藩篱

Cory: Can I ask you a question?Troy: What the hell you wanna ask me? Mr. Stawicki the one you got the questions for.Cory: How come you ain’t never liked me?Troy: Liked you? Who the hell say I got to like you? What law is there say I got to like you? Wanna stand up in my face and ask a damn fool ass question like that. Talking about liking somebody.Come here boy, when I talk to you. .. Straighten up dammit! I asked you a question… what law is there say I got to like you?Cory: None.Troy: Well, all right then! Don’t you eat every day? (Pause) Answer me when I talk to you! Don’t you eat every day?Cory: YeahTroy: Nigga, as long as you in my house, you put that sir on the end of it when you talk to me!Cory: Yes…sirTroy: You eat every day.Cory: Yes sir!Troy: You got clothes on your back.Cory: Yes sir.Troy: Why you think that is?Cory: Cause of you.Troy: Ah, hell I know its cause of me… but why do you think that is?Cory (hesitant): Cause you like me.Troy: like you? I go out of here every morning… bust my butt putting up with them crackers everyday… ‘cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw.(Pause)It’s my job, it’s my responsibility! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house, sleep on my bedclothes, fill your belly up on my food… cause you my son.You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you!Let’s get this straight here, before it go along any further… I ain’t got to like you. Mr. Rand don’t give me my money come payday ‘cause he likes me. He gives me ‘cause he owes me. I done given you everything I had to give you. I gave you your life! Me and your mama worked that out between us. And liking your black ass wasn’t part of the bargain. Don’t you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you. You understand what I’m saying boy?Cory: Yes sir

『藩篱』起初以为是一部男人主义电影，看到后面才发现一个女人的内心足以强大到不负时间，男主角给这个家庭投下的阴影巨大，他对自我的佐证也未说服过任何人，这是一个普通家庭里的真实挣扎。

可能是话剧改编的缘故，台词过于琐碎和密集了，感觉听Danzel Washington讲了俩小时的自嗨rap，场景少的可怜，导演太沉得住气，最后半小时才让人物轮廓逐渐清晰起来，不得不说这样的处理很影响观影体验、容易掉粉。

此外，影片生活流的太彻底，以至于无论是摄影还是配乐都谈不上美感。

Viola Davis演的太好，绝对配得起一座奥斯卡小金人——“我将我所有的感觉、欲求和梦想都深埋于你，我埋下了一颗种子，悉心照料日夜祈祷，我将我自己种在你心里渴望盛开，我不到十八年就发现，你心里贫瘠困乏，沙石横流，永远都不会有开花的一天，但我还是为你坚守。

”别的不说，这句台词足够了。

这是一部怨念很深的作品，丹泽尔·华盛顿扮演的男主角，在影片中只做了一件事，那就是无休止的抱怨。

特洛伊本是一个很有天赋的棒球手，种种缘故让他没能成就一番辉煌，最后只得在匹兹堡做一名环卫工人，终日与臭气熏天的垃圾为伍。

当时美国职业棒球大联盟的种族隔离政策还未完全废除，黑人登场机会很少，这让因生活失意而内心愤愤的特洛伊，找到了一个宣泄的目标，自然而然的对号入座，将自己标榜为种族主义的受害者，宣称是种族主义毁掉了自己的一生。

而事实并非如此。

父亲的失责，让特洛伊14岁就出来闯荡社会，为了生存，他沦落为一个小偷，一次抢劫案中，特洛伊被抓入狱15年，待到出狱，他已然是个中年人，不再适合职业棒球生涯......显然，恶劣的家庭环境和自身的缺乏约束才是特洛伊前半生不幸的真正原因，种族主义并没有在他的人生中，发挥显著的作用。

对于一个人生观正确的人来说，面对如此境况，只能做两件事情，那就是认清不幸的真正原因，积极振作面对未来，但这需要睿智，更需要勇气。

特洛伊缺乏的恰恰就是勇气，毕竟抱着受害者的身份，将一切归咎于自己无法更改的肤色，要简单、舒适的多，还能为自己的过失和怯懦脱责。

正如特洛伊妻子说的那样，“碰到你搞不懂的事，你就管它叫魔鬼。

”特洛伊不愿意去弄明白自己的人生，情愿做一个能将一切话题引向种族主义，且牢骚不断的怨妇。

影片取名“藩篱”，非常妙。

它不仅仅是指特洛伊家门外的那道围栏，更隐喻了五六十年代美国族群间的隔阂，特洛伊的事件是非常典型的例子，事件本身与种族并无关，但却因为不同种族的参与，被安上种族主义的标签，反映出当时的大环境里，种族关系的紧张与敏感。

与此同时，影片更罕见的批判了黑人的这种受害者情绪：并不是所有黑人的不幸，都是种族主义造成的。

就像丹泽尔·华盛顿说的：“有些藩篱把人隔绝在外，有些藩篱把人束缚在内。

”如果说，种族歧视是白人将黑人排斥在外，那么黑人这种事事都责怪白人的思维，则是将自己围困在一个远离主流社会的牢笼里。

特洛伊便是如此，他拒绝承认时代的进步，尽管白人老板破天荒给他升了职，他阻止儿子去实现他没能达成的打球梦，尽管校队已经决定招募他儿子，他将自己的怨气，洒向家人、朋友，逼迫他们承认自己的观点——黑人肯定活不好，以此让他们与自己站在一起，去坚守这道种族的藩篱。

某种程度上，这道藩篱就是特洛伊的遮羞布，用来掩盖他怯于面对过去，更不敢面对未来的事实。

他对儿子说，“那些白人不会让你上场的，你要在他们中间取得地位，必须比他们优秀十多倍才行。

”其实，真正恐惧儿子获得成功的，正是他自己，因为儿子的成功，将会瓦解他坚守了几十年的藩篱，撕破他的遮羞布。

影片是根据著名的剧作家奥古斯特·威尔森的同名话剧改编，威尔森本身就是一个黑人，这让整个故事有了深刻的自省意义：破除种族主义，不能单方面依靠白人，改变黑人命运，更需要黑人自身的改进。

故事的最后，特洛伊发生了婚外情，还有了私生子，亲手毁了自己维系了十几年的婚姻，这一次，种族主义再也无法背锅，特洛伊的遮羞布被威尔森无情的扯去。

面对妻子声泪俱下的质问，他依然强词夺理，企图合理化自己的背叛，而事实上，他只是用堕落麻痹自我，自私的让整个家庭为自己的失意买单。

种族的藩篱正因时代的进步在逐步瓦解，而特洛伊却用自己的偏执，在自己和朋友、家人之间，制造了一道又一道的藩篱，毁了自己，也伤害了家人，儿子最终没能实现自己的梦想，妻子更是与他决裂。

最终，特洛伊以一场猝死，草草收场了自己的人生，他和他的藩篱变成了历史，特洛伊的家人这才一片祥和的望着云彩背后光芒四射的太阳。

多年来，一直有人想要把《藩篱》拍成电影，但威尔森坚持让黑人来导演，致使影片长期难产，之前我不理解这种固执，但看过影片后，我完全能理解，如果由其他族群的人来拍摄这个故事，就会变得像是外人在鞭策黑人，只有由黑人来导演，故事的自省意义，才能充分发挥。

将故事放大来看，影片这种的自我反省，其实适用于任何群体，当我们以一种群体身份进行自我认同的时候，是否也在用这种身份，架起一座藩篱，制造隔阂，转嫁自己的不如意？

比如两性之间，再如地域之间。

奥古斯特·威尔森相较于《藩篱》深刻的反省意识，去年那部同样是黑人题材的《一个国家的诞生》，就显得非常拙劣，后者像个怨妇一般，通过大量篡改历史，虚构出十恶不赦的白人和高尚完美的黑人，借此发泄对白人的一腔怨恨，最终黑人导演本身的不检点，狠狠的煽了自己一个耳光，也让影片成为了一个的笑话。

《一个国家的诞生》就是影像版的特洛伊，是低劣的。

《一个国家的诞生》由于改编自舞台剧，整个影片中的有十分明显的舞台剧痕迹，情景被严重压缩，基本锚定在特洛伊家的前门、后院，然后演员们不断的进场、退场，连篇累牍的台词替代了本应由影像来描述的剧情，整个观感比较沉闷，这是影片的一个致命伤，它本应改编的更好。

维奥拉·戴维斯由于去年奥斯卡的“太白”遭到了批评，今年黑人参与的影片大放光彩，《藩篱》顺势获得了最佳女配角，不过讲真，维奥拉·戴维斯的表演虽然精彩，但影片本身的意义更值得关注。

Two film adaptations of August Wilson’s plays, FENCES is Denzel Washington’s third sortie as a director, who also acts as the producer of MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM and is committed to bring Wilson’s CENTURY CIRCLE (10 plays in total, each takes place in one specific decade from 1900s t0 1990s) onto the screen, one-fifth has been done and long live Denzel!FENCES is set in the ‘50s Pittsburgh, about the family of Troy Maxson (Washington), a middle-aged garbage collector, whom at first glance, we reckon as a hard-working, decent family man, bantering with his chummy coworker-cum-longtime-friend Jim Bono (Henderson), living with his wife Rose (Davis), football jock son Cory (Adepo) in their own house. But in time, Troy’s defects will surface through the strife between him and Cory, his paternalistic high-handedness is too overbearing even for its time, and more so, he is an unregenerate adulterer who sires a daughter with another woman, a bolt out of the blue that pulverizes Rose.So, why should we feel sympathetic towards such a reprobate? who is grumpy, egotistic, hypocritical, macho and conceited, whose own past is rife with bad parenting, violence, theft and prison time, all attribute to his warped psyche. For one thing, Wilson’s own script (he passed away in 2005, and received sole credit for the screenplay) is teeming with dialogues that reflect the Afro-American existence that plays a significant part in molding Troy’s personality, no highfalutin wording, all down-to-earth grists, eloquently delivered by Washington firing on all cylinders, a performance irrefutably marks another apex of the star’s extraordinary career.That is another thing which makes Troy a fascinating character, his masculine pride (the anathema that feeds bigotry) is all he has to hold onto after receiving many raw deals, and only through Washington’s reeling-off, unrelieved elocution, Troy’s ignorance, insularity and self-delusion bulk large, it is painful to watch him lay into his own son like a tyrant, yet, for an illiterate, case-hardened alpha man, who has three children all from different mothers, we should be thankful that his bark is worse than his bite.Facing off an indomitable Washington, Davis isn’t cowed, albeit Rose is hemmed in the conventional angel-in-the-house bell jar, which she compensates with such seismic effusions that gooseflesh is sure to crawl all over one’s skin, also in those less vehement moments, one can always bank on her to give a piece of her mind that will bowl audience over.Still, FENCES is a ponderous entity, and its 139-minute running time does it a disservice for being repetitively prolix, several sequences should be pruned, for example, Troy’s mentally impaired brother Gabriel (Williamson) is the source of Troy’s guilt, but his presence often slows down the momentum, and who can steal his thunder from Washington and Davis? Nary a chance.

By comparison, MA RAINEY… is more efficacious for its rapier-like, confrontational stagecrafts, after a short prologue, it occurs succinctly during one afternoon of a recording session in Chicago in the ‘20s, prominent singer Ma Rainey (Davis), dubbed “Mother of the Blues”, has to put her foot down in upholding her demands in face of her pale-skin manager and producer, whereas the trumpeter of her band, Levee (Boseman), is reckless and hot-headed enough to burn his bridge and fancy striking out on his own.Sporting Ma’s oleaginous, smudgy war paint and flamboyant outfit, Davis goes for broke in the prima donna default (her singing is dubbed, right?), Ma can’t suffer gladly anyone who doesn’t bend to her biddings, neither the subservient manager Irvin (Shamos), the dour-looking producer Sturdyvant (Coyne), nor those who have the same pigmentation like hers. Being a colored woman who make good in the societal echelon, she has the clout to be nobody’s doormat, her pride festering into conceit and her pertinacious insistence of equal respect making her egocentric (giving white lickspittles a taste of their own medicine, she can also stand pat with nepotism). It is interesting that there is no love lost between Ma and Levee, under any mitigated circumstances, the pair could have hit it off and put their talents together into greater use. Yet, can’t we not relate to Ma? Anyone in her position will be none the wiser, her bluntness and high-handedness reflects how she manages to cope with a vastly unjust, racist world at large, Davis again, amps up the decibel and bulldozes any obstruction with her utterly transfixing verve and flexibility.Shall Boseman land a posthumous Oscar nomination or even a win for his lived-in incarnation of Levee, a gifted musician for sure, but also an aspirant blowhard sans any savoir faire to break out against the antagonistic milieu? The verdict is a big “yes!”, Levee is the antithesis of Ma, she has made it but he ain’t, his tragedy lies in his impatience, his arrogance and naivety, one must pay his dues to earn his entitlement. Levee is too keyed-up, hot to trot to become someone, and puts all his hope in the hands of a treacherous white man. When his hope is roundly dashed, it is harrowing, even despairing to witness the target of his wielding knife is an innocent low hanging fruit (Glynn Turman is another memorable presence as Toledo the pianist) other than the culprit, Wilson’s lucid dissection of a colored man’s warped mentation is uncompromisingly brought home to its audience, and a visibly scraggy Boseman pours all his heart and soul to ascertain Levee has nothing else left to show, he is a miserable failure, but he fails cordially.Both films do justice to Wilson’s urtext (the most impressive through-line is a man’s death/devil-defying/wrestling struggle, manifested in both works), and are terrific showcases for their thespians. If FENCES is rather exhausting than exhaustive, MA RAINEY…, deceptively differing from a standard biopic, is a more exuberant, trenchant and shocking treatment that is able to cram enough meat into a frills-free narrative.referential entries: John Patrick Shanley’s DOUBT (2008, 8.9/10);Robert Zemeckis' FLIGHT (2012, 6.7/10).

7.5分。

女主的张力是整部戏最出彩的部分。

省略了小儿子离家和Tory死去的这一段时间，无法释怀的情节是女主原谅了出轨的丈夫，还要说服自己的儿子去认可他。

遇见这样一个男人，是这种类型的女性的不幸，她也在抱着他的私生子时作出了自己的选择“孩子有妈妈了，但你是没有妻子的人了”。

正是因为这样。

更无法释怀这个结局突如其来的原谅。

种族，父权，道德，大悲剧的碎片剪影。

讨厌troy的原因很多，但是想想原因就会叹息。

他没办法和知识分子一样，反复拷打自己是不是做了正确的事情，但他至少以恶父为标记，远远地避开了那样的恶，但又不可避免地踏进了另一条悲剧的渊流。

我们经常责备圣母，因为他们总觉得：坏人犯错不能怪罪他们，要怪环境、怪时运。

“大部分普通人都能坚守住，他们为什么不能”，我们忿忿。

法律无情，但人有，人会追溯你的动机，会追溯你的过去，就算不能免除你的罪责，但谅解的情绪总会有点作用。

况且还有一些人，好像没有作恶，但在儿女口中，他们也是噩梦一样的存在。

我们永远怨恨自己的父母，但是如果把他们的一生拍成电影，我们会不会也释然一些呢。

没看懂这是省么价值观啊？

他爹打棒球失败当清洁工运垃圾，然后整天和朋友及媳妇儿无脑快乐犯贫，在外面找别的女的有了孩子女的生孩子时死了然后把小孩让自己原装媳妇儿养着，他对自己俩亲儿子野蛮粗暴，把自己小儿子赶出家。

全片除了给他媳妇儿抚养费就是盖了个不到五米的篱笆。

反而他媳妇儿是典型的中国式贤妻良母在家洗衣服带孩子做饭任劳任怨三观端正，Viola Davis大姐自the help 之后又一次精彩演出，赞。

身为一个男同志这次挺孩子妈妈，太不容易了。

就这整天还得忍让着他。

完了最后一幕一家人在这感慨父爱？

就这他爹还整天自己显示的和命运抗争？

这不自己作的都是？

他媳妇儿付出那么多最后还教育不愿去他葬礼的小儿子他爹多么不容易，这是什么伟大女性啊？

一贯提倡女权的好莱坞怎么到了这个层次？

就这还百老汇舞台剧？

有人看过吗去？

来讨论讨论，是不Denzel改编时候有偏差啊。

这种无脑男权父爱不是在读者杂志上天天登啊，怎么奥斯卡也到了《读者》这个层次？

省么价值观啊？

作为话剧改编的影片，硬伤和槽点很多，完全靠对白推动剧情发展，导演的功力不足显而易见。

作为演员，男女主角表现不俗，故事也有那个年代的厚重感，可惜故事的叙述及表现方式让影片整体质量无法提升。

影片主题立意颇值得每一个人深思，家庭的藩篱究竟是保护了你？

还是禁锢了你？

直面内心，给出最真实的答案，家庭关系绝非保护伞，也不是人生的桎梏，而是需要用心经营，诚心面对，胸怀坦荡才能体会其中温情的心灵港湾。

看的过程中真的让我喘不过气 看完我觉得我必须写点什么谴责特洛伊 他诉苦自己童年受到的伤害 却否认小儿子童年受到的伤害 他毁了小儿子的梦想 可以原谅他出轨原谅他自私 但他毁了他儿子的梦想 打着为他好的大旗 觉得让他温饱他就仁尽义至 是个值得让人“尊重”的父亲了 不是你生了“孩子” 孩子就必须对你感恩戴德

影片一开头老头絮叨的让我有些绝望，我在想如果全片就是这么在这老头的絮叨中结束我会崩溃。

老头靠当垃圾工活一家老小，住着战争受伤的哥们的房子，每天没事和白人老哥吹吹牛喝喝酒，和老婆调调情，顺便在外面找个让自己放松的姑娘。

也许这是沉重生活负担下的喘息。

老头是典型的中国式父亲，对老婆表达情谊很多，对孩子很冷漠，孩子对他来说是responsibility。

所以和两个儿子感情都不好，因为从来得不到认可。

老头在52岁高龄出轨了，还喜当爹。

回来跟老婆坦白，不认错反而不断的强调自己的痛苦，老婆一番话狠狠打脸。

对啊，18年的婚姻谁没有痛快想放弃的时候，但婚姻的本质是坚守。

老头戾气很重，自我中心，整天抱怨，老眼光看人。

人所有的认识都源自自己的过往经历，老头觉得有色人种一直被歧视，得不到好工作，打球不被重用，永远是外向归因，不考虑自己的问题。

白人老伙计说藩篱既是为了不让外面的人进来，也是不让里面的人出去啊。

但最深的藩篱在老头心里。

瞎写的，想梳理一下，没成功。