感伤，一个街区的衰落与消亡----我看<铁西区>
 

      最早知道《铁西区》是在去年一期《南方周末》上，知道它长达9个小时，似乎是在北师大作的首映。当时一看到这个名字，没错，仅仅是它的名字，就吸引了我。因为我的家乡就在东北那片土地。一听到铁西，最自然反应的就是：老厂，破产，下岗。可以想象那是一部什么样的影片。收《铁西区》是也就成了长久的期盼。


     真正拿到<铁西区>已经是3月下旬了。沉甸甸的冠豪4D5。当时也没太多选择，事实上，也无心选择。买回来后本想一睹为快。然而，对有家有口的我来说，9小时的大段时间近乎梦想。断断续续，看了N久，终于，看完了。其间无数的观感随风而去。但是，我仍想写点什么，为那些在仍在铁西挣扎存活的工人们，也为了排解内心深处浓重得扯不开的感伤。


     看完《铁西区》，第一个感觉是震撼，无可置疑，它是一部优秀的作品。表现手法极为直接，简单。让镜头自己去说话。而现场那种真实感得让人感觉很难受。仿若我们是隐身的幽灵，在机车上，在那片工厂，那条小街中游荡。耳边听着东北乡音在回响，而自己却置身之外，宛若梦境般无法自拔。令人感觉有些讽刺的是，很快涌上来的第二个感受却是麻木。从开始的大段的长镜头，列车在大雪纷飞的日子在铁西穿行，到后面大量琐碎的日常对话，晃动的镜头，粗糙的画面，大段的平铺直叙，大部分时间里几乎情节没有波动。此时唯一的感受就是被导演拖着，在一部9小时的旅行中不眠不休，看着别人近乎枯燥的点滴生活。一边听着粗话连篇的对话，一边机械地看着字幕。尽管字幕几乎算“洁本”，但依然会感到生理上的排斥，这种反感也许会影响你的好恶，虽然此刻你早已疲惫不堪。


     在《铁西区》里，让我们看到的是几家大型老厂的死亡。在这个庞大而破旧的工业区里，依然能感受它曾有的辉煌，宽敞的厂房，浴室，街道。专用的机车铁道。然而，在它的内部，在那些工人间看似轻松幽默的对话背后，几乎全是沉重的话题。人们的争斗，似乎也成了单调生活中的一抹亮色。在近乎令人窒息的气氛中，曾经的厂房成了一片废墟。捡破烂，拆卖，只剩下一根高耸入云的烟囱矗立，似乎在为那些曾经的激情岁月唱着挽歌。而那些最后一次享受疗养的工人，面对一个死去的人，表现出令人吃惊的漠然与麻木。哀大莫过于心死，而人心已死。


     而《艳粉街》，一个以香艳的名字来命名的一条破旧的小街道。两边是低矮的平房，路边是积雪和垃圾。曾经的产业工人们在雪下捡出些许破烂换些收入。冰冷的冬天，一间简单的小卖部。往来的都是曾经的工人与他们的下一辈。在父辈讨论着如何生存的时候，年轻一代却无忧无愁，他们挥霍着青春，没有工作,没有前途,没有出去闯荡的冲动.就那么赖着,耗着，追追女孩子.算是个乐趣.似乎有无穷多的日子可以打发,但未来呢? 残酷的冬日里没有未来。


     《铁路》，曾经贯穿铁西，联系着一个个重工业大厂，然而当年的骄子如今已奄奄一息。一个60多岁的老工人，在铁路服务多年依旧没有名分，只能与儿子相依为命。无奈的讲述中杂着一声叹息，“就这么混吧”。结尾处，铁路沿途的工厂成批倒闭，拆除。所过之处，尽是废墟。只有字幕上打出的字迹，让人知道这里曾经是什么。机车穿行在厂区之间，见证着人生数十年的悲欢离合，日复一日，年复一年。曾经快乐的日子，平淡的日子，痛苦的日子，就这么一步步走过。


     临近结尾，唯一的高潮出现了。尽管它仅仅是一个数分钟的片断。意外发生后，儿子用粗大的黑手抚摸着曾经拥有的幸福，转瞬间满脸的泪水流下。而在小餐馆，儿子发着酒疯，大哭着下跪。无不令人心碎。这一切让我们感受到粗砺的生活背后小人物那柔弱的心灵。他们渴望的，他们惧怕的，在这个动荡的岁月里，又是谁来操控？

  
     《铁西区》的色调无疑是灰暗的，如同里面大量表现的破旧的建筑与昏暗的冬夜。对比媒体上大红大紫，一片歌舞升平，显得分外另类。然而，对很多人来说，也许灰色才是真实的。

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Review by Derek Elley (Film Business Asia)

Pretty much the only thing off-kilter about When a Wolf Falls In Love With a Sheep 南方小羊牧場 is the cumbersome English title, which also makes it sound like a children's cartoon or a sappy melodrama. Apart from that, this second feature by Taiwanese writer-director HOU Chi-jan 侯季然 is a beautifully paced rom-com wrapped inside a neighbourhood ensemble movie that doesn't put a foot wrong. A rom-com where not a single kiss is exchanged, where the two protagonists seem to spend their time thinking about everything but the other person, and where the story is only just starting as the film ends, Wolf represents a huge leap in writing and structure from his feature debut, the abstruse, time-bending romance One Day 有一天 (2009). More than that, it fulfils the promise of his segment in Juliets 茱麗葉 (2010), a perfect demonstration of the short-story form that also showed a natural feel for Taipei's backstreets.

Clearly inspired by his own memories of Nanyang Street — an area just south of the city's main train station that's known for its cram schools — the movie starts off with protagonist Tung (likably played by Kai KO 柯震東, director Giddens 九把刀' alter ego in hit You Are the Apple of My Eye 那些年，我們一起追的女孩。 (2011)), being peremptorily dumped by his dream girl (Nikki HSIEH 謝欣穎, from One Day, in a cameo) with a note stuck to his forehead. After falling to pieces, and searching for her among Nanyang's cram schools, Tung ends up working in a copy shop there and stumbles across the school where she once was. Meanwhile, he's met one of its employees, Hsiao Yang ("little sheep"), a wannabe illustrator biding her time there and drawing small cartoons of the woolly animal on exam papers.

The quiet Hsiao Yang is slightly tomboyish, quite independent minded, and definitely a bit spacey. As she and Tung become pals, sharing their memories of being dumped, they enter into a relationship that neither of them realises is happening: part of the movie's magic is that, though the audience is more aware of what's taking place than the protagonists are, it always leaves its development unsure. In a heart-stopping finale, where time itself bends out of shape, Hou deliberately toys with the viewer's expectations.

As played by CHIEN Man-shu 簡嫚書, who had a tiny part in Hou's episode of the portmanteau 10+10 十加十 (2011) as a young singer in the '50s, Hsiao Yang inhabits a dreamy plane of her own, counting down the 100 days she's promised herself to spend in her menial job before moving on, and only showing the tiniest clues that she's interested in Tung. The latter, still obsessed by being dumped, only picks up these clues tangentially, until one day... click.

With no regular plot, the film is one in which tone is all-important — a difficult balancing act for any director, not least in the difficult genre of the rom-com. The screen chemistry between Chien and Ko is tangible without being over-obvious: two lost souls spending time together. But Hou maintains the tempo by making Hsiao Yang and Tung's story part of a larger neighbourhood ensemble: the school's colourful, bowtie-wearing boss (Dennis NIEH 聶雲), a priest-cum-noodle stand owner (beautifully played by LIN Ching-tai 林慶台, the aboriginal actor who debuted as the lead in Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 賽德克?巴萊 (2011)), Tung's wacky boss (character veteran TSAI Chen-nan 蔡振南), a sticky-rice seller (WU Pi-lien 吳碧蓮) who's lost her dog, and Hsiao Yang's entrepreneurial, kooky workmate Pao-pao (KUO Shu-yau 郭書瑤). Neighbourhood films are a staple of Taiwan cinema but Hou neither overplays the comic potential nor makes the characters and the whole film seem too local (unlike, say, the recent Together 甜?祕密).

On a technical side, the film benefits from a top-drawer score by Owen WANG 王希文 (Jump Ashin! 翻滾吧！阿信 (2011), The Soul of Bread 愛的麵包魂) that's alert to nuances of mood; occasional use of tricks like speeded-up motion; and discreet visual effects for Hsiao Yang's dreams. Wolf could have been just cloyingly cute; instead, it's cute, funny and, in its final minutes, very moving. Much of that is due to the precision script by Hou and his collaborators (including regular Kelly YANG 楊元鈴), which satisfyingly clicks together in the final third, bringing together elements that only seemed like passing decoration (e.g. paper planes) and still springing lovely surprises (as with Fried Rice Man's backstory).

Wolf isn't a "big" film, with grandiose statements or major events. But it's beautifully crafted, touches both the funny bone and the heart, and pulls off that most difficult trick of all — turning the small things of life into engaging entertainment. For that alone, it deserves an extra point.

The Chinese title simply means South Sheep Farm, Hsiao Yang's nickname for the cram school. Viewers are also advised to stick around until the end titles have finished, for a lovely capper between actors Tsai and Lin.

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科普一下背景知识。

solicitor和barrister的区别
香港的律师制度深受英国影响，分为solicitor事务律师和barrister出庭大律师。事务律师可直接接受当事人委托和咨询的，处理非诉业务。如果其当事人有出庭需要，由事务律师委托出庭大律师出庭。大律师，民间也成为“大状”。所以，范大律师有时也被称为范大状。出庭大律师，主要负责出庭，不直接接受当事人委托。有一集提到，范大律师和慧芸的夫妻组合（大律师和事务律师）在香港很常见。因为如果事务律师多向大律师提供案源，大律师工作多，收入多。

实习期
通过考试后，只能在barrister和solicitor中选择一种。期初唐靖姿跟随Kevin做事务律师，后来跟随范做大律师做大律师。剧中除了紫颖和安居，其他人都在实习期。实习期是律师的第二关。第一关是通过律师考试，在大多数国家，法律学位和律师考试难度指数都是蛮高的。不过如果聪明加努力，也是可以达到的。不过做实习律师的第二关，更多要考虑经济条件。有一集，姚和她妈妈的对话就提到，实习律师是没有薪水的。梓博转行做实习律师时，他的女友和家人，也是觉得收入太少。还有一集对话，我记得很清楚，“做律师是需要家底的，入行时要考虑清楚”。香港如此，大陆亦然。很多法学毕业生，即使通过司法考试，也不会有太多人从事律师职业，第一年的实习期大多数人会相当清贫。如果没有坚定的理想、背水一战的心境或丰厚家底或法官daddy，很难选择律师这一职业。

其他很真（xin）实（suan）的细节
这个行业要付出很多努力，且即使有个法官daddy，努力也并不能别人少。当事人委托你的或者是身家或者是自由甚至性命，利益攸关，丝毫不会因为你的背景而对你放松要求。一个小细节，紫凝的叔叔向她为她介绍明星的官司时，问她时间，紫凝接到案子第一反应很开心，随后拿起没有任何时间安排的schedule说，我要看看时间安排，这一天可以。这个细节，每一位同行都会心有所感。每个律师的办公室，都有摆满案例和文件夹的书架，巨大的阅读量，付出的时间和坚持，只有受过训练的人才会知道。

律师也是一个成就感与风险并存的行业。赢了，会收到当事人及家属由衷的感谢；判断失误输了案子，也会被当事人家属泼尿报复。或者，辩护成功被对方报复。不过在这种有输有赢中，练就宠辱不惊的porker face。个人觉得是个不错的职业。

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