半梦半醒的人生

专门下载了看，开头就很吸引人，可爱的小朋友，天上划过的彗星，也许那时候起就是梦境。

之后被各色人的言论轮番轰炸，傻眼，好吧，只需继续跟着看，不同的毫无关联的人物登场，讲述他们对生活对生命对哲理对万物之理的论述，导演都上场了好嘛，一度看观影时间，想什么时候才能结束，或许如果这是我的梦，那真是也会期待早点醒来。

梦境不都总是多线性交错发展的吗，时间概念模糊，却又一刻不停的叙事演进，突然就掉入另个场景、不同人物交织进来，云云诺诺，由不得你弄明白缘由，即又进入下一个梦谜里。

对应之前看的《Lucy》，世间真理都在片中了，只需自己看完慢慢理解。

奇怪，昨晚睡觉，会想到这个电影，也记不清是在睡前还是入梦中时，那些人物的只字片语会作回想。

这感受未免既奇异又深刻，无可名状的附着感，想逃避又身同感受。

我会再看一次的。

H2 2015.1.2 晚

导演和编剧就是拍日出日落的那个，里面还有伊桑和朱丽的一段对话。

打算再看一遍，分析下里面人物的对话，印象最深的是主人公梦到自己在电影院看一部关于两个人说电影的电影（呵呵），其中一位说，现在好莱坞拍电影首先要看的是好剧本，根据好剧本再来拍电影，但电影本是影像的艺术，作为以文字为载体的剧本本身就限制了故事本身，所以拍电影只需要人和故事摄像机，足够了！

大体说的是这个意思，我觉得很有道理。

里面的很多看法都是主人公在半梦半醒之际借着他遇到的每个人道出的，他自己也承认，那些人不过是一个个自己的化身。

然后这人不停在时间和空间里穿梭着，我喜欢这感觉。

青年学生维利•维金斯（Wiley Wiggins 饰）童年时曾从小伙伴那里得到这样一个预言：“梦即命运”。

长大后，他在恍恍惚惚间来到了一座陌生的城市。

维利走街串巷，经历各种各样的神奇体验，仿佛穿梭于不同的梦中。

在此期间，他还遇到了各色人等：从开着船形汽车的司机到大学教授，从性感的金发美女到癫狂的眼睛男，从引火自焚的金发男子再到留着雷鬼头的四人团体……每个人都喋喋不休，谈论着人生、理想和哲学。

而维利不发一言，俨然一个极具耐心的聆听者。

本片由导演兼编剧理查德•林克莱特（Richard Linklater）采用DV真人拍摄，并用软件将其“动画化”。

导演史蒂文•索德伯格（Steven Soderbergh）亦在片中出现。

有些道理就是很难传播——因为人们只传递自己认同的东西。

有些道理就是不大可能被大多数人认同，于是，即便它再有道理，再怎么有用，也不是很容易传播。

所以这个电影也被埋没，因为它涉及的观点太多太泛乱，每个人滔滔不绝，像拿着一大桶水对着男主角泼洒着他们的论点，但论据却很少，这样的谈话很难让局外的人产生认同感。

大多数人只不过看着整部电影里多数是不太感兴趣的对白，看完就完全忘记，继续他们半梦半醒的人生。

但是抛开观点不算，电影的表现手法真的打动了我。

导演的这个想法是开创性的，真希望会有新的作品能向这个电影致敬，这个手法真的值得再用。

电影放到三分之二，我睡着了，以致不得不深夜把它从头至尾再看一遍。

这是值得的。

这里头全是人生里讲不完的废话，而且它真的就敢用这样一种貌似无聊的宣教的方式讲了出来。

也许为了老少咸宜，或者就干脆就是出于编织一个诡计的需要，它赋予自己以最绚烂的形式。

但它仍然是一个诡计，对某些人而言，甚至是梦魇。

故事的结构，如同博尔赫斯著名的短篇《环形废墟》。

博尔赫斯写道，一位逃亡的魔法师来到了一座庙宇的环行废墟中，他生存的意义就是做梦，为了在梦中塑造一个到达真实世界的“人”，一个将经历与他一样宿命的的幻影。

唯一知道这塑造出来的人其实是幻影的，是世界上的火。

某天，环行废墟再次遭到火焚。

当魔法师走向大火时，火焰非但没有吞噬他的皮肉，反而抚慰他，于是，“他宽慰地，惭愧地，害怕地知道他也是一个幻影，另一个人梦中的幻影。

” 《半梦半醒的人生》这部电影，说的则是一个稀里糊涂的年轻男子，在没完没了、如套盒般一个包容一个的梦中，与这样那样的人展开关于人生的哲学、生物学、政治学、符号学之类的探讨，间或参杂某囚徒在狱中的凶狠诅咒、某自杀者在街头的自焚、几男子在加油站中所遇怪事，以及一些童年印象的逝影倏忽，如此整整100分钟。

这男子发觉自己无论如何都走不出这个梦魇。

他迫切地想要醒来，可是，每次他都是那个无法控制电灯的开关的人——梦中遭遇的一个人物曾告诉他，要知道自己是不是在梦境中，只要看看是不是能够调整房间里的光源就可以了。

我们这位可怜的梦境穿梭者，根本找不到梦的源头——也就是所谓现实中的那个他，于是只好倾听各色人等在他的梦里面，无穷尽和他谈论人生如梦的大道理。

确实是足够黑色幽默。

这电影耍的是一个机智的阴谋。

如果你还记得《爱在黎明破晓时》和《爱在日落余晖时》，你就会明白这是同一个导演（RICHARD LINKLATER）的惯用路数。

在那被人戏称为“侃大山电影之最”的两部曲中，RICHARD LINKLATER让一对俊男美女在维也纳和巴黎的街道和河岸走来走去，相互诉说彼此对于人性、政治、文学、自我的感悟，用一种略带惆怅和忧伤的方式说尽了青春的梦想和中年的彷徨。

现在，导演自己破了自己的纪录。

他在一部以真人表演为水彩创作素材的动画片里到达了侃大山电影的最高境界，那就是：里头所有的人物都在没完没了地演说，连一个出租汽车司机都可以面对镜头大谈特谈自由的意义。

显然，100分钟的时间里，除了被前所未有的视觉效果震撼，你还必须经历一场脑力激荡。

整个过程中，不要试图抓住每个善辩的人物的话语意义，因为你终究会发现，你根本就不可能对其中涉及的话题进行归纳和总结。

他们似乎说了许多，说得足够深度足够真诚，然而他们又什么都没有说——梦境穿梭者在每一场深奥的言说中离开，发觉自己还是陷在另一场梦中；用脑过度的观众最后只能记住那个在梦里欲罢不能的倒霉蛋。

《半梦半醒的人生》以轻微的悲观主义色彩，展现了关于人之解释、人生之解释的无穷尽性。

太多的意义被赋予到一场梦境的追溯中，最后却用以证明梦境的虚幻。

看这样的电影是一个翻开心胸享受思维快乐的过程，但愿它不会为你带来痛苦。

PS.《爱在日落余晖时》的悬案在《半梦半醒的人生》中终于得到了解答。

Jesse和Céline究竟上了床没有？

上了，而且在床上还继续着他们机智的讨论。

对于《爱在日落余晖时》的影迷来说，这是一个重大的消息，呵呵。

船车司机So what do you think of my little vessel? She's what we call "see-worthy." S-E-E. See with your eyesI feel like my transport should be an extension of my personality. Voila. And this? This is like my little window to the world, and every minute, it's a different show.Now, I may not understand it. I may not even necessarily agree with it. But I'll tell you what, I accept it and just sort of glide along.You want to keep things on an even keel I guess is what I'm saying.You want to go with the flow. The sea refuses no river.The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.Saves on introductions and good-byes.The ride does not require an explanation.Just occupants. That's where you guys come in.It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box.Now, you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack.But it's all in what you do with the crayons,the colors that you're given.Don't worry about drawing within the lines or coloring outside the lines.I say color outside the lines. Color right off the page.Don't box me in. We're in motion to the ocean.We are not landlocked, I'll tell ya that.

存在主义The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century.I 'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately,the sense of taking responsibility for who you are,the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life.Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair.But I think the truth is just the opposite.Sartre once interviewed said he never really felt a day of despair in his life.But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance of feeling on top of it.It's like your life is yours to create.I've read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration.But when I read them, I always have this awful nagging feelingthat something absolutely essential is getting left out.The more that you talk about a person as a social constructionor as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized,what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses.And when Sartre talks about responsibility,he's not talking about something abstract.He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about.It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking.Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences.It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting.Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference.It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms.Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example.In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces.It's always our decision who we are.

语言、感受与精神交流Creation seems to come out of imperfection.It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration.And this is where I think language came from.I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another.And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival.Like, you know, "water." We came up with a sound for that.Or, "Saber-toothed tiger right behind you." We came up with a sound for that.But when it gets really interesting, I think,is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing.What is, like, frustration? Or what is anger or love?When I say "love,"the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear,travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain,you know, through their memories of love or lack of love,and they register what I'm saying and say yes, they understand.But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert.They're just symbols. They're dead, you know?And so much of our experience is intangible.So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable.And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another,and we feel that we have connected,and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion.And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.

进化If we are looking at the highlights of human development,you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment.Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of lifeperceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind.Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.Now, interestingly, what you are looking at here are three strings:biological, anthropological, development of the cities, cultures and cultural, which is human expression.Now, what you are seen here is the evolution of populations,not so much the evolution of individuals.And in addition, if you look at the time scales that's involved here two billion years for life,six million years for the hominid,100,000 years for mankind as we know it, you're beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm.And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you're looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years.You're seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time.What that means is that as we go through the new evolution,it's gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within this generation.The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: digital and analog.The digital is artificial intelligence.The analog results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism.And you knit the two together with neurobiology.Before on the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die and the other would grow and dominate.But under the new paradigm, they would exist as a mutually supportive, noncompetitive grouping.Okay, independent from the external.And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process,emanating from the needs and the desires of the individual,and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective.So, you produce a neo-human with a new individuality and a new consciousness.But that's only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle, because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence.As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes.Until what? Until you reach a crescendo in a way could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfillment of human, human and neo-human potential.It could be something totally different.It could be the amplification of the individual,the multiplication of individual existences.Parallel existences now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space.And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive.That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold.It's sterile. It's efficient, okay?And its manifestations are those social adaptations.You're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay?Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis.These would be subject to de-evolution.The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom.These will be the manifestations of the new evolution.That is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.

自燃者A self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone.He's an outsider to the human community.He thinks to himself, "I must be insane."What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does,a vested interest in considerable losses and catastrophes.These wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well-defined needs.Man wants chaos.In fact, he's gotta have it.Depression, strife, riots, murder, all this dread.We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction.It's in all of us. We revel in it.Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies.But we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world, no.Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them.The powers that be want us to be passive observers.Hey, you got a match?And they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic,participatory act of voting.You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes.Let my own lack of a voice be heard.

死后的6-12minI 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.They say that there's still 6 to 12 minutes of brain activity after everything is shut down.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's 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.Exactly. So then 6 to 1 2 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.

灵魂转世- 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 reincarnationof 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 only have a 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.So what are you saying then? 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 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 a 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, um,this whole telepathic thing going on that we are all a part of,whether we are conscious of it or not.That would explain why there's 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 in relation to the general population.And then they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people.Their scores went up dramatically, like 20 percent.So it's like once the answers are out there, you know, people can pick up on them.It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.

囚犯I'll get you motherfuckers if it's the last thing I do.Oh, you're gonna pay for what you did to me.For every second I spend in this hellhole, I'll see you spend a year in living hell!Oh, you fucks are gonna beg me to let you die.No, no, not yet.I want you cocksuckers to suffer.Oh, I'll fix your fuckin' asses, all right.Maybe a long needle in your eardrum.A hot cigar in your eye.Nothing fancy.Some molten lead up the ass.Ooh!Or better still, some of that old Apache shit.Cut your eyelids off. Yeah.I'll just listen to you fucks screaming.Oh, what sweet music that'll be.Yeah. We'll do it in the hospital.With doctors and nurses so you pricks don't die on me too quick.You know the best part?The best part is you dick-smoking faggots will have your eyelids cut off,so you'll have to watch me do it to you, yeah.You'll see me bring that cigar closer and closer to your wide-open eyeball till you're almost out of your mind.But not quite,cause I want it to last a long, long time.I want you to know that it's me,that I'm the one that's doing it to you.Me!And that sissy psychiatrist?What unmitigated ignorance!That old drunken fart of a judge!What a pompous ass!Judge not, lest ye be judged!All of you pukes are gonna die the day I get out of this shithole!I guarantee you'll regret the day you met me!

科学之后，如何自由In a way, in our contemporary world view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God.But some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever.Take the problem of free will.This problem's been around for a long time, since before Aristotle in 350 B.C. St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you're gonna do.Nowadays we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws,and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world.Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements.But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too.We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules.We're mostly water, and our behavior isn't gonna be an exception to basic physical laws.So it starts to look like whether it's God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you're gonna do, or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything.There's not a lot of room left for freedom.So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will.Say, "Oh, well, it's just an historical anecdote. It's sophomoric.It's a question with no answer. Just forget about it."But the question keeps staring you right in the face.You think about individuality, for example, who you are.Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make.Or take responsibility. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty or admired or respected for things you did of your own free will.The question keeps coming back, and we don't really have a solution to it.It starts to look like all your decisions are really just a charade.Think about how it happens. There's some electrical activity in your brain.Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system.It passes along down into your muscle fibers.They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm.Looks like it's a free action on your part,but every one of those- every part of that process is actually governed by physical law:chemical laws, electrical laws and so on.So now it just looks like the Big Bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of our history, the whole rest of human history and even before,is really just sort of the playing out of subatomic particles, according to these basic fundamental physical laws.We think we are special. We think we have some kind of special dignity,but that now comes under threat.I mean, that's really challenged by this picture.So you might be saying, "Well, wait a minute. What about quantum mechanics?"I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that."It's really a probabilistic theory.There's room. It's loose. It's not deterministic."And that's gonna enable us to understand free will.But if you look at the details, it's not really gonna help, because what happens is you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is apparently a bit random.They swerve. Their behavior is absurd in the sense that it's unpredictable, and we can't understand it based on anything that came before.It just does something out of the blue, according to a probabilistic framework.But is that gonna help with freedom?Should our freedom just be a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system?That just seems like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving.So we can't just ignore the problem.We have to find room in our contemporary world view for persons,with all that that it entails; not just bodies, but persons.And that means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility and trying to understand individuality.

反抗者You can't fight city hall, death and taxes.Don't talk about politics or religion.This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda rolling across the picket line." Lay down, G.I. Lay down, G.I."We saw it all through the 20th Century.And now in the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize that we should not allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze.We should not submit to dehumanization.I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world.I'm concerned with the structure.I'm concerned with the systems of control, those that control my life and those that seek to control it even more!I want freedom! That's what I want!And that's what you should want!It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose and just shovel the greed, the hatred, the envy and, yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control-- make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny.We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale.Start challenging this corporate slave state!The 21st Century is gonna be a new century, not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance and classism and statism and all the rest of the modes of control!It's gonna be the age of humankind standing up for something pure and something right!What a bunch of garbage-- liberal Democrat, conservative Republican.It's all there to control you. Two sides of the same coin.Two management teams bidding for control!The C.E.O. job of Slavery, Incorporated!The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies!I'm sick of it, and I'm not gonna take a bite out of it! Do you got me?Resistance is not futile. We're gonna win this thing.Humankind is too good! We're not a bunch of underachievers!We're gonna stand up and we're gonna be human beings!We're gonna get fired up about the real things, the things that matter: creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit!Well, that's it! That's all I got to say! It's in your court.

The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness.And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious.It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit.To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.

mindThe main character is what you might call "the mind." It's mastery, it's capacity to represent. Throughout history, attempts have been made to contain those experiences which happen at the edge of the limit where the mind is vulnerable. But I think we are in a very significant moment in history. Those moments, those what you might call liminal, limit, frontier, edge zone experiences are actually now becoming the norm. These multiplicities and distinctions and differences that have given great difficulty to the old mind are actually through entering into their very essence, tasting and feeling their uniqueness. One might make a breakthrough to that common something that holds them together. And so the main character is, to this new mind, greater, greater mind. A mind that yet is to be. And when we are obviously entered into that mode, you can see a radical subjectivity, radical attunement to individuality, uniqueness to that which the mind is, opens itself to a vast objectivity. So the story is the story of the cosmos now. The moment is not just a passing, empty nothing yet. And this is in the way in which these secret passages happen. Yes, it's empty with such fullness that the great moment, the great life of the universe is pulsating in it. And each one, each object, each place, each act leaves a mark. And that story is singular. But, in fact, it's story after story.

Time just dissolves into quick-moving particles that are swirling away. Either I'm moving fast or time is. Never both simultaneously.

It's such a strange paradox. I mean, while, technically, I 'm closer to the end of my life than I've ever been, I actually feel more than ever that I have all the time in the world.When I was younger, there was a desperation, a desire for certainty, like there was an end to the path, and I had to get there.I know what you mean because I can remember thinking,"Oh, someday, like in my mid-thirties maybe, everything's going to just somehow jell and settle, just end."It was like there was this plateau, and it was waiting for me, and I was climbing up it, and when I got to the top, all growth and change would stop.Even exhilaration. But that hasn't happened like that, thank goodness.I think that what we don't take into account when we are young is our endless curiosity.That's what's so great about being human.- You know that thing Benedict Anderson says about identity?- No.Well, he's talking about like, say, a baby picture.So you pick up this picture, this two-dimensional image, and you say, "That's me."Well, to connect this baby in this weird little image with yourself living and breathing in the present, you have to make up a story like, "This was me when I was a year old, and later I had long hair, and then we moved to Riverdale, and now here I am."So it takes a story that's actually a fiction to make you and the baby in the picture identical to create your identity.And the funny thing is, our cells are completely regenerating every seven years.We've already become completely different people several times over,and yet we always remain quintessentially ourselves.

Our critique began as all critiques begin:with doubt.Doubt became our narrative. Ours was a quest for a new story, our own.And we grasp toward this new history driven by the suspicion that ordinary language couldn't tell it. Our past appeared frozen in the distance, and our every gesture and accent signified the negation of the old world and the reach for a new one. The way we lived created a new situation, one of exuberance and friendship, that of a subversive microsociety in the heart of a society which ignored it. Art was not the goal but the occasion and the method for locating our specific rhythm and buried possibilities of our time. The discovery of a true communication was what it was about, or at least the quest for such a communication. The adventure of finding it and losing it. We the unappeased, the unaccepting continued looking, filling in the silences with our own wishes, fears and fantasies. Driven forward by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we knew that anything was still possible. And, given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely as an old one.

There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from an overabundance of life. I've always found myself in the second category. When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved. Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress, but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes? No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic - fear or laziness? What are you writing? A novel. What's the story? There's no story. It's just people, gestures, moments, bits of rapture, fleeting emotions.

为什么说是“内时间意识”呢？

其实这个词放在这里是很不妥当的，深究起来，我就变成现象学的罪人和玩弄者了。

但是在《waking life》中确实不存在——即使存在，也被巧妙地掩盖住了——正常的时间。

主角一直在徘徊、画面也一直在徘徊，观众被诱进语言织体的陷阱：只有语言，庞大的且看似杂乱无章的大段独白才是观众有可能把握的——纵然杂乱，却未脱离语法，而在情节和画面中，我们甚至可以说，整部影片都是支离破碎的臆想。

这是导演的恶意抑或目的？

或许导演同时希望观众放弃情节，把全部精力投入庄之蝶的禅机。

他根本没这个必要，愿意花时间两遍三遍看片子的人根本不会在意什么狗屁情节，这种人都是偏执狂，否则他们宁愿找一张tango唱片听一下算了（顺便说一句，背景音乐恰如其分地选择了能够凸现疲惫、紧张、忧虑和努力把握一丝理性的情绪的tango，太棒了）。

这些并非极深的哲理，使用了演讲的方式来料理，虽然有时也跟不上他们的节奏，但其中深意却已为我们所理解！

真人拍摄，动画呈现，形式非常独特；哲学电影，梦的解析，内容非常深刻。

非常特别的片子，将拍好的真人场景再由动画制作室改成动画。

全片充满荒诞又不乏现实感的诗意，以及大量关于梦与现实、生活、存在主义、死亡、自由意志、社会规则、电影与文学、集体记忆的对白。

And so many think because "then" happens,now isn't. But didn't I mention the ongoing"wow" is happening right now?We are all coauthors of this dancing exuberance where even our inabilities are having a roast.We are the authors of ourselves,coauthoring a gigantic Dostoyevsky novel starring clowns.This entire thing we're involved with called the world is an opportunity to exhibit how exciting alienation can be.Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each other's presence. The world is an exam to see if we can rise into the direct experiences. Our eyesight is here as a test to see if we can beyond it. Matter is here as a test for our curiosity. Doubt is here as an exam for our vitality.Thomas Mann wrote that he would rather participate in life than write a hundred stories. Giacometti was once run down by a car, and he recalled falling into a lucid faint,a sudden exhilaration,as he realized at last something was happening to him.An assumption develops that you cannot understand life and live life simultaneously. I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree. I would say that life understood is life lived. But the paradoxes bug me and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me. And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. Before you drift off, don't forget.Whick is to say, remember. Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.Lorca in that same poem said that the iguana will bite those who do not dream.And as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream, that is self-awareness.

<超市夜未眠>里男主角一直睡不着,现在想来是多么痛苦的一件事情.我本身不是个很嗜睡的人，但是却很庆幸上帝给了我们做梦的权利.我们的梦大多在前半夜,而只有后半夜的梦我们醒来才会记得. 我有几次梦到梦里还在做梦,努力从梦中醒来,暗自庆幸还好那只是个梦,殊不知,其实我还在梦中.等到早晨醒来吓出一身冷汗,就象片中的男主角去拨弄那个开关而灯却没有灭.梦这种事情太私密太个人,听完基本上完全接不上话,说的人可以激情四溢,听的人却很难身临其境.所以没有几个人愿意听别人讲梦.导演用很精明的手段滔滔不决的硬把梦讲给我们听:人物作成曲线的水彩效果,小提琴大提琴钢琴吉他背景音乐的恰到好处,不时穿插出动画的黑色幽默... 没有台词的片子很考导演功力.大段大段台词的片子,更考导演功力,比如这片子,比如<这个男人来自地球>,投资小，场景简单,却有意外惊喜.我承认:1,我好奇心很重;2,我爱搅脑子.所以基本这片挺对我胃口.有的片子不能也不会只看一遍，希望我看第二遍,第三遍...时,会更享受.再次呜谢才女同学.