垂直上海的五级分层:对五部上海题材青春电影的空间分析

Five Vertical Levels of Shanghai:A Spatial Analysis of Five Shanghai-Subject Youth Films

在五部当代上海题材的青春电影中,可发现垂直化上海的五层都市空间,即天台、写字楼、高架路、石库门和地下空间,对每层空间的文化品格和艺术品格均可进行指证。其中以天台为主要故事空间的《上海公园》呈现了青年一代的不切实际和自我封闭;以写字楼为主要故事空间的《大城小事》则呈现了中产阶级居高临下的虚假性;以高架路为故事空间的《夜.上海》提供了两个层级之间过于理想化的沟通方案;《美丽新世界》现实主义地呈现了社会底层大众进入并安居城市的欲求与阻力;《苏州河》则在呈现地下空间罪恶常态的同时也蕴含了丰富的想像力和多种可能性。

This essay,taking five youth films about contemporary Shanghai as the study cases,gives an interpretation of five vertical levels of Shanghai＇s urban space,that is,roof tops,business offices,elevated roads,stone-ringed doors and underground rooms,and provides an argument of the cultural character and artistic quality of each space.On the one hand,Shanghai Park tells a story mainly happening on the roof top,showing the impracticality and self-containment of young generations;on the other hand,Leaving Me,Loving You,most of which is shot in the business office,displays the hypocrisy of middle classes when they are looking down upon the city.At the same time,The Longest Night in Shanghai,whose main location is on an elevated road,presents a utopian solution to the communication between two different classes.What＇s more,A Beautiful New World depicts the desire and difficulty of the underclass to immigrate into the city.And Suzhou River implies the possibility and imagination of the underground space where crimes are normal.