戏如人生的悲怆之歌——吴天明电影《变脸》《百鸟朝凤》细读

The Pathetic Song for Life Itself——Analyzing The King of Masks and Song of the Phoenix

导演吴天明的电影集中反映了西部在现代化浪潮中的挣扎、焦虑和巨大变迁。综观他执导的电影《变脸》和《百鸟朝凤》,可看出他前后期电影风格的变化,《变脸》呈现了对男权文化的批判,艺术手法精湛;《百鸟朝凤》则表现出了执导者视野的"窄"与思想的"浅",如在世界文化大融合的趋势下,影片表现更多的是对西方文化不理智的否定。

WU Tianming s movie centers on the struggle , anxiety and great changes of the west in the tide ofmodernization. The two works The King of Masks and Song of the Phoenix , which are directed by him , tease out the changes of whole movie in details. The first work The King of Masks mainly analyzes the criticism of the Patriarchal culture and the exquisite artistic achievements. The second work Song of the Phoenix discusses the limitation ofthinking , and analyzes the ^narrow” for vision , the ushallow” for thinking , tion of the whole world , these works put more irrational denials toward western cultur.