尼罗河女儿

这是一部不必过多去诠释的电影。全片采用是很传统的的叙事线，从铺陈到矛盾集中爆发，都是是淡淡的阴郁感，是美好步一步消逝的过程。画面是侯孝贤一贯的画风，大量的留白，定格镜头让人物自己说故事，每一个定格镜头取景都非常好，灯光和声音控制的恰到好处。用孟菲斯暗喻女主对阿三的喜欢。阿三的女友从头到尾几乎没有一句对白，但完整的衬托了女主的情感起伏。最精巧的角色设置是小女孩，让阴郁的基调保留了一丝光线，脑示一种还没消失的美好。

没有看过同名漫画丝毫不影响电影的观感。影片中的青春狂欢让人们羡慕，犯罪事件让人们唏嘘，年少轻狂，一群人冤冤相报，最后以死亡结尾。用第三视角真实的记录当时的社会环境，主人公的家庭生活环境非常容易让我回到小时候：自己写作业，大人们就在旁边大声讨论，自己有事叫母亲，她也不会立刻恢复，现在理解了，当时是被生活琐事缠身，他们只想歇歇吧。

整部电影节奏很慢，很享受这种节奏，导演想告诉我们的也没有那么多，反而使观者对故事情节感同身受，很舒适很认真地的看完电影，后来港台的很多文艺片也继承了他们这种特点。

少女林晓阳爱看漫画，常幻想自己是细川智荣子少女漫画《尼罗河女儿》主角。她生活在繁华的台北，白天在肯德基当店员，晚上在夜校读书。晓阳与家人住在一座简陋的平房里，祖父是个风趣的老头。父亲在嘉义当员警，常年在外执勤。母亲去世后，晓阳肩负起母亲的职责，照顾上了年纪的父亲及上学的妹妹，并整天为哥哥担心。 哥哥与朋友合开一家餐厅，白天工作，晚上当小偷，却能照顾到家人。父亲和哥哥爆发冲突时，晓阳总是站在哥哥一边。她暗恋上哥哥的朋友阿三，却不知阿三爱着别人。种种事实让她感到气愤、悲伤和绝望，并在遭受打击后成熟清醒。

Recently upgraded with a renovation in both DVD and BluRay formats,Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 8th feature film, DAUGHTER OF THE NILE is chronologically pigeonholed between his COMING OF AGE Trilogy (1984-1986) and TAIWANESE HISTORY Trilogy (1989-1995), which might partially account for its unregarded predicament. Its title borrows from a Japanese manga which regularly occupies the thoughts of our protagonist Hsiao-yang (Yang Lin), a 20-year-old girl juggling between moonlighting in KFC and night school, she also shoulders on the onus as a materfamilias of the household living on the fringe of the metropolis Taibei, her mother died of cancer, his father (Tsui) is perennially absent and works in the southern province, an elder brother Hsiao-fang (Kao) is a burglar, who recently opens a bar with his chums, plus, there is a younger sister (Tsai) for her to minister to.

The film meanders in Hou’s trademark slow pace through the unfazed lens of principally static frame and narrative elisions to contemplate life’s vicissitudes being inflicted on those who are very close to Hsiao-yang (males only), under its sublimely lyrical score. She carries a torch for San (Yang Fan), one of Hsiao-fang’s friends, who doesn’t reciprocate her affection and is perilously involved with a married woman with gangster background, and this relationship will eventually not just become his undoing but also torpedo Hsiao-fang’s business with a knock-on effect, what Hou tries to evoke with its youngster characters is a permeating atmosphere of angst, chagrin, ennui, unrest and nostalgia in a society casts no hope on those marginalized.

In the leading role, Taiwanese pop singer Yang Lin is a far cry from Hou’s future muses Annie Yi andShu Qi, and has no courage to shuck off her“good girl” nimbus except in one scene, trying stiltedly to play tough when confronting another classmate in the lady’s room, elsewhere, Hsiao-yang is basically distanced from the tragedies befall on her beloved ones, a dejected receptacle passively receiving the bad tidings. On the other hand, Jack Kao, who pensively withholds his usual bovver impulse, stands out as a morose chain-smoker wrong-footed by fraternal impetuosity and its repercussions. Additionally, the puppeteer Li Tianlu, whose memoirs would later be transposed by Hou into THE PUPPETMASTER (1993), sweetly plays a gabby grandfather to tone down the often depressed aura in the two-by-four abode where the family stays, his harangue on a nagging daughter-in-law and comments on farting imbues a veristic vibe which would be endearingly cherished in Hou’s tentative sortie of delving into the mindset of Taiwan’s urban youth, but there is no correlation with the Nile whatsoever.

referential points: Hou’s THE ASSASSIN (2015, 8.7/10), A CITY OF SADNESS (1989, 7.8/10), Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991, 8.9/10).

片中打电话的所有镜头，几个电话的镜头讲了全部故事。

阿三准备离开和晓阳找哥哥的两个镜头和《青梅竹马》里侯孝贤讲电话的画面特别像。

第一个打电话的镜头，无法得知内容

和阿三讲电话，提醒他小心别惹事

跟阿三借车

阿三要来取车

给阿三报仇后警察查店，有人呼机call晓阳

接到电话给阿三送十万块

阿三来电

阿三来电

阿三给晓方打电话

父亲中枪住院的消息

让晓阳把钱全取出来

片中无体现具体内容，应该是四处联络寻找哥哥

接到疑似哥哥去世的电话

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