糖果

「The future or the thing that gleamed. The present was so very, very good. I wasn't trying to wreck Candy's life. I was trying to make mine better. We wanted to share absolutely everything. Especially the best bits.」


「Here is the deepest secret that nobody knows. Here is the root of the root, and the bud of the bud, and the sky of the sky,in the tree called life, which grows higher than soul can hope, or mind can hide, and this is the one that is keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart. 」


「We'd found the secret glue that held all things together in a perfect place where the noise did not intrude. Our world was so very complete.」


「Everything we ever did. we did with the best of intentions, but events tumble! And the years pile up.The world is very bewildering to a junkie.」


「What do you think this is about? Sunday Lunch. It's a pretty simple thing. But with you two, there's no such thing as simple. It‘s the drugs! The drugs always come first. Do you have any idea what you have done to my family? To me? What happened to that beautiful little girl?」


「Once upon a time, there was Candy and Dan. Things were very hot that year. All the wax was melting in the trees. He would climb balconies, climb everywhere, do anything for her, oh Danny boy. Thousands of birds, the tiniest birds, adorned her hair. Everything was gold. One night the bed caught fire. He was handsome and a very good criminal. We lived on sunlight and chocolate bars. It was the afternoon of extravagant delight. Danny the daredevil. Candy went missing. The days last rays of sunshine cruise like sharks. I want to try it your way this time. You came into my life really fast and I liked it. We squelched in the mud of our joy. I was wet-thighed with surrender. Then there was a gap in things and the whole earth tilted. This is the business. This, is what we're after. With you inside me comes the hatch of death. And perhaps I'll simply never sleep again. The monster in the pool. We are a proper family now with cats and chickens and runner beans. Everywhere I looked. And sometimes I hate you. Friday -- I didn't mean that, mother of the blueness. Angel of the storm. Remember me in my opaqueness. You pointed at the sky, that one called Sirius or dog star, but on here on earth. Fly away sun. Ha ha fucking ha you are so funny Dan. A vase of flowers by the bed. My bare blue knees at dawn. These ruffled sheets and you are gone and I am going too. I broke your head on the back of the bed but the baby he died in the morning. I gave him a name. His name was Thomas. Poor little god. His heart pounds like a voodoo drum.」



「Everything's dead. Everything's turning blue.」


「And that was it. That was all that was scattered to the winds. Casper was gone. Schumann was lost. Candy was off getting better. The coast. Rehab. And I...was. I was just... The world was full of startling new concepts. I couldn't think.I couldn't breathe. I was waiting for her to come back. Because she was everything. She was everything to me. 」


「There's no going back. If you're given a reprieve, I think it is good to remember just how thin it is.」


「When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.」

關於毒品的電影, 看得太多了. 而看candy這套戲, 純粹只是因為這個名字.

電影開始時, 是dan的自白, 他細說他的candy, 聽到candy這名字, 頓時毛管楝. 由abbie cornish演candy最貼切不過, 她是那種甜到滿瀉的女孩. dan和candy瘋狂地的愛上對方, 他們從毒品中找到可以逃避現實,只容得下對方兩人的天堂, 從彼此的沉淪中找到如糖果般甜美的快樂.

全片由heaven, earth, hell三部份道出他們兩的愛情關係, 導演沒有刻意去說教, 只是將現實放在大家眼前, 卻又拍得如夢如詩的美麗, 不知這片子有多少是忠於原著, 儘管有不少不完美之處, 觀眾只要用心去感受那種愛到沉淪至自我摧毀的淒美就夠了.

若你明白愛可以愛到不能自拔, 看這套片一定會覺得很痛, 痛得只好放手.

一部描述糖果这个感觉的电影. 两个主角的精神状态非常多变.在自信，美丽，到放纵，虚弱，崩溃，无奈.角色的塑造上大起大落
镜头时而将他们拍得很美丽，梦幻，时而又如猜火车般的堕落，肮脏.而且，如果你把它当作纪录毒品人生的电影那你就错了。它的高明之处就是，明明没有很多的故事情节，多余角色，但多愁善感的配乐将它烘托成了一个带有悲剧色彩的故事片.看完后你会觉得被它的配乐把魂魄给带走了。
糖果这个意象，就这样不知不觉地暗示出来了。以往的毒品电影，嬉皮年代也好现金也好，意象往往是psychedelic的纸醉金迷.而这是一部缠绕在爱情上面的毒品电影.于是糖果成了这种缠绕的象征。

糖真的是一样很立体的东西.明明是一样味觉物品，不过我们更多于用视觉来评价它,甚至用幻觉来美化它.糖对于我的意象太深了，它绝对是五光十色的，而且不是牙买加，或者hippies的那种colourful,在我心里，它比较像那种在阳光底下晶莹通透的一串珠珠.反正它不仅仅是CHO组成的简单分子，也决不可能是直接可以反映出的感受.


http://www.wretch.cc/blog/colleen46&article_id=9752452

下午躺在毯子里看完了Candy 白色窗帘上阳光停留的地方 颜色像蜜糖一樣

最后还是感动了 dan对老板说 跟她说我已经不在这儿工作了

他怕见到candy 害怕看见她还是那么青春明媚 却不能再拥有她

曾经不是没有过希望 两人坐在海边计划着未来 一切那么温暖完美

希斯莱杰戴着毛线帽子 笑起来嘴角温柔的笑纹让人有上前亲吻的冲动

到后来他难受得受不了 把自己关在浴室冲冷水 头发总是湿淋淋的

最后的最后是他一个人在空荡荡的餐厅里 外面的阳光这样亮 照得人睁不开眼

他坐着一动不动的背影 孤孤单单的 看起来依然给人安全感

没有追出去 因为梦都醒了

可是你还在哭吗

BBM里那个寡言的Ennis让人觉得希斯是静止的，似乎猛烈的感情都隐藏在过于平静的脸庞下，大多数情况下我无法从这张脸中辨别出他的想法，大概是他极不确定的眼神迷惑使然。《Candy》中的希斯更明确，他的眼中只有Candy，即使是在最痛苦的时刻，只要有Candy在身旁，他可以与她相濡以沫挺过没有毒品的日子。但他的爱同样是迷茫的，那幅他身穿蓝毛衣手拿Candy留下的雏菊的海报中他的存在似乎毫无目的，毫无原由，淡化为一张风景画般，我无从知晓结局的意思，亦是从这一帧的画面中受到的迷惑吧。
  《Candy》中的希斯是他比较本色的演出了，没有小丑的浓妆掩护，没有牛仔帽的遮挡，不是传奇人物亦非英雄战士，只是一个普通的青年，尽管过的是偷鸡摸狗的瘾君子生活，可有Candy在，他们依然是一对寻常的情侣，与他人无异。这时细细观察希斯的脸会有意想不到的收获，长眼高鼻薄唇，一头及肩卷发，依稀有奥兰多布鲁姆的影子，可谁都会发现希斯没有后者的精致细腻，漫不经心的眉毛跟眼神,不甚明朗的脸庞成为希斯标志性的形象。仔细将这张脸在脑中雕刻，描摹每处的下笔走向，再将之抽象模糊，提取出其中味道，首先浮现出来的是一副雾气浓重的神情，实在难以陈述，这也许就是独一无二的希斯的样子吧。

"Candy", 一個女孩的名字, 可以代表糖果, 也可以比喻引誘人的毒品, 就像一顆吃了又想再吃的糖果, 是糖衣陷阱? 抑或甜得令人醉倒? "Candy"也是今屆香港國際電影節的閉幕電影之一, 是澳洲導演Neil Armfield的作品, 之前從未看過他的電影. 此劇改編自同名原著"Candy"的小說, 作者是Luke Davies, 一本關於愛與毒癮的書, 他說:"There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times."

可能由於電影說的是毒品和它怎樣摧毀人生, 對象可是全世界的觀眾, 亦有這個野心, 所以感覺上演員都刻意避免用太重的澳洲口音.

很喜歡用遊樂場裡的旋轉離心機作開場, 令人會心微笑. 但快樂的開始未必等於愉快的結果. 故事是一個悲劇, 一對年青男女, 男的是愛寫詩, 女的愛畫畫, 一個暑假, 海洛因成了他們的"良伴", 無法停止. 飾演男主角Dan的是"斷背山"主角Heath Ledger, 女主角Candy由Abbie Cornish飾演, 去年在電影節中的"Somersault"有不俗的表現. 兩位演員演出也不錯, 頗喜歡Abbie Cornish, 不是很豔麗, 但就是有廿來歲女孩特有的那份青春無敵氣質, 很誘人. Heath Ledger在此片演出比"Brokeback Mountain"更自然, 很有那種潦倒頹廢感.

電影中段有點拖拉和鬆散, 沒有凝聚力, 兩個年輕演員雖不俗, 但未能撐得住全套劇, 有點悶場, 不夠緊湊豐富. Geoffrey Rush飾演的Casper, 是個富有的教授兼癮君子, 戲份較少, 亦不見其發揮機會.

電影中最震撼一幕必定是Candy和Dan抱著夭折的不足月嬰孩傷心欲絕睡在醫院病床上, 嬰孩灰藍色的臉孔, 張開了的小口, 令人毛骨悚然, 極之駭人.

電影結局Dan的決定給人難忘的感覺, "青春的脆弱"就來個告別吧. 很喜歡Candy獨白那一段:"Oh Danny boy..."

link to my blog: http://dorablahblah.blogspot.com/2006/04/candy.html