Cold Mountain

這些天看"Cold Mountain ".
Nichol Kidman'的電影,我不是太感冒.不過看這部片子,讓我深深喜愛她的朗讀和其中的對話..

Ada -- read:
                       ---- a source of little visible delight,
                         But necessary.

Inman saying:
A thousand moments. They're like a
                         bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a
                         black heart. Don't matter if they're
                         real or things I made up. The shape
                         of your neck. The way you felt under
                         my hands when I pulled you to me.

INMAN
                         Maybe you can't see my face, but if
                         you could see my inside, my whatever
                         you want to name it, my spirit, that's
                         the fear I have deeper than any gash
                         on my neck. I think I'm ruined. They
                         kept trying to put me in the ground,
                         but I wasn't ready, no ma'am, no
                         more ready than that scoundrel in
                         there's not ready to die on us. But
                         if I had goodness, I lost it. If I
                         had anything tender in me I shot it
                         dead.

作品對戰爭,愛的描述是寫在外層的,引申層裏更有對人性的基本點,愛的廣義性,人生journey的引喻,讓我深深為作品吸引.
南北戰爭中,南方home guard的殘忍,北方yankee的粗暴,都是隨處可點的.
人性在戰爭中twisted,vanished.為一口食物,可以無所不為.

作者把愛情放極高的位置,是生之動力,是一切可以光輝的原因.
Inman 在萬裏跋涉的路上,想的是Ada捧著tray在屋外等他...
Ada在風雪裏活下去的動力是等待,等待那個遠方的,走向她的人影...

作者是大氣的.作品遠不停留在愛情上,對人世的艱辛,他是不回避的,而是直麵的.Ruby的出現是那樣的鮮活和閃亮.
是的,我們沒有幸運的時光,可我們有雙手和智惠,deal with it !
當看見Ada和Ruby 辛勤的勞動,自力更生,作者是如此的讚賞.
生存的意義,就是沒有意義,就是在沒有意義裏找到意義..
我們都是地球的異鄉人...在勞作裏認清你自己.

可以把Inman的 long long journey 看作是人生的驛路,生的結局總是死,可他經曆了愛情,對惡的抗爭,對美好的向往,
最後的死是因為他對醜惡人性的輕信.隱喻不言而喻.在Ada的懷裏,Inman消逝了,但他也得到的生的延續...

我在遠方等你...
風雪淹沒的山林,
狂風凜厲..
可我總是在想,
我的親愛的人,
你就要扣我的門環...

我在千裏之外走向你,..
寒風刺骨,
前路遙遙,
可我總有你在眼前,
笑顏如歌,裙袂飄揚,
我的親愛的人,
我就要到達我的冷山...