被影迷奉為“愛情圭臬”、戲稱為“經典話癆系列愛情電影”的《愛在黎明破曉前》(1995)、《愛在日落黃昏時》(2004),終于在去年迎來了最后一部《愛在午夜降臨前》(2013)。同樣的男女主演,同樣時隔九年,依舊不變的從片頭聊到片尾。在第一部中,美國青年杰西在漫游歐洲的最后一天邂逅了法國女孩賽琳,兩人在維也納度過了難忘的一晚;九年后的第二部,已成為作家的杰西來到巡回簽售的最后一站巴黎,得以與賽琳重逢,共度落日前的時光。如今又一個九年過去了,杰西與賽琳已經生活在了一起并有了一對可愛的雙胞胎女兒,這第三部講的就是他們在希臘一座小島度假的最后一天。
其實沒看過之前兩部也絲毫不會影響你先欣賞這最后一部,因為三部電影并沒有什么邏輯、細節上的聯系,講的都是杰西與賽琳的相處片段,全片都是男女間關于愛情與生活、命運的討論。劇本是導演與男女主演一同編的,不同年齡段杰西和賽琳的故事,大多也都是真實生活中不同年齡段Ethan和Julie關注、探討的話題。所以在你的生活中,或多或少都說過與片中相同的對白,或者思考過主角走過歐洲大街小巷時偶然談論的那些命題。
本期電影沙龍節選的幾幕也都是生活中繞不開的命題——理想的工作、美滿的家庭、永恒的愛情。
(Jesse was invited to spend the summer holiday with Patrick, a writer in Greece. He is talking about his novel with the others.)
Jesse: Well, the whole time I’ve been here I’ve been working on this idea about a group of different people with all these brain abnormalities. So the book would be like a day in their life from all their unique points of view. Right, like there’s this older lady who has a condition that makes you feel like you’re in a perpetual state of 1)déjàvu. Like every single experience she has, she feels like she’s had it before. I mean she could be sitting h e r e w i t h u s , talking, seemingly functional, right? And in her head, she’s thinking,“Didn’t he already say that? I mean, weren’t we here yesterday having this exact same conversation?”
Stefanos (Patrick’s friend): So just like déjà vu?
Jesse: Yeah, except all the time. Right, that’s the thing, right? Everything she takes in: breakfast, a newspaper, a movie. She’s convinced she’s encountered it already.
Stefanos: So, that’s a real condition?
(杰西受作家帕特里克邀請到希臘小島上度假,他正和朋友們談論他的新書。)
杰西:對了,在這里的這段時間我一直在構思一部新的小說:是關于一群大腦異于常人的人。……