米格尔的战争 Miguel's War(2021)

#柏林71泰迪熊奖

#Berlinale71 某些国家的纪录片，只要主题符合西方的设想，随便攒吧攒吧就能进电影节，跟少数民族高考有加分，每个省份分数线不一样一个道理。

【黎巴嫩】沿袭《逃亡》，善用多种形式来打破叙事边界的做法；导演也在这里，写就一部充满分量的个人史。身处历史瞬间的亲历、辗转于多个城市却依然珍视自我身份的纠葛还有直面个人的创伤；颇为私人的表达与细致的分享让两小时承载了许多话题。当然不变的，始终还有开怀而又真诚的大笑，来对抗所有的挑战。

innovative documentary filmmaking. In the middle there's this weird humorous montage juxtaposing news broadcaster/propagandist's voice stating how Syrians and Palenstians etc invade, penetrate and violate Lebanon, with pornographic images mirroring Miguel's own sexual indulgence. In a way this is a heavy-handed yet poignant clue. What makes Miguel Miguel today, the unrequited love, the lost, twisted, and unreliable memories, the fabrications, gratifications, achievements and guilt, and the loneliness, are indicative of the society's ill writ large, universal but also specific to this war torn part of the world. The personal is always political.

像讀一本小說，一點點拼接起主人公的身世與情感史。開始覺出看新影片的趣味來了，虛構、回憶、故地重逢、擇演員扮演記憶中的角色、甚至讓導演自己的母親出場，種種手法都是一個目的，就是調出主人公那埋藏已久的記憶之盒。另外音樂太棒了