關於 into the night (1985) ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

十一月份觀影閱讀記錄

「妳不要怕，明天一醒來，台灣就不一樣了，我們就都自由了。」

2012年當王心仁溫柔地這樣說的時候，我們跟著林美寶一起沈浸在他的美麗屁話當中，把謊言當建言，真的以為一覺醒來，台灣就不一樣了，然後我們可以從此自由。

後來過了六個寒暑，318學運、政黨輪替、金馬事件、公投失利一件件事接踵而來，夢好像漸漸醒了，我們最後才哭著發現那些真的只是屁話，台灣到頭來好像什麼也沒有改變，平常美好天真的想像，甚至是以為世界會變好的盼望，好像都只是是夢一場，我們只是活在自己吹出來的美麗泡泡裡，外頭平常沒有注意到的世界依然骯髒，社會依然無光，然後一切似乎都停滯不前了。

雖然面對社會現狀，在很多時候著實充滿了無力與徬徨，但或許樂觀一點說，幸好即便在最難過、最黑暗的時刻，我們仍然擁有電影、仍然擁有彼此，然後肩併著肩緩慢向前，等待真正島嶼天光的那刻到來。

說起來這次金馬影展是這樣的特殊，甚至有些刻骨銘心，我想會是多年後回憶起來仍會不禁微笑的一次。首先就電影方面，今次金馬影展前後共看了54部搜羅在手冊裡面的電影，縱使依然不是太多，但是完整看了入圍奈派克的九部作品以及盡可能在頒獎典禮前看了今年入圍的優秀華語電影。這不僅讓我能在有限條件下能夠橫向的了解現今華語電影，同時也縱向的觀看了不同時代間的傳承與變化。對於看電影這件事情也有了更近一步的認識。

當然當中也有一些作品是特別喜歡、也相當值得去看的。比如說畢贛的《地球最後的夜晚》、比如說胡波的《大象席地而坐》、又比如說《四個春天》又或者說初看時非常討厭的《我們的青春，在台灣》。透過這些電影我發現到，現在的創作者已無法像以前一樣與世界全然脫節，而被迫、也應該作出呼應社會的作品。像很多年輕導演喜歡用類型片的方式融入社會氛圍當中、另一群人則解構真實與虛幻的互動關係，試圖透過再確立的過程，建構出自己的思想與觀點，以便在世界瞬息萬變的潮流中脫穎而出，找到自己的定位。我想關於電影，又或者創作者，不管外界紛紛擾擾，到最後還是要回到自己的初心，找到自己，然後才有可能繼續前進，找到自己的立足之地。至於對於觀影者來說，我想是否真誠就變成了看待電影最重要的指標之一，而這份真誠，最後還是回到人本身。於是這樣的互動關係成為了一個循環，一直不停的繞轉，也將電影帶往新的地方。

除了電影之外，說到人時，雖然講了幾百次，但還是要再說一次，真的很慶幸這次可以入選亞洲電影觀察團，除了率先觀賞一些作品外，更重要的是可以認識這些來自各行各業的人們，透過他們的嘴巴以及日常文章的更新，可以知道許多以前根本不會知道也未曾想過的事情，這讓以往自己相對封閉的觀影世界，添加了許多新的刺激，甚至扭轉了一些習以為常觀影的觀念。還記得那天評審會議，三個半小時席間大家討論熱烈，我卻不發一言。並不是對於那些作品沒有什麼想法，只是覺得在那當下，似乎無法用完整、清晰的詞語表達自己的論述，因此最後選擇欣賞這場精彩的討論，並且樂於身在其中。

我常常在想，電影節、影展這類的事兒，在商業化、網路串流的年代到底還有什麼存在的優勢。每隔幾年，當金馬獎中國影片入圍很多的時候，這件事情就會再次的浮上檯面被討論。對於我而言，影展最基本的功能當然是一個看電影的地方，因為有了這個地方，才能看到許多平常看不見的電影，也才能有策略、有脈絡、有主題的去認識這些來自世界各地的作品，這對於一個影迷而言，無疑是個充斥幸福的地方。但更值得思考的或許是，影展除了看電影之外，還能帶給現代人們、甚至是社會什麼？而人們藉由影展可以獲得哪些。端看金馬影展近幾年的努力，從金馬奇幻影展的開辦、金馬學院、創投會議、亞洲電影觀察團、青少年電影課、大師講堂、大師電影課、映後座談、紅毯狂歡之夜、靜態展覽。我們可以發現影展一直致力於創造一個舒適的平台，讓這裡成為一個不只有電影、放大電影，而是充滿文化與人，然後持續擴張的地方。透過這些活動，電影更貼近人群，彼此間互動更加頻繁，最後讓電影成為生活，而生活有一天也成了電影。

對於我來說，每次金馬影展就像是場儀式，每年定期相聚以確認彼此的存在，與那些有幸在影展認識的有趣人們，一同度過了幾個奇幻的夜晚，新酒裝入舊瓶，嘎拉的手扶梯、煙味滿佈的大樓、人滿為患的電影街似乎永遠不變，但常常回過頭來才又發現早已物是人非。我想影展會是那個最容易讓人被吸入的地方，那個現實感十足卻又抽象的存在，某種永恆，某種轉化，秋去冬來，這樣一年年的看著人來人去，總有些遺憾，但獲得肯定多上許多。雖然不敢說什麼天長地久，來年的我們早已不是我們，但至少回憶已經存在，電影也會永遠存在。含笑帶淚，願這世界一切都好。下次影展見！！！

平安喜樂，感恩惜福

下個月也繼續一起看電影吧。

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「書」

關於跑步，我說的其實是…… / 村上春樹

一路逆瘋 / 馬尼

臺北人 / 白先勇

殺人犯九歲 / 林明亞

阿基拉 1 / 大友克洋

Happy Valentine's Day! (中文在後）

This is a painting inspired by a scene in Kowloon, Hong Kong many moons ago (1985). Kowloon's Mong Kok was not far away from my studio. Many first-run movies were usually shown there and most of the audience was made up of young people. In front of the movie theater were many hawkers selling snacks for the audience. The most common snacks were boiled corncob and pop corn. As I was fresh off the boat from Mainland China (Hong Kong at the time was a British colony and Mainland China in contrast was still recovering from the Cultural Revolution and just opened its door to the world), this was of novelty to me. I had never seen anyone sell snacks at the movies in China. People did not take snacks into the theater either because it was a bad habit of the "Old Society"! In Hong Kong, however, it was a natural cultural phenomenon. There was nothing strange about it and being "new" or "old" didn't matter at all.

I often saw young men and women flirting with each other at the entrance to the movie theater. It all felt very natural, warm, and touching. A boy and a girl eating a corn cob together naturally became the main image in my painting. So I made a sketch then asked a student to bring his girlfriend along as a model. The finished image was transplanted to a space near the ticket booth of the movie theater and the movie poster just happened to be of Saturday Night Fever.

情人節快樂！

這幅畫“熱玉米”是香港時期的創作。作於1985年。當時我在九龍開畫室謀生。離我的畫室不遠就是熱鬧的九龍旺角，那裡經常放映一些首輪電影，看電影的觀眾年青人居多。電影院前有許多小販出賣零食給觀眾，見得最多的就是水煮玉米和爆米花。因為剛從內地到香港不久，一切都還是很新奇。我在大陸內地看電影從來沒人出賣零食，更沒人帶零食進場呀，那是「舊社會」的不良習慣啊！可在香港，這是自然發生的文化現象，既不奇怪也無所謂"新舊"。

我在電影院門口常常看到青年男女的親熱動作，自然、親切、動人。男女共吃一個玉米的親密動作自然成為我畫中的主要形象。於是，我畫了草圖後請我的學生帶他的女朋友來作模特兒，最後完成的畫面移入電影院售票處附近的空間，櫉窗的劇情圖片介紹正是「周末狂熱」。

Engineers make a big contribution to Singapore. They design, construct, operate, and maintain, turning concepts into reality. I was glad to meet and thank many of them personally last night at a reunion dinner for the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Class of 1985, the pioneer batch to graduate from NTU.

These NTU alumni have built successful careers, contributed back to NTU, and helped make it an outstanding engineering college.

I hope the Class of 85 will continue to inspire younger generations to become good engineers and good citizens. Congrats on your 30th anniversary, and thank you for inviting me to your celebration! – LHL

(Looking through the book “Thirty Years Hundred Stories” published by the Class of 1985 to celebrate good engineering / MCI Photo by Terence Tan)

Latrell Sprewell arrived early, entered the game
late and disappeared down the stretch along with the rest of his
team.

Sprewell played his first game of the season, but couldn't
reverse the New York Knicks' slide as the Philadelphia 76ers scored
17 of the final 25 points for a 93-92 victory Saturday.

''C-plus,'' Sprewell said when asked to assess his performance.
''I could have been a lot better.''

The 76ers won on the road for the first time this season, while
the defeat was the fourth in a row for the Knicks. Allen Iverson and
Todd MacCulloch each scored 17 points, Keith Van Horn had 15 points
and 12 rebounds and Eric Snow added 14 points for the 76ers.

The habitually tardy Sprewell arrived at the arena six minutes
before his team's 11:30 a.m. deadline, then made his first
appearance nine minutes into the game -- the first time he came off
the bench since the 1999 playoffs.

Sprewell played 31 minutes and had 16 points on 6-for-15
shooting but was held scoreless for the final 10 minutes.

Howard Eisley had 16 points and 10 assists for the Knicks, whose
1-8 record is the worst in the Eastern Conference.

''We have a whole lot of basketball left,'' Sprewell said. ''If
we give up now, it could get a whole lot worse.''

Sprewell, who missed the first seven weeks of the preseason and
regular season while recovering from a broken hand, scored seven of
his points in a 16-4 run bridging the third and fourth quarters as
New York turned a 63-58 deficit into a 74-67 lead. The rally
injected some life into a crowd that had been waiting nearly all
season for something to cheer.

Sprewell was poised to restore the Knicks' seven-point lead
after he poked the ball away from Snow and went in alone for a
breakaway dunk. But a moment before he jammed the ball with two
hands, Kurt Thomas body checked trailing defender Brian Skinner and
was called for a foul, erasing the basket.

''I'm still mad at Kurt,'' Sprewell said with a laugh.
''Actually, he said he thought (Skinner) was going to foul me.''

Thomas picked up a technical foul for arguing during a timeout
less than a minute later, and Iverson hit the foul shot to cut the
deficit to four. Eisley answered with a 3-pointer and Othella
Harrington hit two foul shots for a 79-70 lead.

It was 84-76 with 6:05 left before the 76ers rallied, holding
New York without a field goal for four minutes and using an 11-2
run to take an 87-85 lead.

Iverson tied it at 89 on two foul shots with 1:52 left. Michael
Doleac missed a jumper and Van Horn scored on a putback, making it
91-89, and Allan Houston missed a jumper from the corner with 30
seconds left.

Game notes
Keith Bishop, a 31-year-old school bus driver from Hudson
Falls, N.Y., hit a shot from halfcourt to win $1 million. He
received a handshake from Iverson and a roar from the crowd that
was many times louder than the cheers that greeted Sprewell when he
checked in for the first time. ... To make room for Sprewell on the
active roster, forward Mark Pope was placed in the injured list. ...
Knicks coach Don Chaney indicated that Charlie Ward (bruised lower
leg) will not return until Friday night at the earliest. ''He's not
close to being ready yet,'' Chaney said. ... Houston missed a free
throw late in the fourth quarter, his first miss after 33
consecutive makes. ... The last time the Knicks were 1-8 was
1985-86.