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Tarashankar Banerjee ....novel

薩蒂亞吉特·雷伊

A proud taxi driver tries to make his own way in 30s Bengal, but discovers only the corrupt can get to the top. Challenging film by one of India's finest directors

Satyajit Ray still rates as India's best known director, more than 10 years after his death. A stylish, thoughtful and political filmmaker, he finally achieved international recognition just a month before his death in 1992, when he received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar.

Abhijaan does not rate among his very best films, but Ray's high standards are evident from the very first shot - we see the main protagonist, Rana Pratap Narsingh (Chatterjee) through his reflection in a broken mirror. It's a metaphor for his life up until that point - his wife has left him, his attempts to form his own taxi service have failed and only his pride remains.

本片是徠印度電影大師薩蒂亞吉特·雷伊代表作之一，也是其在商業上最為成功的一部。接近2個半小時的電影在現在看來仍舊讓人覺得津津有味，絲毫不覺得疲憊或拖沓。故事其實很簡單，不過有一個貫穿了觀影前2個鐘頭的問題一直在纏繞著偶，那就是為什麼片名要叫遠征。看到影片的後半個鐘頭，當主人公桑吉在賣掉心愛的車自己開公司以重振家族光榮歷史和違法運送違禁品之間痛苦抉擇時，觀者才逐漸理解了這個片名的意圖。是啊，在利益與原則的衝突中，哪一個人的心路歷程不是一次絕對意義上的遠征呢？其實縱觀全片，主人公桑吉始終處在兩難的抉擇中，除了以上所述的最艱難的選擇外，電影一開始他就做了一次選擇，結果是他拒絕了朋友與他合夥做生意的提議，而在感情上，他除了要設法撫平由於前妻拋棄所帶來的創傷外，還要在美麗的朋友之妹倪麗與狡猾的老闆蘇拉提姆之女僕古拉伊間徘徊，而在留與不留在當地開計程車之間、為了倪麗戒不戒酒之間、為了倪麗學不學英語之間、為了開公司籌錢賣不賣愛車之間等等都經歷了困難的抉擇。可以說，這一次的危險旅程就是由各種各樣的抉擇組成的，在抉擇當中桑吉完成了一次心靈上的遠征，而讓他能順利從這次危險的遠征中掙脫出來的根本則是他那顆淳樸良善的心靈！導演雷伊通過幾個並不複雜的人物關係充分展現了頗為複雜的人物心路歷程，同時還以一種平實的姿態全景式地展現了特定歷史條件下印度的鄉村風貌圖！不僅如此，雷伊在電影表現手法上也基本採用了寫實的手法，沒有華麗的鏡頭語言，沒有誇張的布景與道具，力求營造一個符合客觀實際的人物生活環境，使得整個故事和故事中的人物顯得比較真實可信！