第五届青年影像论坛参展影片：第36个故事

第36个故事

　　2010/Taiwan/Color/82mins/HD

　　导演／编剧：萧雅全

　　监制：侯孝贤

　　主演：桂纶镁、林辰唏、张翰

　　剧情简介

　　朵儿开了一家梦想中的咖啡馆。她希望这家咖啡馆优雅、简单、充满浓浓的咖啡香，就像她自己一样。但是个性大剌剌的妹妹蔷儿，却任性地在咖啡馆里玩起了「以物易物」的游戏。大量的老旧杂物就这样堆积在原本应该令人觉得放松的小小空间里，等着被评估、交换。

　　无法预知终点的交换游戏，换得到真正想要的东西吗？换得到朵儿的梦想、蔷儿的爱情吗？换得到引人入胜的回忆故事或是闪闪发光的未来梦想吗？？

　　不管你想要什么，朵儿咖啡馆都有，只换不卖。

　　你…想换什么呢？

　　导演的话

　　我想表达「以物易物」的价值观，那是古老，没有货币干扰的价值观，而这种古老态度，其实一直没从我们的生活中消失。即使现代社会，局部透过以物易物来过日子的智慧依然俯拾皆是。

　　倒不是货币制度有什么不妥，货币制度既明确又有效率，是人类伟大的发明。但既然已经有这么多人赞美过价格世界了，不如让我来说说它的缺点：如果凡事以价格为度量，作为一个人，就会太现实且失去人情。

　　这是为什么偶而我们遇见无法标价的事物时，总会有可爱的感受。

　　—萧雅全

　　导演简介 萧雅全

　　1967生，毕业于国立艺术学院美术系，21岁开始拍摄短片，1994年开始拍摄广告。2000年首部电影长片《命带追逐》入选54届坎城影展导演双周，并荣获多项国际大奖。最新作品为《第36个故事》。

　　Taipei Exchanges

　　Director/Writer: Hsiao Ya-chuan

　　Executive Director: Ho Hsiao Hsien

　　Cast: Guai Lun-Mei, Zaizai Lin, Chang-Han

　　Synopsis

　　Doris’s Café is a homey space where people could relax and enjoy the smoothing afternoon sun and daydreaming. The aroma of coffee and home-baked desserts fills the air. The café is meant to be as elegant as its owner, Doris, but has been turned upside down by her sister, Josie. Ignoring Doris protest, Josie starts exchanging goods with costumers in the shop. Objects of various kinds begin to accumulate; discarded by their previous owners, they prove to be treasures in the eyes of others. The activity of swapping goods upstages Doris coffee-making and becomes the biggest attraction of the shop.

　　One day, a mysterious man walks in by chance. He loves brownie with espresso and that happens to be Doris’ favourite combination as well. He brings 35 bars of soaps from 35 different cities in the hope of trading them for something special. Every time he comes in, he orders a cup of coffee and tells a story of one of the soaps. These exotic tales fill Doris mind with beautiful images and she materialises them in her paintings.

　　In the end, Doris is willing to swap her heart for these enchanting tales - she longs to see these cities with her own eyes…During the process of this exchange, what exactly does he get from the soaps on which his memories are engraved?

　　Director’s Statement

　　I would like to look into the value of ‘goods exchange’, an ancient practice born long before the idea of currency. In fact, this practice never dies out in our history; even in a modern society people keep swapping goods in one way or another.

　　There is nothing wrong with the currency; it’s a clear and efficient system, one of the greatest inventions of human beings. But since so many people have sung their praise for the system, please allow me here to point out a few shortcomings. For example, if one judges everything by its price, he’d become so pragmatic that he might be blind to other values. This explains why when we see something on which we cannot put a price tag we’d in voluntarily grow warm towards it.

　　Director’s Biography

　　Born in 1967 in Taiwan, Hsiao Ya Chuan graduated from the Fine Art Department of the National Institute of Arts. Hsiao began making short films in 1988 and has been working in advertising since 1994. His first feature-length film, Mirror Image, was selected in the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes in 2001 and won numerous awards. In 2010, Hsiao finished his second feature, Taipei Exchanges.

　　Production: BIT Films

　　Distribution: Atomic Future/Atom Cinema