似是故人来1993

看法国大鼻子情圣热拉尔.德帕迪约的电影，名字叫《从马丁战争中归来》，介绍说，理查.基尔的《似是故人来》便是根据中部片子重拍的。这一来引起了我的兴趣。
这完全是一个西曼般的故事，只除了结尾是悲剧，但又正是因为这个悲剧，让这个故事更加动人：杰克在南北战争后又在监狱里关了几年，终于踏上了回家的路。7年间物是人非，家园被毁，妻子劳拉带着小儿子艰难度日。杰克与劳拉小心注视着彼此间重新萌发的爱情，乡邻与黑人也真心接受这个更为关心土地农民的旧日主人，只有对劳拉暗恋多年的青年对他冷眼旁观。辛勤的耕作下土地眼看便可收获，劳拉也生下一个女儿，好日子触手可及，而厄运忽然降临。杰克被控杀死一人，证据确凿，罪无可恕。这时劳拉却说，杰克不是她丈夫，这个人不是杰克，也请来证人证实她的说法。正要翻案之际，杰克却出人意料地解雇律师，与劳拉对质，逼她当堂说出对他的爱，从心里承认他是她的丈夫。自辩很成功，但他的命运也决定了。劳拉不明白他为什么宁可不要性命，也要证明他是杰克。杰克说如果我不是杰克，那他签的土地买卖合同就是一纸空文，乡邻的辛苦就要付诸东流，而他们的女儿就是私生子……而他自己，就会是个一无是处的骗子，在监狱里关上几年，出来后仍然一无是处。他是不愿意死，但一定要在其中选择一个，那他宁愿死，也要证明他是她光名正大的丈夫。
　　确实，他不是杰克，只是一个与杰克长相酷似的人，当过一年教师，卷了一笔钱逃走，又当了几年兵，被俘后与杰克关在同一间牢房长达4年，在与杰克的闲聊中知道了杰克的一切。出狱后杰克与人争执杀了人，然后也死了。他假扮杰克回到杰克的家中，爱上劳拉，立心要做一个好人。但上天不许。既然如此，那就做一个好杰克去死，也不要做回卑劣的过去苟且地活着。
　　多么感人的故事。好莱坞真的可以点石成金，他们早已熟知观众的趣味，知道怎样去编织梦幻。最早的故事是怎样的呢?在热拉尔.德帕迪约的电影中前半部分差不多，不同的是真丈夫厌倦了做个农民，正好遇上招募新兵就招呼也没打一个走了，7年后又厌倦了流浪生活想起回家了，与德帕迪约扮演的假丈夫对质，假丈夫被判死刑，做妻子的抱着身份未明的小女儿哀伤地回到可厌的丈夫身边。可厌的不只是真丈夫的猥索和假丈夫的大鼻子和堵心的结局，还有脏兮兮的农人和土地，男男女女都戴着红布做的帽子，无一处可观。风景不美人物不美结局不美。德帕迪约假扮活着的人也说不过去，风险太大了吧?既然没死，总有一天会回家的，到时他怎么办?安了心不想活了吗?两下一比，美国版比法国版高明不知多少。导演把背景放在南北战争后，让男人们的离家与生死未卜是那么的顺理成章。细节安排暗线伏笔都做得熨贴自然。不知道是新编容易还是改编容易，但这个导演是个改编高手。多少翻拍的都不如旧片，这个确是例外。

明知道那人不是自己六年前抛弃家庭粗暴对待自己的枕边人。明知道的。
六年的时间，多么长，一个女人，独自带着小孩，抚养成人。
家里值钱的东西都给人抢走，经历战乱，然后生活一贫如洗，只剩下空荡荡的屋子，和仅存的胸针……
必须独自劳作，每天忙田里的事情。
有一个人始终默默的帮忙，那是一个退伍的军人，装了一只假肢，只是因为喜欢她，多年来默默在背后帮忙，并且等待守候。
其实都知道，女人一直都知道对方对他的心意。
就是差那么一点点，就答应了。
只差那么一点点。
六年以后，多年前去参军的先生回来。她第一个反应是去梳妆打扮……
紧张的样子，就像刚谈恋爱的忐忑模样。
不是没有感情的，她其实开始的时候爱他的丈夫的。
以为回来的真是自己的丈夫，在黑暗的房间里，手上只有一个风灯，淡淡的光影照在两人的身上，他们好久没有如此亲昵的坐在一起。
我那时候其实挺爱你的……她说。
但是，你后来的态度，你的个性，所有的这些东西……
他无语，谁知道他心里的感受呢，只有他知道自己的真相。
他说，没有想到，你是如此的美，笑起来这样的好看，今后，我一定让你时常开心的笑！
所有的人，都以为失踪了六年的人终于回来了，焕然一新，温文尔雅知书达礼……
只有枕边的妻子知道他不是。
但是，有什么关系呢。
他曾经很担心她会看出来。
他说，我……我都忘记了我们是怎么在一起的……
她答，有什么关系呢，这些都不重要。
是的，都不重要。
明知道这个人只是像自己的丈夫，但却绝不可能是自己的丈夫。
却不要紧。
她仿佛是第一次恋爱的女人，第一次发现原来在爱里面，自己可以这样的被人疼惜爱护和爱恋珍惜……
是的，只要这些，就够了。
她会爱上他，而他，也慢慢的爱上了她。
有时将错就错，不过是因为贪恋。
贪恋的东西，就像她说的。以前我们的日子很富足，但是，那时我时常觉得痛苦。现在，我们的日子一贫如洗，但是从来没有这样的快乐过。
有些人，可以把爱看得大于一切，不是因为幼稚，天真，只是他们明白，两人在一起，有愉悦的内心，时常满足于每天的日子，这样的生活，并不是每一个人都可以拥有的。

       （一）把好话说在前面。

    南北战争结束后一百多年的现在，种族歧视在美国那片所谓的人权自治的土地上依旧没有消失过。
    这部戏很刻意地展示了三个面：
    1、将KKK烧十字架、对黑人使用私刑的一幕展现了出来。在九十年代拍摄这一幕，我想制片人多少有点使平等意识已经生长起来的新白人对过去的“罪行”产生的愧意的意思。为票房而生的电影用到这样的题材，不管是否动机在于迎合新资本力量宽容的价值观，它至少是正面的。
    2、强大的宗教约束。不管人们是不是从来不说谎，至少人们表面上应该是不说谎的——这是基督统治的世界的社会契约。骗子的身份足以让你失去一切。在电影中，男主角宁可选择去死都不能承认自己是个骗子，私以为跟村民的利益真的没半毛钱关系，重点是一旦他被认为是骗子，他会被所有人抛弃，还会连累妻儿。
    3、法不容情。

   （二）开始吐槽了。
    
    1、为了让大家更容易接受女主的变节，故事让女主的前夫犯了错……丢下妻儿去参军。
    亲们，参军能算是犯错吗？南北战争是美国历史上的一个悲剧。像南军的统帅李将军，他亦赞同解放黑奴，但是却因为他是南方利益体系之下的一员，必须为自己所代表的团体去战争。战争对于一些人来说是历史给予的使命。
    试想一下，你为了保卫家园，出去抛头颅洒热血，得到的回报却是老婆先跟邻居勾搭上，后跟另一个男人生小孩，你情何以堪。真该庆幸你死了，不然有一天你突然回来，大家都不知道怎么收场了。

    2、邻居先生从头到脚都没有真正地犯大错，如果有错，一定是错在爱错了一个自私的女人。在不知道男主的面目之前，他默默付出，默默离开。在知道男主的真面目之后，他也只是纯粹地要求自己的付出有所回报。
    至少吧，他比男主正派。
    戏里却为使得男主的形象更加高大，硬生生地把邻居写成了坏人。

    3、至于男主……我真心觉得这人的行为完全不符合发展心理学。谁都知道，狗改不了吃屎的本性。
    再说了，这条狗原来吃了一肚子的屎，现在突然不吃了，就等于说他嘴巴干净了？我真心不知道导演想借此说明什么。

    这样一部片，居然也火了那么久，还被作为经典来评价。除了因为男主是帅哥，女主是美女之外，还有其它原因吗？
    尽管我现在特么吐槽，当初看到男主角在法庭上的表现时，还是忍不住掉眼泪。忽而想到，当主角是我们喜欢的演员来演时，真是一件危险的事。
    第一、他们做错了什么，我们都“可以理解”，“可以接受”，这等于允许了他们向我们传递不正当的世界观。
    第二、使我们不能客观公正地评价眼前的事，因为一开始就有感情的倾向。

    结论是：这部片基本是烂片。

   是Jack.sommerceby,不,是汤森,不，是Jack.sommerceby."你怎么知道,你怎么知道,你怎么知道,因为我从来没有向爱他那样爱你.”
    这就是《似是故人来》，我是在一次次否定和肯定中看完了此片。到头来，他究竟是谁？我宁愿相信他是她所爱的人，不管你是谁。只因我爱你，不管你做过什么，我知道我爱你。这才是爱情，只有女人愿意相信的爱情，与现实功利的、交易的、目的性的爱情格格不入。
    真的再一次被Richard.Gere那绅士而儒雅的风度而折服。让我看到了他的另一面，三次拍着桌子问劳拉，你怎么知道，你怎么知道，你怎么知道。野性，男人的本色。而同是男人的本色，《燃情岁月》中崔斯汀的男人本色又是另一种。崔斯汀是让女人痛苦一生的男人，而sommerceby是让女人温柔一世的爱人。这就是Richard.Gere诠释的sommerceby

John "Jack" Sommersby left his farm to fight in the American Civil War but has not returned home afterward, and is presumed dead. Despite the hardship of working their farm without him, his apparent widow Laurel (played by Foster) is quite content in his absence, as Jack was an unpleasant and abusive husband. She even makes remarriage plans with one of her neighbors, Orin Meacham (Pullman), who despite his own hardships (such as a wooden foot, which he wears to replace one that was lost in the war) has been helping her and her young son with the farmwork.

One day, Jack (Gere) seemingly returns with a complete change of heart. He is now kind and loving to Laurel and their young son. In the evenings, he reads to them from Homer's Iliad, which the old Jack never would have done. He claims that the book was given to him by a man he met in prison, and that "War changes you; makes you appreciate things". Jack and Laurel rekindle their intimacy and Laurel soon becomes pregnant.

Displaced from his courtship of Laurel, Meacham immediately suspects this "new" Sommersby as an impostor. The town shoemaker also finds that this man's foot is two sizes smaller than the shoe template which had been made for Sommersby before the war.

In order to revive the local economy, Sommersby suggests Burley tobacco as a cash crop. He raises the seed money by selling parts of his own farm to people who will then work the land to grow tobacco. This raises further doubts in his old neighbors who believe that the "old" Jack would not be so hasty to give away his beloved father's land, as well as resentment among Confederate veterans about the inclusion of former slaves.

One black freedman living on Sommersby's land is brutally attacked and dropped at Sommersby's door, by men proclaiming themselves the Knights of the White Camellia (one of them is Meacham, distinguished by his wooden foot). Jack is threatened in an attempt to force him to exclude Black people from the landowning but he refuses, saying that they can "own what they pay for".

Upon taking the townspeople's money, he sets off to buy the tobacco seed claiming that the crops will raise enough funds to rebuild the town church. Great suspicion and skepticism falls upon him (and by association, Laurel and their son) when he does not return at the expected time. He does, however, return. All those that bought in on the deal set to work, transforming the dull and lifeless plantation into a breeding ground of promise and prosperity. Laurel gives birth to a daughter, Rachel.

Shortly after Rachel's baptism, two U.S. Marshals appear in town to arrest Jack Sommersby. He is charged with murder, which carries the death penalty if convicted. Once the trial begins, Laurel's attempts to save her husband quickly focus on the question of his identity: whether this "Jack" is who he claims to be, or a look-a-like who met the real Sommersby whilst in prison for deserting the Confederate Army.

Laurel and Jack's lawyer agree to argue that her husband is an impostor, not the same man who left Laurel to fight in the war. This would save her husband (or supposed husband) from hanging for murder, although he would still be imprisoned for several years for fraud and desertion. Meacham devises this plan in exchange for Laurel promising to marry him upon "Sommersby's" imprisonment.

Jack fires the lawyer and sets about re-establishing himself as the real Sommersby. Several witnesses are brought up to discredit this Sommersby as a fraud, and show that he is in fact Horace Townsend, an English teacher from Virginia.

One witness says that the man currently posing as Jack defrauded his township of several thousand dollars after claiming he wanted to help rebuild the schoolhouse there. Sommersby quickly discredits the man's testimony by identifying him as one of the Klansmen who had threatened him earlier. Jack also points out that Orin Meacham was another of those men, and that this is all a set-up to try and rob the new black farmers of the land they have bought. When the black judge confronts the witness on this charge, the witness snaps, "When the Yankees have all gone you'll be back in the field where you belong!" The judge silences him and sentences him to 30 days for contempt, increased to 60 days upon the man's protest.

As the drama unfolds, Jack asks Laurel to give the reason she knows he is not the "real" Jack Sommersby; she replies (after some berating) "…because I never loved him the way I love you!" With this her charade ends and she says that she believes the Jack before her to be her real husband.

The judge calls Jack to his bench to ask whether he wishes to be tried as Jack Sommersby even if it will certainly mean death by hanging. Jack glances at the freed blacks who have been farming his land, and then he glances at his wife and his daughter, who would be respectively condemned as an adulteress and a bastard child if he claimed the identity of Horace Townsend. He calmly states that he wants to be tried as John "Jack" Sommersby.

Jack is convicted of first degree murder and is sentenced to death by hanging. While awaiting death, he is asked by Laurel to tell the truth. She asks, "Are you John Sommersby?" Laurel mentions the book on Homer's works that he holds. Jack tells her the story of how he met a man who looked like him whilst in a prison and how he gave him this book. They traveled together until his friend died. He claims that he buried him under a pile of rocks on a hill top in Virginia. Laurel asks, "You mean you buried Jack?", to which Jack replies, "I mean I buried Horace."

Just then the jailers enter to transport Jack to the gallows. He asks Laurel to be amongst the crowds as he cannot "hang alone". She says she can't watch him die. As Jack Sommersby is fastened up ready to hang, Laurel makes her way to the front of the crowd. Jack calls for her, claiming to the executioner that he "isn't ready". She then calls back and the two see each other. The hood is pulled over and a trap door can be heard opening.

The closing scenes show Laurel walking up a hill with flowers. She then kneels by the grave of "Jack Sommersby" and lays the flowers down for him. It is revealed that work is being done on the steeple of the village church, as Jack had wished.

似是故人，不是故人，胜似故人；
执子之手，却又分手，相聚苦短。
俗世渺渺，天意茫茫，生死两隔；
恨台上卿卿，羡台下我我，不是你共我。
有缘无份，回忆不断，生命只恨长。
岁月深渊，终我此生，相思说不尽。