January 10, 2015

Unbroken : 死也活下去!


在 2015 的頭幾天「收爐」,才把2014連月的疲勞輕輕卸下。
我們說:「嘿!去看電影吧! 」而為了平衡各性別、國籍、年齡⋯⋯ 的口味,
竟選了 L'Invincible (法文夾口型版),即 Unbroken,即 Angelina Jolie 導演及監製(哦!)的那套真人真事,Laura Hillenbrand 的小說:
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.
我是沒有意見、沒有所謂、沒有期望、沒有「凡事google凡事wiki」之下進場的。
而且攬著一籃(最後得我獨食)爆谷,勇者無懼(!)⋯⋯
口,一直呆呆張開,直至片尾。(然後站立拍手)

戰爭。
2014 是第一次世界大戰開戰一百年,歐洲到處都有教育活動、展覽,面對血腥腥的歷史。
早前去了列日 Liège  EXPO 14' 18 展覽,口也是一樣的張開,進場到離開。
就只是一百年前、甚至幾十年前,那時候的世界,在另一個宇宙。
生活的難關很不一樣,不能說我們的生活是較艱難還是輕鬆。
但,我們這一代的人,就是少了對生命的那種奮戰和尊重。
為了生存下去,而拼死的態度⋯ 也許我們忘了,生存本身,已經極具尊嚴。

Unbroken 描寫戰爭的真實,比歷史更赤裸。
一齣關於人性,關於 NEVER GIVE UP,NEVER GIVE IN 的光輝。
我們這時代買少見少的一些美德,例如堅持、忍耐、持守到底。
"You can take it, you can make it! "

Louis Zamperini (1917 - 2014) 的真人真事,從流氓野小孩、到奧運長跑手、到美國空軍⋯
於日本出戰時戰鬥機墜落,在橡皮艇上漂流47天,跟鯊魚肉搏;
又被敵軍「救獲」成為戰俘,被日軍Mutsuhiro Watanabe上校「得寵」,故意責難虐待。
由於沒有事先 google ,我實在不知道結局!所以更是大氣都不敢抖⋯ (但在比利時看電影是很趣緻的備有中場休息!)

由女人導演的戰爭片,拍出一種很男性化的魅力。
不是打打殺殺,你阿媽都唔認得的那種⋯  是驚人的意志力、頑強的鬥志、誓死不屈的豪情!
好MAN!真男人的那種堅秋、還有情與義的感人心弦。
最讚的是什麼呢? 是沒.有.愛.情.線的啊!喜出望外呢!
沒有荷李玉式的花火、更沒音效加煙花的激情環節!
(說真的,我真的很懷心腸,我一直在怕那日本上校會把LOUIE迫上... )
電影交代的是一更為寫實的大愛:兄弟、親情、國家、手足、生死相交!

然後還有面對人生最大的黑暗、最大的人生問題:信仰。
是為了忠於原著(事實)、還是 Angelina Jolie 也有一種對真理的包容?
「天主」的位置,在荷李活大片中(竟然)比配角更重,而且跟教理十分相乎!
圍繞主角身邊的,都是虔誠的信徒, Louie媽媽每夜的懇切祈禱,總算蒙主垂允。
somehow他有命活下來,也是主賜的恩惠 (他自己是知道的,所以他願意:愛仇人)。
黑暗決勝不過光明,罪惡終會被收服。
在最泥濘炭黑的局面當中,上主將會將一切爛局回生,at the very end。
"What God asks of men, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith.
To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen."
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

2015,開了個很好的年!
生命的美好!存在的寶貴!
還有,每天每天每天:為世界和平:祈禱、祈禱、祈禱!!!

中文片名:永不屈服

Message from Medjugorje, Jan 2 2015

"Dear children, I am here among you as a mother who desires to help you to come to know the truth. While I lived your life on earth I had knowledge of the truth, and by this alone, a piece of Heaven on earth. That is why I desire the same for you, my children. The Heavenly Father desires pure hearts filled with the knowledge of the truth. He desires for you to love all those whom you meet, because I also love my Son in all of you. This is the beginning of coming to know the truth. Many false truths are being offered to you. You will overcome them with a heart cleansed by fasting, prayer, penance and the Gospel. This is the only truth and it is the truth which my Son left you. You do not need to examine it much. What is asked of you, as I also have done, is to love and to give. My children, if you love, your heart will be a home for my Son and me, and the words of my Son will be the guiding light in your life. My children, I will make use of you, apostles of love, to help all of my children to come to know the truth. My children, I have always prayed for the Church of my Son, and so I also ask the same of you. Pray that your shepherds may come to shine forth with the love of my Son. Thank you."