17 January 2010

從上班族 解讀 城市

剛看了華麗上班族之生活與生存。

我承認,我對這部舞台劇感興趣純粹是基於很膚淺的理由:鄭元暢、張艾嘉、王耀慶、很漂亮的服裝、很漂亮的海報。所以當同行友人告訴我((別人))說很悶,我還有點擔心有否選擇錯誤。

結過當然慶幸自己有在它重演時看了。

雖然有劇評認為最近影視明星參演舞台劇太多了,不過作為觀眾的,只求看得精采,所以不覺有太大問題。更何況張艾嘉本身就是個很厲害的演員,由<心動>到<20.30.40>,她似乎都愛演一些很有故事的中年女性;她在舞台上的演出,就好像現場看她拍電影一樣。而且整套舞台劇的編排、一些感情上的細膩描寫,都讓我感覺較像一套台灣電影。

題外話的是又令我想起台北了,雖然,現在的台北、香港、上海、倫敦等等,也變得一樣。所以無論面對那一個地方的觀眾,也會引起大家的共鳴吧。

尤其看著李想(鄭元暢飾),他飾演的上班族菜鳥,代表了新世代的社會新鮮人,也就是我,又或者最近鬧得熱鬨鬨的八十後。(喔喔先不談我們這群八十後,最近新聞上過份濫用這詞語了,加上莫名其妙出現的四五六七十後,只令我感到社會被弄得亂七八糟。)鄭元暢於劇中的定位有點像幾年前吳彥祖在快樂王子的演出。當然很帥,除此之外我覺得由他來演這隻菜鳥也很適合,李想所想的,也許是許多華麗上班族背後的無奈吧;在張艾嘉及王耀慶演得讓人緊張的演出時,李想與琪琪等也起了緩和氣氛的作用。尤其城市裡的人已經太沉重了,實在要有點輕鬆的成份比較好。

還有,我想尋找這張海報(白色那張也很喜歡)。

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7 January 2010

A year has passed. A decade has passed.

A "new year" doesn't mean too much for me now. When you get older, the 365 days actually occupy a tiny portion of your entire life, so why cares? I spent the day (and night) with my DVDs and my bed (surprisingly not even my computer!) and believe it or not, this is the best holiday ever!
Perhaps it's too late to write the so-called "Review of 2009", but indeed it has been a significant year. Trips X3 (Hokkaido, Taipei and Tokyo!!); Graduation; Master; Quit a job and get a job etc...and I did achieve some of my resolutions. Probably I should make 10 or more this year, so at least I will finish one or two!
Noting that it's also an end of a decade. This would probably be my "golden 10 years" as it went through my secondary school to now, a postgraduate and a complete adult. It was the period of uncertainty since it was full of changes, and I would treasure the memories cause I knew the next 10 years could be so boring, sitting in the office and doing the same work again and again. Somehow I would never want to get to it too soon, but most likely in less than half year I will be joining the group! Thanks to the people and things that appeared in the past decade, I hope in the next ten years, I would still be able to achieve the little dream inside my mind...