[香港中文大學]站2013.02.18

 

電影:《金屬與憂鬱的國度》

日期: 2013.02.18（一）

時間: 18:30-20:30

地點: 地點: 香港中文大學 邵逸夫堂

嘉賓: 林碧君女士（臨床心理學家）

 

Film: Metal and Melancholy

Date: 2013.02.18 (Mon)

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Guest: Ms. Lam Pik Kwan (Clinical Psychologist)

 

 

 

荷蘭 Netherlands / 1993 / 80min / Heddy HONIGMANN

◎2007 加拿大國際紀錄片電影節

Hot Docs International Documentary Festival

◎1995 日本山形國際紀錄片影展市長特別獎

Mayor's Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

◎1994 法國真實影展最佳影片

Grand Prix, Cinéma du Réel

 

擁有七百萬居民的秘魯首都利馬，是某位西班牙詩人口中充滿「金屬與憂鬱的國度」。本片記錄九○年代初期，來自不同社會階級和工作領域的人們，開著自用轎車，貼上路邊小攤所叫賣的一美金「TAXI」（計程車）廉價貼紙，或兼職或全時投入計程車工作。一切全因政局混亂、官員貪瀆、恐怖主義橫行，再加上經濟衰退、通貨膨脹嚴重，小老百姓只能憑著一己的努力，在污濁的大城市中掙扎求存。全片由無數個小人物的真實故事所組成，每段故事從坐上計程車為起點，伴隨著城市沿途風光，娓娓道出人生最動人的片段。其中有警察、醫生、演員，甚至是剛畢業的中學生，或是時常被酒醉老父毆打的未婚媽媽，他們有著不同的人生選擇，不同的痛苦與掙扎，卻在簡短的片段中閃耀出人生智慧和生命韌性。

 

You live in Lima, a Latin-American metropolis with 7 million inhabitants, in Peru, where in the nineteen eighties and nineties the economic situation has grown increasingly hopeless. You still manage to have a job, with the salary of which you can pay for gas and electricity, but not the rent; or you have even lost your job. The only thing that hasn’t been stolen is your old car that you bought when you could still afford it. So, for a dollar you buy a sign saying “taxi”, stick it on your windscreen, and throw yourself into the Lima traffic. The competition is murderous, but the earnings, however small, are still quite worthwhile in a country where the members of the middle-classes – teachers, army officers, doctors, civil servants – earn salaries of a few hundred dollars a month. As a taxi-driving economist explains in the film: in Peru there is hardly any middles-class left. This film takes the viewer on a taxi-trip through Lima. The portraits of the drivers grow into a panorama of human fighting spirit, the many ingenious ways of survival we humans employ, of passion, pain, hope, and zest for life.

 

 

*第二輪巡展特刊下載：2nd Round Booklet