whole wide world

誠意推介《stranger than fiction》，是本人開年以來最最最感動的電影。

之所以買票入場，是大學final year project時和陳小姐一起度出來的劇本，concept跟《stranger than fiction》很似，就結伴的去看。當然，《stranger than fiction》比我所寫的故事完整又感動，不過明顯我和導演編劇一樣喜歡這些關於self identity的故事。

一個生活枯燥至極的人，某天發現了自己是某位作家筆下小說的人物，而小說的ending必是主角的死亡，你教他怎麼辦？這個故事很sad，男主角在巴士上讀完整部小說，在一程車上看過自己的一生，很sad；男主角明知道自己要死，卻勇敢的面對，很sad；男主角明明想收下心儀的女人親手焗給自己吃的曲奇，卻因為自己是評稅員而不能接受禮物，很sad；男主角計算普自己的人生是喜劇或是悲劇的比率，很sad......

男主角拿著一袋二袋跟女主角說：「I brought you flour.」 很感動；當他拿著結他唱著「whole wide world」時，我哭了。



When I was a young boy,
My mama she said to me,
"There's only one girl in the world for you,
And she probably lives in Tahiti."

"Or maybe she's in the Bahamas,
Where the Caribbean Sea is blue,
Weeping away in the tropical night
Because nobody's told her about you."

I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her,
I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.
Yeah!

Why am I hanging around in the rain out here
Trying to think of a girl?
Why are my eyes filling up with these lonely tears
When there's girls all over the world?

Or is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
Underneath the tropical sun,
Hiding away in the heatwave there,
Hoping that I won't be long?

I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her,
I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her,

I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world just to find her,
I'd go the whole wide world,
I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.
Yeah!