萨拉戈萨手稿

很难不犯困，真的，当后半段再有人物出现并且开始讲故事的时候真的忍不住翻白眼🙄拜托，塞太多东西了好嘛。

具体考虑到是那个时代的话只能夸赞了就，故事嵌套那时候还是够有趣吧。三分之二处的圆圈故事还是蛮有趣的，完全够单个一个电影，后来好多结构喜剧很多这样的案例。

挖眼睛那有点克鲁苏，但是挖的和他盖的不是同一只眼睛好像

一个不断发展出新的故事，不断产生新的讲述者，层层嵌套的几乎可以没完没了的故事。若是拍成电视剧，这片子可以和《名侦探柯南》拼拼谁更长寿........新的讲述者所讲述的故事也有与其他人的故事产生交集与重复的地方，即不同支线与不同视角下讲述的同一时空里的事件，这样的结构倒是有不少其他影片尝试过，比如《撒旦探戈》等等。而在层层递进的叙事的同时，影片也会在每一个故事的结束或过程中抽离出最新的故事，退回到上一个讲述者的时空，并且以此类推往回倒，这样递进又递退的时空游戏与《盗梦空间》类似，但本片的众多人物和视角让故事更加繁琐，梳理起来更加费劲，经常看着看着一个倒退回到上一层讲述者又一个倒退回到上上个讲述者再一个倒退........容易间歇性失忆........ 沃伊切赫·哈斯的电影总是带有他超强创造力和想象力的元素，不论是叙事结构还是影像风格上。比如《砂制时镜下的疗养院》里无序的、碎片化的超现实生命回溯旅程，以及叹为观止的疗养院布景，断壁残垣颇有塔可夫斯基的影子，这也是用环境表现内心世界的典范。而本片虽然在影像上没有前者那样剑走偏锋，但不断繁殖故事、轮流更换讲述者的叙事结构与前者的无序、碎片化叙事一样有着想象力和创造性。

Anticipating Pasolini’s TRILOGY OF LIFE, Polish tastemakerWojciech Has’s THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT is an enterprising matryoshka-structured miscellany of tales, affirmatively tackling Jan Potocki’s 1815 novel THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA, after a succinct frame story set in the town of Saragossa during, the rest of the narrative jumps 100-years back to the18th Century Spain, where our token protagonist Alfonso van Worden (Cybulski), the captain in the Walloon Guard, fetches up in a haunted inn where he meets two beautiful girls Emina (Czyzewska) and Zibelda (Jedryka), who claim that they are his cousins and both will marry him with alacrity if he converts to Islam.

But the next day, Alfonso wakes up in the gallows and the girls have vanished, heencounters sundry characters hereafter, a hermit priest (Opalinski) trying to cure a possessed one-eyed man Pacheco (Pieczka), who has had his own mishap with two beauties, a team of inquisitors, a posse of gangsters (whose leaders appear to be resurrected from the gallows), and recounts stories of his duel-avid father (Lindner). Only when he meets a cabalist Don Pedro Uzeda (Pawlikwoski), the locale changes to the latter’s castle, where additional characters are introduced including a great raconteur Don Avadoro (Niemczyk), from his tale, the film segues into a labyrinthine tale-within-a-tale-within-a-tale-and-so-on pattern, which requires keen attention to keep tabs on who is who, during a catenation of (mis)-adventures among noblemen.

Whereas each snippet is garnished with ample ridicule and a beguiling naivety, for want of a tie-in with a contemporary viewer's more level-headed receptacle due to its removed time-line and sketchy caricature,acquired taste is prerequisite to savor its foolery and follies, not to mention the cast's theatrical acting style doesn’t quite help to split the difference between its frivolous fodder and an indiscriminate process of assimilation required to its spectatorship.

Laden with numinous symbols and memento mori, skulls (a skull goblet is a salient prop), gallows, cadavers, etc., Wojciech Has’ expressively dreamed up saga blithelyoozes with a mythic allure that would well keeps a more high-brow audience hooked, it proffers an array of religious, ethnic, occult inclusion (cabalism, Muslim, Islam, Romany), and its awe-inspring monochromatic cinematography, elaborate period costumes and settings, plus a rhapsodic symphonic score, either of them alone is worth allotting 3-hour of our lives to revel in its grandeur, if, either mysticism or romp is your cuppa.

referential points:Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s PHARAOH (1966, 7.6/10); Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ARABIAN NIGHTS (1974, 6.9/10), THE CANTERBURY TALES (1972, 7.0/10), THE DECAMERON (1971, 7.6/10);Max Ophüls’ LA RONDE (1950, 6.5/10).