微影评|《缘分天注定》——Serendipity（2001）

一副手套  a pair of black cashmere gloves

男主和女主因争抢一副手套误打误撞的相识，故事就这样开始……

看过《阿甘正传》的人一定会记得那从天飘落的羽毛，而这部电影贯穿始末的却是一副手套。影片的最后，手套从天而落，爱随之圆满……

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念念不忘，源于当时的“定情信物”还在，正所谓睹物思人。倘若今时今日你仍保留当初对你而言的某样特殊物件，不妨一探心之所在！ BTW 为什么是手套？码字的时候突然想起手套的英文“glove”（已被自己的奇思妙想所打败）：拆开的话是“g”“love”，如此说来贯穿影片始末的“手套”还是有其特殊含义，和爱多少有些关系的吧。

5元美钞 $5 bill with Jon's name and phone number

女主的古怪让人有几分不解，笃信命运的她把一切小细节都当做征兆，“When that 5$ bill makes its way back into my hands, I'll be able to call you”(如果这张写上名字的钞票再回到我的手中，我就会联系你)，茫茫人海会有这样的机缘巧合？可结果就是如此不可思议，所谓“缘”由天定，“分”在人为……

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记得小时候交钱，老师怕收到假钱，都让我们在钱上写上自己的名字，可有谁曾考虑过那张签过自己名字的钱后来流落何方，会有一天再回到自己手中吗？ 

一本书  《Love in the Time of Cholera 》

“She will write her name and phone number on the inside cover and sell it to a used book store the next morning. If they are meant to be together, they will find the items and contact each other”（女主将自己联系方式写在书的内页，随后卖至旧书摊，男主若再遇到，彼此自然就会联系上）

多么任性且不切实际的idea，自此后男主每次路过旧书摊都会情不自禁的翻开查阅，即便几年后的他即将走进婚姻殿堂。“众里寻他千百度”，就在他打算彻底放弃，重新面对准新娘时，戏剧性的一幕发生：新娘为其精心准备的新郎互换礼物竟然就是这本写有女主名字和联系方式的书。PS：脑海中突然出现华仔的那首《天意》“如果说一切都是天意，一切都是命运，终究已注定……”

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很多电影火了的同时，影片中提及的书也随之成为热搜，一如之前公众号推过的“微影评|《北京遇上西雅图之不二情书》”中那本《查令十字街84号》。这部电影中的《Love in the time of cholera》（片中译作《爱在瘟疫蔓延时》，又作《霍乱时期的爱情》，该书是加西亚·马尔克斯获得诺贝尔文学奖后出版的第一部小说，被誉为“人类有史以来最伟大的爱情小说”，是20世纪最重要的经典文学巨著之一）。

最经典的还有片尾“悼文”的中译：

Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiance. He was 35 years old and soft-spoken and obsessive. Trager never looked the part of a hopless romantic. But in the final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden quasi-Jungian persona... surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit for his long-reputed soul mate, a woman whom he only spent a few precious hours with. Sadly,the protracted search ended late Saturday night... incomplete and utter failure. Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to the belief... that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. Uh-uh.But rather it's a tapestry of events... that culminate in an exquisite,sublime plan. Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of the New York Times, described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life. "Things were clear for him,"Kansky noted. Ultimately, Jonathan concluded that if we are to live life in harmony with the universe, wo must all possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call"fatum," what we currently refer to as destiny. 

乔纳森卓加，有线体育台优秀监制，即失红颜，复破婚盟，肝肠寸断，遂于昨宵撒手尘寰，享年三十有五，壮君文质彬彬，公尔忘私，平素言行，绝无痴态，孰料，阳寿将尽之际，流露鲜为人知的浪漫，刹那惊绝，化作萦回梦魂，遍觅芳踪，历尽一波三折，本性情怀，浮现无遗，呜呼，踏破铁鞋，方觉一番心事付东流，语云：匹夫可以夺其爱，不可夺其志，壮君依然坚信，人生际遇绝非偶然，冥冥中，上苍早已安排周详，丝毫不爽，其友文坛巨掰，时报主笔甸恩谓。壮君晚年脱胎换骨，有所顿悟，一以蔽之：欲臻天人合一，须信一字，此字古已有之，于今亦然，唯“缘”而已。

后记：2001年的一部老片，仍可忆当年观影花絮，周围一干人谈笑风生，独我一人静静看完，而后讲与他人，众人皆惊。《Serendipity》不算是我看过的最好的电影，但却是印象极其深刻的一部。虽对女主笃信命运的做法不置可否，但缘分二字确难琢磨和解释，BTW 你相信缘分么？

据《每日邮报》的报道：一份三明治售价214美元(约合人民币1328元)？是的你没听错，“全球最贵三明治”来自美国纽约的Serendipity 3餐厅。

这就是片中男主和女主吃冰淇淋的那个餐厅，倘若有机会去纽约土豪们可以感受一下。