2016年上半年上帝带走了妖娆的David Bowie，下半年的上帝突然多愁善感起来，于是又召唤走了睿智的Leonard Cohen。于是我们终于失去了内敛而优雅，有着沙哑声线的唱诗人以后，确又无意中得到在飞逝的时光中回味和咀嚼他那些韵味长存的诗歌的机会。
在Cohen的各种版本的身份介绍中，演员，也许是不起眼的一个标签，毕竟他的音乐、诗、小说都已经足够炫目，而各色影视导演们也许没有太多机会和这位深居简出的谪仙在镜头前合作，所以他们用了另一种方式，既是合作，更是一种致敬方式吧：将Cohen的歌曲放在了他们的画面中。继续用他深沉而细腻的唱诗曲来让我们动容。
所以就借着这篇记录来回顾下那些曾在镜头中曾经乍现又惊艳的歌曲，在流逝的镜头中一起再回味下不曾流逝的旋律和感受。
2016 【Pete's Dragon 彼得的龙】
迪斯尼今年暑期档的电影，翻拍自1977年的同名动画歌舞电影，但在新片中歌舞形式彻底不见。独立导演出身的David Lowery感觉缺少童真，而站在完全旁观成人的角度，而且索然无味的去讲了这样一个珠玉在前的故事，甚至选入Cohen老爷子的歌曲作为插曲也显得有些格格不入。不过陪着小孩进电影院的父母们可能会被这样有些冒失的选择当作贴心的加分项了。
曲目：So Long, Marianne
选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】
彼时的Cohen33岁，刚从一个备受关注和争议的作家身份放下笔，离开打字机，背起吉他，走进了录音棚没几年，他的声线也还没有磨砺出岁月的沧桑。伴着连绵的吉他扫弦，悠扬的小提琴，还缺少那迷人的深邃魅力，但带着些许亮色的质朴却刚好完美诠释了这首有几分忧伤更多是乐观的民谣。
彼时的Cohen和他的音乐诗，亲近却不滥情，悲伤又透着洞观世情的睿智已经略有体现。
Come over to the window,my little darling,
I'd like to try to read your palm.
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
before I let you take me home.
Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Well you know that I love to live with you,
but you make me forget so very much.
I forget to pray for the angels
and then the angels forget to pray for us.
Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
We met when we were almost young
deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
as we went kneeling through the dark.
Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
is fastening my ankle to a stone.
Now so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
For now I need your hidden love.
I'm cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.
Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Oh,you are really such a pretty one.
I see you've gone and changed your name again.
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
to wash my eyelids in the rain!
Oh so long,Marianne,it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
2015【True Detective真探第二季】
HBO出神剧，我现在都还眼巴巴的等着【权力的游戏】第七季，以及这部【真探】的第三季，当然最近口碑爆棚的【西部世界】等到季终也肯定会一头栽进去见识见识。
而【真探】的奇情黑色故事在冷峻的镜头、叙事节奏的渲染下，就像一把黑色的锥子，不动声色的刺入内心，交织在一起的命运，将剧情和感情的冲突涂上了宿命般的黑色无力感。
曲目：Never mind
选自 Leonard Cohen 2014年个人专辑【Popular Problems】
做为片头曲Never mind几乎从一开始就完美的契合了这样的基调：Cohen冷峻深沉的人声有力而节制的在歌唱，冰冷的重拍电子为主的伴奏编曲，而充满印度风情的诡异女声声部又陡然将冷峻推向诡异。而这首2014年的歌曲的歌词更称得上是【真探】的天作之合：There's Truth that lives,And Truth that dies,Never mind......不是无奈的叹息，更是直接的质问，歌曲终了，故事也画上了句号，但是关于真相和真理的探寻却继续。
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
I was not caught
Though many tried
I live among you
Well disguised
I had to leave
My life behind
I dug some graves
You'll never find
The story's told
With facts and lies
I had a name
But never mind
Never mind
Never mind
The war was lost
The treaty signed
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
I don't know which
So never mind
Your victory
Was so complete
That some among you
Thought to keep
A record of
Our little lives
The clothes we wore
Our spoons our knives
The games of luck
Our soldiers played
The stones we cut
The songs we made
Our law of peace
Which understands
A husband leads
A wife commands
And all of this
Expressions of
The Sweet Indifference
Some call Love
The High Indifference
Some call Fate
But we had Names
More intimate
Names so deep and
Names so true
They're blood to me
They're dust to you
There is no need
That this survive
There's truth that lives
And truth that dies
Never mind
Never mind
I live the life
I left behind
There's truth that lives...
I could not kill
The way you kill
I could not kill
The way you kill
I could not hate
I tried I failed
You turned me in
At least you tried
You side with them
Whom you despise
This was
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies
You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind
Never mind
Never mind
The story's told
With facts and lies
You own the world
So never mind
Never mind
Never mind
I live the life
I left behind
I live it full
I live it wide
Through layers of time
You can't divide
My woman's here
My children too
Their graves are safe
From ghosts like you
In places deep
With roots entwined
I live the life I left behind
2014【Wild 涉足荒野】
2014年一部关于寻找的电影，也是一段关于自我认识的记录。抱歉我不想用“救赎”这样已经太流于表面的词了，我宁愿化一生的时间来认清自己，看清这个世界，抓住一些属于自己的勇气，记住属于这个世界的一些美丽。如同影片最后，身处荒野密林，女主微笑了，嗯，这世界，这生活如何荒芜，也要有这一笑间的芳华。
曲目：Suzanne
选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】
这部电影的原声选了很多我喜欢的老歌手、乐队的歌曲，比如Simon & Garfunkel、Bruce Springsteen、Portishead，当然还有就是Cohen老爷子的了，而且是他的首本名曲Suzanne。
爱恋、思慕从音乐响起的瞬间就随着轻柔的吉他，Cohen疏离又温暖的人声中流淌而出。有些爱会随风飘扬，有些爱会落入尘土，有些爱也会湮没在大海，但是Cohen的爱如同幽深的地下暗河，被地壳包围也有种温柔涌动，而不期待为人轻易发现。Cohen在众多场所唱过众多次Suzanne以后，他才吐露Suzanne是他一位友人的妻子，而这种发乎情止乎礼的情愫正是造就这首温柔却不媚俗的情歌的催化剂吧。
suzanne(album version-leonard cohen
suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
you can hear the boats go by
you can spend the night beside her
and you know that she's half crazy
but that's why you want to be there
and she feeds you tea and oranges
that come all the way from china
and just when you mean to tell her
that you have no love to give her
then she gets you on her wavelength
and she lets the river answer
that you've always been her lover
and you want to travel with her
and you want to travel blind
and you know that she will trust you
for you've touched her perfect body with your mind
and jesus was a sailor
when he walked upon the water
and he spent a long time watching
from his lonely wooden tower
and when he knew for certain
only drowning men could see him
he said all men will be sailors then
until the sea shall free them
but he himself was broken
long before the sky would open
forsaken almost human
he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
and you want to travel with him
and you want to travel blind
and you think maybe you'll trust him
for he's touched your perfect body with his mind
now suzanne takes your hand
and she leads you to the river
she is wearing rags and feathers
from salvation army counters
and the sun pours down like honey
on our lady of the harbour
and she shows you where to look
among the garbage and the flowers
there are heroes in the seaweed
there are children in the morning
they are leaning out for love
and they will lean that way forever
while suzanne holds the mirror
and you want to travel with her
and you want to travel blind
and you know that you can trust her
for she's touched your perfect body with her mind
2013【Songs of Anarchy: Volume 3 混乱之子原声选集3】
知道这部FX制作的电视剧很早，但是当时看简介觉着是一部黑帮、家庭伦理混搭题材，大概是当时觉得腻味（同期我应该是在追【大西洋帝国】），所以放着他到2014年第七季全剧终都没去看。不过最近又看到他的另一个译名：无政府之子，又突然来了兴趣，等有时间来填坑吧。
曲目：Come Healing
选自 Leonard Cohen 2012年专辑【Old Ideas】
混乱中如何找寻真实的安稳，没有看剧的我，在弦乐和钢琴陪伴中的圣洁女声旋律缓缓出来之时，却是实实在在的感受到了安稳。而Cohen的低沉嗓音如同一个仁慈的老者用歌声在洗涤伤痛，宽恕着挣扎的痛苦灵魂。简单但走心的旋律，治愈的圣歌温暖着周遭的世界。
O, gather 'round the brokenness
Bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
The splinters that you carried
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
Leonard:
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
Of cruelty or the grace
Together:
O, solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
O, see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
2012【Rampart 堡垒】
2011年出品的电影，阵容非常有吸引力：Woody Harrelson、Steve Buscemi，还有Ben Foster，加上警界黑档案的故事背景，感觉是很火爆的类型片。但是当坐在电脑前过了5分钟以后，就会发现这是一部以文艺片手法演绎的故事。缓慢的节奏，几乎是Harrelson的独角戏，凭借肢体、表情，以及导演的镜头调度，完成了对一个恶警的立体刻画。一段被人偷拍的施暴恶行本身是能成为套路商业片的导火索，在这部电影里却几乎完全的还原了生活：偶有波澜的生活始终推着人生往前行，甚至来不及愤怒或者沮丧。
曲目：Famous Blue Raincoat
选自Leonard Cohen1971年专辑【Songs Of Love And Hate】
这也是一首脍炙人口的经典曲目，而且曾被Joan Baez、Tori Amos等才华横溢又个性鲜明的女歌手所翻唱。凌晨的纽约，华灯已快熄灭，而曙光也还未至，冷寂而衰弱的气息此刻正浓。轻拨的吉他、Cohen悲伤内敛的嗓音融进了回忆、忏悔，还有无尽的怜悯，还有隐隐的微弱希望藏在其中，令人不忍停止聆听，在一遍遍Cohen的吟唱中，审视自己的滑稽，自己的无力，自己在白日的顽劣和荒唐。
It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now,
I hope you're keeping some kind of record.
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake
She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.
If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
2011【The Art of Getting By 家庭作业】
青春，无论是每一场考试，甚至是每一次恋爱都是一次试练。2011年的独立电影【家庭作业】正是这样一部青春记录，虽然缺少浪漫喜剧的元素，却又让人能冷静的回顾属于青春的岁月和呼吸。粗枝大叶的表面下面谁都有一颗敏感的心，何况是最宝贵的少年时光？
曲目：Winter Lady
选自 Leonard Cohen 1967年的首张个人专辑【Songs Of Leonard Cohen】
这首曲子老实说我觉得有些强说愁的感觉，旋律也不是喜欢的韵味：一直觉得他冷但又有几分油滑或者是轻浮。但似乎在这样一部青春文艺片中又恰好能贴合男主的经历。而33岁时Cohen的无奈演绎这样人生经过的青春站台，似乎也是刚好合拍：青春渐远，我将继续渐行。
Trav'ling lady, stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover.
Well I lived with a child of snow
when I was a soldier,
and I fought every man for her
until the nights grew colder.
She used to wear her hair like you
except when she was sleeping,
and then she'd weave it on a loom
of smoke and gold and breathing.
And why are you so quiet now
standing there in the doorway?
You chose your journey long before
you came upon this highway.
Trav'ling lady stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover.
先告一段落，战战兢兢，怕挂一漏万，所以先放上这一部分的网易云音乐歌单，听听老爷子的歌，追忆中再来整理思绪。
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