Melody&Rhythm in LIFE

吕克贝松说：电影不是济世良药，只是一片阿司匹林。梅婷首次担任制片人的电影作品，以吕克贝松的这句话来命名——阿司匹林。

回忆片段、开场字幕、内心独白，这样一个开场吸引了我的注意。一直以来都很喜欢有大段独白的电影，很安静，从独白中来旁观着这个世界，述说着内心的所感所悟。

电影的魅力在于，挖掘了生活的细节，并将之放大，让观众在情节、在主人公身上找到了自己和周遭生活的影子。这种共鸣不知不觉地在内心划上了一道印记，随着影片去思考自己的人生。

Time manipulation is not a precise science. Like any art, it’s personal to the individual.

So what is the art in making my shift go so fast? I imagine the opposite. The time is frozen. I imagine that the remote control for life has been paused. Within this frozen world I’m able to work freely and unnoticed. Nobody would even know that the time had stopped.

When you see somebody walking down the street who’s so beautiful that you just can’t help but stare. Well imagine as I do, that with a world on pause, it becomes very easy to understand the concept of beauty, to have it frozen in front of you, that precise moment captured. Unawares.

You can speed it up, you can slow it down, you can even freeze a moment. But you can’t rewind time. You can’t undo what it was done.

Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was. Love is there if you want it to be. You just have to see that it’s wrapped in beauty and hidden away between the seconds of your life. If you don’t stop for a minute,you might miss it.

– “Cashback”

第一次去看芭蕾舞，就是由俄罗斯新西伯利亚国立模范歌剧芭蕾舞剧院表演的《天鹅湖》。对芭蕾舞不甚了解，对《天鹅湖》的了解仅限于柴可夫斯基的作曲，以及几段经典片段——四小天鹅等等。整场表演只可谓是芭蕾初体验。

王子的高贵、公主的哀怨、小丑的欢快、恶魔的苍莽、黑天鹅的妖媚，从他们的着装和舞步中体现着。

忙碌了一天回到家中，洗了个澡，已经什么事都不想做。论文、report、工作计划……统统抛在脑后。MSN上已经说不动话。打开播放器，放上My Blueberry Nights的OST，醉了……

除了Norah Jones的The Story，和Cat Power的The Greatest，还特别喜欢一首。

Amos Lee – Skipping Stone

I don’t know if I can do this alone
Oh after all our sweet love is flown
I’ve been running
I’ve been skipping like a stone
And I don’t know if I
I can do this all alone

When I met her she was standing by a door
I ain’t never seen a light like that before
Now she’s left me for something more sure
And I don’t know if I
I can do this anymore

‘Cause lovers will come, lovers will go
This rare seed are from which true love might grow
If you see her, won’t you please say hello
‘Cause I don’t know if I can do this alone

唯美的电影海报，帅哥Jude Law，Jazz歌后Norah Jones，pretty Natalie Portman……如此强大的演员阵容，王家卫的首部英文片，让我不得不去看看这部电影——《蓝莓之夜》。

这部影片是Norah的处女作，电影基调很符合她的演唱风格。感觉上王家卫跟Jazz，跟night密不可分。

小人物、孤独、茫茫人海的偶遇、心灵的触动、若即若离的牵挂……王家卫的影片总是让人淡淡地欣赏完后，若有所思，触动心灵深处那根脆弱的神经。

音乐无国界，音乐也无时空阻隔。用音符记录下的心情、故事，在多年后，为不同人所演奏时，仿佛将演奏者引入自己的故事，而又有演奏者自己的另一份体会和感受。

我想这正是Jay的导演处子秀《不能说的秘密》所要表达的。肖邦的音乐引领我们走进这段故事，也让我们听到了Jay音乐作品的灵感源泉。