Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a
fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc
players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol
and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments.
Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and
matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range
of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday
morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-
crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose
rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home,
nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you
have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life...
But why would I want to do a thing like that?
這是1996年的電影"猜火車"那一段冗長卻又撼動人心的開場白
而這句開場白不知打動了多少
物質生活充裕卻內心空虛的年輕人
時年30歲的導演Danny Boyle
用這部電影紀錄了90年代的青年人的內心世界
12年後的今天，Boyle以描述亞洲最大的孟買貧民窟青少年生活的電影
"貧窮百萬富翁"強勢問鼎電影各大獎項
我所思考的是
究竟是怎麼樣的社會，與怎麼樣的環境
能夠造就出這樣一位能深刻科化人性與人文關懷的導演?
看到最近的野草莓學運
不知道為什麼，我開始想到了猜火車裡的這些話
或許這些年輕人的怒吼...
並不是表面上"人權", "自由" 這些法律或政治上的語言
猜火車的年輕人們不屑於社會上既定成俗的主流價值觀、主流體制
換言之