《水底情深》導演吉勒摩戴托羅 Guillermo del Toro 評《羅馬》，寫得太好了，忍不住大略翻一下跟大家分享：
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俗話說：「條條大路通『羅馬』」，而艾方索（按：《羅馬》導演艾方索柯朗）所選擇的，則是這之中最成功、最激勵人心的一條路。在《地心引力》評價與票房雙雙告捷之後，艾方索擁有完全的自由可以做他想做的。他大可以簽下鉅額合約、執導任何一部超級英雄電影，或是與大明星演員們合作，拍攝一部繽紛多彩、喧囂轟炸的史詩級電影。
然而，他選擇了拍攝《羅馬》，一部黑白而微小的電影，重現了 1985 年墨西哥大地震後所消逝褪去的城市地景（許多人或許不會注意到，片中許多場景都是為了本片重新搭建而成，包含了好幾個街區的車輛、道路、店面等等。）更甚者，這部片所講述的，是在墨西哥恢宏歷史脈動中，並非特別有趣抑或是擁有多少命運自主權的，一位在中產階級家庭中無名英雄的故事。
他選擇以洪荒之力，講說一個無比細微的私人故事；他刻意捨去了三幕劇的框架，但卻是他至今為止最精準、最令人讚嘆的一次電影作為語言與媒材的展現。
他的選擇是如此睿智，而對我來說，這恰恰確立了他的一貫精神宣言——那自從過去《你他媽的也是》，一直到他未來的作品都將貫徹的作者印記。在現今的亂世中，他始終關懷那些微不足道的隱形人物，以及那些不被人們傳頌的故事，如此他也就賦予了我們絕佳的、我們所迫切需要的一劑解藥——同理心。
All roads lead to “Roma,” as the saying goes. But the most successful, the most heartening of those roads is the one Alfonso took: after the enormous critical and box office triumph of “Gravity,” Alfonso was in a perfect position to do whatever he wanted. He could have commanded life-setting paydays to helm any or all superhero stories, he could have decided to work with the biggest stars or tackle a blank-check epic full of color and bombast.
And he chose “Roma.” A black-and-white, minute re-creation of a Mexico that faded, that disappeared after the massive earthquake in 1985 (unnoticed by most, several blocks of the city were re-created, cars, avenues, stores and all on a backlot set built for the film) and the story of an unsung hero in a middle-class family with no great anecdote or particular agency in the large movements of history in Mexico.
He chose to make an epic effort to tell an intimate story. He made a conscious effort to tell this story devoid of the trappings of Aristotelian three-act structure but he did so with what is, to date, his most precise, his most breathtaking use of cinema as a language and a medium.
He chose wisely. And to me this is the confirmation of his spirit — one that he has demonstrated by going back and doing “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and will do again in the future. In these, our troubled times, he speaks about characters that are invisible and dramas that go unspoken, and thus he provides us with the most urgent of antidotes: empathy.
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原文出處：
https://variety.com/…/directors-on-directors-black-panthe…/…
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