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王拓《共谋失忆症》

一位陷入写作困境的作家,一位暗自神伤的妻子,他们虽同处一室,却仿佛在各 自的世界中尝试抚平某些不为人知的记忆伤痕。在这个既写实又虚幻的当代中 国家庭里,笼罩着人鬼共栖的诡异氛围。另一个时空里,一个年轻的红卫兵误入 一间堆满废弃书稿的房间,沉浸在一则古代故事的阅读中,忽然听到窗外的游街 声,夺门而出。一段半个世纪前的创伤记忆被抽丝剥茧。这是一个属于中国的故 事样板,遥远而切身,时至今日仍然留有难以觉察的幻痛,平静地藏匿在中国的 现实里。

德国文化学者 Aleida Assmann 在《遗忘的形式》(Forms of Forgetting)中曾提出 过一种共谋性遗忘,即当体制试图销毁某段过往记忆的同时,其中的受害者也往 往表现出创伤性的沉默。两者的沉默叠加而形成了一种共谋。正如作家无法通过 写作去疗愈记忆深处的伤痕,共同分享历史创伤的人也同样陷入无意识的集体 性沉默,这种沉默最终变成一种无法言说的、在时间中累积、在情感关系中转移 的病征。在这个记忆与现实交错的时空中,这种有关创伤经验的沉默从不被书写 到无法书写,最终难以追溯。就像影片中人鬼共栖的微妙关系:个人与历史伤痕 之间的对抗最终变得无力,和解变得不可能。

A writer with a writer’s block and a woman secretly in distraught, try to heal the wounds in their memories unbeknown to others in their respective worlds despite living in the same room. This contemporary Chinese family, both real and fictional, is engulfed under an alienating atmosphere inhabited by both men and ghosts. In another scenario, a young red guard mistakenly enters a room piled with abandoned books and manuscripts, captivated from reading an ancient story, he suddenly hears the marching sounds outside the window and steps out of the door. This traumatic memory from a half-century ago has again come undone. A blueprint unique to Chinese stories, as distant and personal as it may seem, remains prevalent in those undetected phantom suffering and discretely hidden in the Chinese realities.

The German scholar Aleida Assmann proposed the notion of Complicit Forgetting in Forms of Forgetting. According to whom, when the system attempts to destroy part of a memory from the past, its victims would often exhibit silence symptomatically. Their compounded silence becomes a kind of complicity. As the writer could not heal the wound in his memory through writing, those who share historical trauma would also fall into the unconscious collective silence, that eventually becomes ineffable. It festers over time, and metastasizes in emotional relationships.

In the temporal and spatial dimensions where memories and reality overlap, the silence of traumatic experiences wanes from unwritten, unable to be written, and eventually becomes untraceable. Like the subtle relationship where man and ghost cohabit: the struggle between personal and historical trauma eventually becomes powerless, and their reconciliation becomes impossible.