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Around 2018, a Qing poet’s lament once made the rounds: “A nation’s misfortune is a poet’s fortune; when one writes into the weight of years, each line grows deft.” Yet the Qing, in truth, was among the cruelest eras for poets. Perhaps the line survived largely because of an old custom: the ruling dynasty writing the history of the one before it. I once said I hoped I would not like to see such a day. Now I have changed my mind. I have chosen to stand far away, intact and unruffled, to see it clearly. This is the burden and the gift the times have laid upon a generation. It is also the deepest wish of those closest to my heart.

這個月連續看了一些周星馳的老片。十年前在豆瓣標記過的《大話西遊》系列，又刷了一次。幾乎是不錯過任何鏡頭的認真「研讀」。 事實證明，這個系列對我最大的吸引力還是主題曲，就像當初的《大聖歸來》。怎麼反覆看，我也會有距離感。前者是女角色的主體性缺失，後者是工整但粗糙的商業化流程。 周星馳作為幾代華語區觀眾的偶像，我評論起來難…

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