[These Days]《家庭日》(Father Mother Sister Brother),Jim Jarmusch 2025導演
看這片的時候,心情是複雜的,雖然這片非常地平實簡單。
嚴格講是三段短片,雖然劇情角色全不相關,但相關的是另外的東西:紅色、滑板少年(屁孩)、勞力士,這幾項只是三段都有的要素,較形而上的則是關於這三個歐美家庭的方方面面。
但關於家庭的電影何其多,傑作也很多,要拉出來比是比不完的,我首先想到的是是枝裕和的幾部:《橫山家之味》、《比海還深》等等,主要是在凱特布蘭琪在媽媽家二樓從洗手間出來後,賈木許從一樓樓梯往上拍,拍到凱特布蘭琪的全身行頭,包括那双高底黑色皮鞋,我一看到時就想:歐美人回家都不脫鞋的,不過可能只是電影裡如此,然後就想到是枝裕和的《橫山家之味》,日本人回家是一定會脫鞋的,想到了這些東西方的差異之後,再往下看就覺得不對,這片跟是枝裕和比沒啥意義,應該是跟溫德斯《我的完美日常》(Perfect Days)相比比較有意思。
賈木許找了ANIKA來重新編曲翻唱了NICO的〈These Days〉,或許就是有意回應溫德斯,溫德斯的幾部名作也都是以家庭為主題:從《巴黎德州》、《別來敲門》到《我的完美日常》,這主題都十分鮮明,特別是最近這部《我的完美日常》,還包藏著對上個世紀的類比時代的「物質的癡念」,賈木許可能也是感應到了這點,所以也來展現一下。
從Tom Waits用舊床單把他的品味皮沙發蓋起來開始,這三段短片裡的每個角色都展現了自己的獨特品味:不僅是衣著造型、髮型,開的車、住的房及週邊地景(紐澤西)、街區建築(都柏林、巴黎)等等,其實賈木許過往的電影中這些也是他的強項,所以這片真的可視作賈木許版的《Perfect Days》,只是英文片名若直接叫《These Days》就太過直白,所以就取了個落落長的《Father Mother Sister Brother》。
〈These Days〉也是Wes Anderson《天才一族》(The Royal Tenenbaums)的開場曲,若搭配原唱NICO的電影《Nico,地下絲絨之後》(Nico, 1988)一併入口,應該會咀嚼出更多味道來,只是我寫不動了。
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Lyrics of These Days by Nico
verse
I′ve been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
chorus
These days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to
verse
I′ve stopped my rambling
I don't do too much gambling these days
chorus
These days
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I'd see another highway
verse
I had a lover
I don′t think I′ll risk another these days
chorus
These days
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I′ve been losing so long
verse
I've stopped my dreaming
I won′t do too much scheming these days
chorus
These days
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
outro
Please, don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them
Writer(s): Jackson Browne
