遥远的北方

悲剧到家的女人。杨紫琼为毛要演个这玩意。各种叽叽歪歪的影评，涉及人性啦、欲望啦、压抑啦.....都是球！除了揭人脸皮玩了一把惊悚外，此片给我的感受就是，除了杨紫琼扮演的类似母亲的角色正常外，其他都是没有进化的物种。杨被巫婆神叨叨的预言所中伤，被族群抛弃，但漂泊中的她遇到自己的丈夫，爱她的丈夫以及他的部落，正常健康地向往生活，并不因为曾经遭受的不公过往，而带有一丝悲恨。结果她丈夫及部族被俄国人全部杀害，她本人也遭受凌辱，却能在身心俱遭重创的情况下，毫不犹豫地从帐中抱出仅存的一个女婴，用善良的母性去哺育和陪伴她的成长。期间遭遇的所有困境，她都坚强面对。就这样一个善良坚强有大爱的女人，再次施舍自己的良知，救了一个二货男人后，却被这对狗男女双双背叛了。男人与她玩暧昧，掉头便在帐篷中不避嫌地干她那傻逼女儿，这是对恩情和道义的双重背叛。女儿的所谓天真纯傻，不过是没见过男人的春心大动，对其母的嫉妒戒备溢于言表。这是对哺育之恩的无耻背叛。两个人就这么肆无忌惮、毫无廉耻、全无愧色地发展动物属性的奸情性欲，根本无视另外一个女人的立场和视觉污染。他娘的！所以要多读书，要讲忠孝礼义廉耻，中国人的道德也许有伪善的成分，但究其根本还是懂得些许掩饰和克制，起码不至于让大家都那么难看和难堪。旁观者观之，只觉肮脏别扭无耻。一对雌雄物件，都是拜“母亲”所赐，得以苟活。可口中说出离别的话语，却是那般轻描淡写，毫无波澜。野驴都做不来的事，他们却如此轻松自然。完全不顾及和考虑，他们走了后，剩下这个孤独的老女人将如何在这片荒寂、寒冷、物质匮乏的冰天雪地中生存下去，甚至恬不知耻地淡然道出要分走一半食物，要带走仅存的三条雪橇犬中的一条，你他妈不如干脆拔刀干掉她算了！假惺惺地询问要不要一起走的时候，我倒是第一次感受到了这狗逼女人原来也会懂得虚伪，尽管那么勉强恶心，心口严重不一。何以完全不把这个有母亲般恩情的女人当一回事。整片看不到一对狗男女一丝人类应有的温情和感恩。与天寒地冻相呼应的正是这无法理解的冷漠和无耻。

既然都是她母亲给的命，在遭遇连串背叛和重击、无视下，她要索取回去，倒也觉得很正常。

只是那段狗血地揭去女儿面皮，并戴着人皮面具与她的男人做爱这节剧情，是有点异于常人，特别刺激眼球和重口味了，令人相当不适，也不太合乎逻辑。莫非母亲真的只是性欲难耐，迫切渴求性交？不惜勒死女儿只求一夜交媾？结局的这出根本是败笔，完全颠覆了母亲前面所有的内心戏和情感挣扎，使得整片变得单薄脆弱可笑，缺乏母亲这个唯一正常人的人性逻辑。

看这类片，只会让人觉得，人即使进化千年万年，终不过是畜生。母亲是进化物种，终究还是被拖累，回归兽性。所以，人，到底是无望的。伦理道德，真正进入人心，实在太难。

但凡那个女儿有点良知，体谅下母亲，也不至于落到这个结局。

但凡那个男的顾及下三人的相处氛围，就不会导致母女不合。

两个自私的人把一个偏激的人逼上绝路。

以前听说吕雉残忍，对戚夫人如何如何。后来了解历史，心中感慨，也许戚夫人在世时嚣张跋扈不把吕雉放眼里也是导致自己悲惨的结局的一个原因。

遥远的北方 (2007)

6.5

2007 / 英国 法国 / 剧情 爱情 惊悚 犯罪 / Asif Kapadia / 杨紫琼 肖恩·宾

智人，据说凭借诡诈、残忍，灭绝了尼安德特人，还敲骨吸膸，最终完全进化为人类。

所以说，按人类学家理论来看，智人是最残忍的生物，最善于生存的生物，站到了食物链的顶端。

智人最关心的，除了食物，就是繁殖。

繁殖就是男女之间的自然吸引，以及同性之间的竞争和对抗。

据说一男二女，总会引起二女之间的嫉妒。实际上，反过来也一样。

普通动物之间的竞争，也不过打架互欧而已。智人就不一样，还很诡诈，那就有很特殊的操作了。

这片子很写实。写照出了人类作为智人这一物种的天性。

好评！

Again too long for short comments.

Somehow shocked... The scenery is really stunning in the far north, and though there's few conversation, other sounds(like the wuthering wind, the dog bark, the cracking ice and even the faint whistle from the aurora, I think) help a lot in building the environment. That will compose my impression of the polar regions hahahaha!

An important question, I wonder how much of truth it holds, will humanity really turn out like this in the most desolate situation?

As long as the answer is yes, the character of Saiva can really touch me (actually she already does). She is always lonely but desperate for love, which is magnified in the film especially by the desolation of the polar region. But since young she was expelled and constantly deprived of love (by Saman, by invaders... ), she tried to seclude herself from the human world's possible hurts, and lived with daughter as the only consolance... and maybe some sort of emotional reliance. Look, in the flashback scene she was so timid but also sweet with her short-lived lover, and even at the beginning scene when she was killing her dog, she's not so callous but portrayed some sort of attachment.

But again the daughter Anja herself deprived her last warmth and possibility of being loved. Actually I think the man prefers Saiva more... if not for Anja teasing him first. When Saiva was about to confide in the man, the daughter called him over, and later he shared his story only with the daughter... With such parallel, I wonder if the daughter knew Saiva's story, or just grew up in the isolated environment. Personally I'm inclined to the first probability, but in that case won't she know her adopter is longing for insured company and love, and won't that be too cruel to abandon her alone? Maybe that's too much for a teenager to care, who just wants to explore the world and enjoy her happiness... But can't that also be regarded as careless and disheartening? (Also I think the character of the daughter is a little flat... we don't know much about her...)

Then even the most horrifying part seems to lose power against the background of immense loneliness and sorrow...... I'm not surprised to see Saiva do so, since she's hardly been loved, she is about to lose love again, she's an experienced killer... But also there's a moment, I wonder if in exchange, Loki is taking Saiva and Anja away, will Anja do the same Saiva to take the chance of being loved? (Since when their first kiss being detected, Anja portrayed some sort of jealousy then tried to possess Loki...) And then it comes back to the question of the amount truth in this situation, will Anja really act like this and care so less? Can Saiva really made up her mind to do this to whom companied her for years?

Maybe there could be more depict of the mother-daughter bond, so the impact of the last action will be more substantial, (but I don't know how, and now i think it's okay). Michelle Yeoh again played such a loser-in-love role, I'll weep for her, hope next time and next many times she'll not be hurt.