《舞会契约》：多元宇宙的蜘蛛侠集结

影像上极致且精致，除了开头和结尾两三个单镜，其他都是调度十足的长镜头。这种调度是为叙事基调服务的，阴郁、生猛、乖戾，并且形成一种在华语片中与众不同的形式美。这是毕赣与杨超之辈目前所不能企及的，同样追随贝拉·塔尔，胡波拍出了自己浑然天成的调性。与侯孝贤与蔡明亮的诗意式的长镜亦不相同，胡波舍弃了任何碎片式的视觉碰撞，而是把镜头贴近演员，在特定的空间内移动、旋转、腾挪，让某种人物间的张力极力拉扯开来，某种社会戾气徐徐蒸腾。如我一直所说，大景深与长镜头是最考验导演现场调度与叙事能力的（当然，片段式的镜头更多是考验后期剪辑与叙事建构的能力，这种调度也很重要）。伴着叙事人物前行中的配乐，胡波这部处女作竟也在影像上弥漫着某种后摇特质，迷离、低沉、悠长，有波澜，无巅峰。只可惜，目前的版本混音有诸多技术瑕疵。二刷，很难想象，这是一九六二年的电影，那股浓浓的民国范儿，在共和国已经十三年之际依然没有褪色。一个外来者闯入一个守旧的世界，搅动一池春水，小城之春和早春二月皆是如此，只不过后者的格局更大，用一个芙蓉镇象征整个守旧的传统和国家。文嫂和阿宝的死，王福生早早背起家累，镇上的流言蜚语，一起逼走了萧涧秋，去了哪呢？应该是北伐吧，如果再晚点，可能就是去延安了。总之那是一个旧世界虽苟延残喘但依旧势力顽固的时代，流言可不用说，就算陶校长也说“你们文明过了头”，而两位同事在文嫂死后前来恭贺涧秋的清白以及建议立贞洁牌坊，这一切都证明旧世界的可怕，好在他们有新世界可以向往，不管是广州还是延安，只不过广州让他们失望的速度快了些。最终向传统妥协吧，今日尤甚，这也是今人看此片觉得男女主角幼稚的原因：嫁钱娶文，挺好嘛！Prom Pact is set at the height of prom season. High school senior Mandy Coleman and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top '80s-themed Promposals. However, Mandy keeps her eyes focused on a different goal: her lifelong dream of attending Harvard. When she finds out her acceptance has been deferred, she is determined to do whatever she can do to get herself off the waitlist, even if that means asking for help from the one person she abhors - popular all-star jock Graham Lansing, whose father is a powerful senator and Harvard alum. Once Mandy becomes Graham's tutor, she begins to realize there's more to him than she thought and perhaps something more to life than Harvard.