值得的。喜歡的。

本來就從早到晚累了一天，看完Waking Life更是連腦子都累暈了。

衝著Ethan Hawke 和 Julie Delpy 才一直找這部電影，一買回來就迫不及待要看，沒想到是動畫片，更沒想到是我非常不喜歡的風格的動畫片，忍著看了幾眼，實在看不下去，而且根本就看不到Ethan Hawke 和Julie Delpy 的影子，當時那個失望哦。今天突然很不甘心又重拾起來，因為豆瓣上的評價都是很好的，沒理由那麼難看呀。結果基本上是用快進在看，看到對白有點意思才停下來，因為動畫畫面晃來晃去的基本上都差不多，之所以晃因為表現的是夢境，說實話看久了頭都會暈。結果是有意思的對白越來越多，後來就都能慢慢的看了。看完之後覺得很驚訝，沒想到拍過那麼浪漫的Before Sunrise和Before Sunset的導演會拍出這樣嚴肅的電影，而且是用動畫。明明說的是一個人的醒不過來的夢境，卻又每一句話都在說現實。

其中說到一個人如何能在夢中知道自己是在做夢，可以抓住幾個跡象，比如去關一盞燈，一直關不上，又比如自己在飛，再比如一直看不清鐘錶上的時間，當然這跡象大概都會因人而異。這陣子正讀南懷謹講的圓覺經，說到人要在夢中知道自己在做夢是非常難的。又說「一般人所講人生如夢，那是在痛苦煩惱時偶爾的感嘆而已，並沒有真把人生當做是夢。」而電影裡則說：dreams are real only as long as they last.
              Can't you say the same thing about life?

 

這是一部如果能堅持看完就一定會想很多的電影，而且也不會因為畫面難看就給它打低分。除非在看的時候昏昏欲睡以致真的睡著。最後總算在花絮里看到一段真人出演版，感覺像賺到了。其實Ethan Hawke 和 Julie Delpy 演的那一段還是很意思的，雖然很短，錄全文如下：

(A couple are in bed talking -- Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke)

I keep thinking about something you said.

Something I said?

Yeah. About how you often feel like you're observing your life from the perspective of an old woman about to die. You remember that?

Yeah. I still feel that way sometimes. Like I'm looking back on my life. Like my waking life is her memories.

Exactly. I heard that Tim Leary said as he was dying that he was looking forward to the moment when his body was dead but his brain was still alive. You know they say that there's still six to twelve minutes of brain activity after everything else is shutdown. And a second of dream consciousness, right, well, that's infinitely longer than a waking second. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, yeah, definitely. For example, I wake up and it is 10:12, and then I go back to sleep and I have those long, intricate, beautiful dreams that seem to last for hours, and then I wake up and it's ... 10:13.

Yeah, exactly. So then six to twelve minutes of brain activity, I mean, that could be your whole life. I mean, you are that woman looking back over everything.

Okay, so what if I am? Then what would you be in all that?

Whatever I am right now. I mean, yeah, maybe I only exist in your mind. I'm still just as real as anything else.

Yeah. I've been thinking also about something you said.

What's that?

Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time. Everybody always say that they've been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else. I mean, it's impossible. Think about it. The world population has doubled in the past 40 years, right? So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul, then you have only 50% chance of your soul being over 40. And for it to be over 150 years old, then it's only one out of six.

Right, so what are you saying? That reincarnation doesn't exist, or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first round humans?

No, no. What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe reincarnation is just a - a poetic expression of what collective memory really is. There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of our species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.

I like that. It's like there's this whole telepathic thing going on that we're all a part of, whether we're conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these, you know, seemingly spontaneous, worldwide, innovative leaps in science, in the arts. You know, like the same results poppin' up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer, he figures something out, and then almost simultaneously a bunch of other people all over the world figure out the same thing. They did this study. They isolated a group of people over time, and they monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles, right, in relation to the general population. And they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people, right. And their scores went up dramatically, like 20 percent. So it's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on 'em. It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.   舉報