更新时间:2008-04-20
Athos • 马格瑞姆的神奇玩具店:霍夫曼，霍夫曼
如果没有Dustin Hoffman，我根本不打算看这部听上去就很美式商业片的电影——即便它有长大了的娜塔莉。
而事实上，我真的低估了它。看到三分之一的时候真正安静下来，看到三分之二的时候完全打动，看完之后不得不倒回重新找来动人的段落。
其实，无论是剧中人，还是观众，其实都是被宝刀不老的霍夫曼所照耀着。如果没有他，这部作品基本上就可以被完全忽略了；然而幸而有了他，这个讲话鼻音很重，总是一脸无辜表情的老家伙，撑起来所有的精巧细节。不知道他已经多大年纪了，至少回想他当初在那部“毕业生”里让我惊艳的脸庞，还有“雨人”里让我哭掉了多少眼泪的呆滞姿态，我就好像看到了久违的亲爱的爷爷。
不像帕西诺那样，老掉之后还依旧是个难啃的骨头；也不像伊斯特伍德那样，老掉之后还依旧正统翩翩；从来就没有生硬过的达斯丁霍夫曼，在老了之后倒是越发柔软谦卑。
里面他临走前的两段波澜不惊的独白，完全被打动。不是内容，而是从他嘴巴里说出来的内容。
P.S. 里面的那个小男孩，过分可爱了。而那个悲哀地不知如何是好的小猴玩具，也过分独特了。
37seconds.
Great. Now we wait.
No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate.
Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest.
37ceconds, well used, is a lifetime.
When King Lear dies in Act 5, do you know what Shakespeare has written?
He’s written, “He dies.”
That’s all, nothing more.
No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words.
The culmination of the most influential work of dramatic literature is: “he dies.”
It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with “He dies.”
And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria.
And I know it’s only natural to be sad, but not because of the words “He dies,” but because of the life we saw prior to the words.
I’ve lived all five of my acts, Mahoney, and I am not asking you to be happy that I must go.
I’m only asking that you turn the page, continue reading…and let the next story begin.
And if anyone ever asks that became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest “He died.”
Your life is an occasion.
Rise to it.
