挣扎

1995年的美国喜剧片《挣扎》，诞生于类型电影不断吸收现实日常与社会观察的创作氛围之中。喜剧在这里不仅是轻松的表达方式，也为呈现生活压力、选择困境与人与人之间的磨合提供了空间。片名带有鲜明的矛盾感，与喜剧类型形成微妙呼应：挣扎并不总是沉重严肃，也可能藏在笨拙的应对、意外的碰撞和日常琐事里。作为一部来自美国的九十年代作品，它映照出当时商业喜剧贴近生活、以幽默消解现实张力的类型气质。

In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys's own threadbare ...