同样是对动作事无巨细地呈现布列松与梅尔维尔不同的是:没有优雅只有冷峻;没有潇洒浪子只有卑猥凡人;没有驾轻就熟从容淡定地抽身离去只有犹豫迟疑后因环境压迫而不得不做出“to be or not to be”的抉择 大量旁白让电影极富文学性连同几乎是“黏”在男主身上的镜头把观众和死囚置于同一境地结尾用声音拓展叙事空间营造出的紧张感出神入化
it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up the game. But the game is known, its going on is like a madness, it is so exhausted.劳伦斯寥寥数语已经概括地很明白了