“海王”話題當(dāng)?shù)赖漠?dāng)下，在上海電影節(jié)看了一場(chǎng)叫《漁王》的電影。

選這部，一來(lái)是被簡(jiǎn)介吸引，關(guān)于雙男主彼此影響和救贖的故事，一般都好嗑。二來(lái)是因?yàn)榇蠊饷鞯奈蛔訅蚨?，還能買到票。

疫情期間的觀影體驗(yàn)很特別，嚴(yán)格的入場(chǎng)程序，三分之一的人數(shù)控制，配上消毒到近乎無(wú)菌的環(huán)境和硬件，讓往常親民的大眾藝術(shù)顯得有點(diǎn)高冷。諾大的場(chǎng)子里，大家分散而坐，完全猜不出與TA同來(lái)的朋友是在左邊還是右邊，前邊還是后邊。彼此相隔太遠(yuǎn)，沒(méi)法交頭接耳，又都不屑大吼大叫，于是人人安靜，專注熒幕。

故事開(kāi)場(chǎng)，男主A杰克正開(kāi)麥BB，作為知名互動(dòng)類節(jié)目電臺(tái)主播的他，高調(diào)地指點(diǎn)評(píng)議著聽(tīng)眾的人生軌跡，居高臨下，自信瀟灑。整個(gè)場(chǎng)景以他BB中的嘴巴剪影大特寫結(jié)束，干脆利落，人物性格在1分鐘內(nèi)被立住，精彩。

在事業(yè)中旋轉(zhuǎn)跳躍的杰克接了個(gè)電話，笑容定格，人生遭遇轉(zhuǎn)折。因他在節(jié)目里的某句評(píng)議，引發(fā)了一起嚴(yán)重的槍擊事件，造成多人死亡。良心很痛，杰克辭職沉淪，不再梳馬尾。但良心還是很痛，于是在一日酒后，他打算沉入河底贖罪，不曾想，硬是被人從河堤上拉了回來(lái)，轉(zhuǎn)而又被澆上汽油，雖然殊途同歸，但過(guò)程也是很重要的，于是杰克哇哇大叫，在遭點(diǎn)火前被男主B帕里救下。又是短短2分鐘，導(dǎo)演讓杰克明白了自己有多么熱愛(ài)生命，他需要找到其他救贖自我的方法，人物后續(xù)行事動(dòng)機(jī)成立，既抓馬又扎實(shí)。

男主B帕里的奇想世界是影片的絕對(duì)亮點(diǎn)。他在患上PTSD之前是一位學(xué)富五車的教授，因在槍擊案中目睹愛(ài)人受害慘狀，產(chǎn)生了應(yīng)激幻想，冷不丁會(huì)看到紅衣騎士幻影，然后在驚恐中暴走街頭，過(guò)上了流浪漢般的生活。但教授始終是教授，他腦海中保留了迤邐浪漫的想象和靈光乍現(xiàn)的哲思。一場(chǎng)中央車站的群像華爾茲和一席中央公園的草坪裸聊，展現(xiàn)了他美妙的人物性格。

片中的兩位女性角色蠻有意思，但經(jīng)不起推敲。時(shí)代感、標(biāo)簽感都有點(diǎn)重，表演又夸張過(guò)了頭，可能在那個(gè)年代，這樣的女性形象就是真實(shí)又討喜的了吧？但在影片敘事中，她們完全是工具人，主要負(fù)責(zé)串聯(lián)起雙男主之間的主線故事，另外兼任笑點(diǎn)擔(dān)當(dāng)。她們有性格有態(tài)度，卻對(duì)故事的展開(kāi)沒(méi)有起到任何作用。

It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king. Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the holy grail, symbol of God's divine grace. And a voice said to the boy, "You shall be keeper of the grail so that it may heal the hearts of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible, like God, so he reached into the fire to take the grail, and the grail vanished, leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."