里奥纳德·科恩：我是你的男人

是2005年一群音乐人致敬莱昂纳德-诺曼-科恩的音乐会纪录片。有好听的音乐，还有珍贵的旧影像。

结尾科恩献唱Tower of Song，伴奏的是U2，和声是Bono，这些大名鼎鼎的音乐人都是科恩的粉丝。

莱昂纳德-诺曼-科恩，生于魁北克，加拿大创作歌手、音乐人、诗人及小说家。他的作品充满对宗教、孤独、性以及权利的探讨。

1956年，第一本诗集Let us compare mythologies

1961年，书The spice-box of earth

1963，小说The favourite game

1964，诗集Flowers of Hitler

1966，自传体小说Beautiful losers，诗集Parasite of heaven

1978，诗歌集Death of a lady's man

1984，诗集Book of mercy，内容深受希伯来圣经和禅宗影响，获加拿大作家协会的诗歌文学奖。

1993年，发行诗集Stranger music，《陌生人音乐》，今年进入中国市场。

2006年，出版Booking of longing，献给他的导师Irving Layton。

唱片事业相当辉煌，作品无数。Hallelujah这首歌，他写了几乎80个版本的主歌，慢慢修剪成最终的歌曲，成为美国音乐历史上最萦绕心头、最常被改编和最多变的歌曲之一。不过科恩的歌有一半魅力都在歌词，另外40%的魅力是他的声音。曲调嘛，他自己在本片中也说，经常唱不出调来。本片以I'm your man开场，选择的都是科恩比较有代表性的作品。

诗人，歌手，大众情人。人们给他贴上各种标签，他对此苦笑。大概他本人最喜欢的标签是僧人吧，曾有一度在美国洛彬矶的一家僧院修行，脱下阿玛尼，剃去头发。

僧院的老师Roshi是日本人，僧人班头儿是德国人。科恩说这就像是对二战的复仇，一个日本人和一个德国人带着一群美国人在山里修行，时不时还会有惩戒。没有几天科恩便留下纸条悄然离去。但是那个地方还是有什么在吸引着他，过了几个月他又回去了。

本片中科恩说：

For many years, I was known as a monk, I shaved my head and wore robes, got up very early. I hated everyone but I acted generously, and no one found me out. My reputation as a ladies man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

在许多年里，我是一个僧人，我剃去头发，穿上僧袍，每天早起。我恨所有人，但我行事大方，人们没有识破我。我“大众情人”的称号是一个笑话，在上万个孤独的夜晚里我为此苦笑不已。

Sometimes, when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama, expecting victory after victory, and you understand deeply that this is not paradise... somehow we're, especially the privileged ones that we are, we somehow embrace the notion that this veil of tears, that it's perfectable, that you're going to get it all straight. I've found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win.

有时，当你不再把自己当作自己戏剧中的主角，不再期盼一场又一场胜利，这时，你会深刻地了解这不是天堂。不知怎么，我们，特别是那些有特权的人，认为一切都是可以完美化的，可以顺理成章地获得。我发现当我不再期望胜利时，一切都变得容易多了。

There is a beautiful moment in the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna. The general. The great general. He's standing in his chariot. And all the chariots are readied for war. And across the valley, he sees his opponents. And there he sees not just uncles and aunts and cousins, he sees gurus, he sees teachers that have taught him; and you know how the Indians revere that relationship. He sees them. And Krishna, one of the expressions of the deity, says to him, "you'll never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment. You're a warrior. Arise now, mighty warrior." With the full understanding, that they've already been killed, and so have you. "This is just a play. This is my will. You're cuaght up in the circumstances that I determine for you. That you did not determine for yourself. So, arise, you're a noble warrior. Embrace your destiny, your fate, and stand up and do your duty."

在《簿伽竼歌》中有这样优美的一章，一个将军。一个伟大的将军。站在他的战车上。所有战车整装待发。经过山谷时，他看到了他的对手。他看到的不仅是亲人，他看到了大师，那些曾教过他的老师。而你知道印度人是多么重视亲人。Karishna，神的一种，对他说：“你永远也不会了解使你来到此刻的机缘。你是一个斗士，崛起吧，勇猛的斗士。你该知道，他们已被杀死，你也一样。这只是一出戏剧。这是我的意愿。我为你决定了命运的每刻，而你扼住了命运。但那是我为你选定的。所以，崛起吧，高贵的斗士。拥抱你的归宿，你的命运，站起身来，行使职责。”

It was about the feeling that we have of betraying some mission that we were mandated to fulfill, and being unable to fulfill it. And then coming to understand that the real mandate was not to fulfill it, and that the deeper courage, was to stand guiltless in the predicament in which you found yourself.

【这段是科恩诠释他的歌The Traitor。】这首歌写的是背叛使命的感觉，对必须完成的使命的背叛。必须完成，却又无法完成。然后明白真正的使命不是完成，而是更深的勇气，在发现自己的困境中无畏地站立。