潮湿弥漫与南方影像--一个地缘文化视域下的观察

The Southern Images Shrouded in Dampness:An Observation from a Geo⁃Cultural Perspective

中国一般以秦岭-淮河一线作为南北方的分界。从地图上看,中国的南方区域大致上与中国的亚热带季风气候区重叠,于是,潮湿成为南方区域地缘意义上的最大公约数。银幕上的南方影像,可谓潮湿弥漫。影像建构上,潮湿与液体、废墟产生勾连;叙事形态上,文艺片侧重以“醒着做梦”的方式表现人物的幻想与梦魇,而强调犯罪类型的影片则通过时空嵌合的穿插叙事彰显迷雾色彩,恰与南方的潮湿神秘相得益彰;文化意义上,南方影像的潮湿美学以克制、平静的姿态表达解构和疏离的倾向,并以去现实化的诗性表达将个体的沉沉暮气与时代的怀旧症候相互关联,透露出特定社会阶段的郁结氛围。

China takes the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River as the dividing line between the north and the south generally.The southern region of China overlaps with the subtropical monsoon climate region of China roughly on maps.Therefore,Dampness becomes the largest common divisor in the geographical sense of the southern region.In recent years,Southern Images on the screen can be described as moist and diffuse.In terms of image construction,the attributes of dampness are connected with liquid,ruins;in terms of narrative form,art films focus on expressing the fantasy and nightmare of the characters in a“dreaming awake”manner,while crime films emphasize the fog color by mean of the interspersed narration of time and space,which perfectly aligns with the dampness and mystery of the south;in the sense of cul⁃ture,the moist aesthetics of southern images expresses the tendency of deconstruction and alienation in a restrained and calm manner and relates individual pessimism with nostalgic symptoms of the times in a poetic expression of de-realization,thus revealing the gloomy mood of the specific social stages.