
想必很多人和我一样,被最后一句话“看看那些被浪费的空间 look at all that wasted space”搞得五味杂陈。而这最后一句话里“那些被浪费的空间”正呼应了片名“负空间 negative space”。
要搞清楚片子的含义,我觉得要先看看片名“负空间”,什么是“负空间”呢,引用维基百科的解释“Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. .”简单理解就是主体周围的空间,在片中最后棺材里就是父亲之外的空间。
男主为何对棺材不满意呢,第一层理解就是棺材太空了,没有满,而小时候父亲的技巧是可以有条不紊的把所有东西都放进行李箱。而“我”(以下全用第一人称表示男主)甚至比我妈妈打包的还要好。某种程度上说明我比我妈妈还要懂我爸爸,或者说是我和我爸爸心有灵犀,互相了解。所以看到空空的棺材,我感到别人都不懂我爸爸,也就是来吊唁的人和我爸都不是真爱,不是真的亲情,比如有人就吃起了点心(不截图了)。
第二层理解是我还是有点抱怨父亲对我的陪伴有点少,这里父亲对我缺失的陪伴就是“被浪费的空间”,从影片中可以看到,我父亲常年出差,直到12岁,我帮父亲打包时身边还有一辆玩具出租车,也就是我的童年对父亲的印象就是“打包-出租车”的连线,虽然我的打包受到了父亲的肯定“perfect,means a lot”,可这个“a lot”里也包含了我对父亲的爱的渴望。就像小时候“爸爸把我放进行李箱”一样,无法时刻把你捧在手心里(搞怪玩笑脸)。
第三层理解,陪伴与传承。虽然我有点小抱怨,可这是因为太爱了。表面上我看到的是负空间negative space,心底里你是我的positive space啊,你从打包的艺术中教会了我人生的道理(感觉我开始说大话了),你虽然离去,但我已继承了你的衣钵。
最后品味一下美国诗人Ron Koertge的同名散文诗,也是影片台词。(有点想到了《父亲写的散文诗》)
My dad taught me to pack: lay out everything. Put back half. Roll things that roll. Wrinkle-prone things on top of cotton things. Then pants, waist-to-hem. Nooks and crannies for socks. Belts around the sides like snakes. Plastic over that. Add shoes. Wear heavy stuff on the plane.
We started when I was little. I'd roll up socks. Then he'd pretend to put me in the suitcase, and we'd laugh. Some guys bond with their dads shooting hoops or talking about Chevrolets. We did it over luggage. By the time I was twelve, if he was busy, I'd pack for him. Mom tried but didn't have the knack. He'd get somewhere, open his suitcase and text me—"Perfect." That one word from him meant a lot.
The funeral was terrible—him laid out in that big carton and me crying and thinking, Look at all that wasted space.
