密，更不希望以此為生，三位主角都和死亡扯上關係，同樣孤獨同樣不快樂。與死人接觸這類題材可以拍得很靈異，但奇連依士活更希望刻劃的，是人如何從自己的瀕死經驗(女主播），至親的離世（倫敦男孩）以及旁人的傷痛（靈媒）等不同角度，見證死亡為我們帶來的衝擊。
三條主線各自發展，最後三組人物會聚，帶出戲味。電影的節奏平穩，唯一美中不足的，是初段至中段略嫌鬆散，令頭尾比重失衡，而三段中又以倫敦小孩一段最為感人，他與吸毒母親之間的親情也描寫得極為細緻，難得的是電影也同時探討了靈媒內心的矛盾和衝突，讓麥迪文更有發揮。看完《通靈感應》，我不肯定奇連依士活本人是否相信來世，但從電影的種種蛛絲馬跡看來，可以肯定的，是他對死亡的態度愈來愈坦然，令《通靈感應》更添個人色彩，成了他和自己的對話。
（to be published in Ming Pao weekly 2011.1.22)
2 comments:
I was very scared of death when I was a young boy, just about the same age of the boy in the movie. I still do sometimes. I did a nightmare, about death. Everything is yellow in the dream, which is different from that in the movie. Anyway, there is nothing horrible in it as I could remember. But after that night, I start to think about death. What is it? what is going on after life? What about me? Would I still able to feel anything? If I could, why I don't feel anything about my previous life? I'm not sure if death make me scare, or just all these questions. I could hardly think too much about death from then on.
This movie and this article, make me feel quite releasing. Just as its title, "面對死亡更坦然". At least for this moment, after so much thinking of death, I'm not scared. Thank you.
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