
有个笑话说拍一辈子电影不难,难就难在一辈子都在拍一部电影,这才是最难最难啊!而《黑客帝国3》就已经有了那拍了几十年如一日的《星球大战》的味道。沃卓斯基在创意不足的情况下,向卢卡斯大叔学习。开始在一部有血有肉、有声有色的电影中生拉硬拽地加入所谓哲学思辨。把观众看得一头雾水并不代表电影好,至少说明这不是一部好的商业电影。《黑客帝国》中一句话点醒梦中人的魅力在《黑客帝国3》中变成了絮絮叨叨的二人转。遗憾的是135分钟的电影中,没有哪句台词成为经典。这充分证明了量变不一定导致质变。
《黑客帝国3》的画面确实漂亮。不过中国观众不一定会买账。因为这都是些经历过大场面的“英雄”。其中堪称高潮段落的机械乌贼围攻空港一段,铺天盖地的乌贼让人不由得想起摩戒2中以量取胜的兽人部队。而锡安的守卫机器人绝对是“高达战士”的翻版,没有什么新意。比起《黑客帝国1》中创造“子弹时间”,第三部在画面上的突破实在乏善可陈。
尼奥在没了新鲜创意的情况下,被迫与钢铁为伴。虽然他依然是救世主,但主角显然是那些钢铁。能给人留下印象的都是或坚硬,或柔软的武器。与其这样,还不如改名叫《钢铁帝国》妥当,网络都靠边站了,还要黑客干嘛?
影片结尾看似光明,实则模糊不清。短暂的和平与生死不明的尼奥都让人不踏实。不过这样的好处是再拍前传、后传,以及“后后传”比较方便。
有期望才会有失望。公平地说,如果将《黑客帝国3》中罗里罗嗦的对白减少一半,影片会好看很多。胶片还在其次,把观众宝贵的时间扔在不文不白,拗口绕舌的对话中肯定是种浪费的行为。
浪费还不仅如此。莫尼卡.贝鲁奇在《黑客帝国2》中的友情客串就让人莫名其妙,而在《黑客帝国3》中的出场更是标准的群众演员模样。这意大利美妇的潜力在手里悄悄地被浪费。
当众多优秀元素握在手中,想一点不糟蹋地物尽其用肯定很难。不过,浪费总是不良习惯。节约才应众望所归!
That?is?how?it?is?with?people.Nobody?cares?how?it?works?as?long?as?it?works.
(事情就是这样,只要没出事,人们就不会去管它。)
出自《黑客帝国2》中议长与尼奥在面对着锡安巨大的机器补给设备时进行的对话。在DVD版中大约为第三十五分钟左右。你说的老头就是议长。

取决于你从那个角度来看。
如果说最终消灭了Smith, 那自然是Neo赢了。Neo能赢,也是有赖于先知。先知早已知道Smith的前世今生,也告诉了Neo. Neo只不过没明白罢了。
Neo是the one ,smith来自于Neo ,是Neo 的负面,即负一。先知跟老头的目的都一样,为了机器的明天。都是要公式的平衡。所以他们的目的都是给Neo 挖坑。先知知道,Smith是没办法被系统干掉的。干掉了负一,代表这公式就不平了。最后,俩人打斗的关键时刻,先知通过Smith告诉Neo,舍生取义。选择了被smith感染,让系统掌握了smith 的源代码。成功干掉Smith .为了平衡等式,Neo 也必须被干点,否则等式就多了1。这都是给Neo 挖的坑那。
片子的台词没有一句废话,每句背后都有严密的逻辑体系,都可以细细琢磨
Oracle: That's it. That's the secret. You've got to use your hands.
Sati: Why?
Oracle: Cookies need love like everything does.
饼干也需要爱!先知开始教Sati那些人类的情感.先知教的这种爱是博爱,这一点叔本华是很缺乏的,但奇怪的是佛教很讲究博爱,而叔本华又研究多年佛学,他怎么就那么悲观呢?看来,Neo和Smith正是叔本华的两面,也是导演的两面,也是我的两面.任何一个既欣赏叔本华,又敬重佛教的人都会有这样的情况.
Sati: Neo!
Oracle: I was hoping to have these done before you got here. Oh well. Sati, honey, I think it's time for a tasting. Take the bowl to Seraph and find out if they're ready.
又一次证明先知的能力是”直觉”,Neo什么时候来这样物理因素很重的事件是很难预测的,但是先知确实预测到了Neo会来.
Sati: Okay. *to Neo* I'm glad you got out.
Neo: Me too.
Oracle: So, do you recognize me?
Neo: A part of you.
Oracle: Yeah, that's how it works. Some bits you lose, some bits you keep. I don't yet recognize my face in the mirror, but... I still love candy. *offers Neo a piece of red candy*
很精辟,佛经上讲:”得就是失,失就是得,有得必有失,有失必有得.”同一件事情的得与失比例对于不同的人来说是不一样的,你若能平心看到”得等于失”,那你就得道了.
Neo: No, thank you.
Oracle: Remember what you were like when you first walked through my door, jittery as a junebug? And now just look at you. You sure did surprise me, Neo, and you still do.
哈哈,Smith说伟大的先知绝无意外,而先知自己却说Neo给了她很多惊喜.说明先知对Neo的直觉并不永远准确,还好,这一点并不会对大问题产生影响.
Neo: You gave me a few surprises, too.
Oracle: I hope I helped.
Neo: You helped me to get here, but my question is why? Where does this go? Where does it end?
救世主问原因了,这是Neo在法国人那里学来的(第二部里,法国人就给他灌输这种思想),原因是动力啊.叔本华认为一个人的行为有两个因素:动机和性格.原因就是动机,这是没有争议的,而性格,既然是塑造出来的,同样也可以被改变.导演为什么在力求和第一部对应的时候安排先知提Neo的改变呢?就是要告诉观众,先知不旦给了Neo动机,甚至改变了Neo的性格.但不知有多少人理解导演的苦心.
Oracle: I don't know.
Neo: You don't know or you won't tell me?
Oracle: I told you before. No one can see beyond a choice they don't understand, and I mean no one.
“没有人可以理解自己看不透的选择”,这没有什么需要解释的.需要解释的是”先知还有不理解的选择?”回忆先知之前和Morpheus,Trinity的谈话,先知明确知道她这个选择的代价,但最后这个选择的代价却比她预期的高.说明这是个错误的选择(仅仅就利益而言),那么就无法看透这个选择了.但这个利益上的错误选择却并不完全错误,利益的根本就是生存的欲望,而叔本华在中就说过,像是主义,信仰,就可以超越生死,何况是仅仅被Smith入侵呢.
Neo: What choice?
Oracle: It doesn't matter. It's my choice. I have mine to make, same as you have yours.
Neo: Does that include what things to tell me and what not to tell me?
Oracle: Of course not.
Neo: Then why didn't you tell me about the Architect? Why didn't you tell me about Zion, the Ones before me - why didn't you tell me the truth?
Oracle: Because it wasn't time for you to know.
Neo: Who decided it wasn't time?
Oracle: You know who. *She points at the Temet Nosce sign above the door* Neo: I did. *Oracle nods* Then I think it's time for me to know a few more things.
Oracle: So do I.
Neo: Tell me how I separated my mind from my body without jacking in. Tell me how I stopped four sentinels by thinking it. Tell me just what the hell is happening to me.
Oracle: The power of the One extends beyond this world. It reaches from here all the way back to where it came from.
Neo: Where?
Oracle: The Source. That's what you felt when you touched those Sentinels. But you weren't ready for it. You should be dead, but apparently you weren't ready for that, either.
救世主的力量当然不能局限于Matrix,在任何一个世界都不应该被终结.而Neo那些问题可以很容易从无线接入来解释.关于Source的问题,先知说Neo在碰到电子乌贼的时候,就感知到了Source.事实上,那些电子乌贼就是Source,那就是本质.我们的思想不应该被局限于”Source是一个空间”,Source完全可以是一种精神,一种本质,一种灵魂.电子乌贼作为一种很基本的机器,就是很本质的.先知说Neo还没有准备好接受,那是当然的了,谁能接受自己的敌人居然如此高尚,如此纯洁?(这么说可能很多人摸不找头脑,看Neo眼瞎之后的视野就知道我在说什么了)
死不死的问题也很有趣,”你应该死了,但是还有准备好.”够绝!敢情不准备好死还死不了了.Neo是否该死的问题没有必要解释,也无法解释,因为每个人(包括不用脑子看电影的)都明白,Neo不能死.
Neo: The Architect told me that if I didn't return to the Source, Zion would be destroyed by midnight tonight.
Oracle: *rolls eyes* Please... You and I may not be able to see beyond our own choices, but that man can't see past any choices.
Neo: Why not?
Oracle: He doesn't understand them - he can't. To him they are variables in an equation. One at a time each variable must be solved and countered. That's his purpose: to balance an equation.
Neo: What's your purpose?
Oracle: To unbalance it.
Neo: Why? What do you want?
Oracle: I want the same thing you want, Neo. And I am willing to go as far as you are to get it.
Neo: The end of the war. *Oracle nods* Is it going to end?
看到了吧,先知要的也是和平.很多人以小人之心度君子之腹,说先知不过是为了一次完备的升级.人家先知是很…的!(没词了)这也符合在她公寓墙上找到的”Peace”涂鸦.
Oracle: One way, or another.
Neo: Can Zion be saved?
Oracle: I'm sorry, I don't have the answer to that question, but if there's an answer, there's only one place you're going to find it.
Oracle: You know where. And if you can't find the answer, then I'm afraid there may be no tomorrow for any of us.
Neo: What does that mean?
Oracle: Everything that has a beginning has an end. I see the end coming. I see the darkness spreading. I see death. And you are all that stands in his way.
Neo: Smith.
Oracle: *nods* Very soon he's going to have the power to destroy this world, but I believe he won't stop there; he can't. He won't stop until there's nothing left at all.
Neo: What is he?
Oracle: He is you. Your opposite, your negative, the result of the equation trying to balance itself out.
我们说过,Neo是逻辑外真理,是在等式之外的.Smith却是因为等式为了平衡而被建造出来的.解释就是先知硬是把逻辑外真理由值转为关系.借设计师的手创造了Smith这个可怕的负数.(我为什么在这里用”可怕”形容Smith呢?我和他一样的哲学啊!)
Neo: What if I can't stop him?
Oracle: One way or another, Neo, this war is going to end. Tonight, the future of both worlds will be in your hands... or in his.
我找来的中英文版本,希望你能喜欢
第一部真的很好看,炫酷的动作,紧凑的剧情。科技的发展到极致反而给人类带来无尽的灾难,为了使人类摆脱电脑的奴役而奋斗,很是高大上。
到了第二部简直就是灾难,剧情堪称弱智,敢死队听从神婆的指引(不告诉他们为什么,只管去就行了)杀到了目的地,发现被耍了,这里并没有打败电脑的方法。人类的灭亡注定了(别白忙活了),不过你可以带走几个人类回去繁衍后代。主角不干,离开。天啊,这是什么弱智剧情啊(打斗场面虽然华丽的一塌糊涂,但完全是为了打斗而打斗啊,瞎忙活什么呢)。为了让结局看起来比较完整,就让主角救活一次女主角吧,展现一下主角的高大上。草草结束。
第二部的剧情是不知所谓,第三部的剧情简直就是不堪。电脑攻击人类的大本营,摧枯拉朽。主角说你们回去防守,我去电脑大本营去(我也不知道干嘛,别问我,我只管去,给我一艘飞船)。到了地方跟电脑谈判,一是你现在杀了我然后干掉人类大本营,然后病毒会干掉你。二是我来干掉病毒,咱们不打了,和平。电脑同意,主角干掉病毒,然后。。。就是和平。看到这简直要吐血了,解救人类免于电脑奴役的高大上理想主义呢?英雄主义呢?不管了,咱干不过丫的,休战,咱要和平。。。。。为了让结局显得没那么不堪,电脑老大虚伪的同意被奴役的人类自愿的可以离开。。。。(根据第一部的剧情,人类是电脑的能量源,离开了人类电脑关机)休战了意味着电脑放过人类大本营,你们丫敢死队也别来我电脑这闹了(根据第一部剧情,被奴役的人类要想离开首先得有外部的人进来告诉丫真相,然后吃下特制药丸,现在敢死队不来了,你丫真相都不知道更别提药丸了,反正电脑是不会给你的,傻啊,你们都走了老子没电关机啊)
许多人自以为是的强调后两部其实探讨的是哲学问题,完全是瞎胡扯(糊弄下小孩还可以,本大人从小接触西方哲学·,逻辑推理,克里希那穆提,佛教金刚成也有所涉猎,别以为说话说一半含含糊糊就能叫哲学,那是骗小孩呢)。
回归电影本身,电影终归是讲故事,你可以使用炫酷的影音,高能的拍摄技巧,让观众在赏心悦目,欲罢不能的过程中听你讲完整个剧本。归根结底剧本,故事本身才是硬菜。后两部完全舍本逐末,就算你单挑群殴军团作战,打足一个钟头,在整个故事里也就是短短的一个情节——打斗。
我认为,黑客帝国,在我心里就是代表的第一步,好看的动作片。后两部就是另外两个不相干的故事,拖沓冗长,看得人索然无味如同嚼蜡。而且对白半半拉拉含含糊糊,还总让观众费神猜谜(就电影来说,再复杂的内容都以让观众看得简单易懂为荣,毕竟讲故事,讲一半掖一半以搞晕观众为目的的手法只是为了掩盖剧情的苍白)。


