中国益智游戏

（应该不算剧透吧？不过请谨慎浏览）

故事的男主有着失败的婚姻，他妈妈反对他离婚的时候说到，就像你爸爸当年一样。在故事的后半段，男主的父亲去纽约看他，之后男主一系列的内心独白，让我感到了原来亲人之间的关爱，最具渗透力的表现形式，其实是陪伴和不过问。在很多年没有相见之后，男主在纽约的街头和父亲一起穿梭，他奇怪父亲没有机关枪式的对他生活境况的提问，而是欣赏着街景，回忆和他母亲在纽约度过的时光，路过的街道。当男主接到电话说他的蕾丝朋友在医院生产了，需要他感快过去看望。他很自然的把事情告诉了父亲，他自己都很惊讶本来无需解释的事情，他却如同倾诉般的道给父亲听。父亲得知事情的紧急之后，没有说一句话，伸手拦下了一辆出租车，把他送上了去医院的路上。
很多时候，最得体的关心人的方式，其实是沉默，即使脑海里有100个问题需要解答，当你知道对方没有欲望倾诉时，沉默是一种对他选择不告诉的尊重。而不是想：我是你的xx(父亲)，我有权知道你的一切。

电影里的这个小细节，让我觉得亲情又多了另外一种表达方式，一种中国的父母很难想象并且难以接受，但有时候确实化解很多矛盾的很好的方式 。

爱情的游戏，我们没办法去掌控规则和结局。
他最公平也是最残忍，最认真也最随性。
故事里的一切好熟悉，交错的情绪在的生活中不时的发生着。
单身父亲，作家，童年父爱缺失让他更想成为好父亲。
前女友和好基友蕾丝边，让他的生活又充实了很多。
故事始终围绕着男主想要定居美国才能经常见到孩子，
他让蕾丝边基友怀孕，找不靠谱的律师谈离婚，找到非法工作，骑着自行车闲逛在像打斗事后现场的纽约街道上，他所做的一切努力都让不切实际和荒谬看起来那么合理，就连离婚，结婚，和谁也都无所谓。
努力保护我喜欢的人，帮助我的朋友，泡我爱的妞又有什么错呢？法律和规矩在他的故事里都变成了生活的调味品。
就像他说的，大部分故事都是从不幸中汲取养分，不过既然能幸福的悄然回首，那么只要适可而止就对了。
就像他说的，有火花迸发出来的才是爱情。
他抱着她目光失焦的时候在想什么？
他说人生。

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在BnF学习完顺便一个人就进了MK2看了这部电影。
大妈健身舞开头，延续了题头四个中文大字“益智游戏”的穿越感。不过出现了好几次的大妈健身舞真的很有亲切感。

说走就走的旅行和与黑格尔的灵魂对话我很喜欢。懂事的大儿子真是莫大的安慰。
只是结尾落入了俗套。什么男主在孩子怂恿下阻止爱人去机场之类的。“给你找个美国男人假结婚”，这竟然是最后的解决方案，让我觉得你要是相信法国人现实中也是那么无厘头/浪漫/随性（随便你说），那就要被坑惨了。决不可相信法国电影鸡血的煽动。退一万步讲，他们真的能够这样做，是因为拿的法国护照。
奥黛丽塔图饰演的玛蒂娜，反映了40岁女人的现实也点亮了她们的希望。单身、带两个孩子、曾经的情人、身体的需要，有什么豁不出去的。于是她说：你有两个孩子，我也有两个孩子，他们相处超好，我们搭伙过日子吧。现实部分是：男人没想好。但是切不可相信电影结局的反转也会发生在生活中。他只是人在异乡寂寞。你知道雄性动物不在自己领地的痛苦吗？不过也许给“搞定墨迹男”出了个主意：把他带到人生地不熟的地方，让他更需要你。
总之这部电影很多笑点，延续了轻松幽默的气氛。只是纠结的我每次看完此类地域与恋人相处及新城市的文化碰撞主题电影（包括Before midnight）就更纠结。不去想太多可能依然会觉得这是一部不错的电影，但是太无厘头没有指导意义的情节忍不住让我怒吼：“玩够了没有！人生是脚踩西瓜皮吗！（包括Isabelle和比利时小保姆出轨，她们不用想结果是不是？40不惑了啊还这么乱来）”


题外话：

奥黛丽塔图的中文商务谈判整个没有字幕，电影院里除了我是认真在笑，其他法国人竟然也有笑的，是因为好笑？为了在Xavier面前不丢面子而突然背诵起王之涣的《登鹳雀楼》这个桥段，整个就是为了讨好中国观众吧？
我觉得全剧最经典的一句话是：我已经和两个女同有了孩子，还要和一个中国人结婚为了变成美国人。中国人太威武了。女演员的选择我也很满意，大脸盘细眼睛姑娘，脾气耿直又善良，该挺身而出时绝不退缩~相比之下罗曼杜里斯怎么越看越屌丝了。

估计又要掀起一阵说“NI HAO”的风潮了。哎，我头晕~~

请原谅这篇文章是一个极度纠结想解放自我又不断提醒自己现实的日射月摩羯所写。

Chinese Puzzle is the new film by director Cédric Klapisch, staring Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou and Kelly Reilly. We caught up with Klapisch on the day of the film’s UK release to ask him about the film, its possible sequel and what it means to be forty.
Chinese Puzzle is the third film of a trilogy. How have you changed as a director since the first film, L’Auberge Espagnole?
I think the first one,L’Auberge Espagnole, was a lot more spontaneous, and we were working with the idea of the actors being spontaneous. So in (Chinese Puzzle), it’s a lot more about thinking things over, about preparing things, and it’s not about improvisation any more. I think it went along with the subject of the movie, because this one is about someone being forty years old, and the first one was about being twenty five years old and really improvising your life. I think that is what changed for me and what changed for Xavier (played by Romain Duris).
What’s the significance of being 40?

I think it’s about admitting that you have to take responsibility for your life, you know? You have to accept that you can’t really be a teenager forever, or have fun all the time, so you have to choose your way and accept that. I think that being forty is really about that.

Forty years old, for me, is the end of youth, but you’re not old either, so it’s an age that is interesting because of that. You can really enjoy life, because you don’t have the problems of being old: problems with your health or with your body, and yet you don’t have the excitement of the first times. When you’re twenty, you’re in love for the first time, you have a job for the first time, you’re going to new countries for the first time. When you are forty, you don’t have first times like that, so it’s not about that excitement, it’s about trying to find the enthusiasm without that kind of first time experience enthusiasm.

When I watched the film, there were some scenes that stood out for me, especially the scenes with his arrogant lawyer (Played by Jason Kravits). Which scene was was your favourite?

I really liked this scene because, as you said, I really like that character. For me it’s really about America. He says you have to follow the rules, and then at the end he says you can manage without the rules. For me America is really about that, that maybe you can improvise, but you have to follow the rules first, so I think it’s really about America for me.

I like the scene with the father, because this movie is a lot about being a father yourself. You have children and you have to experience what it is to be a father, but you also have to revisit the relationship that you have with your own dad. I really like what happens with Xavier because in order to be a father himself he has to set things straight with his own father. I really liked that.

You’ve described L’Auberge Espagnole, Russian Dolls and Chinese puzzle as a trilogy, but at the end of Chinese Puzzle, I couldn’t help but think I’d love to see these characters in another ten years. Is there any possibility that there could be a fourth film?

I have no Idea. I think that the two possibilities exist and it depends on whether in ten years I want to do a fourth one, and especially if the actors want to do a fourth one. In a sense I really can’t answer that question now.

Also about the story itself, I think that if there is a major event, if Europe doesn’t exist anymore, if there is a war, if Africa becomes what China is today or something like that, then yes, it would be really interesting to do a fourth one. It will tell a story about that, about how time changes, and about how far it can change. I think if there is a fourth one, it will be also be about change in the world and how the world can change with the characters.

The three films are set in different cities around the world, but a lot of Chinese Puzzle is set not only in New York, but in Chinatown. What elements of Chinese culture were important for you to include in the film?

The idea of the French sentence Casse-tête Chinois (the original french title), is not exactly the same as “Chinese Puzzle”. The idea is that it’s a puzzle that’s hard to solve, that’s what it means in French. It means something complicated, that we don’t understand because that’s what we think about the Chinese language, it’s hard to understand because it doesn’t have an alphabet, it has ideograms. It feels like the culture which is the furthest away.

I think what I wanted to say with that, is what Xavier always says about things being complicated to understand. It’s really about dealing with a culture that you don’t understand at the beginning, that then becomes simple. If you spend ten years in China then it becomes your culture. I think that I wanted to get across the idea that everything that seems impossible to understand and far away from yourself, it can be close, and it can be understandable at some point.

Not all the characters have made a return for this movie. Wendy’s brother, William (played by Kevin Bishop), is absent. What do you think he’s doing now?

Well, for a long time he was in the script but unfortunately there was a planning problem, (Kevin) was the main character in a TV series, so we forgot about his presence, although I really wanted him to be there. For me William’s presence – and it will happen in the next episode if it exists – is what Xavier can’t be. I think it’s funny that at the beginning of L’Auberge Espagnole he’s someone who is really unimportant and annoying, and then he becomes someone a lot more mature and a lot more trustworthy than Xavier so I think that’s what he should mean.