《怪的另一面》紀錄片創作論述

Abstract

作者帶著攝影機拜訪學生時期在藝術學校認識的好友，看他們在熟悉的鏡頭前，以風趣直白的口吻訴說畢業後不如預期的人生。劇中人物以荒謬、戲劇化的日常經驗建構出不同面向動人卻又引人發笑的生活歷程。所謂戲如人生，三位人物分別以演員、藝術家、攝影師的身份敘說自己如電影情節般的人生故事。其中包含離開藝術學校後在生活中感受到的衝突與格格不入、意外離奇的創業故事、對於自我認同的困頓和不自在、現實與理想生活之差距等面向。迎向現實或理想的路程有多遙遠？堅持做那個特別、不一樣的自己又會有多難？在這條意象不到的故事線裡，原先企圖旁觀的作者也進入了情節，依循人物的經驗和提示拼湊出自己的支線。我們一如往常以藝術學生的個性和思考慣習觀察自己、體會生活中怪與正常的界線，同時以開放的態度去擁抱生命中的荒謬和不確定性。當新生活與意外、機會交集，在曾經不滿意但可接受的生活切片之中，我們回顧、重新檢視自己與心中的失落。在真實、荒謬而浪漫的情節之間來去穿梭，逐漸發展出從未想過的另一面自己。

The filmmaker takes his camera while visiting his classmates from his days in art school. Through a familiar lens, he watches his friends speak candidly about the unexpected turns their lives have taken after graduation. The characters in the film use mundane, absurd anecdotes to talk about their experiences - at times moving, at times hilarious. As the saying goes, life is like a movie. The lives of these three characters, an actor, an artist, and a photographer, certainly read like a movie plot. In front of the camera, they relate the conflicts and plot points of their post-graduation lives: some feeling like misfits after art school, a bizarre account of starting a business, the struggles and difficulties they have with self-identity, and the difference between their ideal lives and their reality. How wide is the gap between an ideal life and reality? How hard is it to stay true to your weird and unique self? Following this unexpected storyline, the filmmaker, who originally intended to be a spectator, enters the plot. He takes hints from the characters and follows their experiences to piece together his narrative thread. We observe ourselves from the perspective of being art students, exploring the boundary between weird and normal while embracing its absurdity and uncertainty with an open mind. As new lives, accidents and opportunities intersect, we look back at the once unsatisfactory slices of our lives which we tried to make acceptable, and re-examine what we have lost in our hearts. We also start to explore and develop a different, unexpected side to ourselves as we traverse between the real, the absurd, and the romantic.