電影中的「戲劇」和「現實」是虛與實的對比,是在CK劇本的特色(所謂“Kaufmanesque blurring of art and life”)。電影發展下去,Caden的劇作逐漸深入Caden本人各方面的生活,甚至開始排演他身邊的人的生活,戲劇和真實生活的界線開始模糊。如有一幕是Caden導演扮演自己的演員Sammy「導演」其他的演員!(從星期日明報已看到有人以俄羅斯娃娃作比喻)還有如水和火的對比(Caden的家爆水管,又對女兒解釋屋子充滿pipes;Hazel則買了一幢讓她隨時葬身火海的屋子);大和小的對比(Adele那些要用放大鏡看的微型畫 vs. Caden的巨大城市模型)。
The representation of time is also intentionally confusing. On the first day, a radio announcer says it’s September 22. But Caden’s newspaper reports that Harold Pinter has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (making it October 14th, 2005), it’s Christmas when the sinks smashes Caden’s forehead, New Year’s on the ride home and March in the ophthalmologist’s office. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/faq#.2.1.7)
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it’s what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn’t really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I’ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I’ve been pretending I’m OK, just to get along, just for, I don’t know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/quotes)
“When I awake this morning, you were still asleep. As I awoke I heard you gentle breathing. I saw you closed eyes beneath wisps of stray hair and I was deeply moved. I wanted to cry out, to wake you, but you slept so deeply, so soundly. ” “In the half light you skin gloved with life so warm and sweet. I wanted to kiss it, but I was afraid to wake you. I was afraid of you awake in my arms again. Instead, I wanted to something no one could take from me, mine alone…this eternal image of you. Beyond your face I saw a pure, beautiful vision showing us in the perspective of my whole life…all the year to come, even all the years past.”
What is Pangea Day?
Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film. On May 10, 2008, live events in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked to produce a program of powerful films, live music and visionary speakers. The program will be broadcast live to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.