路上人生 David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

伪纪录片。坐够了多年办公室、曾是热门纪录片主角的男主，为了追求自己搞乐队的梦想，毅然丢下工作，花光自己积蓄，组了个乐队去巡演去了（乐队名字叫“定局”，不知道是否有隐喻），在各地酒吧里的巡演，基本都是台下不多的观众一脸懵逼，酒吧老板伙计等则一脸尴尬（其实歌还唱的不错啊~），他也卖力宣传，去电台，拍宣传照，但接连遭遇各种尴尬。终于来到观众较多的大学校园，校方宣传却把巡演定义为“最屎之夜”……一路观众的反响冷淡是男主始料未及的，面临最后的巡演，他想造雪烘托气氛，但同伴们反对，因为...

I don't need to be rock star, you know?
That's just something I enjoy doing.
I can live without being "a success".
But, um... I couldn't have lived without trying.
And I did that.
So...And everything works out, doesn't it?
You think you want one thing along the way, and then you realise you needed something else.
Life's a struggle...with little beautiful surprises, that make you wanna carry on through all the shit to the next beautiful surprise.
So, yeah, all good.


They can laugh.
They're no better than me.
Just 'cause they're reps who like being reps, and I'm a rep who wants to do something else.
With that attitude, they'll be reps for the rest of their life.
I might be a rep for the rest of my life, but... I was a rock star once.

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我想我不是唯一一个看喜剧会流泪的人。《The Office》系列其实未曾看过任何一集，能看到这部《David Brent: Life On the Road》纯属机缘巧合。一部典型的英式喜剧，若是不适应英式幽默的笑点，可能从头到尾都很难笑出来，又或者也只是为主角憨豆式的滑稽的笑声而笑一下，可就这部电影而言，不知为何，从影片一开始，我就在主角那干涩的笑声中感受到了无法言喻的心酸。

Brent的笑声是他的标志性特征，滑稽而干涩，永远也没有人应和，甚至得到的回应往往都是白眼和沉默。只是这笑声他从未改变过，自始至终，从头贯穿到尾。一开始，听到他的笑声，会笑，因为觉得滑稽，强行笑出来的样子。看到后来，听到他的笑声，还是会笑，但却不是觉得滑稽，而是仿佛在陪着他一起苦笑，我不知道我为何会有这样的感觉，他的笑声往往伴随着几秒的沉默，影片的这种处理恰到好处，几秒的沉默道尽了无数苦涩。连观众都在质疑，在这样的境遇之下，为何还要笑，还要坚持讲他并不好笑的笑话，还要苦苦撑着这个并不受欢迎的乐队和这场入不敷出的驻唱巡演。只是他，还在笑，笑…