_**RESIGNATION**_ I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes,mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my RRSP statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause........ ......"Tag! You're it." Remember the Simple things in Life. ((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))

February 25, 2006

許鞍華的書劍與廢統

許鞍華1987年把金庸的書劍恩仇錄拍成電影,票房與口碑都不太好,是她連接失手的作品之一。但她拍這部片別有情意結,劇情中加入了一個當年甚具時代性、引起討論的問題。

電影改編的一段情節,在鋪排一番後,由一個原著沒有的角色問:(大意)明朝腐敗,百姓受苦,清朝國泰民安,滿清人令我們安居樂業,你們為什麼堅持要反清復明?

當時香港社會還在消化要回歸中國的現實,前途未卜,人心惶惶,這問題代表了許多人的心聲。我記得有一陣子,友儕之間會用「反清復明」來形容被視為過時脫節、不設實際的人和事。

這幾年,倒過來,支持反共、推動民主的人也開始面對形式類似的問題。例子之一是,有人看到「以為失去了」這個 post後的反應是:中國現在這麼強,還攪什麼反共遊行?

也有人覺得,對呀,中國人會上太空了。想當年有錢有知識的中國人大部份都跟國民黨到了台灣,剩下一大堆農民土匪流氓一窮二白的給共產黨,到今天,太空去過,胡錦濤住過帝國主義侵略者英國的白金漢宮,也不用怕美國人、日本人,真不容易呵。

我在北京的時候,有一天坐當地朋友的車子,經過雜亂的舊區,街上就是一群群流氓,朋友指著說,共產黨當年要管理這種人也不簡單,不嚴厲不獨裁是不可能的,難道還讓這些流氓自由思想,跟他們講民主人權。果真是凡事兩面睇 – 同一畫面,我看到:北京還有這許多貧民;他看到:全靠黨管好這些流氓我才能生活安定。

既然生活安定富足是大前題,如果台灣已經條件充足,那「統一」是不是已經等同「反清復明」一樣過時?我也反共,不認為共產黨=中國。共產黨達到令中國走向富強,但要走向更民主,機會握在台灣手中,而且要一個聰明人領導台灣,不會讓「統一」變成過時而打發掉。

陳水扁沒有遠見和才能,不配編寫統一中國或是建立台灣國這樣宏大史篇,他只是編作「槍擊事件」的失敗小編劇。陳水扁這個「飯桶」能想得出「廢統」,可能看過許鞍華的書劍,但忘了查一查電影的票房紀錄。

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