一位香港女性鬥士的覺醒

The films of the Hong Kong director Ann Hui (“A Simple Life”) can be less flashy than those of her regional contemporaries, like Tsui Hark and John Woo. But that’s to her advantage: With remarkable consistency, she has imbued her work with close observation, measured pacing and quiet gravity. Her latest drama, “Our Time Will Come,” a story of the Hong Kong underground during the Japanese occupation in World War II, upholds her high standard with its account of the making of a resistance fighter.

香港導演許鞍華（曾執導過《桃姐》）的電影可能沒有同一地區其他當代導演的那麼華麗，比如徐克和吳宇森。但那是她的優勢：她的作品一向具有細緻的觀察、精心掌控的節奏和安靜的力量。她的最新作品《明月幾時有》講述的是二戰期間香港日據時期地下黨的故事，影片對一位抗日鬥士成長過程的描述體現了她的高水準。

An earnest primary-school teacher, Fang Lan (Zhou Xun), lives with her mother (Nina Paw) in Hong Kong, and finds herself single when her boyfriend, Wing (Wallace Huo Chienhwa), decides to work for the Japanese. Fang’s awakening arrives after seeing how a visiting intellectual she admires is smuggled to safety by members of the Dongjiang guerrillas, who conduct campaigns against the Japanese. Recruited by the group’s rebel leader (Eddie Peng Yuyan, impressive as a dashing man of action), Fang eventually becomes a leader herself, whose spine and commitment are tested when her mother foolheartedly assumes a mission.

方蘭（周迅飾）是一位熱誠的小學教師，和媽媽（葉德嫺飾）住在香港，在男友（霍建華飾）決定爲日軍工作時，與其分手。在看到一位她仰慕的到訪學者被抗擊日軍的東江游擊隊偷送到安全地區後，她覺醒了。她被游擊隊領袖（彭于晏飾，一位頗具銳氣的實幹者，令人印象深刻）招募入隊，最終自己成了領袖。在母親魯莽地接受一項任務後，她的骨氣和忠誠受到了考驗。

The story is framed by present-day black-and-white passages in which an aging war veteran (the Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung, excellent) recalls Fang’s valor. Tense sequences of undercover operations are reminiscent of those in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows,” while moments of explosive violence have a “Godfather”-like immediacy. But it’s Fang’s transformation, embodied by Ms. Zhou’s lean, cool authority, that carries the most weight, lending the proceedings an unforced feminist dimension, and reaffirming Ms. Hui’s status as one of China’s cinematic treasures.

故事主線由一系列當代黑白視頻片段組建。在視頻中，一位年邁的抗戰老兵（香港著名影星梁家輝飾，非常精彩）回憶起方蘭的英勇。一系列扣人心絃的地下行動讓人想起了讓-皮埃爾·梅爾維爾(Jean-Pierre Melville)的《影子部隊》(Army of Shadows)，而其激烈的暴力時刻又有如《教父》(Godfather)般讓人感同身受。不過，最有分量的是方蘭的轉變，體現在周迅簡潔冷靜的表演中，給這個故事增添了一種自然的女權主義色彩，再次確立了許鞍華作爲中國電影界瑰寶級人物的地位。