观影记（一）：EASY RIDER -- PART 3

关于旅行，我们这些凡夫俗子都存有太多幻想。西方憧憬东方的神秘；东方则渴望西方的闲适。热带雨国抱怨烈阳之歹毒；酷寒地带却巴不得终年阳光普照。终归一句：大家都是向往着他方。在地球的另一端，比较亮的岂止是月光？

友人若曾亲临先进国度如日本东京，无不赞叹于其井井有条及科技之无法想象。京都的拥趸如文人舒国治却舍弃繁华而钟情于古朴风雅之地。更有甚者每年必到那天海成一线无法不眷恋的阳光海滩报道数次之多，尽管此人不识水性而只着迷于 那海风轻扬椰林簌簌，说是要远离世嚣体验不插电不连线之生活。廉价航空风行，纯如广告里说的：现在，每个人都能飞。年轻人无不迷恋旅行，总觉得梦想之实现地必定在远方，原乡必与捆绑/禁锢/庸俗/沉闷/局限等贬性字眼纠缠在一起，认为只有外地才是自由，才是理想。有线电视旅游频道常红，美食大三通等吃遍世界的食节目令人如痴如醉，潜规则就是就算吃不到，看到了就是赚到。可惜的是来日若有机遇远赴千里之外尝此“美食”，大都得出结论如下：如马家辉所言，原来异国美食与性一样，想象的永远比真的好。

EASY RIDER 里头的那一段在营火边的关于自由的对白，令我击掌拍和，也赞叹于那电光火石间近乎达“禅意”的表演。在这之前三人曾光顾一个美国南部简朴小镇的咖啡馆，但却因三人身上的长发及奇装异服而被其他顾客冷嘲热讽一番，最终选择离开。以下这段对白就是 Billy 及 Hanson 之间关于美国这个“自由”国度的吊诡所在而有感而发的。Billy 觉得很困扰，为什么一个大好国家无法接纳他们这一群人。而世故的 Hanson 则挑起他的眼角似笑非笑地娓娓道来，并以超无厘头的方式作结尾。Jack Nicholson 在这场戏中神采飞扬，大将之风显露无遗。若干年后他那套"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"（飞越疯人院）亦是我的心头好，同样的理想幻灭，同样的浓得化不开之晦暗。

Billy:
...They think we'd cut their throat.
They're scared.
Hanson:
They're not scared of you.
They're scared of what you represent to them.
Billy:
All we represent to them is somebody who needs a haircut.
Hanson:
Oh, no.    
What you represent to them...is freedom.
Freedom's what it's all about.
Oh yeah, that's right.
That's what it's all about.
But talking about it and being it...that's two different things.
lt's real hard to be free...when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.
Don't tell anybody that they're not free, because they'll get busy...
...killing and maiming to prove to you that they are.
They're going to talk to you and talk to you...about individual freedom.
But they see a free individual, it's going to scare them.
Billy:
Well, it don't make them running scared.
Hanson:
No. lt makes them dangerous.
NEEATT!NEATT!NEATT!NEATTT!NEAATT!
 Swamp...
Billy:
Swamp...

1969 年，EASY RIDER 里的三旅者在一片乱棍及片末的枪声中梦想泯灭。我在那字幕升起中唏嘘感叹，所谓自由，原来一切终归想象。