2046

周慕雲與蘇麗珍的戀情是時空的一次錯摸，周慕雲自始被困在2046號房間，那裡有他與蘇麗珍最精彩的時光，也有他最深藏的秘密；可以說，周慕雲的心從來沒有離開過2046。為了維繫自己與現實世界的紐帶，他塑造出半自傳式的小說人物木村，讓他帶著周慕雲的秘密離開2046，以謎般笑容睥睨天下間沉淪在潮濕的回憶世界的眾生(包括現實世界中的自己)。但是，這個充滿自嘲意味的人物卻是個不中用的傢伙，他雖然離開了，卻忍不住一次又一次地回去，重複著希臘神話中Sisyphus的輪迴惡夢。「你願意跟我走嗎？」木村一次又一次地追問機械人王菲，明知道她不會有答案、她的沉默也不是一種答案，而更重要的是，這個機械人並不是他所追求的對象！他問的已不再是一條實質的問題，而是一條rhetorical question，因為這條問題的真正對象，也就是《花樣年華》中的蘇麗珍，已經從周慕雲的世界中徹底抹消。

小說中的木村替周慕雲揹上一切感情包袱，令現實中的周慕雲能夠把男女之間的關係蒸餾至僅存情慾。他對白玲的冷漠，並不是為了裝酷而擠出來的，而是他的人生態度。他並不認為自己傷害了任何人。房東大女兒觸動了周慕雲對蘇麗珍的感情，但他不敢造次，躲在暗處偷偷張望，像個生怕被揭發偷腥的和尚一樣踟躕著腳步慢慢靠近，最後還是退下陣來。鞏俐和王菲是《花樣年華》中蘇麗珍的兩個reincarnations，也是在周慕雲的回憶中，對蘇麗珍最印象深刻的兩個側面：前者代表離別時的銘深刻骨，而後者則是交往時的溫馨窩心，也是一個重生的契機。周慕雲選擇了放棄，因此小說的結局改不了，也不知道從何改起。

跟王家衛過去的作品一樣，《2046》的每一格膠片都美得叫人窒息。我相信所有被王家衛拿來當草稿的膠片應有"雖死猶榮"之歎：沒有你們，便沒有《2046》！配樂也是第一流的。《2046》最大的問題是拍攝經年，故事焦點和節奏有欠理想，而且畫外音也用得過火－《重慶森林》那種展現角色內心思想的soliloquy變成了今天喋喋不休的monologue，是向抨擊他的觀眾妥協，還是對自己的表達力產生懷疑－我希望是前者。

Personal History by Katharine Graham

Although lauded for her journalistic integrity during the Watergate fallout, the late Katharine Graham is in fact not much of a hero, or for that matters, someone with particularly admirable traits. In her autobiography, she reminiscences the life of a daughter, a wife, a mother and a businesswoman overshadowed by and overly depended on the men surrounding her. She is constantly looking for a dominant male figure to take her under his wing. She has no strong intention to take the centerstage, not even in the thick of challenges. She's there only for the ride, and so it seems.

Despite a relentless name-dropping frenzy, Mrs Graham comes across surprisingly honest in her book. Her personality literally shines through the pages. She hasn't so much as trying to take undue credits for the Post's achievements (she makes it very clear she has little to do with exposing the Watergate scandal), and has laid bare her own weaknesses to the amusement of the readers (she admits she's eager to please, which is only too obvious, and is haunted by feelings of insecurity, despontency and underachievement).

A few anecdotes about several US Presidents are recounted, but nothing that will make you ooh and aah. Personal History is a well-written and intimate account of a fantastic and eventful life that was hardly the making of the protagonist. Not that surviving the life of a rich parent's daughter, a franatic and suicidal genius' wife and the head of a national media conglomerate anything close to easy, but Mrs Graham seems habitually taking the back seat as if she's a bystander. Success is almost handed over to her. After all, born right is all that matters, at least that's what I have in mind when I turned the last page.