葛洛莉亚·贝尔

渐渐老去的葛洛丽亚开始尝试追求自己的生活遇到一个单身男人阿诺德，但他们的感情生活却因为过去的种种羁绊始终牵扯着，葛洛丽亚最终离开了阿诺德，接受自己的独身生活。 像这样纯粹讲人的电影，《葛洛丽亚贝尔》的生活细节其实谈不上多好。但是涉及的情感很有趣。无论是渐渐老去后，葛洛丽亚对新生活的“试探”态度，还是性格古怪有些玻璃心又担当不足的可怜男人阿诺德，都是立足在即将退休年龄段的人，探讨他们的生活。 电影表达很有趣，整部电影很围绕家庭。这些已经离子女越来越远的人，他们自己的生活却始终和子女联系在一起。而最终的落点上，导演竟然要说的是没有必要去追求什么自己的生活。有趣的同时，也有些令人不满意，只是没落俗而已，给出的答案也不怎么样。

I'd like to be a nest, if you were a little bird.

I'd like to be a scarf, if you were a neck and were cold.

If you were music, I'd be an ear.

If you were water, I'd be a glass.

If you were light, I'd be an eye.

If you were a foot, I'd be a sock.

And if you were the sea, I'd be a beach.

And if you were still the sea, I'd be a fish, and I'd swim in you.

And if you were the sea, I'd be salt.

And if I were salt, you'd be lettuce, an avocado or at least a fried egg.

And if you were a fried egg, I'd be a piece of bread.

And if I were a piece of bread, you'd be butter or jam.

And if you were jam, I'd be the peach in the jam.

If I were a peach, you'd be a tree.

And if you were a tree, I'd be your sap, and I'd course through your arms like blood.

And if I were blood, I'd live in your heart.

原版大妈凭此片力擒柏林金熊最佳女演员，欧洲三大电影节最佳女主大满贯得主、文艺片女神摩尔不会不留意到这部智利影片。我想她一定是太喜欢这部小题材的片子了，所以才会把智利导演Sebastián Lelio请到美国，几乎是原样（连大多数机位、对白）不动翻拍了此片。

我是几年前先看的智利版，看过美版后，虽然觉得摩尔很努力，但还是觉得新拍的美版比智利版整体上逊色不少。要说有先入之见，肯定在所难免。

对比两版，比较明显的改动有两处，都在片尾，原版大妈是和渣男主到海滨豪华宾馆度假，美版改成了拉斯维加斯这座内陆城市。原版大妈在男主不告而别后自暴自弃，大清早在海滩上衣冠不整地醒来，发现自己被劫财劫色那份促急那份狼狈，刻画得十分到位；美版因为没有海滩，改成了拉斯维加斯某酒店泳池边醒来，会让观众感觉有些莫名其妙（因为她原本就在酒店度假），情绪上的冲击力小了很多。原版在表现男欢女爱时的尺度也远超美版！！！老男人也露点了！！！

最重要的改动，新版片尾部分少了一个原版里的极其重要情节：一只在夜里孤独开屏绽放自己美丽的白孔雀！！！原版大妈路过它时怔怔盯着它看了好一会，千言万语尽在不言中，实在是点睛之笔！这才他妈的是电影！！！难道在米国找一只作为道具的白孔雀很难么？！只能呵呵了。

其实摩尔的演技不输原版。但无奈摩尔比起原版大妈太过年轻漂亮了（虽然她们实际上是同龄人，都是1960年出生！），像她这样的妙人儿居然沦落到渔场求泡的地步，这就让角色有点缺乏说服力了，不如原版外表沧桑的大妈来得真实。在这部片里摩尔的美丽毁掉了她的所有努力。

最后说一下片尾出现的神曲，Gloria，真的也是影片另一处神来之笔。记得当初看原版电影时，从片头部分出现那些舞池disco音乐开始，我就隐约觉着这片子会不会和那首歌扯上点关系，结果最后当那首熟悉的旋律轰然响起时，我真是忍不住泪崩了！这首歌并不是本片原创，而是1980年代一首由美国女歌手Laura Branigan翻唱的意大利歌曲。Laura Branigan的翻唱比原唱更为成功，不仅登上Billboard单曲榜第二名，还红遍全世界，成为她的招牌名曲。在智利版的电影Gloria中，出现的就是意大利歌手Umberto Tozzi的原唱。不过我建议大家听Laura Branigan在2004重新制作的舞曲混音版（应该是重唱的），虾米音乐上有，比原版更燃。美版采用的其他流行曲也比智利版的更有亲和力，毕竟我们都是听英文歌长大的一代。（blog.sina.com.cn/gogoboyz , weibo.com/gogoboyz)

人活到這個年紀，絕對是美的。

喜歡跳舞的Gloria，當她被問到：你一直都是這麼開心的嗎？那個笑容，很美。如果我們一直在追求快樂，那是不是表示我們其實不快樂？這電影給了一個相對嚴肅的開場。

接著回到生活中，看似什麼都有、又覺得什麼都沒有、抑或不確定自己有沒有的那種矛盾心情，是這個電影的第二個提問。每個人生階段都有角色的過渡時期，工作漸漸穩定了、身邊也曾有過幾個對象、有能力去到自己想去的地方，再來呢？工作的意義是為生活、生活的意義在親密關係中被磨光了、想去的地方漸漸變成了逃避生活的去處...

沒有答案。

帶著自己再次邂逅的愛情去參加曾經用心用情組建的家庭的聚會，究竟是重視還是輕視？有些事還真的不能隨著性子。態度大方其實底子是殘忍的，可能就是不在意，但若是刻意大方，就是對自己殘忍了，往往還以反效果收場。

再說到故事裡的女主，兩次接受那個無法擺脫前妻和女兒的男人，究竟什麼心態？有點感情閱歷後，都知道天底下沒有什麼完美情人，隨著越是飛快的生活步調，當下能對得上眼、還說得上話，已是上天垂憐的福報，假如還有更多一點，大概就是對愛情的信仰和貪戀吧，食色性也！

我就是Gloria Bell，看完電影心裡暖暖的，因為我們都跟她一樣在生活裡來回不斷的試錯，沒有人真正知道自己要走去哪，至少我不知道。或許能說這樣的話很幸運，因為有很多人連生活都沒過明白，根本無心思考這種不是問題的問題...

不斷的嘗試需要很大的勇氣。

最後那段在賭城放縱自己過後打電話給媽媽，像小女孩一樣的被拎回家，讓我一瞬間眼淚在眼眶打轉，可以不要勇敢、不要逞強，大概就是我現在最想要的事了，當頭棒喝。

生活會失敗，有人會抱抱你、讓你有力量再試，會開心，因為知道多容易失敗、失敗有多痛，就會更珍惜能夠開心的時候。我們都是這樣慢慢堅強的，直到有力量給予別人支持的時候，深怕他們走過自己曾經走過的路，卻也深知必須放手讓他們也有嘗試、有失敗，才會有更多的開心。

Hollywood has a rapacious appetite of remaking other country’s cinematic gems to cater to stateside Anglophone audience, but Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s GLORIA BELL is not the case, firstly, this reimagining of his own GLORIA (2013) is directed by himself, secondly, the whole production comes to fruition by way of a “you dare, I dare” challenge between him and Julianne Moore, who is very much impressed by GLORIA and will only take on the role if Lelio returns to the director’s chair, so mutually connected through a deep feeling of camaraderie (epithets like woman-empowering, genderqueer, etc.), GLORIA BELL is here to stay.

For those who have watched GLORIA, GLORIA BELL is an almost entirely shot-by-shot remake which transposes the story from Santiago, Chile to L.A.. Moore plays our titular middle-aged divorcée, who is a habitué of sundry nightspots for patronage of certain age, she loves to dance and hang loose, not ashamed of seeking carnal knowledge when she feels up to it, which mirrors a realistic situation when one has independence in one hand, loneliness often materializes in another. When one night she sets her eyes on Arnold (Turturro) on the dance floor, some spark is kindled.

A relatively new divorcé (merely one year compared to Gloria’s 12), Arnold apparently has baggages to junk before he can totally commit to a new relationship, which causes embarrassment and discord during their inchoate romance. What is quite inconceivable is his penchant of taking a powder whenever he sees fit, regardless of the circumstances, and a free-spirited Gloria has to fall victim twice of his self-serving act (admittedly, attending a birthday party of your new girlfriend’s son, with her ex-husband also presented, is quite a daunting experience, but the second one in Las Vegas is plumb inexcusable), until a salvo of paintballs unleashes her suppressed wrath and Gloria is back dancing, unwinds and beams when the eponymous song GLORIA pipes up in a wedding.

The comparison of the two heroines is ineluctable, in GLORIA, Paulina García has a more aw-shucks front to dissimulate her insecurity and the hunger for physical intimacy, here Moore is more proactive and indeed, more poised to map out her no-holds-barred investment in Gloria’s entire emotional spectrum, and it goes without saying, a bespectacled Moore emanates greater sex appeal that eloquently validates that a woman’s charisma is irrelevant of her age, whether immersing herself under the becoming bisexual lights or bitterly realizing that her hankering is a castle in Spain (very literally), she is magnificent from stem to stern, in a rare showcase where she is the cynosure of almost every single shot. As for John Turturro, who also ups the ante in portraying Arnold in a more sympathetically halting and charming manner, albeit his immaturity and callousness, one can understand why a woman like Gloria falls for him (poems are the best aphrodisiac), all he needs is to grow a pair.

On the face of it, the film feels despondent, but Lelio intelligently inputs many occasions of female solidarity here, the interaction between Gloria and her co-worker Melinda (a cameo from the legendary German actress Barbara Sukowa), her friend Vicky (Wilson, Mrs. Tom Hanks), her daughter Anne (Pistorius), her mother Hillary (Taylor), she even shares a chummy conversation about weed with Fiona (Tripplehorn), the new wife of her ex, all contributes a sense of communion among women, they understand each other, the problem lies in the other sex (Sean Astin has a wordless cameo just to cop a feel and make out with Moore).

Still, one cannot dissipate the faintly ill feeling that Lelio opts for uniformity in terms of burrowing into a marvelous character for the second time, which precludes a rating higher than its original, that said, there is no way (at least for this reviewer) to resist a lip-synching Moore lives the best version of Gloria with a candid face and a brisk attitude, let up a bit, to all the Glorias in the world!

referential entries: Lelio’s GLORIA (2013, 7.8/10), A FANTASTIC WOMAN (2017, 7.7/10), DISOBEDIENCE (2017, 7.2/10).

有个精神病般的邻居，无比暴躁，整天乱嚎，甚至乱敲门，而自己只能叫天天不灵，叫地地不应，惨。不过也不是一无是处，留给自己一包大麻，日后苦闷无处消解，唯以解闷。

有个一起骂过街的好同事好闺密，结果被辞退了，可能也是看到了自己未来的可能性，惨。

儿女双全，却各自有自己的生活，与老妈渐行渐远；女儿找了个搞极限运动的，自己老操心了不说，结果还远嫁瑞典，在机场女儿不让送，一个人痛哭流涕，惨；有个仿佛单亲爸爸一般的儿子，儿媳神神秘秘，神龙见首不见尾，自己想搭把手好像也不怎么讨喜。

前夫已经另觅良缘，没想到在给儿子庆生的聚会上，跟自己还有点儿藕断丝连之感。

在酒吧出入多时，好不容易碰到一个走肾也走心的离异大叔，结果被其前妻和两个女儿折腾得不行，也是巧，每次要搞点儿事，正在兴头之时必被搅乱。情绪最为崩溃之时，肉体也彻底崩溃，在赌城彻底堕落，梦醒时分还得辛苦年迈的老妈前来收拾残局。回家之后，仿佛被掏空，待在家里放飞自我。彻底厌倦了，不管大叔怎么死缠烂打也不再走心，最终跟自己和解了，掏出定情之物对着大叔一顿 piupiupiu 斩断情缘。

始于酒吧舞曲，终于婚宴舞曲，仿佛一场梦。

可能是个好电影，但这种充满主创个人表达的电影实在不和我的口味，大概是为数不多我在电影院里看的有 N 次中途离场冲动的电影了。