戛納獲獎影片《聶隱娘》：揭秘唐朝刺客傳奇

For its sheer beauty, its mesmeric compositional sense and pure balletic poise, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s distinctive and slow-moving wuxia tale The Assassin demands attention.

侯孝賢獨具一格的慢動作武俠電影《刺客聶隱娘》畫面唯美，組合鏡頭如夢如幻，演員動作如翩翩飛舞，值得一看。

There is no doubt that The Assassin – Hou’s first feature for eight years – is a movie of great intelligence and aesthetic refinement; there is majesty and mystery in this film, particularly in the visually remarkable final minutes, when its enigmatic power begins a kind of final ascent.

作為侯孝賢暌違八年的新作，《刺客聶隱娘》無疑是一部集智慧與美感于一身的精品之作——場面恢宏，謎團(tuán)重重，尤其表現(xiàn)在電影的結(jié)尾：一股神秘的力量掀起了最后的高潮，給予觀眾震撼的視覺沖擊。

Hou is concerned to do something new with the wuxia genre, to take it to the next level in his own language, and I think he is more successful here than Wong Kar-wai was with his The Grandmaster. He has brought to the wuxia material his own uncompromising seriousness, and welded this seriousness to the form’s mythic resonance.

侯孝賢想對武俠做一個全新的詮釋，用自己的方式把武俠提升到一個更高的層次，在這方面我覺得他做得比王家衛(wèi)的《一代宗師》更出色。他把不落俗套的嚴(yán)肅帶到了武俠題材中，并使這種嚴(yán)肅與武俠電影的表現(xiàn)形式產(chǎn)生了神秘的共鳴。

It is based on the tale of Nie Yinniang or The Assassin, from the era of the Tang dynasty: in 809, a young girl played by Shu Qi is kidnapped and trained to be an assassin. But over a decade later, she is sent away by her master after failing to complete a killing and told to return to her hometown where she has a new target: a military governor who is her cousin and first love, played by Chang Chen, and so must choose between her family, her heart and her assassin’s creed.

這部電影取材自唐代刺客聶隱娘的故事：公元809年，一個年輕女子(舒淇飾)被強(qiáng)行帶走訓(xùn)練成刺客。十多年后，她因為沒有完成暗殺任務(wù)而被遣返回鄉(xiāng)，在那兒她有了新的刺殺目標(biāo)：一個藩鎮(zhèn)節(jié)度使(張震飾)，同時也是她的表兄兼初戀。她必須要在家人、內(nèi)心和刺客的信條之間做出抉擇。

The Assassin is beautifully shot by Hou’s regular cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, and staged with flair. There are scenes of conventional action and martial arts confrontation which seem to have their own particular power, as if the combatants are flashing out from a delicate painting; but otherwise Hou sees the assassin’s life in a more occult or metaphysical sense.

《刺客聶隱娘》風(fēng)格獨特、美輪美奐的畫面是由與侯孝賢長期合作的攝影師李屏賓拍攝的。電影里有傳統(tǒng)的打斗和武功的較量，這些場面都具有特殊的魔力，讓刀光劍影也似乎躍于精美的畫幅之上。而侯孝賢對刺客的生活作了更多形而上的思考。

The movie is a distillation of the assassin’s life of watchfulness, survival and fear.

這部電影是對草木皆兵、艱難求生的刺客生活的升華。

At other times, it has a dreamlike quality: a floating hallucination. The Assassin baffles, but more often it quietly captivates and astonishes.

電影的其他部分還有一個美妙的地方，就是會讓你產(chǎn)生飄忽的幻覺?！洞炭吐欕[娘》不易看懂，但它能無聲無息地俘獲你的內(nèi)心，令你如醍醐灌頂。