人性

里斯本丸沉没

Sun, September 15, 2024

中秋小长假第一天,台风“贝碧嘉”即将登陆上海。傍晚,听从女儿的选择,一家人去影院看了《里斯本丸沉没》。印象中这是我第一次在影院看纪录片。

导演兼制片人方励,理工男,地球物理学家,误入电影行业,曾参与投资了几部好电影。这只是他偶然发现的一段历史,却不惜倾家荡产地把它拍成了一部纪录片。这是个有情有义、有追求的男人。这部纪录片,多方发掘历史,不煽情,不带入个人倾向和情绪,展现各种史料以及对后人的影响,一切让观众自己去评判。即使这样,你仍能从尘封的历史事实中,从后人对先辈的纪念与缅怀中,感受到人性与亲情的伟大,感受到战争的卑鄙和残酷。在不经意间可能会触动你心中的某个软肋,让你潸然泪下。

给我印象最深的几个场景:一是方励选择是在英国《星期日泰晤士报》背面做整版广告,寻到了很多有价值的关联人和信息。后来BBC获悉此事之后,他应邀进行了一场全球直播的电视访谈。另一个是在日本选择了侦探事务来寻找里斯本丸船长经田茂的后人。看来真是应了那句话:钱能解决的问题,都不是问题。还有就是居住于加拿大的“里斯本丸”幸存者William Benningfield,战争和苦难,给了他巨大的心理创伤,但改变不了他的坚强和乐观。这部片子拍摄完成后,幸存者William Benningfield、Denis Morley、当年参与救人唯一在世的人林阿根都相继去世,不禁让人唏嘘感叹,这真是一部抢救式拍摄的纪录片。

真心推荐这部纪录片,希望它能获得一个公允的评价,也能卖个相对可能的票房,尽可能对得起方励的付出。要非得说这部纪录片有什么美中不足的话,就是3D虚拟动画内容为了节省投资,略显粗糙。最后引用方励的一段话作为结尾:相比评分,我觉得影片的现实意义更重要。我特别想告诉今天中国的年轻观众,要珍惜和平,珍惜亲人,珍惜所爱。

On the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, Typhoon Bebinca will make landfall in Shanghai. In the evening, following my daughter’s choice, we went to the cinema to see THE SINKING OF THE LISBON MARU. This was the first time I had watched a documentary in the cinema.

Director and producer Fang Li, science and engineering guy, geophysicist, stumbled into the film industry, had invested in several good films. This was just a period of history that he accidentally discovered, but did not hesitate to make it into a documentary. A man with affection, righteousness, and pursuit. This documentary excavates history in many ways, does not sensationalize, does not bring in personal tendencies and emotions, shows various historical materials and the impact on future generations, and leaves it to the audicence to judge for themselves. Even so, you can still feel the greatness of humanity and affection, the meanness and cruelty of war from the dusty facts of history, and from the memory and rememberance of the ancestors by the descendants. It may touch a soft spot in your heart and make you weep.

I was most impressed by a few scenes: Firstly, Fangli chose to do a full-page advertisement on the back of the Sunday Times in the UK, and found a lot of valuable associates and information. Later, after the BBC was informed of this, he was invited to conduct a global live TV interview. The other chose detective services in Japan to find the descentants of Captain Shigeru Suta of the Lisbon Maru. It really seems to be true what they say: anything that money can solve is not a problem. There is also William Benningfield, a survivor of the Lisbon Pill, who lives in Canada. The war and suffering have given him great psychological trauma, but cannot change his strength and optimism.After the filming of this movie was completed, survivors William Benningfield, Denis Morley, and the only living person who participated in the rescue that year, Lin Agan, all passed away one after another, and one can’t help but sigh and wonder what a salvage filming documentary this is.

Truly recommend this documentary, and hope that it gets a fair review and sells a relatively possible box office, as well as possible for what Fang Li has done. If I had to say what the beauty of this documentary is, it’s that the 3D virtual animation content is slightly crude to save on investment. To conclude with a quote from Fang Li: I think the film’s significance is more important than its rating. I especially want to tell today’s young Chinese audience to cherish peace, to cherish their loved ones, and to cherish what they love.

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随笔︱这世界不缺聪明的人,缺的是忠诚的人

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热播剧《人民的名义》中,有一段经典台词,育良书记的夫人吴教授说:“这个世界上最不缺的,就是聪明人,但是最缺的,就是忠诚的人”。

关于聪明与忠诚,其实,在很多事情的认知上,也许不用多聪明,正常的智商,大家都可以看出个端倪,更多的时候只是不愿意(或者说不能够)去揭穿罢了。而对于那些阅人无数的政界商海的高手来说,更是洞察若明。

需要忠诚的对象,多了去了,国家、党、人民、爱人、家人、亲朋好友、同学发小……

面对感官与利益的诱惑,外部环境的变化,客观形势的发展,忠诚就有可能动摇。曾经的庄严宣誓,曾经许下的海誓山盟,曾经歃血叩拜的兄弟情分,血浓于水的家族亲情,都可能让位于背叛。

当需要忠诚的时候,大事小事,各种情形,其实就像是在做一道是非选择题,有时候给你做题的时间,还可能短暂得让你来不及深思熟虑。这时候若依照人的本能去做选择,有可能就是一场赌博,然后去享受赌赢了的快感,或者赌输了的懊恼,或者输了个精光的悔恨。

阴谋诡计与心机婊,可能一时得逞,让你深陷其中,开短暂的愉悦之花。但也有可能会就此埋下祸根,导致众叛亲离,妻离子散,反目成仇,锒铛入狱,收获本不想要的罪恶之果。

前几天,保监会主席项俊波涉嫌严重违纪落马。这位前主席当过知青,打过越战,写过剧本,做过审计,怒怼过恐吓,有过传奇经历的光环怎样?有能力够聪明又怎样?在软磨硬泡的腐蚀下,在巨大利益的诱惑面前,照样被打回现实的原形!

对现今大环境怨天尤人,怨天恨地的人,总是把自己放在道德的高地,其实换了他们在利益与诱惑面前,一定会简单地去选择忠诚?

面对大是大非,难的是坚持做人的底线,若是丢了这根线,那就是聪明反被聪明误,“机关算尽太聪明,反算了卿卿性命”(fn)。

就在本文即将发布之际,刚刚网上又传出某娱乐明星婚内出轨的八卦新闻,看来在面对选择时,还是有不少人选择了遵从自己的内心与本能,让所谓的忠诚随风而去,尽管背后的原因可能纷繁复杂。

有道是“清者自清,浊者自浊”。希望都有强大的内心与勇气,能支撑你蔑视世间所有的诱惑,希望永远都不要遇到所谓的意外之财,希望永远不要再去沙滩捡更好看贝壳,那样你就不用再费心思量。

忠诚,本来无关聪明。最难的永远是,坚定信念,聪明睿智,淡定从容地去选择……