劉德華的《失孤》 是關於一次不幸的旅行

Peng Sanyuan’s “Lost and Love” could ably serve as a travelogue of China: glowingly verdant trees, winding roads, fishing shacks, ribbonlike bridges, cafes and grubby city intersections, all shot by Mark Lee Ping Bin, the cinematographer who has helped the great director Hou Hsiao-hsien sculpt time in images.

彭三源的電影《失孤》可以成功充當一部中國旅行紀錄片：蔥翠的樹木、蜿蜒的道路、漁民小屋、綵帶般的橋樑、小飯館和污穢的城鄉結合部……本片攝影師李屏賓曾與大導演侯孝賢合作，把時光凝聚爲畫面。

But this is unhappy sightseeing: Ms. Peng’s film centers on a man on a decade-plus search for his lost son, a victim of the scourge of child trafficking in China. What results is ample fodder for a stop-and-go tear-jerker featuring the Hong Kong star Andy Lau, suitably rumpled like a piece of distressed clothing, as the poor, bereft father, Lei.

但這是一次不幸的旅行：彭三源的這部電影講述一箇中國男人花十幾年的時間尋找被拐賣的兒子。這個題材足夠拍出一部時時催人淚下的影片，香港影星劉德華飾演片中痛失親人、貧窮的父親雷澤寬，臉上的皺紋就像一件破舊的衣服，與角色頗爲相稱。

On a mountain leg of his province-by-province dragnet, Lei is joined by a young mechanic, Zeng (Boran Jing), after repairs on his bike, which flies a flag of his missing child. When the younger, well-coiffed man reveals he was kidnapped as a child, the film begins a potentially poignant drama of two people in need, both clinging to grief.

雷澤寬一個省一個省地搜尋，在走一段山路時，他遇到年輕的修車工曾帥（井柏然飾），曾帥幫他修好了摩托車，也讓他想起自己走失的兒子。這個留着時髦髮型的年輕人透露，自己也是在小時候被拐賣的，至此影片開始成爲一部有可能十分辛酸的劇情片：兩個有着同樣悲傷的男人需要對方。

Their bond feels awkwardly developed, as typified by a shouting match over the bike and a playful car-washing scene. Ms. Peng, a novelist and screenwriter, keeps lurching into wide shot to show off the landscape (especially the bridges that tap into Zeng’s vague memories of childhood) and cutting away to wispy stories about a baby trafficker and a distraught mother.

他們之間的關係有些笨拙地發展着，最有代表性的一幕就是在摩托車上大聲呼喊的戲，以及一幕有趣的洗車場面。彭三源是小說家兼編劇，她持續使用廣角鏡頭來展示風景（特別是曾帥模糊的童年記憶中的那些橋樑），同時切入拐賣嬰兒以及發狂的母親這樣一些依稀往事。

“Lost and Love” (“Lost Orphan” in the original Chinese title) confronts serious problems but is too busy reaching for epic sweep and soaring moments to nail the fine detail of main characters’ fraught give-and-take.

《失孤》直面重大問題，但太急於表現宏大的景象和昇華的時刻，未能很好捕捉主人公之間令人憂傷的情感糾葛的細節。