合上2019年最後一本書《二手時間 Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets》,終於把2015年諾貝爾文學獎得主Svetlana Alexievich所有經典讀完了,而這部讀起來最為吃力——蘇聯以至後蘇聯時代的歷史太龐大、太複雜、太灰色。有句話看得我渾身觸電:「我深知無知者手中的自由是多麼可怕」。
在辦理各種結婚所需文件的漫長等待過程中,兩人在東南亞周遊,彼此的差異日漸顯現:”For a pair of lifelong travelers, Felipe and I actually travel very differently……He can create a familiar habitat of reassuringly boring everyday practices for himself ANYPLACE, if you just let him stay in one spot……I’m much more restless than he is. My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be……The problem is that I just can’t LIVE anywhere on the planet.”
Koudelka在歐洲四處流亡、持續創作的那些年,跟三個國家的三個女人生了三個孩子。在一次罕有的媒體對談中,他說,”I tell my children that when I am with them, I am for them, and when I am not there, it is best they should try to forget that I exist.”
電影「Lion」講述一對澳洲夫婦自願不生育,從印度收養了兩個孤兒——“Because we both felt as if… the world has enough people in it. Have a child, couldn’t guarantee it will make anything better. But to take a child that’s suffering like you boys were. Give you a chance in the world. That’s something.”
有意或無意地,House of Cards非常誠懇、甚至殘忍地談討了愛與利益的關係。利益是麵包,是生存,而愛是錦上添花,不足以讓人存活。人們對利益的關切,多於對美好和愛的關切;世間不幸的人,遠遠多於真正被愛過的人。正因為愛是稀缺資源,才會被追逐、受吹捧。但事與願違,愛並沒有像我們日常被灌輸的那麽偉大、那麽流行。
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House of Cards由始至終都在試圖解釋一件事:為何世間有如此多不合常理的事?
Frank Underwood有兩句台詞是這樣的:
“We’re all just madmen leading the blind.”
“Welcome to the death of the Age of Reason. There is no right or wrong. Not anymore. There is only being in and then being out.”
這也是為什麼每次看完House of Cards,都能由衷感到寬慰,從深陷的混沌中得到啟發。不合常理的世界,是在不合常理的人的操縱下形成的,他們構建了不合常理的上層結構,讓不合常理的事成為常理。於是這個世界再也無法、也無需分對錯了。掌握權力和利益的人就是對的一方。
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