国外大学毕业旅行解读:电影《无尽的边界》

国外大学毕业旅行解读:电影《无尽的边界》

  The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner Haseeba, however, has spent time in jail in Tehran for the very same offence against the State. The disaccord between them is not only social but also personal. Ahmad's destiny collides with that of a family fleeing the Taliban; soon the intricate divisions of age and gender within that group will trigger other problems and entanglements – including a 'lovers on the run' intrigue that fleetingly recalls Murnau's classic Tabu (1931).
  Across all the arresting, shifting peripeteia of its plot, Abbas Amini's film deftly dramatises the complicated question of commitment: do we commit ourselves to a political cause, a set of religious beliefs, or a person? And how do we negotiate the commitments of others, even those closest to us, when they are based on a very different value system?
  With its sparse music score, densely naturalistic acting and unostentatious camera work, Endless Borders is almost a minimalistic suspense thriller (with Hitchcockian overtones), combined with a heated family melodrama – but it never loses sight of the serious and extremely timely issues that it raises.

伊朗的电影总是在用它独具特色的色彩和风格,展现每个人在这片并不够美好的土地上经历的种种。我很难讲述这是一种怎样的感受,宗教人文环境和边境的局势以及自己国家里的压抑在一个个体身上呈现时,他该如何把握道德的尺度和良心的边界,这是一个非常大而复杂的命题,也因此在看到这位边界教师一点点卷入一场以逃亡收尾的纷争里的时候,我也很难说这一切到底应该怎么做。

故事从这个边境教师讲起,关于他和学生救了一个阿富汗难民家庭,收留,并且想要救助这个家里未成年的买来的小女孩,继而引发了一场内部矛盾,在混乱中他带着学生和这个女孩逃亡,同时带上了自己刚被保释出来的女友一起去往土耳其。他的处境比上不足比下有余,比起被买卖的女孩和逃亡的阿富汗人,他已然足够幸运,也相对自由,甚至比起坐牢需要家人卖房子的女友来说,他甚至拥有行动权和教书的资格。但他依然无法回归原本的生活,在城市里,在有文化的环境里,在舒适圈里。他说对政zhi并不感兴趣,才会如此不满于自己的处境,但更尖锐的女友和救助时的热心又让他根本不可能远离这个话题。


担忧,不安,不适,对未来的绝望都在这片边境上滋生,对别人来说这是安全获救的地方,对他来说却是必须逃离的桎梏。他有道德,却保护不了所有人,犹豫着要不要害死老人,决定下又坑了医生。天平一次又一次的摇来摇去,也让他在道德的边界上来回游走,无法给自己交代,也无法找到最完满的答案,这也让他陷入到无止境的自我困境中。

结尾戛然而止于边界上,他从一个边界走向另一个边界,却似乎被情感牵绊被现实卡住。他割舍不下的也不只是女友,还有他自己的牵挂和无法得到解答的问题。他们的争执没有结果,也就是问题没有答案,他当然可以离开,忽视问题的存在,但往前一步必然还有新的挑战,这也是最难的部分吧。

苍白的画面,紧张的音乐,在沙漠旁边,我看到了他的寂寞和痛苦。