昆西四季

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《約翰‧伯格的四季肖像》由四個短片構成，並以英國作家約翰伯格本人的話語以及其作品帶出每一章節的主題，這是身為好友的仙女演員蒂妲絲雲頓替他拍的作品，除了她登場之外，她的雙胞胎兒女夏維耶與安納也出演本片，四個短片風格各異， 然而說的都是對於生活與生命的反思。

第一個短片裡，我們可以看到的是蒂妲絲雲頓與約翰‧柏格這兩個同一天生日的人在冰天雪地圍繞的小屋子內，一邊談論彼此的父親，一邊作蘋果派，這是一個很好的開頭，因為無論是蒂妲絲雲頓或是約翰伯格的嗓音都非常好聽，搭配上悠揚的配樂，我第一個想法是，能夠在冬天這樣與朋友聚在一起這樣聊天，又或者甚麼都不說，真是人間享受，約翰伯格幫蒂妲絲雲頓畫了自畫像，而蒂妲絲雲頓則朗誦了約翰伯格之前所寫的詩《自畫像》，在寒冬的襯托之下，兩人一起完成的蘋果派吃起來更加美味。

第二個短片是關於動物與死亡的，在不久之後，蒂妲絲雲頓的一雙子女拜訪約翰伯格時，他深愛的妻子貝佛利去世了，於是政治的討論被擱置，而約翰伯格從死亡談到動物，因為死亡將人與人隔絕開來，而動物將人與其他動物隔絕開來。約翰伯格複誦著如咒語般的「每只獅子都曾是『獅子』、每只公牛都曾是『公牛』」年輕的約翰伯格在陳舊的影像裡，從農村生活談論某種語言所賦予家畜的永恆性，對於海德格強調的以人為本的此在，約翰伯格表示懷疑，人是刻意把自己與他人及動物中隔絕出來的，透過語言，人們迴避了動物對人的凝視，而動物最終也將遷徙回方舟，只留下人類。

第三個短片是關於當代政治以及絕望，夥同一眾知識份子，約翰伯格談到的是當代政治人物的不負責任，以及投機金融份子對世界的危害，而同時在這部短片內也交雜人民們的集體勞作以及歌聲，可以說左派風格十足，然而歌聲中並沒有悲傷，而是奮勇。約翰伯格認為這個時代歌曲的傳頌比過去更有效，眾人談論故事的形式，然而略諷刺的是影片後段，人民的聲音作為背景音，這一伙知識份子在木屋內暢飲，而為了平衡這影像，隨後的談話裡，約翰伯格重提勞動的重要性，只有勞動才能真正融入土地，只有勞動，才能讓人既見證，也在場。

第四個短片是雙胞胎先去見約翰伯格在巴黎美麗的家，然後他們又去見了約翰伯格的兒子，他也住在鄉間，並與父親一樣充滿對土地自然的敏感，他說父親一直以來都沒有「家鄉」，除了母親，而當母親死了，他更缺乏「家鄉」了，影片後段，他們如約翰伯格要求的一起去採了覆盆子吃來紀念貝佛利。

第一段是Tilda和伯格的老友记，说到了同天生日和同为军人子女，借由自己家庭经历讲人类经验传递“历史从不自断舌根”。致敬Ways of Seeing

第二段讲人类与动物的观照（恰遇伯格妻子逝世），其中有名与实、语言与存在的问题，一头狮子曾是狮子，引德里达说“我所是的动物”，对它者的探讨，语言（不通）是人与动物之间的一道深渊，海德格尔说语言是存在之屋人通过语言预知死亡然后向死而生，伯格说别闹啦我们作为会死的动物去说动物不理解死亡不是很可笑么。

第三段讲政治与叙事，自由主义经济失败但是意识形态输出成功，以至于毫无alternative，左翼要集合力量，资深老左伯格发问：well在地狱里我们才需要团结，天堂里，不存在的，不是吗？大家尬笑。红色歌曲蒙太奇。

第四段回归昆西乡野，用镜头语言讲人如何生活在自然中，伯格说在乡野你总是有一个horizon，四季不是降临在你身上，而是与你共生inhabit。钢琴配乐new age风。

总结：相约昆西，伯格的哲学课。

●所有照片都是造访的一种方式，或是缺席的一种表达。

●我觉得我们好像前世就认识或共事过，约好在此世相遇，在同一车站下车，但没有商量好时间。

●每头狮子既属于狮群又独立存在，每头牛归于牛类又个性分明。动物被支配同时也被崇拜，这可能是首个存在主义二元论。

●不确定感和希望有关联。

●纵向的连续性：我们生活在一个可以无限延展的时代，但在昆西小镇，这种延展是纵向的，尽头是死亡。

●只要你懂得倾听，故事会不断向你涌来。

● 很简单地，当你踩下油门，你的机车飞驰出去。顺着你的视线望去，每当遇到障碍物，找到这根线，你会知道你要去向哪里。

这部电影由Tilda Swinton等人制作和执导，以独特的方式呈现了伯杰的思想、艺术和政治观点。它结合了纪录片镜头、访谈、艺术作品和旧有素材，为观众提供了对伯杰思想和生活的深入了解。

评论家普遍对《The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger》持有积极评价。他们赞扬了电影对伯杰复杂人物的深入描绘，以及它通过四个季节的呈现，展示了伯杰与自然环境的紧密联系。电影还探讨了艺术创作、政治意识和人类关系等主题。

然而，作为一部纪录片，观影体验可能因个人对伯杰和他的作品的兴趣程度而有所不同。如果你对约翰·伯杰的思想和艺术感兴趣，这部电影可能会为你提供一个有洞察力和引人入胜的视角 //baidu.com 在这里可以看到最新电影//baidu.com

再看《昆西四季》，被片中更多的片段打动。对最近一段时间的自己启发很大，记录于此。

·战争的沉默

I mean, there’s one specific kind of silence which I personally struggled with, which is the idea of not talking to one’s children about such... possibly the inability to hand this on. You know, we talk a lot about handing experience on, “standing on each other’s shoulders”, and so the idea of your experience kind of being cauterized, and not handing it on to your children, such as my father’s generation. That silence is what I’m talking about.… And I suppose that they would say, “well, we fought so that we wouldn’t have to talk to our children about it, we fought so that our children wouldn’t know. But, “history cannot have its tongue cut out.”It doesn’t really work, that silence, because the curiosity and the need to know is still there. And they need to learn. It is not the going into battle that I find most difficult to imagine, it is coming back from battle.

The resistance of the word “inconsequential”. “To protest is to refuse being reduced to a zero and to an enforced silence. Our protests by building a barricade, taking up arms, going on a hunger strike, linking arms, shouting ,and writing, in order to save the present moment, whatever the future holds.”

·叙事，信息，与现代性

And each lion was lion, each ox was ox.

For me, a storyteller is like a passer. I mean that’s very like somebody gets contraband across the frontier. I mean, stories come to you all the time, if you listen if you listen, if you listen.

One of the features of our time is that people worship ideas. And objects, but ideas particularly. Quite arbitrary, without really understanding their meaning. I mean, take modern art. The idea of modernity, this is the criteria by which people judge things without really enquiring what makes things modern, if the thing is really modern.

I think the idea of information is power, that just more information informs a public has been disproved, right? I mean that is to say that the war crimes of the Bush administration or whatever, are just there in plain sight. But it was kind of like when you have such of this excess of information that isn’t organized, it just all becomes a kind of noise... And people are bored like there is too much of it.

In the monopolistic religions, there is this notion of Heaven and Hell. Different interpretations but these two categories. And it’s worth asking the question are the following: It’s in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven, isn’t it?

The two things about John’s work that will always make me think of him as a political artist that really matters now, is that While there is a commitment-an unwavering commitment to a recognition of the hell that surrounds us and the need for solidarity, there is also an openness and attention to the sensual world that never goes away. It isn’t just baleful, it isn’t just suffering or despairing that even though it can lead to more suffering in a certain way, there is a commitment, a total commitment to being alive to the possibility of contingency and experience in the moment. The other thing is , even though there’s a commitment to talking about, preserving or memorializing or at least having a memory of modes of life and experience that have passed away, there is no nostalgia. And that, to me, is a big difference between the possibility of a kind of left storytelling and the Tea Party dressing up with historically inaccurate Revolutionary costumes. So that there’s a commitment to the possibilities of the world before us, in a sensory, sensual, libidinal, neurotic way, ’cause those energies have to be harnessed for the political. And there’s a commitment to memory and having a relationship to the dead that never degenerates into the seduction of nostalgia.

·乡村

Just as with the Internet and web, people live in an endlessly extensive present moment, with collections of the present absolutely unimaginable a little while ago. I mean, enormous extension, positive and negative in this way. But it is of the instant, but it’s as if were geographic and spatial. In the contry, and in a village like Quincy, that extension is vertical, and it’s to do with time. And that’s where the dead take prop. And the idea of children is not only all the natural reasons, but also a question of that continuity, that vertical continuity.

Interesting that for a peasant, the way he reads the landscape is completely different than ours, in the sense that what we would find, like a beautiful landscape, he could find beautiful equally, but for other reasons. That’s to say, the beauty would come from the value of the work that has been put into that landscape, which has shaped that landscape. Detail reveals something of the work done of it.

In the country where you are so open, and some kind of horizon is always there, you’re never shut in. Because you are open, every season has its particularities, some of which you like. In other words, a season isn’t something that befalls you, it is something that you inhabit.

在看完他的纪录片《观看之道》之后，被他的智慧所吸引，想更了解这个人而买了这本书——《我们在此相遇》。

看一本书，就像是远远走来一个人，你嗅到了他身上独特的气味，然后你一步步深入去了解他，被他的睿智所吸引。

就是这个老爷子，成功引起了牛叔的关注。

他年轻的时候当过画家、教过书、当过艺术批评家、写的小说还获过大奖提名。放在现在，就是大家常说的“斜杠青年”。

有人说他很激进，在纪录片《观看之道》里，他的一番言论颠覆了很多人的常识。

他吸引我的地方在于他自身独立的思考。

我们在美术馆或者纪录片里欣赏艺术作品时，约翰·伯格在纪录片里的这种批判性的眼光可以作为借鉴。大致可以归纳为：

1、摄影的普及，让绘画作品随处可见。因为观看地点的变化，我们对于画的看法也会发生变化。

伯格用裁纸刀从波提切利的名画《维纳斯与马尔斯》切割下维纳斯的头像，并宣布:脱离画幅的维纳斯头像，可以仅仅是一幅少女肖像。

2、艺术纪录片或者书本在鼓吹绘画真品如何之好。而伯格认为只有除掉围绕着艺术的虚假的神秘性和强烈的信仰感，它才会显出真相。

3、画是无声静止的，而现代人通过声音和动画篡改了画的原本意义。

不过，伯格在最后说道：“但在最后，我所说，所展示的一切，和其他通过现代复制技术展示及谈论的东西一样，必须由你自己来评判。”

在观看时，他带着你一起思考，观看完之后，他又把思考的主动权抛给你。

蒂尔达拍的这部《昆西四季》，还原了一个晚年的伯格，思维依然清晰。

从70年代开始约翰·伯格和妻子Beverly“隐居”到阿尔卑斯山脚下的昆西小镇。

他回忆起自己的父亲，眼睛里有闪烁的泪光：

“吃早饭时，他会取一只苹果，然后削皮，然后一切四份，挨个削皮，先把苹果核取出来，然后把果皮削下，然后他会把苹果放在盘子的前方给我吃。”

在院子里有去世的妻子Beverly亲手种下的树莓，是她生前最爱。他对两个年轻人说：

“我想让你们去摘树莓，摘一大碗树莓，送给你想送的人，然后，如果你们喜欢，从中取两小碗树莓，如果喜欢就加糖和奶油。然后找一张Beverly的照片，把她放在那里，然后在一旁吃树莓。因为你们的快乐会带给她快乐。”