6/10。加瑞尔尽力模糊梦境、记忆和真实的边界，用黑白色调进一步抹去时代背景，近乎二十分展现街垒之夜、躲避警察的纪录片式段落，也被置于残酷的个人化气质，斜躺在地上的镰刀、门牌号写着68都象征五月风暴的红色革命，这些有影射含义的超现实符号和梦境似的情景（弗朗索瓦拒绝服兵役后，开窗看见待宰的羔羊与拉小提琴的街头艺人并置，映射自身艺术生命的死亡），段落的共同点是情绪的连贯，加瑞尔经常使用跳切打破常规转场，例如弗朗索瓦和莉莉约定晚上出门，镜头接夜色中两人并肩而坐，时空断裂但情绪却连续；结尾随着默片式的圈入开始梦境，弗朗索瓦王子装扮将铁丝围困的莉莉唤醒，旁边还生了一团篝火，两人穿过营地在林中躺下，接着镜头是警察检查床上的他服药自杀，当莉莉离去，执念艺术、拒绝压抑自我只为工作混口饭吃的精神一同离去，活在梦里。不只是割裂感的问题，完全是四段足以独立的故事，元素刻意生硬。单凭主要人物视角无法串联；用四种不同电影镜头、风格、情绪，蒙太奇使用不伦不类，就更难以支撑整体表达完整性。优点是技术层面过关，空镜拍摄景别独特，除此之外没了。记住一句决绝但还算有价值的台词“一个人不可能真的完全理解另一个人的孤独，真的理解了，也就不孤独了”。其实从《舞会契约》到这部连看，会发现讲的都是中国人活着的目的性很强，在国内为了房渴望遇到运气，在国外拼了命要个身份，失败了就湮没在人群，不再为了所谓的梦想，和他人（父母）寄予的期望，像芭蕾舞奥义隐藏的集体性，总而言之就是一个“累”字。两部作品新导演都犯了“取舍”的毛病，电影讲不清楚，主题重复，想表达的过多塞到满。最后想抱抱每一个身处异国他乡的你我，于平凡妥协的上升路上再次顺带祝好。Prom Pact is set at the height of prom season. High school senior Mandy Coleman and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top '80s-themed Promposals. However, Mandy keeps her eyes focused on a different goal: her lifelong dream of attending Harvard. When she finds out her acceptance has been deferred, she is determined to do whatever she can do to get herself off the waitlist, even if that means asking for help from the one person she abhors - popular all-star jock Graham Lansing, whose father is a powerful senator and Harvard alum. Once Mandy becomes Graham's tutor, she begins to realize there's more to him than she thought and perhaps something more to life than Harvard.