我是一个看电影的时候不太哭的人,但昨天看小妇人却哭了三四次。在Jo得知Laurie已经和Amy结婚,偷偷去他们才知道的秘密信箱里取出自己的表白信,然后在桥上亲手撕掉的时候;在Meg的婚礼上,Jo说,“I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I can't believe childhood is over”的时候。在Laurie对Jo表白说“I've loved you ever since I've known you”的时候。
我几乎从知道爱情这个概念开始,就是心灵相通、精神联结之爱的狂热信徒,当然,我有很多很多藏在心里最宝贵位置的电影、音乐,都在向我反复陈述这个观点。安妮霍尔里,安妮第一次挑战在酒吧里唱歌,唱的是Doris Day的《It had to be you》,里面写“I've wandered around, and finally found...somebody who...could make me be true...could make me be blue...And even be glad, just to be sad thinking of you...",这首同样的歌,也出现在当哈利遇到莎莉里,哈利在电影结尾对莎莉表白,“我喜欢你在四十度的天气里还感冒,喜欢你用一个小时来点你要吃的pie”,这几乎是我这么多年来的爱情圣经。
Jo在对妈妈说“Women, they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition and they've got talent as well as just beauty, and I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it! But... I just...just felt so lonely.”那一刻,我哭得很惨,因为Jo这个角色在Greta的镜头里,一下就活了过来,Greta透过Jo,在向所有人说,爱是美妙绝伦的,并且它绝不仅仅是一部分幸运人类的专有物,渴望爱也并不是软弱的表现。蒂凡尼的早餐里,编剧早就写"You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."爱不应该是软弱的近义词,不应该是独立女性的反义词,我们野心勃勃冲出困难的性别语境,但我们也当然应该被人爱、被人看到和欣赏。