看到了這項描述,你會有什麼樣的感覺?
我只知道,大多數人的反應都是要教育好青少年使之不要行差踏錯之類的評價,總之千錯萬錯就是那些青少年選擇錯誤。
今天看《牯嶺街少年殺人事件》,深深感受到一名正直的少年在扭曲的社會所承受的壓力與悲哀。一個深深相信世界是可以透過自己行動改變的少年小四,接連受到不可承受的打擊。一向耿直敢言、堅守原則的爸爸,在受到秘密警察的教訓下變得現實而向校方妥協,任由兒子被趕出校;最好的朋友小馬出賣自己,小四的女朋友小明由始至終的謊話,這些事情都一點一滴地蠶食著小四的價值觀。最後他直接和小明對質,小明一句「這世界是不會改變的」,小四再也分不清什麼是對、什麼是錯、什麼是真、什麼是假了,因而完全崩潰,用自己的方法把小明改變──那就是殺了她。反正這個世界就是荒謬的。反正原本自己深深相信的人和事,都已經完全變了質,都可以改變,那麼暴力不暴力,還有什麼區別嗎?
近來齊澤克很火熱的一個比喻,就是「燈光下找尋暗處掉失的門匙」的荒誕,可惜成人都不太理解他們為下一代創造了一個怎麼樣的一個環境。當一切的價值皆可被玩弄,所有道德價值只是門面功夫,謊言成了真理之時,我們又怎樣跟下一代說他們有光明的前途呢──至少我自己,也越來越難抵抗這虛妄。
延伸閱讀:
偽影痴:楊德昌is haunting──再談《牯嶺街少年殺人事件》
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突然很想最看多一次Trainspotting
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.
Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth.
Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pushing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future. Choose life.
But why would I want to do a thing like that?
I chose not to choose life, I chose something else.
好,就把人生變為遊戲好了,don’t choose life, choose something else.