
楼上洋葱提到文清最后的照片。
摘录自cinemaspace对这副照片的评论:
The last picture of Wen-ching, Hinomi, and their son
--- a signifying process of double meaning
--- of preservation and destruction. (C: 33:58-35:50)
Perhaps the most devastating moment in the film is when Wen- ching takes a photograph of his family upon realizing that his own death near. Their constrained pose and worried looks, emphasized by a frozen cinematic image doubling the diegetic still photo, constitute the most revealing performative representation undermining any pedagogical interpretation of history.
From the first shot of the scene (the ritual preparation for photo taking --- combing his hair, setting up the camera, adjusting the lens and shutter) to the last freeze-frame shot of the still family photo, the scene reveals an appalling message about how this single family is damaged by political brutality. This image constitutes the most powerful accusation against the pedagogical history written by the Nationalist regime for the way it teases out the double meaning of the co-existence of presence and absence in the photographic image.
The subsequent voice-over by Hinomi foregrounds this double- coding. With a freeze-frame coinciding with the click of the shutter, the filmic frame collides with the photographic frame. The frozen image disperses into the significations of two apparatuses. Finally, the film pauses on the "doubled" image for several seconds, waiting for Hinomi's sound to provide a sequential transition. Hinomi's voice-over informs us of the final exigency following that photo session --- the arrest of her husband. Linking the photographic and filmic image of the family, Wen- ching's last effort in keeping his nuclear family intact through the means of a still photograph is thus allegorized as a lament for a nation eroded by colonial forces.
Given this highly charged photographic signification of destruction and preservation, the role of the deaf-mute photographer can no longer be understood as a technical compromise but rather a highly selective choice that invests more compelling, emotive levels of meaning in filmic images.