城鄉的雙重移動與都市中產階級的自身－－1983年的《搭錯車》與2008年《海角七號》

The Double Journey between the City and the Village: The Transforming Multi-selves of Urban Middle Class in Taiwanese Popular Films

10.30008/CD.201906_(24).0008

吳欣隆(Wu, Shin-lung)

都市史 ； 城市 ； 鄉村 ； 眷村 ； 多重自身 ； 搭錯車 ； 海角七號 ； Urban History ； Urban ； Village ； Military dependents' Village ； Multi-selves ； ＂Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing＂ ； ＂Cape No. 7＂

城市與設計學報

24期（2019 / 06 / 01）

205 - 218

繁體中文

印度後殖民研究學者阿細思．南迪（Ashis Nandy）認為大眾電影與現代化過程中的都市中產階級的多重自身有著密切的關係。本文嘗試借助於阿細思・南迪對於大眾電影（popular cinema）的分析，討論20餘年來臺灣的大眾電影中都市中產階級多重自身（multiple selves）的轉變，以及其社會與政治意涵。不同於大多數的分析角度，傾向於將《海角七號》放在國族認同或者後殖民的脈絡中，本文將把《海角七號》與《搭錯車》放在都市史的脈絡中並置，看待這兩個通俗情節劇（melodramas）裡頭的城、鄉與多重自身的辯證關係。跟尋常的歷史編纂不同，本文不將這兩部電影視為歷史檔案，用來考察文本的歷史意義與象徵；而是當做建構主體的表意實踐（signifying practices），從這兩部電影所形構的不同的主體想像中，折射出臺灣都市發展的新局勢。

In the work of Ashis Nandy, he suggests that there is a corresponding relationship between the popular film and ＂the multi-selves＂ of the urban middle class. Basing on his perspective, which is to see the popular film as the carrier for dialectics between the self and the disowned self, in this essay I discuss the transformation of those ＂selves＂ in the Taiwanese popular film in the past twenty-five years and the social and political implication embedded in. In this essay, I juxtapose two films, Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing (1983) and Cape No.7 (2008), in order to see the dialectics between ＂the double journey＂ -the journey back and forth the city and the village- and the transforming ＂selves.＂ The two films share a lot of similarities that both of them had made incredible ＂miracles＂ at the box office, and at the same time, both are genres of melodrama which ambiguously located between that of a realist and a commercial one. Besides, the storylines are both predicated upon young people who dream of standing on the stages as a singing star, and in the end they both realize their dream. For my purpose, I'll use ＂the city＂ and ＂the village＂ in a loose sense to see the journey ＂from village to city＂ in Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing and the inverse journey ＂from city to village＂ in Cape No.7 after an interval of twenty-five years.

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