我覺得這中文片名譯得太好了
雙關得好!!
雖然初見會讓人摸不著頭緒
但其實不然

這是由Tom Wolfe在1987年出版的作品所改編而成的同名電影
昨天又在HBO上播出了
仔細觀察
不難發現當年參與本片演出的幾位新星
如今已名列巨星之林者不在少數

光看到Tom Hanks那猶然稚嫩的臉孔
還有Bruce Willis精瘦的身軀
以及Morgan Freeman時值少壯卻臻精鍊的好演技
這部影片就十分值得期待

片中所提及的議題橫跨多種
對於資本主義/種族議題/社會階級意識有不少著墨與尖刻的批判

時空背景設定在八O年代的紐約市
過著紙醉金迷奢華生活的曼哈頓白領精英Sherman McCoy
與Bronx區黑人少年的一場命運交會
引發了一連串不可收拾的災難
資本家/政客/宗教領袖/媒體記者Peter Fallow
竟然可以因為一己的貪婪與私慾
出賣自己的良知與靈魂
枉顧社會正義與道德價值
集體同流合污企圖陷罪於無辜者

被逼上絕路一無所有的Sherman McCoy 最後只好自求多福
在法庭上背水一戰...
(他為了平反所使用的手段也是本片中的一大嘲諷點)

不過..
這樣看似嚴肅的主題
卻是以詼諧幽默的手法呈現
隱藏在其中的尖酸譏諷
令人在觀賞過程驚喜不斷
恍然大悟後隨即拍案叫絕

片末黑人法官(Morgan Freeman飾演)的一席話也是擲地鏗鏘
頗有畫龍點睛之效
而報料記者(Bruce Willis飾演)獲頒普立茲獎時的那一番內心自白
道出全片的主題
Somepeople lose their souls for everything,
while somepeople lose everything for finding their souls, again..

相較於’Crash’的沉重
不想心情有所負擔的人
我覺得本片倒是不錯的選擇

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**Cast

Tom Hanks ... Sherman McCoy
Bruce Willis ... Peter Fallow
Melanie Griffith ... Maria Ruskin
Kim Cattrall ... Judy McCoy
Saul Rubinek ... Jed Kramer
Morgan Freeman ... Judge Leonard White
John Hancock ... Reverend Bacon
Kevin Dunn ... Tom Killian
Clifton James ... Albert Fox
Louis Giambalvo ... Ray Andruitti
Donald Moffat ... Mr. McCoy
Alan King ... Arthur Ruskin
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**Quotes:

*Peter Fallow:
If you’re going to live in a whorehouse, there’s only one thing you can do: be the best damn whore around.
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*Judge Leonard White:
Racist? You dare call me racist? Well I say unto you, what does it matter the color of a man’s skin when witnesses purjure themselves

and prosecutors enlist the perjury; when a district attorney throws a man to the mob for political gain and men of the cloth, men of God, take the prime cut? Is that justice? Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And the law is man’s feeble attempt to lay down the principles of decency. Decency!
And decency isn’t a deal, it’s not a contract or a hustle or an angle! Decency... decency is what your grandmother taught you. It’s in your bones! You go home now. Go home and be decent people. Be decent!