2007年10月4日

結局-成就好電影或是破壞好劇情

警告:本文有下列電影的結局,介意者請勿閱讀:青之炎、天使薇拉卓克、勾引陌生人、雙瞳、口白人生、蜘蛛人3。

青之炎的最後一幕,秀一騎車腳踏車,在一個詭異的微笑之後,就快速地往對向車道騎去,然後畫面淡出,全片的陰鬱氣氛,至此累積到最高點,又被一個看似明白卻又模糊不清的結局,把情緒鎖在那一個瞬間,直到落幕,戲院的燈光打亮,我僵硬地坐在椅子上,仍被沈重的劇情壓著,沒辦法把呼吸調整到正常的節奏。

天使薇拉卓克也用了類似的結局,薇拉一個人在牢裡的孤單背影,少了一個人而變得特別安靜的餐桌,在這幾個畫面的背後,繼續延伸的時間軸裡,還有多少情節是這部電影想要告訴你,卻又不想清楚交代的;透過幾個片段以及情緒和氣氛的延伸,給觀眾自己想像的空間,或許觀眾的想像與說故事的人心中的答案相去無幾,但是比起平舖直述,這樣子的結局反而能把整個故事的高潮,聚集在故事結束的那一刻,讓觀影者的思緒被困在電影所創造出的虛幻世界中,等他們從那個被創造出的氣氛逃出來時,已經是很久以後的事了。

驚悚片也喜歡把結局搞得隱晦不明,如我最近剛看過的勾引陌生人,在最後的半小時中連續兩次的劇情大轉折,然後祭出了一個想像不到的真相,在羅溫娜企圖永遠掩蓋掉事實的同時,隔街的一雙眼睛將所有的事情都看在眼裡,就像小時候那雙鄰居小女孩的眼睛,看著她和母親共同的秘密一樣,是不是在預告一樣的故事還會不斷上演。驚悚片用這樣的結局,讓本來應該已經死掉的殺人魔,又在哪裡悄悄現身,讓好不容易渡過危機的男女主角,又準備迎接下一段惡夢,讓鬆了一口氣的觀眾,神經又突然緊繃了起來,當然是為了要把驚悚的氣氛延續下去,或許有些是為了拍續集。

當然,有些電影的結局就是能讓人一眼就看穿,是在為下一集舖路;同樣的手法,如果用得不好,很容易就可以讓這部電影的分數大打折扣,而相似的劇情,如果舖陳的不好,效果也是天差地遠。

雙瞳的最後一幕,黃火土被擔架抬出大樓,正當全部的眾都在猜測他是生是死的時候,畫面上出現了「有愛不死」四個大學,簡單地宣告了結局的走向,但是卻不夠有力,戲院裡馬上傳出各種笑聲、噓聲,彷彿在唾棄這個安排,就像是為了給這部電影一個美好結局,而硬生生地插入了這四個字,或許整部片都在為這樣的結局舖陳,但是仍嫌太過突兀且老套。

同樣一個主角不死的結局,出現在口白人生裡,哈洛克里已經做好面對死亡的心理準備,一切都如同凱倫艾菲爾筆下的小說一般地進行,直到哈洛被公車撞上,凱倫的打字機上小說的最後一個字只打到一半,而她已經崩潰在桌前,雖然最後哈洛奇蹟似地活了下來,但是最後只花了幾幕就清楚交代,為何凱倫會放他一條生路,從她遇見了一個活生生的哈洛克里,從他在書桌前崩潰的反應,從他將完稿拿給希伯特教授時的反應,不但是劇本寫得好,也要歸功於愛瑪湯普森的演技,把凱倫艾菲爾的情感轉折清楚地演出來,電影的美好結局,也沒有被「哈洛沒有死」這個事實給破壞了。

如果要說結局拖垮了整部戲,不得不提也是最近才剛看的蜘蛛人3,前面100分鐘仔細舖陳,對彼得帕克的心態及個性的變化描寫得十分詳細,也仔細交代這部電影裡幾個主要的敵人-哈利奧斯朋、艾迪布洛克與弗林特馬克,三個人和彼得帕克之間的的仇恨,整個前半段的舖陳實在是精彩細膩,但是在毒怪離開彼得的身體寄生在艾迪身上,四個主要角色終於到齊了,電影也只剩下40分鐘,所以電影最精彩高潮的後半段,就在時間壓力下匆匆結束。

於是老管家的一句話成了扭轉哈利態度的關鍵,但是這一句話的劇情力量又太薄弱,哈利對彼得的不諒解,老管家應該都看在眼裡,要解釋也不用等到這個候才解釋(大概是考量太早說哈利就不會被毀容了),而哈利聽到老管家的話之後,心裡也沒有任何扎掙,一眨眼的工夫就可以前嫌盡棄,甚至願意為彼得犠牲生命,而在最後的結局,馬克只是走過來對著彼得說了幾句話,彼得就原諒了他,我想這部片的主旨大概是仇恨是可以呼之即來揮之即去,原諒一個殺害親人的兇手,完全不用經過情感上的掙扎,如果是在這樣的前提下,那麼這部電影的結局還真是下得貼切。

於是在蜘蛛人3的最後一幕,彼得與瑪利珍的深情擁吻,我已經沒有多少心思去仔細欣賞了,因為滿腦子都在為被結局拖垮的故事感到可惜。

註:本文全為個人不專業主觀評論。

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