2、電影片名未曾走過的路(The Roads Not Taken,2020),脫胎於美國詩人羅伯特佛洛斯特的詩作未選擇的路(The Road Not Taken,1916),詩作採取的是一節五行,五步抑揚格的形制進行,作者在一片黃樹林中的叉路口,選擇了其中一條路走,多年後,他感嘆如若選擇另一條路徑,人生也許全然不同。在電影中,主人公的悲劇性命運追溯到沒有親自帶孩子上學的那一天,而通往學校的巴士在橋上翻復,他痛失愛子,大哭自責:「如果我親自帶他上學的話??」——身為作家,創作者需要獨立的空間,而這常與家庭與家務的吵鬧繁瑣矛盾衝突,他因而做出了那個讓他懊悔且痛苦的決定。隨後的人生,不如意事十之八九,命運已然徹底撕裂他。
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves, no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.