裸体午餐

“我曾和你说过一个让屁股说话的人吗？他的整个腹部上下移动，像放屁那样说话。这和我以前听到的任何事都不一样，起泡的，浓烈的，发臭的声音，一种你可以用鼻子闻见的声音。你知道么，这个人在马戏团工作，就像腹语表演一样开始准备，过一会屁股就会开始自动说话了，他也能在毫无准备的情况下开始说话…只是每一次屁股总会把挡住屁眼的东西吸进去。此后屁股长出了某种牙齿一样细小内弯的粗糙钩子，并开始吃东西。一开始他认为这很新奇，逐渐养成了一些习惯动作。但不久屁股就把裤子给咬穿了，并在大街上说话，叫着它要获得平等的权利。屁股也会喝醉，呕吐出赃物，没人喜欢它。它想要接吻，和其他的‘嘴’一样。最后它整夜的说话，你可能从几条街以外听到他叫自己的屁股闭嘴，用拳头打自己的屁股，向里面塞蜡烛，但是…毫无作用，屁股对他说‘是你应该闭嘴，而不是我。因为我根本不需要你，我能说，能吃还能拉’此后，他早上起来开始发现嘴巴里充满了蝌蚪尾巴一样的透明胶状物。他想把它从嘴里扯下来，那东西却又粘在手上，就像正在燃烧的胶状汽油一样逐渐扩散。因此他的嘴巴最后被封死…整个头部…除了眼睛以外就像被截断一样毫无感觉，明白吗？屁股唯一无法做到的事情就是观看，它需要眼睛。神经联系被阻断，逐渐退化和萎缩。因此大脑再也无法发出指令。它被困在了躯壳里，被锁住了。有一段时间，你能透过眼睛感受到那沉默无助，遭受煎熬的大脑。最后大脑肯定也要死掉，因为眼睛也要失明。变成像木桩一端的两个洞洞一样毫无感觉。”



  不知道怎么这不电影最让我喜欢的就是这段主人公不知为何，又莫名其妙的说话。娓娓道来一个荒诞到爆的关于屁股的故事，就像这部电影给我的感觉一样。
  看完后不得不佩服 Cronenberg 和 Burroughs的想象力。很久以前看过cronen的一部电影叫《变蝇人》。那时就对这个导演感兴趣了。至于burroughs，这部电影的原著作者到不怎么了解，据说名头也不小，被称为“垮掉的一代”的代表人物。


  抽着烟，在电脑上打着字，想着刚看的这电影，感觉本快变成甲虫了。

Cult Films have limited but very special appeal. Cult films are usually strange, quirky, offbeat, eccentric, oddball, or surreal, with outrageous, weird, unique and cartoony characters or plots, and garish sets. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions. They can be very stylized, and they are often flawed or unusual in some striking way.

Most cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), although some film genres are also more prone to being cultish, such as the horror or sci-fi genres. Teen comedies are also more often rated as cult films, such as Dazed and Confused (1993), and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), with quotable lines of dialogue, and memorable characters and scenes.

Many cult films feature or effectively showcase the performance of newcomers or other unknown talented actors/actresses. These often-obscure and cheesy films are usually made by maverick, highly individualistic film-makers with low-budget resources and little commercial marketing. And cult films are rarely, if ever, sequels, since then they would have attained mainstream appeal and widespread success. Some directors are more prone to making cult films, such as John Waters, Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, especially early in their careers, because of their individualistic perspective and style, although they can often make a conventional 'mainstream' film too (such as David Lynch's The Straight Story (1999)).

Many cult films fared poorly at the box office when first shown, but then achieved cult-film status, developing an enduring loyalty and following among fans over time, often through word-of-mouth recommendations. Sometimes, they were revolutionary, brilliant films 'before their time' (i.e., Fantasia (1940)) and not bound by the conventions of their day.

They elicit a fiery and intense passion in devoted fans, and may cause cultists to enthusiastically champion and become devoted to these films, leading to audience participation, fan club membership, and repetitive viewings and showings. Cult films have tremendous followings with certain groups, e.g., college campuses, 'midnight movie' crowds, independent film lovers, etc. Cult movie worshippers persuasively argue with all about the merits of their choices, without regard for standard newspaper or movie reviews from critics.

There's no hard-and-fast rule or checklist to gauge what makes a cult film. A cult film is often designated as such "in the eye of the beholder" without fufilling any definition. It's often a matter of opinion. One viewer's cult film may not be judged the same by another viewer. And just because a segment of devoted viewers (pre-teen girls) repeatedly watch a film - such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - to view its star Johnny Depp, or Titanic (1997) (to see Leonardo Di Caprio), or to view the latest George Lucas Star Wars film, doesn't make a film a cult film. However, there are the most popular cult films, such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and any of the Star Trek films, that have developed cult followings with all the trappings.


One of the biggest, best-known cult films was not intended to become so popular. It was a low-budget, government 'documentary' propaganda film from the mid-30s created to dramatize the dangers of marijuana use and demon weed - Reefer Madness (1936). However, Tod Browning's grotesque Freaks (1932), was deliberately advertised as "the strangest...most startling human story ever screened," and had alternate titles including Forbidden Love, The Monster Show, and Nature's Mistakes. It used real-life dwarfs, pinheads, and other human freaks (portraying sideshow circus performers) to present a jolting story of revenge.

When first released, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Almost Famous (2000) were almost instantly pronounced as cult films, but as time progressed, they didn't really fit the category. They were highly-acclaimed, award-winning films that were prominently shown in the mainstream, and it had been too early to judge them as cult films. The media often labels an unusual film as a 'cult film' when it really shouldn't. It takes time for a film to reach cult status.

Camp films are cult-type films, but they are often poorly made or ludicrous, yet still enjoyable and appreciated. Cult films follow no rules or pattern - some cult films are popular only among certain limited groups of audiences or friends.

Music-Based Cult Films:

Some cult films are music-based, such as director Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap (1984), a tongue-in-cheek spoof of rock documentaries, following a faux British heavy metal band's disastrous US tour; Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), a bizarre film based on the popular rock album; Ken Russell's Tommy (1975), the Who's rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who sure plays a 'mean pinball'; and The Blues Brothers (1980), a farcical musical comedy involving two loser musicians who resurrect their old blues band.

The first of two other quintessential rock musical cult films include the transgender The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - notable for inspiring the craze of interactive, 'midnight movie' screenings. The iconic film was essentially a trashy tale set in a mysterious castle with kinky extraterrestrial Transylvanian transvestites, two stranded young people (including an underwear-clad Susan Sarandon), and a mad scientist. The second was a rebellious teenage musical comedy Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979) that featured a rock band named The Ramones. Perry Henzell's urban-crime drama The Harder They Come (1973) with musical star Jimmy Cliff, featured a reggae soundtrack and a seamy look at poverty and crime in Jamaica.

Well-Regarded Cult Films:

A number of cult films are well-regarded, such as Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), that became popular many years after its initial release due to repeated television showings. Likewise, the classic weeper An Affair to Remember (1957) has developed a loyal following (it was a remake of Love Affair (1939), was paid homage in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and remade as Love Affair (1994) with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening).

Others include the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956) that has developed a wide cult following, Kubrick's intriguing A Clockwork Orange (1971) - a surrealistic tale of an ultra-violent future and the danger of psychological reconditioning, or Coppola's anti-Vietnam war epic of a terrifying journey into hell in Apocalypse Now (1979), or another Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (1964).

Frank Darabont's subversive, allegorical, and life-affirming prison story about two life-sentenced prisoners, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based upon a Stephen King story, failed at the box-office during its original release, but established a strong cult following its video release. George Roy Hill, the director of such Oscar-winning hits as The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), also helmed the comedy-drama Slap Shot (1977) with Paul Newman - noted as one of the raunchiest, most foul-mouthed, macho sports films ever made. Another highly-regarded cult film is Monte Hellman's low-budget Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - a late 60s to early 70s entry in the road film genre - that was both an existential character study and a car-chase/race film.

A visually rich Philip-Marlowe style detective film, director Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), set in futuristic, proto-punk Los Angeles in 2019, and about an ex-cop (Harrison Ford) who hunts down renegade human replicants, has developed a wide cultish following. An early 70s big-cult favorite was director Hal Ashby's dark, eccentric and macabre Harold and Maude (1971) about a strange taboo romance between a 20 year-old boy (Bud Cort) and a fun-loving, joie-de-vivre 79 year-old woman (Ruth Gordon) to the tune of a Cat Stevens soundtrack - with ingenious scenes of the spoiled rich boy's mock suicide attempts staged to upset his mother. A year earlier, Bud Cort had starred in Robert Altman's quirky and satirical fairy tale Brewster McCloud (1970) as a bespectacled boy living in the Houston Astrodome where he was building a machine to escape and fly away. The Sound of Music (1965) when re-released in the late 20th century was presented as a sing-along version (with subtitles) along the lines of the participatory Rocky Horror, with fans dressing up as nuns, lonely goatherds and Nazis.

Conversely, some of the most praised films have pornographic origins, such as the ground-breaking Behind the Green Door (1972) due to its star Marilyn Chambers appearing in her first adult role (she was a former All-American Girl and Ivory Snow detergent model).

             ——http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilms.html

  文字绝对是人类史上最让人无法自拔的毒品。致幻，带来无以名状的兴奋以及绝望。更早与文字之前，在其还在嘴与耳间传播时，这一伟大的致幻剂就已在人类的血液之中蠢蠢欲动。当打字机先生的两个朋友在黑药之城发现他枕着纷杂不清的各类毒品躺在沙堆上后带他回住处读起不知何时寄回美国的书稿，那梦幻的文字带来的何尝不是一种快感。

如果要看娱乐片，如果怕沉闷，如果看到肛门就恶心，这部电影大可不必观看。

第一遍看卡夫卡长篇的时候不亚于看天书，又烦又闷，几乎睡着，但却记住了他那部短篇《变形记》，之所以记住，是因为视它变态中的豪杰，几乎是由它开始我的注意力开始由浪漫和现实向“变态”的现代心理作品倾斜，由此结实了格里高尔，默尔索，罗生门，达洛维夫人，等待的戈多，唱情歌的普鲁弗洛克。一段时间我沉迷其中，不能自拔，直到后来看得胆战心惊，看得心乱如麻，看得夜不能寐，于是打住，不敢再看。

这一丢已是两年光景。我浪费了两年。

但是无论我如何视而不见，依然无法规避这一现代主义大类，见到它，我像皮条的熟客，不再面红耳赤，提起它，我像久违的老友，叫我如何不想它。

再看《裸体午餐》我已几乎将“异化”这个词忘记，我穿着本山丹丹合手编织的马甲，从未脱身，以为它就是身体的一部分，安然惬意，不担心早起会变成墙角倒爬的甲壳虫或忙碌织网的灰蜘蛛。

这里是一如既往的疯狂与魔幻，丑恶与苍白。打印机变甲虫，甲虫变性器。屁股会说话，肛门想吸毒。白粉变黄粉，黄粉变黑粉。夫妻玩游戏，游戏即证明。

再用理性去解构，用道德去观察，看到的是白马非马。

但解构和观察从来是人热衷的行为，也是人得意于其他动物的炫耀，自打着认识自己的口号之前，人人孜孜以求的不外乎探寻自身和自身外的无知。我没有专注导演，演员，编剧，技巧，我只是用零星琐碎的段落记录了一点观影体验。

女性的从属地位：一笔带过，具象道德和正义感的Fadela原来不过是一个穿着人皮的Benway，围绕Benway的是忏悔的情人，是一群活生生的卫道士。Lee的妻子Joan更是无足轻重，两次无厘头地重复了相同的死亡。

男性的主导地位：知识（杀虫粉，蜈蚣粉）和权力（传统和道德）的双重谋划下，Benway成为控制和麻痹意识的指示牌和风向标，叫人捏着一把汗的是小人物聚集在他的周围，甘心变成他的情人和奴仆，贪婪地吮吸着打字机流下的精液，而作为知识和文明代言的打字机实际上是在为权利集团唱赞歌，谋利益，是他们的奴隶。

边缘意识及潜意识的真实：借助药物，Interzone被一层层剥皮，密地的秘密最终暴露，黄粉黑粉，逮到了真实就是好粉。这里理性不带一点光辉，理性思维得出的结论无一例外地站不住脚，唯经麻痹的黄黑粉催化，我们才逐一看到Lee的同性恋倾向，Fadela与Benway的合二为一，密地的愚弄本性等等。

艺术与内心世界的真实与虚幻：作家有家不成其为作家，作家是无家的游子，是孤独的代言，是虚幻的瘾君子。片中游戏不过是潜意识的外在表征，是内心的真实想法，“杀死屋里的天使”，Lee才能捧起打字机羽化成作家。电影本身同样是真实与虚幻的交媾产儿：人在其中，身在其外，似是而非，实乎玄乎。

异化的普世存在：横向的异化是不同物种的变异，纵向的异化是个体内部的变异。影片里的人可谓个个不“正常”，同性恋，性变态，多虑症，当人人“不正常”的时候人人都是“正常”的。当人人异化时，异化随即变为生存常态。

现实意义：既然没有一个人能逃得脱异化，掌控，自然没有必要大惊小怪，大呼小叫。所谓世风日下，人心不古，不过是自我的华丽标榜；所谓高山流水，桃花源地，也不过是自我的顽固逃遁；而所谓道行高远，德行远扬，不过是自我的贵重皮囊。

电影的思想和深度远远不止于此，我凭一己理解，只能掘其一角。

原文博客：http://yanhaibing.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_19.html

有一首歌叫做枪不杀人，人杀人。偷换一下概念，人不写作，作写作。

说上帝死了，也并非人伦的丧失或是死物的胜利嘛，只是醒悟前的一点混沌，本不精神的人起床后多少都会有那么一段朦胧的时候。诚然读者或会因异类思维的出现而将其归为恐怖的牛鬼蛇神，从而忽略了其中莫大的幽默感。

这就是为什么我只对作品而非作家传记感兴趣的原因。特别扯到文学领域的人，总觉得创作不是为生活服务的话那生活就是为创作服务的啦。嘿，那么功利干什么呢？我们来先讲一下科学家的故事：传闻薛定谔方程便是薛定谔休假时在海边别墅中情妇的床上写出来的。反正老人家死了那么多年，把这传闻当真又如何？来吧，敬爱的先生女士们，我们以此来好好分析一下量子力学的社会意义吧，亦或应该鼓励科学家们多来点外遇来激发灵感呢？啊，那边几个义愤填膺的，对，就是你，拜托，不要再欺负杨振宁了。

还有卡夫卡是吧，就像2 PAC和BIGGY死于帮派仇杀后还不停挂着名字帮街坊邻居们出了九张十张碟一样，到了书店里这边有个海边卡夫卡那边一个卡夫卡与少女们然后还有粉色发香书皮的我与卡夫卡之艳情史……人家写篇大虫子容易吗？喝牛奶喝到肺结核已经够惨了，请放下他的名字，抚慰一下作品的灵魂吧。

NAKED LUNCH讲了些什么？一两年前看的，本身就够玄乎的东西还要是英文字幕，被震撼了一下后（恩现在才发现自己是那么多愁善感啊妈的）情节什么都几乎忘了，前段时间看了卡尔维诺《寒冬夜行人》才突然再想起来，是关于现代创作的。里面有好多打字机，都是虫子或是异形，作家们在上面敲啊敲，然后扯出很多没头没尾的阴谋来，感觉一伙一伙人不是迷失于毒品就是迷失于作品中。这种场景倒是挺让人开心的，类似于幸灾乐祸的心情吧。幸好（不幸的是），这种场景在中国只属于不好玩的小众。我说你们啊，不好好生活还来瞎整些“不着边际”的幽默是很不应该。

对，很不应该的，我检讨。今天就到这里吧。算是顺便介绍一下这部NAKED LUNCH，挺好玩的东西。