High Life

HIGH LIFE 27 他回忆道：“整个拍摄过程非常紧凑，我们每天从早五点一直工作到晚七 点。每次打开摄影机，都仿佛听到金钱哗哗流逝的声音。过程非常艰难，几乎可 以算是大制作了。” 尽管整个拍摄过程只有六天，但光是剧本创作就花费了一年，而拍摄之前亦 预留了约三个月的筹备时间。 导演笑着说：“光是剧本故事我可能就改写了不下五百次，但其实也是非常 愉悦的过程。特别是你真切地感受到，你不仅是写了一个故事，而是在创造一个 世界。” 贝马善说他一直以来都对香港和澳门的渔民生活感到好奇，尤其是那些靠 三舨维持生计的渔民。三舨是一种源自中国南方的传统水上交通工具，为平底木 船，相对比较简陋，但却是渔民用于贸易、交通甚至走私的工具。 贝马善解释道：“它对我来说是有象征意义的。我尝试着在这部电影里探讨 香港与澳门的关系。 “这两座城市总让我感觉有些神秘的东西尚待发掘，尽管无法具体说出到底 是哪些东西。这两个地方对于创作者而言非常棒，因为在这里你可以利用全世界 所有的想象力去创作出伟大的文学、小说和电影。 “这里是我开始的地方，也是我为什么在这里拍电影的原因。” To shoot with film requires heavier equipment and more crew than usual, and the shooting ismore easily impacted by daylight, the performance of actors and the environment as a whole. You can imagine, therefore, the challenges Bessmertny faced filming on five boats in the middle of the ocean. “It was a very intensive experience, working from 5am to 7pm everyday,” he recalls. “Every time you roll the camera, you hear the ‘cling cling’ of the money. It was quite serious and tough, almost like a big production.” Though shooting only lasted six days, writing the script took a full year and pre-production work another three months. “I probably changed the story around 500 times when writing it,” the director laughs. “But that is also the most enjoyable part, when you really feel like you are building a world and creating a story.” Bessmertny explains that he has long been curious about the lives of fishermen in Macau and Hong Kong and the “Sampans” that are so widely used in southern China. The sampan, a traditional boat, has been used over the years for trade, smuggling and transportation. “For me it was symbolic,” Bessmertny explains. “I was trying to explore how to connect with Hong Kong and Macau in this film. “There are always mysteries in these two cities and you don’t have a clear- cut image of what they are. That’s the marvelous opportunity for creators, because this is where you can use all the imagination of the world to create some great literature, great novels, great movies. “This is where I started and this is why I make films here.”