景观都市与浪漫爱情:近年来中国电影中的上海想象

Metropolis as Spectacle and Romantic Love--Imagining Shanghai in Recent Chinese Films

美丽的都市景观与浪漫的爱情故事,共同构成了近年来中国电影中的上海想象。就其视觉呈现而言,电影通过景观的集中“框取”,将上海展示为一个美丽、时尚又现代的国际大都会形象,却不见城市的历史记忆、文化底蕴和日常生活,这一表象化的景观上海遮蔽了城市的多样性和地方性;就其爱情叙事而言,在这浪漫主义已然失落的时代,电影通过赏心悦目的恋爱情境以及“分离/等待”的叙事策略赋予“浪漫”以新的认知和表现形式,而这种对浪漫话语的重构实是基于现代都市生活的消费逻辑、理性法则和认同需求。这一上海想象所承载的恰是中国青年观众对于现代都市生活的憧憬。

Beautiful metropolis landscape and romantic love story have established the Shanghai imagination together in recent Chinese films.In terms of visual presentation,through the concentrated framing of the landscape,the films present Shanghai as a beautiful,fashionable and modern international metropolis image.However,its historical memory and cultural heritage are not showed,and the daily life of citizens is also invisible.Thus,only a superficial spectacle of Shanghai is presented.In terms of love narrative,the films give a new form of cognition and expression to romance through fantastic love scene and the narrative strategy of separation/wait in this era of losing romanticism.This reconstruction of romance discourse is actually based on the consumption logic,rational rule and identity needs of modern urban life.This Shanghai imagination has exactly undertaken the expectation of young Chinese audience for urban modern life.