所有的不眠之夜
《所有的不眠之夜》(All These Sleepless Nights)， 2016年圣丹斯电影节参展波兰纪录片。
【导演谈】
“It is a film that very much tethered in reality,” the Polish director says in response to the idea that All These Sleepless Nights is somehow breaking the rules of documentary. “The characters are not pretending to be somebody they’re not. They’re going through real emotions. They’re not simulating emotions. That for me is kind of a definition of a documentary – and the definition of a good film for me.
“Its truthfulness lies in the way it captures moments and feelings. The intention was never to tell the story of specific characters with specific problems but more to capture what it is like to be young in this weird time and place and country. Doing vérité wouldn’t do it justice – you couldn’t get those feelings across.”
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His aim was to capture the sensibility of a generation of young Poles born after 1989, the end of communism, and with none of the repressions and fears of their parents. They have a reckless energy and a lack of self-consciousness that would have been unthinkable only a few years before.
“For the first time in Poland, we have this completely free generation,” Marczak, in his mid-thirties himself, says of his twenty-something protagonists. “Warsaw isn’t that big a city. Those younger people who are out on the streets all night, they somehow all know each other.”
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It’s a measure of how quickly attitudes shift that in today’s Poland the film already seems just a little bit nostalgic. Marczak completed it just as the ultra-nationalist Law and Justice Party was winning the 2015 parliamentary elections. The vibe today is very different from what it was even two years ago. “The right-wing party took over and really fucked up everything,” he sighs. “It was just like Trump [in America].”
The intention is to be emotionally truthful and to capture a mood in the city that has now, sadly, evaporated. Warsaw today may look just as it did when All These Sleepless Nights was being shot but the carefree attitude of the youngsters has already gone. “If you were to come to Poland this summer and observe the streets, maybe on the outside you wouldn’t see much difference from the vibe that is in the film but it would definitely be a completely different vibe mentally. Now everybody feels insecure, unsure of their future, wanting to leave – but where do you go?”
来源：All These Sleepless Nights director Michal Marczak on following two hedonistic partygoers, by Geoffrey Macnab, on 28 March2017.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/why-all-these-sleepless-nights-director-micha-marczak-warsaw-a7652926.html
【IDMB影评 - 节选】
I'm a 21-year old college student (in the USA, not Warsaw), and watching this film felt like scrolling through the memories of my past couple years. I have never felt a film so accurately capture a state of mind that I've experienced, and I believe Marczak was able to do this largely through two creative choices.
First, the aforementioned cinematography and editing lead to a dreamy capture of the scenes, with diegetic sounds blending with non-diegetic enhancements that make everything feel like a perfectly accurate view of the scene not through a camera and microphone, but through the mind's eye, with some distortion from alcohol and memory.
Second, Marczak lets on to very little of the subjects' lives beyond what we see in the nightlife, with every shot focused on the present (and perhaps the present thoughts of the subjects), and absolutely no hint of what the characters may do during the day, or what goals and aspirations they may have. ...... And so all it takes to resonate with the characters is a similar mindset, a similar experience of night and thought and life, not necessarily a shared knowledge of Polish school or work life.
Ultimately, this film does nothing more and nothing less than capture the mind and memories of a college-type urban youth, and so could easily be criticized for offering little in terms of commentary or guidance on these experiences. In fact, it all seems quite pointless at times, but this only serves to deepen the reality of Marczak's portrait - because any self-awareness or normative narrative in this film wouldn't make it a true portrait, a true image of the mind. If Marczak set out to get in the mind of myself and those with similar experiences to me when he made this movie, he has succeeded beyond my wildest expectations.
来源：A stunningly real portrait of nightlife through the eyes of a 20ish-year old, by Kasper Kubica, on 10 April 2016.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5146068/
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