被紧缚的花房·红字,淬炼剑的火(3)-中国红

繁花走線 - Blooming Runner
8 min readFeb 6, 2023

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如果中国有一天可以拍摄真理片,那么我愿意把中国的红字故事写出来。也许名字就是《一个模特和她的教授们》,或者文雅一些《炼剑的女孩》,或者隐晦的叫做《剑与火》。

——繁花走线

韩国红

边赫(Hyuk Byun,韩语:변혁,1966年01月01日。IMDB: nm0126492。导演、编剧摄影)在2004年导演了韩国版本的红字。不过这部影片不过是借用了红字的名字,和霍桑的红字没有关系。当然,李恩珠(Eun-ju Lee,韩语:이은주,IMDB: nm0497249。1980年12月22日-2005年2月22日)严智苑(韩语:엄지원,1977年12月25日)成贤娥(Hyeon-a Seong,韩语:성현아,1975年07月23日。IMDB:nm1234301)都是可圈可点的可人。

韩国电影《红字》剧照

影片保留了韩国情色片的传统,唯美细腻而且大胆。影片的故事强调了激情后内心的不安和悔恨。在剑与火的淬炼中,逃得过命运,确摆脱不了心灵的煎熬。

中国红

如果我们不能直面性,就永远不能到达真理的彼岸。真理总是赤裸的。

Once on a time, in sunshine weather,

Falsehood and Truth walk’d out together,

The neighbouring woods and lawns to view,

As opposites will sometimes do:

Through many a blooming mead they pass’d,

And at a brook arrived at last:

The purling stream, the margin green,

With flowers bedeck’d, a vernal scene,

Invited each itinerant maid

To rest a while beneath the shade;

Under a spreading beech they sat,

And pass’d the time with female chat;

While each her thoughts, the other feign’d.

At length, quoth Falsehood, Sister Truth,

For so she call’d her from her youth,

What if, to shun yon sultry beam,

We bathe in this delightful stream,

The bottom smooth, the water clear,

And there’s no prying shepherd near?

With all my heart, the nymph replied,

And threw her snowy robes aside,

Stripp’d herself naked to the skin,

And with a spring leapp’d headlong in.

Falsehood more leisurely undress’d,

And laying by her tawdry vest,

Trick’d herself out in Truth’s array,

And cross the meadows tripp’d away.

From this cursed hour the fraudful dame

Of sacred Truth usurps the name,

And with a vile perfidious mind

Roams far and near to cheat mankind;

False sighs suborns, and artful tears,

And starts with vain pretended fears,

In visits vain still appears most wise,

And rolls at church her saint-like eyes;

Talks very much, plays idle tricks,

While rising stock her conscience pricks;

When being, poor thing, extremely gravell’d,

She secrets ope’d, and all unravell’d.

But on she will, and secrets tell

Of John and Joan, and Ned and Nell,

Reviling every one she knows,

As fancy leads, beneath the rose.

Her tongue so voluble and kind

It always runs before her mind;

As times do serve she slily pleads,

And copious tears still show her needs,

With promises as thick as weeds -

Speaks pro and con, is wondrous civil,

To-day a saint, to-morrow devil.

Poor Truth she stripp’d, as has been said,

And naked left the lovely maid,

Who, scorning from her cause to wince,

Has gone stark naked ever since,

And ever naked will appear,

Beloved by all who Truth revere.

— — Matthew Prior,Truth and Falsehood. a Tale

Édouard Debat-Ponsan, Nec Mergitur (Nor is she submerged) or La Vérité sortant du puits, 1898, Musée de l’Hôtel de Ville, Amboise.

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很久以前在一个阳光明媚的日子,真理与谎言一同外出,正如对立者有时做的那样,她们观赏着相邻的树林和草坪;

在穿过了一片片茂盛的草地后,她们最终到达了一条小溪,绿茵接壤着潺潺流动的溪水,花朵装点着和煦的风景,都似乎在邀请着徘徊着的少女们去绿荫下稍作休息,她们遂坐在茂密的山毛榉的阴翳里,用少女的相谈消磨时光,一个吐露真言而另一个却掩藏心思。

最终,谬误说道:“真理啊,我的姐妹”,一如她从幼年就这样呼唤她,“若要躲避着闷热的光线,我们何不如在那可爱的溪水里洗澡?那儿底部平稳水流清澈,也没有牧羊人在一旁偷窥”,那位美丽的少女真诚地应答着并脱去她洁白无瑕的长袍置于一边,她的皮肤因衣物脱落而裸露,伴随着涌现的浪花跃入水中。

而谎言则悠闲地脱下外衣,躺在她廉价俗丽的衣衫旁,用真理的衣服把自己打扮一新,跌跌撞撞地穿过草地。

从这个可耻的时刻开始,欺骗女士篡夺了神圣的真理的名字,用她低劣而背信弃义的思想漫游四方去欺骗人类,虚假的叹息、佯装的眼泪、伪作的恐惧,把空无伪装成智慧,像圣人一样在教堂里游走。她大话连篇,玩弄着闲来无用的把戏,当良心不安刺破了她上升的名誉,当可怜的人类感到困惑时,她(伪装成真理)的秘密才全部解开,同时她所知道的所有人的秘密也都被公开了,当谎言被玫瑰色幻象指挥时,她是多么健谈而友善,以至于言语之快超过她的思想,随着时间推移,她狡猾的恳求和滔滔不绝的眼泪仍显露她的本性,应许下的许诺多的如同茂密的杂草,谈起利弊仿佛出神入化,今天是圣人,明日是魔鬼。

正如之前所说,可怜的真理被剥夺了外衣,只留下这位少女赤身裸体,从此以后也一直如此,总以赤裸的外形现身,尽管有人因此嘲笑她,真理仍然被敬仰她的人所爱戴。

— — 马修·普莱尔(Matthew Prior,1664年7月21日-1721年9月18日。英国诗人和外交官。他以《考证》[The Examiner]的撰稿人而闻名), 真理和谎言,一个寓言

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth Coming Out of Her Well,1896 (Medium Oil on canvas, Dimensions 91 cm × 72 cm, Musée Anne de Beaujeu, Moulins, Allier)

如果中国有一天可以拍摄真理片,那么我愿意把中国的红字故事写出来。也许名字就是《一个模特和她的教授们》,或者文雅一些《炼剑的女孩》,或者隐晦的叫做《剑与火》。

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