「很久以前,有一個小女孩,女孩有個影子,女孩和影子,共用一個靈魂,女孩吃東西,食物溫暖又美味,影子肚子餓,只能吃兔子,生冷又血腥。聖誕節時,女孩收到精美玩具,柔軟又舒服,影子的玩具,卻尖銳又冰冷,她伸手想玩,馬上劃破手指。女孩遇到白馬王子,墜入愛河,而影子遇到了亞伯拉罕,她愛不愛他根本不重要,他只是女孩那王子的影子。後來,女孩生下第一個孩子,一個漂亮的小女娃,而影子...卻生下一個小怪物,安柏拉天生愛笑。女孩生下第二個孩子,這次是個小男生,醫生得剖開她的肚子取出寶寶,影子比照辦理,但她只能...自己來,她為他取名布魯托,他天生愛火。所以呢,影子恨透了女孩,恨了好久好久,直到有天,影子終於明白,上天是在考驗她。」
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一,《#我們》開場,阿蒂在遊樂園裡獲得一件麥可傑克遜的《顫慄》T-Shirt。她趁父親不注意時,走入一間鏡屋,看見一名穿著打扮與外貌跟她一模一樣的女孩。驚慌失措的阿蒂逃出鏡屋,失語好一段時日,透過舞蹈,抒發內心的恐懼,重新找回聲音,回到生活的常軌。許多年後,阿蒂結婚,並與丈夫育有兩個孩子,但她內心隱約感到不安,總覺得年幼時看見的女孩會再次出現在她的生命之中。
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Netflix 已經上線 Jordan Peele 導演的《我們》,看過電影的朋友,可以讀一下麥可傑克遜的《顫慄》歌詞,會發現這首歌根本是「#深度解析」阿蒂和女孩的心情和她們所做的任何行動!
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「It's Close To Midnight
午夜時分
And Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark
#魔鬼在暗處隱藏
Under The Moonlight
月光之下
You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
這幅景象幾乎能讓你心臟停止
.
You Try To Scream
想要尖叫
But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
恐怖卻讓你聲帶失效
You Start To Freeze
渾身冰涼
As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes
#驚駭眼中閃光
You're Paralyzed
你完全癱瘓
.
You Hear The Door Slam
門猛地關上
And Realize There's Nowhere Left To Run
你意識到無處可逃
You Feel The Cold Hand
手腳冰涼
And Wonder If You'll Ever See The Sun
#不知能否得見明日朝陽
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You Close Your Eyes
閉上眼睛
And Hope That This Is Just Imagination
希望一切只是幻想
But All The While
時時刻刻
You Hear The Creature Creepin' Up Behind
你都聽見鬼怪在偷偷來到身旁
You're Out Of Time
你來不及逃竄
.
They're Out To Get You,
#它們出來抓你
There's Demons Closing In On Every Side
惡靈四面逼近
They Will Possess You
它們將迷住你
Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
除非你掉頭離去
Now Is The Time For You
現在正是時候
And I To Cuddle Close Together
讓我們緊擁一起
All Thru The Night
整個夜晚
I'll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
我會把你從那些妖魔的手中救出
I'll Make You See
我要讓你看見
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Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
因為這是顫慄之夜
And No One's Gonna Save You
沒人能救你於
From The Beast About Strike
猛獸之口
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
你看,這就是顫慄之夜
You're Fighting For Your Life
#要活命就要拼搏
Inside A Killer, Thriller Tonight
在這個陰森的顫慄之夜
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Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
因為這是顫慄之夜
There Ain't No Second Chance
與百眼妖魔的戰鬥
Against The Thing With Forty Eyes
#不是你死就是我亡
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
你看,這就是顫慄之夜
You're Fighting For Your Life
要活命,就要拼搏
Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight
在這個陰森的顫慄之夜」
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(#中文歌詞翻譯出處:https://reurl.cc/NXQWam)
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二,《我們》也放了 Janelle Monáe 的「I like that」作為插曲,這首歌的 MV 可以看到 Janelle Monáe 分裂出多個自己,與電影的內容有著呼應。
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三,「能在天空底下長大該有多麼幸福,可以感受陽光、清風、綠樹,你們卻覺得理所當然,我們也是活生生的人,有眼睛、牙齒、雙手、血肉,跟你們一模一樣。」
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《逃出絕命鎮》談種族議題,《我們》講的是階級,地上與地下世界是階級,上流階層坐享一切,卻不懂得珍惜,底層群體的需求被忽視被剝削,他們本來習慣吞忍一切,直到「革命意識」的注入,給予他們希望,決定走上地面(抗爭),打破階級之間的界線。《我們》其實是融合了科幻與驚悚元素的《悲慘世界》。
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四,《我們》也可視為人與自我的戰爭(我喜歡劇本的概念),為了獲得更好的人生(權勢、利益),我們都可能變得殘暴(無情),甚至可以謀殺一部份的自己(影子),來確保自己可以繼續維持階級上的優勢。
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五,#Lupita_Nyongo 演得非常好,儘管阿蒂與女孩的外貌與舉止差異頗大,我們卻能在 Lupita Nyong'o 的表演細節中,看見兩個角色(靈魂)的微妙相似之處。奧斯卡獎沒有提名女主角,是我心目中的年度遺珠之一。
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除了 Lupita Nyong'o 外,飾演兒女的兩位年輕演員(Shahadi Wright Joseph 和 Evan Alex )也演超好,兩種性格的反差都處理得很細膩。
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六,女孩臨死前的口哨聲,超級淒涼,被奪走的人生,被奪去的幸福,只剩殘響。
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七,無論是《逃出絕命鎮》或《我們》,我都很喜歡(而且都禁得起反覆重看),氣氛處理出色,故事概念也有很多想像空間,我會繼續期待 #Jordan_Peele 導演的日後發展!
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延伸閱讀:《我們》:我變得好不像我自己!
https://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/hatsocks75/post/1377948191
know something inside out中文 在 柳俊江 Lauyeah Facebook 的最讚貼文
Stand up. Respect ✊
(Update: 中文繹版連結:https://www.facebook.com/329728177143445/posts/1800273350088913/)
“An open letter to Eric Kwok, and for everyone re homophobia, discrimination and bullying”
Dear Eric,
Imagine this. You are one of the contestants on a TV talent show. You are sitting in a room with other hopefuls and one of the judges walks into the room and demanded this: “Raise your hand if you are not homophobic.”
I’m very sure you will raise your hand.
You don’t have to answer me whether or not you really are homophobic. But stay with the feeling inside your mind. How do you feel?
Your feelings are most likely the same as the feelings of your contestants when you walked into a room and asked them to raise their hands to declare their sexual orientation publicly. Because in this day and age, homophobia is just as “controversial” as homosexuality, if not more.
The reason why I’m writing this open letter to you is because after reading your apology, I want to take the opportunity to address to you, and everyone out there, the need for proper etiquette regarding LGBT issues, and to address the forms of micro-aggression, bullying and discrimination the LGBT community faces everyday especially in the workplace.
I’m taking this incident seriously because from my personal experience, this is not just a one-time slip-up for you.
I remember long time ago I was so looking forward to meeting and working with you because you are, after all, Eric Kwok the great songwriter.
You were very friendly when we talked privately. Then I started to notice how once there were audiences, media or other people around and when the cameras were turned on, you would start making insinuating and demeaning gay jokes about me and in front of me. Jokes and comments even my closest friends wouldn’t dare to make in public.
At first, I didn’t really pay too much attention. I just brushed it off as juvenile and trivial. In fact, I had been so used to these jokes since growing up that I learned not to react much.
However, as time progressed and we worked on more occasions, the same thing would happen repeatedly. The teasing and the stereotypical gay jokes continued and you would make sure that the spotlight would fall on me afterwards. The jokes no longer felt light. They felt hostile, even vindictive.
In fact, it felt like bullying.
One of these incidents was well documented in tabloids back then and you can still look it up yourself on the internet.
I came to the realization that it was not just a one-time thing. I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional but it’s definitely a habit and a pattern.
So many questions would be in my mind every time after working with you. Why does Eric do that every time? Is he picking on me? Does he hate me? Is he homophobic? Does he think homosexuality is something funny? Does he do this to other people too? Did I do something that pissed him off? I remember I was nothing but courteous. So why do I deserve this?
I had no answers for all of these questions. All I knew was I became fearful of working with you, dreading what words would fall out of your mouth to put me in an awkwardly embarassing position. But still I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re from California you shouldn’t be homophobic. I even defended you in my head by telling myself to loosen up.
But it’s not just you. Throughout my years in the entertainment industry, I have encountered and endured so many chauvinistic “tough guys” who like to use homosexuality as a laughing stock or source of bad comedy which were all discriminating and demeaning, yet not funny.
It’s not only me. I’m sure many people of the LGBT community face this everyday in their workplace. People around them would claim their intentions were harmless but we all knew deep down that these “jokes” have the power to put people someone in an embarrassing, inferior and even threatening positions.
We kept quiet and tolerated. Sometimes we even felt obligated to laugh along just so we couldn’t afford to look “petty” or “stiff”, especially in front of people of higher authority and stature.
So Eric I want to ask you.
Why have you been so obsessed with my sexuality all these years?
Why are you so fascinated by other people’s sexuality?
Why is being gay such a huge issue to you even to this day that you had to make it the first thing you asked your contestants?
Why you also had to specifically make a post on social media about that fact you questioned people about their sexuality?
Why do you take so much pride publicly in your ability to guess who are the gay contestants even when they weren’t ready to share that information?
And most of all why do you find all this to be so funny?
To begin with one’s sexual orientation is a very personal thing which others have no right to intrude, even in the entertainment industry where you are supposed to be fine with “controversy”.
This is for you and everyone out there: using your power and authority to demand someone to declare his or her sexual orientation, especially in a work environment, is ancient, barbaric and unacceptable.
Kicking someone out of the closet is just pure evil.
The fact you did what you did, especially with your stature and on broadcast TV, is not only wrong, but also you are telling the Hong Kong audience that it’s alright to continue this form of intrusion and micro aggression that the LGBT community wants to see gone.
You’re leading a very poor example by giving Hong Kong audience the impression that being gay is still a taboo.
How are your contestants, who are boys of young age, going to offer new perspectives to the Hong Kong audience under your guidance if you perpetuate stereotyping and demonstrate to them that being gay is still an issue?
I feel sorry for any contestants who are in fact gay sitting in that room that day too. They must have been traumatized seeing the way you forced your inquisition. The impression you left them with is that the entertainment industry is still a very unfriendly place for gays. Is that what you want them to think?
But most of all, it’s the attitude, tone and manner with which you shared about this incident on social media, giving people the impression that any matter regarding sexual orientation is still something shameful and laughable, which is on top of list the thing that the LGBT community fights hard everyday to change.
When you said in your apology you “have great respect for gay people, especially their hard fight for equality” I became baffled as what you did, in the past to me or in that room to the boys, is the exact thing that makes the LGBT community’s ongoing fight for equality so difficult.
Putting people down, perpetuate stereotypes, heckling and ridiculing yet making it look OK is anything but liberal and respectful, or Californian. I don’t see any “entertainment values” that are of good taste if they are made up at the expense of other people’s struggle.
If this incident happened in America, where you grew up, you would’ve gotten yourself in such hot waters that you probably can’t get out of.
I just want you and everyone out there to know that it’s not okay. And it never was. Never will be.
Being “as liberal as it gets” is great. Having gay friends is great too. Having dinner with your gay friends is absolutely fabulous! Playing all these cards to avoid being labelled as “homophobic” is very convenient. But having class, empathy, kindness and authentic respect is a completely different territory. These don’t come automatically with backgrounds.
At this point you don’t owe me an apology. I just hope that after this incident you can really start working and living with the essences of a truly liberal and creative individual. Inspire changes and end stereotypes. Start new trends and break old patterns. Embrace and not segregate. Do the work.
I had been away from Hong Kong and the industry for a few years now. It breaks me heart that I have to write this sort of open letter when it’s already 2018. I want to make this industry a safer, nicer and more accepting place to work in when I return. I want members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong, who have been so supportive of me and my music, to also have safer and nicer working environment in their respective lives.
I don’t mind coming off as an over-reacting petty bitch with no sense of humour if my message finally comes through and everyone, including you, “gets it”. I rather have no sense of humour than a bad one.
To all the contestants of the show. If anyone ever asks you if you are gay and you are not ready to discuss, it’s OK to stand up for yourself and say this: “It’s a rude question to begin with. You have no right to get an answer from me to begin with. And it doesn’t matter. It SHOULDN’T matter. It’s 2018. I hope one day I can use my craft to inspire the world and to make this become a non-issue.”
But if you are ready to be open, you have my complete support and love.
Let’s hope that through acceptance, learning and effort, one day there will no longer be any “controversial questions”. Wouldn’t we like that Eric?
Yours truly,
Pong
#LGBT
#homophobia
#safeworkplace
#中文版稍後會有
Eric Kwok 郭偉亮
know something inside out中文 在 人山人海 PMPS Music Facebook 的最讚貼文
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
(Update: 中文繹版連結:https://www.facebook.com/329728177143445/posts/1800273350088913/)
“An open letter to Eric Kwok, and for everyone re homophobia, discrimination and bullying”
Dear Eric,
Imagine this. You are one of the contestants on a TV talent show. You are sitting in a room with other hopefuls and one of the judges walks into the room and demanded this: “Raise your hand if you are not homophobic.”
I’m very sure you will raise your hand.
You don’t have to answer me whether or not you really are homophobic. But stay with the feeling inside your mind. How do you feel?
Your feelings are most likely the same as the feelings of your contestants when you walked into a room and asked them to raise their hands to declare their sexual orientation publicly. Because in this day and age, homophobia is just as “controversial” as homosexuality, if not more.
The reason why I’m writing this open letter to you is because after reading your apology, I want to take the opportunity to address to you, and everyone out there, the need for proper etiquette regarding LGBT issues, and to address the forms of micro-aggression, bullying and discrimination the LGBT community faces everyday especially in the workplace.
I’m taking this incident seriously because from my personal experience, this is not just a one-time slip-up for you.
I remember long time ago I was so looking forward to meeting and working with you because you are, after all, Eric Kwok the great songwriter.
You were very friendly when we talked privately. Then I started to notice how once there were audiences, media or other people around and when the cameras were turned on, you would start making insinuating and demeaning gay jokes about me and in front of me. Jokes and comments even my closest friends wouldn’t dare to make in public.
At first, I didn’t really pay too much attention. I just brushed it off as juvenile and trivial. In fact, I had been so used to these jokes since growing up that I learned not to react much.
However, as time progressed and we worked on more occasions, the same thing would happen repeatedly. The teasing and the stereotypical gay jokes continued and you would make sure that the spotlight would fall on me afterwards. The jokes no longer felt light. They felt hostile, even vindictive.
In fact, it felt like bullying.
One of these incidents was well documented in tabloids back then and you can still look it up yourself on the internet.
I came to the realization that it was not just a one-time thing. I don’t know if it’s intentional or unintentional but it’s definitely a habit and a pattern.
So many questions would be in my mind every time after working with you. Why does Eric do that every time? Is he picking on me? Does he hate me? Is he homophobic? Does he think homosexuality is something funny? Does he do this to other people too? Did I do something that pissed him off? I remember I was nothing but courteous. So why do I deserve this?
I had no answers for all of these questions. All I knew was I became fearful of working with you, dreading what words would fall out of your mouth to put me in an awkwardly embarassing position. But still I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. You’re from California you shouldn’t be homophobic. I even defended you in my head by telling myself to loosen up.
But it’s not just you. Throughout my years in the entertainment industry, I have encountered and endured so many chauvinistic “tough guys” who like to use homosexuality as a laughing stock or source of bad comedy which were all discriminating and demeaning, yet not funny.
It’s not only me. I’m sure many people of the LGBT community face this everyday in their workplace. People around them would claim their intentions were harmless but we all knew deep down that these “jokes” have the power to put people someone in an embarrassing, inferior and even threatening positions.
We kept quiet and tolerated. Sometimes we even felt obligated to laugh along just so we couldn’t afford to look “petty” or “stiff”, especially in front of people of higher authority and stature.
So Eric I want to ask you.
Why have you been so obsessed with my sexuality all these years?
Why are you so fascinated by other people’s sexuality?
Why is being gay such a huge issue to you even to this day that you had to make it the first thing you asked your contestants?
Why you also had to specifically make a post on social media about that fact you questioned people about their sexuality?
Why do you take so much pride publicly in your ability to guess who are the gay contestants even when they weren’t ready to share that information?
And most of all why do you find all this to be so funny?
To begin with one’s sexual orientation is a very personal thing which others have no right to intrude, even in the entertainment industry where you are supposed to be fine with “controversy”.
This is for you and everyone out there: using your power and authority to demand someone to declare his or her sexual orientation, especially in a work environment, is ancient, barbaric and unacceptable.
Kicking someone out of the closet is just pure evil.
The fact you did what you did, especially with your stature and on broadcast TV, is not only wrong, but also you are telling the Hong Kong audience that it’s alright to continue this form of intrusion and micro aggression that the LGBT community wants to see gone.
You’re leading a very poor example by giving Hong Kong audience the impression that being gay is still a taboo.
How are your contestants, who are boys of young age, going to offer new perspectives to the Hong Kong audience under your guidance if you perpetuate stereotyping and demonstrate to them that being gay is still an issue?
I feel sorry for any contestants who are in fact gay sitting in that room that day too. They must have been traumatized seeing the way you forced your inquisition. The impression you left them with is that the entertainment industry is still a very unfriendly place for gays. Is that what you want them to think?
But most of all, it’s the attitude, tone and manner with which you shared about this incident on social media, giving people the impression that any matter regarding sexual orientation is still something shameful and laughable, which is on top of list the thing that the LGBT community fights hard everyday to change.
When you said in your apology you “have great respect for gay people, especially their hard fight for equality” I became baffled as what you did, in the past to me or in that room to the boys, is the exact thing that makes the LGBT community’s ongoing fight for equality so difficult.
Putting people down, perpetuate stereotypes, heckling and ridiculing yet making it look OK is anything but liberal and respectful, or Californian. I don’t see any “entertainment values” that are of good taste if they are made up at the expense of other people’s struggle.
If this incident happened in America, where you grew up, you would’ve gotten yourself in such hot waters that you probably can’t get out of.
I just want you and everyone out there to know that it’s not okay. And it never was. Never will be.
Being “as liberal as it gets” is great. Having gay friends is great too. Having dinner with your gay friends is absolutely fabulous! Playing all these cards to avoid being labelled as “homophobic” is very convenient. But having class, empathy, kindness and authentic respect is a completely different territory. These don’t come automatically with backgrounds.
At this point you don’t owe me an apology. I just hope that after this incident you can really start working and living with the essences of a truly liberal and creative individual. Inspire changes and end stereotypes. Start new trends and break old patterns. Embrace and not segregate. Do the work.
I had been away from Hong Kong and the industry for a few years now. It breaks me heart that I have to write this sort of open letter when it’s already 2018. I want to make this industry a safer, nicer and more accepting place to work in when I return. I want members of the LGBT community in Hong Kong, who have been so supportive of me and my music, to also have safer and nicer working environment in their respective lives.
I don’t mind coming off as an over-reacting petty bitch with no sense of humour if my message finally comes through and everyone, including you, “gets it”. I rather have no sense of humour than a bad one.
To all the contestants of the show. If anyone ever asks you if you are gay and you are not ready to discuss, it’s OK to stand up for yourself and say this: “It’s a rude question to begin with. You have no right to get an answer from me to begin with. And it doesn’t matter. It SHOULDN’T matter. It’s 2018. I hope one day I can use my craft to inspire the world and to make this become a non-issue.”
But if you are ready to be open, you have my complete support and love.
Let’s hope that through acceptance, learning and effort, one day there will no longer be any “controversial questions”. Wouldn’t we like that Eric?
Yours truly,
Pong
#LGBT
#homophobia
#safeworkplace
#中文版稍後會有
Eric Kwok 郭偉亮