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Friday, April 24, 2009

《音樂人生》深圳首映


《音樂人生》深圳首映
日期:2009年4月26日(星期日)
時間:下午6:30
地點:深圳福田區文化館一樓茶陶會所

深圳商報有關放映《音樂人生》報導
http://szsb.sznews.com/html/2009-04/24/content_599065.htm

家明談《音樂人生》


家明雜感﹕電影節,一切從家庭開始……(節錄)
家明 (4月19日明報)

電影節已完結,盤點才發現今年選片無意中定了主題,看過最好的影片、教人最多思索的,多少跟家庭倫理有關係,儼然是「家庭年」。
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最後我必須提提香港的紀錄片《音樂人生》(KJ),由張經緯執導,是今年電影節最大驚喜之一。影片說一個資優拔萃男生KJ的故事,他是鋼琴天才,11歲已到捷克 演奏。電影捕捉了KJ的3個時段﹕2002,2007及2008年,看着他由牙尖嘴利的小鬼到自信滿滿的少年,他對音樂及人生都很有一套,而且7年來想法及疑問都非常一致。他很敬佩恩師教誨,但與兄妹及同學不咬弦,常有眾人皆醉的孤獨感。

《音樂人生》這名字很平凡,但卻是內容的最真實反映,無論做人及學音樂,影片都有啟發。完場後不少觀眾說受KJ的言語感動,慨嘆香港的音樂考試現象扭曲。影片最令人訝異是寫出了KJ與父親7年來關係的蛻變,當初父子的關係很要好,到影片最後KJ卻說出了對父親的怨恨,怪他對音樂的態度不好,怪他對母親不忠導致離婚。說這是伊底帕斯情結的必然階段吧,但《音樂人生》也讓我看見了家庭故事,裏面有愛,但也有矛盾及憎恨。

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Sunday, April 12, 2009

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另一篇《雲之南》觀眾的來信

還有很多中港台各地觀眾對《音樂人生》的評論轉載在facebook的網頁
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=51448392750&topic=8944


张经纬导演:

见信佳!

在今年的云之南上,7天的时间,看了很多导演的作品,只是那个早上,看到你的作品《音乐人生》之后,还是有很多新的触动,总觉得,你带给我们的是如此有力量的影像,黄家正的生活,被影像记录下来,既有纪录片的时间厚重感,也会有人生的很多可能性,这些时光所承载的记忆,让我们更接近黄家正所在的生活,真的很感谢你为我们带来的作品,也希望可以有更多的人看到这部片子。

不知道接下来,张导会继续跟拍黄家正吗,比如10年以后再拍他,我想这样连续的记录对家正或者对你来说都是有特别的意义,因为这已经不是一部简单的记录片了,而是某段生活的记忆。

还想问问张导,不知怎样可以和黄家正联系上呢,也想和他交流一些关于音乐的心得,总觉得他对于音乐的态度让人震撼。

另外不知道接下来,会有拍摄新片的计划吗,之后假如有创作的话,应该怎样看到你的作品呢。

祝一切顺利!

安好!
观众:武映才


武映才的部落:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_408ca49c0100cxhm.html

Monday, April 6, 2009

音樂人生 - 一位台北觀眾看後的感想分享

這兩天在台北也有《音樂人生》的放映會,這是當中一位觀眾看後的感想分享:

音樂人生
Po Chung Lai

人生當中,我們覺醒了什麼?

生命是一襲華美的袍,爬滿了蚤子。張愛玲是這麼說的。

在看紀錄片「音樂人生」這部紀錄片時,於腦海中不斷跑出的便是尼采的「查拉圖斯特拉如是說」。

「如果你想走到高處,就要使用自己的兩條腿!不要讓別人把你抬到高處;不要坐在別人的背上和頭上。」

電影裡的主角KJ在被大家當作音樂神童的同時,他自己卻只想成為一個「人」—一個全然為音樂包圍、充滿的人。他用他自己的方法、早熟的思維去觀察、思考、批判、對抗生活裡的價值觀,用屬於他自己的方式活著、存在著。他不相信神,他的宗教就是追求真理。

許多時候我們都不勇敢,正如同我們或許都在找尋許多人生的價值與意義。然而,卻又不斷的在洪流當中迷失自己。同化成人類社會裡某種被期待的人,隱藏自己的個性,假裝成為別人喜歡的那一種人,都成為許多人活著的一種方法。

「聰明的人只要能掌握自己,便什麽也不會失去。」

在黃家正KJ的音樂人生裡剛開始是這樣,企圖掌握自己對於音樂的堅持、音樂的顛峰,忘情的墜入音樂的世界裡。然而,敏銳的心也不斷的被碰撞、敲擊著。11歲早熟的他在攝影機面前說出人生終歸死亡,那何不早點結束那樣的話語。童年的世界失去應有的天真。影片裡我們看見父親對於他的栽培與期待,相較他哥哥與妹妹來說,KJ才是父親人生裡的驕傲。但對於KJ來說,那些都不是他音樂人生裡的目的。然而在團體生活、人際互動、親子關係裡,我們看見KJ所失去的人生音符。但他仍冷眼的看著這一切世俗的標準,不斷的追尋「人」的意義。

「一個偉大的人往往受到排擠、壓抑、甚至被人斥為譁眾取寵而陷於孤獨中。」

在音樂人生裡,KJ的孤獨來自於他的不被理解,但也因為這份孤獨,他更能專注在音樂的詮釋,全然的與音樂交流。只是,正如同影片的尾聲,他自己說父母的離婚是他學得最多的一課。重新審視他自己的人生裡所殘缺的那一塊,小心翼翼的對著鏡頭訴說父母離婚的原因,卻也真誠的面對自己的人生。張愛玲早已說:生命是一襲華美的袍,爬滿了蚤子。然而,若沒有那些蚤子,我們又怎麼成為「人」呢?

「在極端痛苦中,一個靈魂為了承受這份痛苦,將會發出嶄新的生命光輝。就是這股潛力在新生命力的發揮,使人們遠離在極端痛苦時燃起的自殺念頭,讓他得以繼續活下去。他的心境將別於健康的人,他鄙視世人所認同的價值觀,從而發揮昔日所未曾有過的最高貴的愛與情操,這種心境是曾體驗過地獄烈火般痛苦的人所獨有的。」

青春期的我們又何嘗不充滿這樣的孤獨感。生活中的一切似乎都張牙舞爪的與我們對抗、消磨著。迷惘的岔路裡,抉擇一條道路是需要思考的。音樂、藝術對於美的追尋給予人們一種不同的思維。這何嘗不是藝術給於人最珍貴的價值!也因為如此,KJ的人生更充滿力量,在樂團裡、室內樂裡、獨奏裡、指揮裡,在這部紀錄片裡我們看見他重新檢視自己音樂人生的序曲。

「音樂人生」是KJ的人生序曲,在迷惘中重新對位,在對位中探詢真理。第一樂章才正要開始……

Friday, April 3, 2009

few wishes - written by Ka Jeng Wong few hours before the Hong Kong première of KJ

It's a facebook note posted by Ka Jeng Wong few hours before the Hong Kong première of KJ.
轉載黃家正在《音樂人生》香港首映前數小時,在facebook寫的筆記。

few wishes

life is full of surprise.

it still amuses me that people are actually going to 'see' through the scenes to my inner world of thinking. I am not good - in fact very bad - at presenting myself to people. usually people take me to its extreme, either hate me or love me. many would think i am a talented young boy who doesn't treasure my gifts, or some would think I am living in my own fantasies being fake to people.. doesn't matter.

I am an intentionalist. I believe it's how we answer to ourselves at the end of the day that matters. many times consequentially I may have hurt "so many" people back in the past. well, maybe sometimes i meant them. but I hope i definitely didn't want to. mix feelings of strong personality, confusion, lack of direction, immaturity in ideas, (parental) influences may be good excuses? haha..

sometimes I hate myself. i hate myself for being crowned as "talented" or even "genius" which firstly, are not true; and secondly, destroyed my childhood. I believe everyone has his own path. most cases destined by family background, which could lead back to our fate as implicated by chinese astrology (exactly the reason I was so fond of it. it's fascinating how things are related.). Imagine what would happen if my mum didn't take her kids to the piano place and register with that damn mean piano teacher who just got her grade 8 exam when i was 7, but instead took me to a math class and then my father trained me like he did to my piano - 2 hours at lunch and perhaps a little more at night. then entering me to competitions and kept crowning the "fucking" glories. now you may say I am superficial and don't understand what competitions have brought to me. but if you do the same competition at february and march for 10 years in your childhood, then you may have the vibe.

competitions did give me motivation i guess. it was cool to achieve some little thing when you were 8. but it also forced me to play the music for the wrong reason. I must say I am also fortunate to have been in the competitions. coz I have realized its meaingless destruction to one's music sooner than other people. haha at least my father is obsessed with it, still.

So, one may be a billionaire, artist, janitor, lawyer, doctor, beggar.. whatever. for me it depends great deal on personality, background and education, all these basically "set" or simply determined by fate as represented by chinese astrology. seems cruel huh? somebody might just got bad luck and achieve nothing in his life, but just another human being with the same name of physical appearance may be the most 'successful' man in hong kong. Isn't God unfair? in that little interview in Czech 8 years agowith the movie director, King Cheung, I cried in front of the camera just because of that. I remember right before I went to czech I saw a bunch of people chasing after a thief on the street. The poor thief was half naked, skinny like me (oh well), climbing up one of the oldest buildings trying to escape from justice perhaps because he stole 30 bucks for food. I was shocked. one hour earlier I was practicing the piano and i never knew that there is so much tragedy, unfairness and sadness in this world. I still remember that scene, one of the most vividest of my childhood. the world is cruel place huh?

so i guess at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what we do. maybe that poor guy is destined to steal that 30 bucks. I am destined to be dumped by the same person 3 times in a row, aristo sham is destined to have so much talent composing so many incredible pieces. but I do believe in fairness out of all these chaos. I believe under the unlimited varieties in this world, God don't simply judge us if we 'explicitly' "put our faith in God" or do the "right" thing. But I believe he looks at how we grow upon our sincerity. be true to ourselves as human being.

I don't believe in Heaven.

Because I believe we are all living in Heaven already. We are just blindfolded by our immature human nature.

hope people who watch KJ will like it. you guys are lucky as I haven't watched it myself!

(bad english I know. 4 in the morning baby)