所有美好的东西2010

“I really miss her." Robert Durst在父亲临死前冒着被抓捕的危险悄悄造访，唯一说出的一句话却是对于亡妻的想念。Bob是爱着Kathie的，即使是在他亲手杀妻藏尸的时候，他的爱恐怕也从未有一丝动摇。自古富豪多变态，Bob不是传奇的纽约灾星，他的故事更像是一个被金钱彻底释放了的后现代悲剧。

作为拥有半个时代广场的曼哈顿房产巨鳄Durst家族的长子，Bob却拥有最悲惨的童年。熟睡中被父亲叫醒，亲眼目睹母亲跳楼自杀，7岁的Bob从记事起便活在一辈子也走不出的阴影中，死亡带来的刺激，父亲的冷淡与兄弟的排斥，可怜的Bob想不变态都难。

遇见Kathie本可以成为Bob人生的转折点。开朗的长岛少女，炽热的爱情和平淡的乡下生活，婚后的纽约贵族过起了平凡人的小日子。故事如果就此结束，就成了一段happily ever after的童话。可惜生活总是循规蹈矩，富豪总归得子承父业。当两人坐上回纽约的奔驰车时，悲剧就已经注定。

变态始终还是变态，不管你看了多少心理医生。

杀狗，杀妻，杀友，将邻居碎尸后抛弃在冰冷的河水里。因为有钱，Bob的家庭摆平了妻子的失踪案，20年来他甚至从未正式成为嫌疑人；因为有钱，他可以请来全德州最好的两大律师，将杀人碎尸硬生生说成了正当防卫，"我没杀他，我只是将他分尸了。"

Not guilty. Bob大摇大摆的走出法庭的时候止不住脸上得意的笑容。

妻子失踪26年后，根据Bob的事迹改编的电影《所有美好的东西》上映。或许是高司令冷峻的演绎引起了Bob的共鸣，或许是邓斯特天真的笑容唤起了Bob的记忆，71岁的Bob竟然主动联系电影导演要求被采访。

而正是这一采，最终把他再次送上了法庭。

在这部6集的纪录片《纽约灾星》的最后，被新呈递的笔迹证据打个"措手不及"的Bob在洗手间里自言自语，甚至忘了还没关掉的麦克风。

"what the hell did I do? Killed them all of course."

“Them”, 是他一生的最爱，交心的知己。 “Them”, 是他一生中唯一美好的东西。

或许在Bob的记忆深处，依然闪回着Kathie的单纯和Susan的率直，或许当他想起他们时，嘴角仍会泛起微笑。

可惜，悲剧就是把美好的东西毁灭给人看，而当Bob看着母亲从屋顶一跃而下的瞬间，上帝已经给这场闹剧写下了悲剧的结局。

万种风情化为尘埃，
万种伤悲化为眼泪。
你知道美好与不美好的通道吗？

其实一个笑容就可以沉湎，
其实一个孩子就可以挽救。

湖水激荡的温柔，
包裹了一切的不是。
如同岁月剥蚀，
如同回温，
走失，
回不去，
那时拥抱的温度……

不错的题材，可惜不够连贯，也不知道导演想表现什么。镜头中Kirsten Dunst美极了。Ryan Gosling 演得不错，中年造型化妆上有点假。

"All Good Things throws so many narrative balls in the air that you may struggle to catch up."
(Peter Travers from "Rolling Stone")

"...when it comes to a feature film, leaving an audience with an incomplete feeling is not always the best approach."
(James Berardinelli from "Reelviews")

"...the screenplay seems to be fighting against the reality that some stories may not be suited for the movie treatment."
(Jason McKiernan from Filmcritic.com)

Verdict: 7 out of 10

说实在话，这部电影看得我有点小纠结。可能是我不能很好的理解悬疑电影的真谛吧。
尽管如此，这部电影还是给我留下了深刻的印象。
尤其是在爱情观婚姻观方面。

首先，一见钟情的爱情的确美妙，然而这种美妙紧紧就像是奶油冰激凌，在嘴间伴随着一点奇幻的味道而消失在氲氲热气之中，没有踪迹。据说男人都渴望一见钟情的爱情，这点可能是源于对美好外表的追逐吧。
忽然想到了《时尚女魔头》中的一句话，具体的记不清了，大概是这样的：内在美，人们很少会关心，因为耗时太久。外表才是第一。
所以，有段时间，我拼命减肥。
因为在这个时代，不漂亮的cinderella始终是打扫家务的cinderella。
有人说，女人啊，你为何变得如此可怕。我觉得是社会驱使的。
女性在中国这个受封建教化影响多年的国家里，始终屈服在男权之下，是弱者。
没人愿意老被驱使，所以，女性们只有强化内心，坚强，即使是伪装笑的开心。
因此，给我的爱情观影响是——①女孩，漂亮外表的，不要一心找个好男人，因为不管他有多好，始终他是他，你是你，靠不住的，靠自己才保险的；②是个女的都应该要提高自己的仪容，这点很重要。

其次，婚姻中的经济问题。这部片子中，我感觉经济问题始终左右了男女主人公之间的关系。谈到钱，两个字——伤神。可能这么想也只是因为我们的社会生存压力太大了吧。这太纠结了，懒得想，懒得写了。

末了，我想说的是，我曾经也幻想这个世界有多么美好，可是真真混迹于社会才发现Things are not like this。
现在想来，恐怕是因为，美好的东西从来都不以具体的真实存在的，它们静静存在于我们的想象之中。
All good things only exist in our thoughts, in our soul, in our heart....

On the scene in the opening credits when a young Durst shoots a toy gun at his mom:

"I did like guns when I was a little kid, I remember that."

On meeting Kathie’s family:

"That is one of the major regrets in my life, is the way I treated her family, her mother. They’d never met anything like me before, this guy with piles of money and terrible manners. I used to feed the dog while I was sitting at the table. I used to talk about making love to Kathie at the dining-room table in front of her mother. [I was] absolutely impossible."

On why Kathie’s family paid for the wedding, despite the Dursts’ enormous wealth:

"The bride’s family pays for the wedding."

On his shock that Kathie was accepted to the Albert Einstein School of Medicine:

"I just didn’t think she would be accepted. I thought that if she was accepted to medical school, it would be one of the lesser-rated schools. My shock was somewhat tempered … [since] the reason she got accepted at Albert Einstein was because my grandfather was a founder of Albert Einstein."

On his refusal to help pay for Kathie’s school, and the cancellation of her credit cards:

"I was always, always, always very controlling. In terms of the stuff that’s out there — that I tried to get her out of medical school, that I wouldn’t pay her tuition — I wouldn’t pay her tuition because she’d hired lawyers, my lawyer insisted that I don't pay for anything that I hadn’t paid for in the past, and she’d gone and done one of those federal programs where they pay for it and you take a loan. The lawyer said, 'Don’t pay for the medical school.'"

"Yes, I cancelled her credit card and took her off the bank account, but she had her own bank account and I didn’t want her on mine, or I guess I was told that she shouldn’t be on [my] credit card — she could get her own credit cards."

"She never filed for divorce. She wanted a child, to have children, and she wanted me to not always be the dominant one, to not always make all the decisions in the marriage."

On the scene where Gosling’s character storms into Dunst’s graduation party and pulls her out by her hair:

"This is close. After a number of years, before, where we would go to her family’s house for a function, I would insist that we agree on how long we are going to stay: two hours, three hours, four hours. We would always do a negotiation, and when the time was up, I was ready to leave."

"I’ve seen the story about the hair two different ways. One way, I drag her out of the house by her hair; the other way, I grab her hair and a big chunk comes out. Either way is close enough."

On the scene in which Dunst’s character seeks refuge in a neighbor’s apartment in the midst of a fight with Gosling’s character:

    Durst: This is more or less accurate. I don’t know why she would go in our neighbor’s window as opposed to go to their door. But it was pouring, and we were having a wrestling, shoving-type fight, and she ran out on the terrace and ran into their apartment. Said she was afraid to come home. [I] said, "She doesn’t want to come home, she doesn’t have to come home."

    Jarecki: Did you feel like she was really afraid to come home?

    Durst: I’ve got no idea. I didn’t really care one way or another what she did. It was late and I was just tired."

On the part where Dunst’s character discovers Gosling’s character killed Igor, the family dog:

    Durst: This made me feel bad about the movie, Andrew. I mean, the idea that I could kill Igor, I don’t like.

    Jarecki: Well, there was a lot of discussion about you having had a lot of dogs over the years, a bunch of [which] were named Igor. Someone said to us at one point that you had seven dogs over ten years or something."

    Durst: No. We had two Igors before the Igor that lasted forever. One of them got run over, and one of them, when he was a puppy, went out and … ate an apple core. The apple core got stuck in his gut. We did an operation on him, and he died.

On his relationship with Morris Black:

    Durst: [In Galveston, I] didn’t know anybody there to begin with, and when I left, I didn’t know anybody but Morris Black. And we were both loners and had some strange things in common and didn’t do much. There’s not that much to do in Galveston, anyway, but whatever it was, we did it. Went to some movies. Saw Traffic.

    Jarecki: The movie Traffic?

    Durst: Yes, the movie Traffic.

    Jarecki: You didn’t just sit and watch traffic.

    Durst: [Laughing] There wasn’t even much traffic in Galveston.

On Morris Black’s death and dismemberment:

"I remember it very, very, very clearly, and I remember the nightmare I went through over the next several days trying to decide what to do, deciding I could not go to the police, the police aren’t going to believe this, nobody’s going to believe that I came down here to Galveston a rich guy, rented a $300-a-month apartment disguised as a woman, and oh, by the way, my neighbor is lying in my kitchen with a shot in the face from my gun …"

"They never found the head. I have no idea why. I do know that there must have been 15 garbage bags full of body parts and other stuff with blood on it or whatever, and they found 12. Why they didn’t find the other ones, since they were all dumped in the same place, I have no idea."

纽约房地产亿万大富豪罗伯特 – 德斯特（Robert Durst ）的第一任妻子凯思林于1982年1月底神秘失踪。当时他们夫妇正闹离婚纠纷。凯思林失踪的前一天晚上，正在参加一个舞会，突然接到德斯特的电话。她接完电话对好友吉尔伯特说：我必须赶回家去，“万一我发生了什末不测，一定要为我查明真相，好吗？我真担心德斯特会做出什末疯狂举动”。四天后，德斯特报警，说凯思林失踪。凯的朋友们无不对德斯特严重怀疑，但是警方始终没有查出线索。

2000年，警方联络上凯斯林的好友女作家苏珊 – 伯曼，要苏珊协助调查。苏珊曾向德斯特询问凯思林失踪的问题。其后，德斯特给苏珊寄过两张支票，每张金额2 . 5万美元，德解释说是“送礼”。2000年12月11日，苏珊突然在家中被人枪杀。警方勘察，没有破门而入的痕迹，子弹又是从脑后射入苏珊头颅，所以判断是被苏珊认识的熟人所杀，并认为德斯特有重大嫌疑。德斯特没有充分理由解释为什末给苏珊寄支票，也被怀疑是为了“封”苏珊的口。

2001年9月30日，德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿市的海滩上发现一具没有头和四肢的躯干。转天，同一水域捞起两只袋子，一只装着一条人腿，一只装着两支胳臂。同时，警方还从水底捞出一只装着钢锯的塑料套，一张从当地五金店购买塑料袋的购物单，一件衣服，一张报纸。警方很快查出，死者是失踪的71岁老人莫里斯–布莱克。

警方在搜查布莱克住所时发现，有一道血迹一直延伸到布莱克邻居“德洛西 –辛娜”的房间。在对“辛娜”家进行搜查时，搜出一双血淋林的靴子和一把刀。据此深入追查，查明真正的“辛娜”，是德斯特的同学，并不在德克萨斯州居住。而假“辛娜”正是德斯特男扮女装冒充的。警方立即逮扑了德斯特。

警方审讯过程中，德斯特在铁证面前，承认了杀死和肢解布莱克的罪行。他交代，男扮女装冒充“辛娜”到德克萨斯州居住，是因为前妻失踪和苏珊被杀，他被怀疑，而进行逃避。他说，不是有意杀死布莱克。起因是，布莱克性情暴躁，两人经常争吵，有时还大打出手（此一情节有人证明）。2001年9月28日，他发现布莱克进入他的住房，手持他的枪。两人扭打过程中，枪走了火，射中布莱克脸部致死。他“吓坏了，害怕警方不相信他所说的经过”，所以肢解尸体，抛尸灭迹。

法院审讯时，检察官按“谋杀罪”提起公诉，如果罪名成立，德斯特面临99年徒刑。陪审团经过五天审议，于2003年11月11日做出裁决，完全出乎所有人的意料，竟然是“无罪释放”。当法庭宣判这一判决时，连德斯特本人都“吓了一跳”，嘴巴微微张开，眼睛流出泪水。他拥抱律师说：“太谢谢你了”！检察官听到这一判决感到惊愕，连说：“令人失望，令人沮丧！”他认为，德斯特一贯说谎，是个“冷血杀手”；德斯特的行为用他自己的说法是无法解释的。

可惜的是，美国媒体对本案没有后续的追踪报道。陪审团根据什末理由裁定德斯特“无罪”？作出如此荒唐判决的原因和背景是什末？都没有下文，也没人再追究。这种不了了之的现象，在美国并不少见。除了反映美国司法制度和司法工作存在严重弊端，也反映美国的新闻自由并不是像某些人吹嘘或想象的那样完美。“家丑不可外扬”和“为富者讳”的现象在美国不是不存在。