科学睡眠

The Science of Sleep 让我想起弗洛依德。 人的行为在很大程度上还是受潜意识支配，有时候毫无逻辑。片中的男主角史蒂芬分不清梦和现实。他的潜意识里总觉得自己没有人爱，所以女主角说他即使和全天下的女人上床，he would still feel rejected。 我甚至觉得史蒂芬之所以觉得他本来喜欢的是史蒂芬妮的朋友而不是史蒂芬妮就是因为他在第一次接触二人的时候潜意识里察觉到了史蒂芬妮对他有好感而她的朋友只会捉弄自己。 那么喜欢她的朋友就可以印证他总是被拒绝的潜意识，而喜欢史蒂芬妮却会和他的潜意识产生冲突。 这也是为什么他后来在二人的关系中总是扮演受伤害的角色，即使事实上是他在伤害别人。 他潜意识里不能接受自己被爱的事实。
 
据说人的潜意识主要受零至三四岁时经历的影响。 在三四岁以前， 由于没有系统地掌握语言，人无法对那段时间的经历进行有意识的反馈，因此无法内化成记忆，只能沉淀为潜意识。 但其实这段时间的经历对人来说却是一生中最新鲜和最强烈的体验。 正因为语言和逻辑无法描述它们，它们也不能被语言和逻辑所规范。 我们不只会梦到它们， we act on them without knowing why.

电影里的一切都荒谬、可笑、而且可爱。也许用语言和画面展示出来的潜意识本来就注定是荒谬可笑的。而观众感觉到的种种细节的可爱之处，其实是根源于我们内心深处对这种没有逻辑又难以描述的体验感到非常熟悉， 我们本能地觉得亲切。

我们分得清梦（潜意识）和现实吗？分清了又如何！潜意识还是影响着现实中我们的一举一动。

電影看到一半已經斷定，《戀愛夢遊中》會是我二零零六年看過最喜歡的電影。

女主角其實不頂美麗(也解釋了為何男主角第一眼相中的不是這位隔壁伊人而是她的好友)，但聽她說話軟軟的腔調，卻有一種說不出來的性感。後來翻查imdb發現我早在十年前(！)就看過一套她主演的片子：當時沒有什麼人留意的Jane Eyre。

男主角嘛，容許我這兒插進一個爛笑話──除了整天在作夢外幾乎不做什麼。真的呀，電影中沒有說明原因，但男主角從小就分不清楚夢境和現實，鎮日在無分界的荒謬和真實中遊走。觀眾跟隨著他的目光，幾乎也分不開電影哪一段是現實，哪一段只是他腦海裡意識在作祟的狂想曲。有些人認為這片子太亂了，我也覺得有點亂。但大概導演的目的就是要你覺得亂，這樣你不是更加能了解男主角的感受嗎。我們這些平凡人就是把夢境和現實分得太開了，偶然在電影中感受一下這種難辨夢境和現實，也挺不錯。

Michel Gondry明顯對「意識」或是「人腦活動」這類課題非常感興趣。前作《無痛失戀》中，他創造了「記憶消除」的科學服務讓主人公拋棄戀愛的記憶。今次片名開宗名義以「科學」命名，結果科學不起來，反而浪漫得很。看《無痛失戀》時，已然有一種冷冽的感覺：不是鋒利，也不是太溫柔，就是冷。電影的色調是冷的，對白是冷的，連Kate Winslet吟詩的語調也是冷的，出來卻是一種調和的暖。《戀愛夢遊中》比起《無》給我這種感覺更加強烈。女主角Charlotte Gainsbourg的冷調子，如同一塊冷玉，雖然冷，質感卻溫溫潤潤的，冷得舒服且吸引。

電影的動力(和笑位)幾乎都由男主角帶起，由他而起天馬行空的夢境情節，荒誕但永不走板，加上絕妙的視覺效果，想當然耳是其來有自──導演拍過無數MV，對處理視覺效果自然自有一套，難得是無需刻意擺弄鏡頭，出來的效果已然優美可人，童稚的綿花球和瓦通紙，營造出來的效果很童話，很夢境，更離奇地透著濃郁的詩意。那種詩意不是流於畫面的優美，而需要結合觀眾的想像力才能散發出來，就在你看著男主角橫看著床上那片小小的
絨布船
瞧那幾棵雪白的樹在上邊
隨風輕晃著圓圓小小的白葉子
隱隱感覺你的指尖穿過我的頭髮
來來回回地撫著
我們卻在草原上奔馳
就在那匹我偷偷潛進你家
拿走又修好的小金馬上
慢慢地接近那條流著玻璃紙的河
河上那艘絨布船
幾棵雪白樹在上邊
仍然輕晃著圓圓小小的白葉子

你說要讓這白船
在森林裡航行
尋找海
母親
我說
不如造一艘植物的諾亞方舟吧
把船都盛滿樹木
船下要鋪滿
藍和白的玻璃糖果紙
如同透明的海

我几乎每天都做梦，只可惜多是小小生活欲望的反映，除了神经紧张时候会惯性梦到鬼子来了，有次梦到鲜亮的颜色就感叹不已。但很羡慕stephane不需要确定梦里的世界不是现实，因为他的梦和生活有如平行的世界，天马行空。
发明家做梦家科学爱好者月历设计者stephane童心未泯，神经质也好痴人也罢，自是有做梦的一套，习惯在想里透过两只小卷帘窗看外面的世界，有时叽呱叽呱甚至无厘头。邂逅有着灵巧双手，细心敏感，点子疯狂独特的Stephanie。在严肃沉闷枯燥的外部世界里，stephane意思到自己对Stephanie的爱，在一点点滋长。
Michel Gondry带来了有趣的叙事手法。实物动画的运用为影片增加了不少梦幻色彩。纸制、布艺、编织等各种方式缓缓推动，看起来原始，粗糙又透着奇思妙想，犹如浩大的网，在梦境中编织着荒诞，儿化的主角的潜意识。亦真亦幻的视觉效果里，stephane一幅犹豫，羞怯，嫉妒，卑微，落败，为爱情折磨得傻屁形象。
片中穿插着法语和英语两种语言，语言转换时候，也多少给人空间、意识分隔的感受，主角自是脑筋大得要死。
几个小印象：
睡眠中和父亲对话做成音乐播放器的可视化效果，人声遥远，颜色变换，由声音转入视觉进而意识，仿佛越过时空
装着树林寻找大海（法语音同妈妈）的船，作为背景的棉花云朵在抛起的时候，stephane试图找准音符，通过相同的频率达到共振，让云朵能刹那短暂地固定，物理知识的说
熊人乐队的出场的小曲子“if you rescue me"，改编自VU"After hours"，温馨十足却有被击中的感觉
换来换去，城市里的风向标都是乌龟，只因为zoe说她们在发音像乌龟的“亚利斯多德”公司工作，错误缺傻气的记忆一直保存着，哈
消化比较慢，看了第二遍才把脉络理清。
顺便搜到个相关网站，http://thescienceofsleep.imeem.com/，有些关于梦的小video

想象的突出地位首先表现为使生活本身进入艺术品，进入欣赏的渴望。
                                                  ——狄尔泰〈〈诗的伟大想象〉〉

这是导演米歇尔·甘德瑞继《暖暖内含光》之后的又一部令人匪夷所思的电影，又一部区别于好莱坞叙事规则的徘徊于现实与梦境之间的独特电影，上一部《暖暖内含光》让吉姆凯瑞不用再张牙舞爪也能演一次严肃的电影，而电影中关于记忆的消除与对于真爱的守护之间的逃脱与追捕的巧妙的构思实在令人拍案惊奇，无论从叙事的巧妙与电影镜头的超现实场景，这部电影都当之无愧是当年的奥斯卡的最佳剧本。

在这个技术至上的时代，人的存在日渐变得模糊起来，在尚未认清自己存在的本质之前，技术时代汹涌而来的对于技术理性的崇拜，科学发明对于现实日常生活的影响已经开始对于我们正常人性的改造工作了，假如人可以连记忆都随意消除，那么他生命存在的证据又在何处寻找，假如连生命痕迹都无处寻找的话，那么人类的生存本身就是值得怀疑的，假如这整个世界都被一种虚无主义包围，那么生存的意义又在哪里呢？或许不断的对于生存意义的赋予是一种虚无缥缈的乌托邦，却是我们得以继续生存的强大动力，自然是有目的的存在，生命是向善的，学者约纳斯说，生命通过对自身的执着而认可自己。

然而就如同电影中的主人公史蒂芬一样，生活往往是无从选择的，当我们有一天开始回溯自己性格内向不善言辞的成因时，我们往往当时已惘然，弗洛依德告诉我们童年生活伤害的影响在如今的生活依旧投下巨大的阴影，可父亲母亲早就已经不再能肩负起我们成长过程的一切责任，混乱而恐怖的生活的合力促成了我们今天的自己。原本以为是一份充满着挑战与创造性的工作原来只需要贴贴日历上寄来裸体者照片名字的简单而琐碎机械的工作。整天焦头烂额得忙碌，几乎对于所有人而言命运就是如此，而缺乏行动力与掌控力的卑琐人生究竟救赎在何处呢？在电影中这似乎并不是一个沉重而压抑的命题，它伴随着主人公充满孩子气的想象力与奇妙爱情历程所带来的轻松被消解得稀薄的如同一丝烟尘，这世界的平庸人生，似乎变得并没有那么苦大仇深。

弗洛依德认为文学就是白日梦，麦茨认为看电影是一种浅度睡眠，比梦境清醒，比清醒时沉醉，几乎所有艺术家都表达过对于想象力的推崇，小波说人光拥有此生此世是不够的，他还应该拥有一个诗意的世界。对于这部电影的主人公是一个贴切的注脚，电影中所出现的一个个超现实的场景，让人惊叹于导演高超的想象力，这样的画面要不是心存童趣的人是无法展现的，让人回忆起曾经看过的一堆捷克超现实主义动画大师们的杰作，象史云梅耶等的作品依旧历历在目，史蒂芬在他的梦境中将他的刮胡刀变成了一只机械甲虫，爬到他老板身上瞬间将他老板变成了一个象《劳拉快跑》当中那个留着长胡子的经典流浪汉形象，从窗口一跃而下，推着垃圾车走了。而片中最令人赏心悦目同时天马行空的是影片结尾，史蒂芬和史蒂芬妮两人骑着布马在草地上奔腾，最后骑着马上了白船，一起驶向远方，在这个超现实的梦境中，这一艘爱情小船又要驶向何处呢？

爱情是永远的救赎港湾，在《夜宴》的残酷的宫廷政治争斗中它是青女的一句“就算全世界都抛弃他，我不会，爱情不会。”在《无极》的诡异而无法逃脱的世界中，它是昆仑背起倾城飞向红日的明亮出口，爱情让独身者不再孤独，而为恶者放下屠刀，让卑琐者勇猛强悍，这一道济世良方在现实世界中被不断败坏却在电影的世界中仍旧充当着微弱的希望与光芒。尽管哈姆雷特在面对奥菲丽亚的时候同样进退两难在面对强大的国家机器意识形态的时候，它往往成了微末的献祭的牺牲品。而在这个沉默而平凡的生命里，爱情的救赎力量已经足够强大了，只不过是睡前的一只手的温暖。

在笛卡尔之后，自然只是广延的物质，人只是思想的物质，面对人间的罪恶，自然无为，苍天无为，面对转瞬即逝的生命，这平庸而苦难的生活让我们急切得寻找出口，我们不得不从我们内部去创造一点生存的价值，一种想象的逻辑，一种爱的逻辑空前强大同时也是空前的虚弱，这是一部神奇而特别的电影，带有的法国电影独特的浪漫气质，高度的风格化之下，一个奇幻的爱情故事，似乎是在告诉我们，在这个波谲云诡的世界里，意淫爱情，也需要超常的想象力。

1.
Each month has its own
most infamous disaster event...
...engraved in the collective memory.
It's a concept I've been trying to
work on and developing.
It's called disasterology.
Stephane, you are not serious.
Oh, I am very serious.
It's the customer that needs
a little bit of a sense of humor.
2.
    P.S. R:
Parallel synchronized randomness.
An interesting brain rarity
and our subject for today.
Two people walk in opposite directions
at the same time...
...and then they make the same decision
at the same time.
Then they correct it,
and then they correct it...
...and then they correct it
and then they correct it...
Basically, in a mathematical world...
...these two little guys will
stay looped for the end of time.
The brain is the most complex thing
in the universe...
...and it's right behind the nose.
Fascinating!
3.
Stephane, Stephanie.
Stephanie, Stephane.
4.
I knew it. I knew it!
Each structure has its own resonant
frequency.
You just have to hit the right chord
at the right time.
5.
Dear Stephanie, comma.
I am just your neighbor,
there is nothing more to say than that.
This is the reason why I am writing
a letter to you...
...because I feel really bad inside
my stomach.
It's a mix between...
I don't know if what I feel is a bit
of nostalgia...
...or wanting to go to the bathroom.
I am just a new liar in your life.
A new liar that has come
and destroyed your piano...
...and maybe by doing that destroy
the huge heritage...
I want us to start a new start
and a new...
A new blank page of friendship.
And if you can embrace that the same
way I am embracing it right now...
...that I am feeling it right now,
I see the possibilities...
...once we go above that threshold
of life...
...and matters that succumb
and become trickling down...
...into this little pond
that is called life.
Full stop. The end.
6.
Do you know what REM means?
Rapid Eye Monitronics.
Your eyes follow your dream movements.
If you walk downstair,say,
Your eyes go down. Turn right-the eyes go right.
It's in your dream,
your eyes art walking.
The eyes.
I can control my eyes in my sleep.
No more sleeping slavery.
7.
I know. I will make your novel,
I am Just Your Neighbor, into a bestseller.
That will attract her.
Then we'll organize a massive wedding.
Madame Stephanie Stephane.
Stephane Miroux, your novel
I'm Just Your Neighbor and a Liar.
By the Way, Do You Have Zo?s Number?
Is a blockbuster.
Yeah.
Where does your genius end?
Painting, sculpturing,
architecturing, writering?
Today, building has began on the
Stephane Miroux Foundation.
A museum dedicated to your work.
So, Stephane Miroux,
did you find the key to success?
Well...
Well, I think people empathize
with what I do...
...because it comes from here.
Oh, you are talking about Stephanie?
Oh, I don't like to talk
about my private life.
So, Stephane Miroux,
we have a little surprise for you to do.
No.
A song for her.
A song?
If you rescue me
I'll be your friend forever
Let me in your bed
I'll keep you warm in winter
All the kitties are playing
And they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me
But if you rescue me...
8.
I am collecting beautiful objects.
A pair of shoes.
Some glasses.
Telephone.
Typewriter.
They are made from wood and felt.
With apparent stitches.
Their delicate and finished
appearance is friendly.
And they are quiet.
Stephanie made them, and I will
expose them in an exhibition.
Stephanie, do you think I could
take the red blanket as well?
Of course, Stephane. Are you kidding?
There's this amazing blanket.
It's thick, red felt
with big white stitches.
Wild animals are running on it.
She smiles.
I bend over a rock to try to reach her.
My stomach, compressed, hurts.
Stephanie?
Can you hold my hand?
I cannot sleep.
She takes it. I fall asleep.
9.
Hey, what's this?
It's the...
Is it your mom's?
No. That's the one-second time travel
machine I told you about.
I finished it. For you.
You wanna try it?
10.
Good.
Hey, you take the glue gun, and I'll try this.
No, no, no.
Why don't we,
why don't we do the scene...
...when you walk
into the apartment...
...and you discover the pony, yeah?
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah?
Okay. So come, come, come.
You must be... Okay. Yeah, there.
Oh, wait.
All right, okay, you're there.
So basically you're just
walking into the apartment...
...and you discover
that the pony can run...
...and you feel very excited, and...
Ready? And action.
Damn it, Stephane,
you've ruined my pony.
Why did you do that?
Cut. What are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
No, you should be ecstatic about me.
You should be, like,
praising my ingiue and genius.
11.
Hello?
Stephane?
Are you okay?
I love my pony.
I can't believe you did that.
How did you do it?
I'm sorry about what I said.
I didn't mean one word.
No...
Okay?
No, I'm a creep.
Just like you said.
Listen, Stephane.
You have to toughen up a little.
It's not attractive for a girl
to see a guy crying.
I know, it sucks.
You know I named
Golden the Pony Boy after you.
No, come on. Come on.
It's not true. You had him
before we met.
No, no, it is true.
I improvised his name when
you saw him for the first time.
He didn't have a name.
Now, tell me how you did it.
Golden is galloping for real.
It's unreal.
Well...
It's just an application
of the chaos theory.
Random control.
Each leg has one engine...
...and it moves backwards
or forwards depending on...
...the movement on the other leg.
It's like life.
But in a simplified version.
And it doesn't reproduce.
I'm glad we live
next door to each other.
Will you...
Would you marry me when we're 70?
You've got nothing to lose.
Okay.
Would you mind...
...keep on talking to me
for a little while?
Because I always thought
it was possible to talk from my sleep.
I feel that I'm falling down
into a black hole.
You know that you could never see
someone fall in a black hole.
Because the image of the traveler
who passes the horizon...
...would slow down till it would remain
stuck in the same position...
The state he was
when he crossed the line.
Only it's getting redder.
The traveler gets crushed into spaghetti.
I don't wanna be a spaghetti,
I don't wanna be spaghetti.
No, you won't be a spaghetti.
I don't wanna be a spaghetti.
Stephane?
Are you here?
No, I'm there! I'm there.
It worked! I'm not a spaghetti!
Tell me, tell me. Describe all you can see.
I feel some grass under my feet.
And it's a bit windy.
And cold. And damp.
And there's forest all around me.
And I can see Golden the Pony Boy.
Galloping here. Here, right in front of me.
And I can hear some water.
But I cannot see it.
Oh, here it is. The river.
Is the water made of millions
of tiny pieces of cellophane?
No, it's real water.
Oh, look. I just found the time machine.
The time machine is here.
And it works.
Stephane, are you asleep?

很棒的一部电影。Michel Gondry大有把魔幻爱情进行下去的勇气。和上一部【王牌冤家】相似，【科学睡眠】也是触及美妙恋情和各种荒诞魔幻，笑中有泪。
Michel Gondry本身的作品构思并没有考夫曼那般精巧而经得起推敲，但是它的荒诞更加随性而至，着墨处妙笔生花，有许多精彩绝伦的点子。例如男主人公的时光倒流机器，大脑中的演播室，Michel Gondry的编剧思维正好有点像主人公一般天马行空五花八门，更有许多诸如男主人公般浪漫的臆想，二人合二为一。
非常美妙的成人童话。也可当做一场梦来看！