合家观赏

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　　Van (Aidan Tierney) frequently visits his grandmother, Armen (Selma Keklikian) who is living in a poor quality nursing home. At the nursing home Van meets Aline (Arsinée Khanjian), whose mother (Jeanne Sabourin) is in the next bed. Alines job as a phone-sex worker does not pay her enough to afford any better living conditions for her mother. Van and Aline get to know each other through their frequent meetings at the nursing home. Vans mother (Rose Sarkisyan) disappeared years ago and Stan, his father (David Hemblen) is reluctant to visit his mother-in-law. Stan does go to visit Armen once, but he first visits with a stranger because he does not even recognize what she looks like. When he finally sees Armen, she attacks him. Van tries to convince his father to allow Armen to live with them but he refuses. Van also ties to convince Sandra, his fathers live-in lover (Gabrielle Rose), with whom he also has a flirtatious relationship, to help him convince his father but she also refuses.


　　Van discovers that Stan is re-using old videotapes of their family to tape himself having sex with Sandra. Van decides to switch the tapes for blank ones to save them. He brings them to the nursing home and shows them to Armen.


　　When Aline is asked by a client to travel with him to Montreal, she asks Van to look after her mother while she is away. Alines mother is upset because she believes that Aline is deserting her, and so she commits suicide by overdosing on her medicine. Van switches the two elderly women so it appears that his grandmother has died. He tells his father that Armen is dead and holds a funeral for Alines mother before Aline returns from Montreal. When she comes back Van tells her what he has done and shows her a videotape of the funeral. He asks her to help him to get his grandmother out of the nursing home by pretending that she is taking her own mother out. Soon Armen and Van are living with Aline and both Aline and Van are working at a hotel.


　　Stan discovers that Van switched the videotapes and wants to get them back. Van, while watching the tapes, discovers images of his mother being tied up by Stan as a part of their sexual activities. Sandra visits Van to tell him that Stan has discovered the switched tapes and that he saw Aline visiting what he thinks is his mother-in-laws grave. She reports that Stan has become suspicious and hired a private detective (John Shafer). After Stan visits Aline to confront her, Van decides he needs to move his grandmother to the hotel so she wont be discovered. With the private detectives help, Stan tracks down the room where Armen is being kept. But before he can get there, Van reports Armen as a homeless woman who has been staying in a storage area. As a result, Armen is safely moved to a new, better nursing home. In the final scene, Van and Aline visit Armen in her new nursing home and find her sitting and talking with Vans mother - her daughter.

家庭按照屏幕，媒介的逻辑建构起来，深蓝色的影像是一种监控摄影机的观看，在这一带有噪点的影像之中，空间被再一次重构。在《合家观赏》画面之外的空间充满白噪音，不仅是其呈现出来的那样极简。家庭录像的拍摄是记忆的唯一方式，它又将会被父亲的力比多权力抹杀。录像带是战争机器，游牧在电视机这一俄狄浦斯权力角斗场。色情影像经常闯入作为建构自身主体存在的家庭录像之中，作为父亲权力的介入。最终在影片的结尾加速为由运动，“现成品”影像构成的蒙太奇时刻。除此之外，我们绝不应当将Van对于年老的Armen的挪用视为一种救赎，没有什么比起对于一个社会死亡，身体失语的老人的摆布更能体现“占有”主题，如同电视中的documentary，被植入信号追踪器的强度动物。

潮湿病态怪诞不伦的剪辑令人生理上产生震荡颤抖的愉悦感受。导演不厌其烦捕获精心布置的房间细节，揭露家庭这个丑陋无耻的私人领域。妻子愤然离家出走，丈夫永远淡漠自私，母亲被遗弃养老院，情妇勾引成年的儿子。人们盯着电视多变的情节，用镜头监视彼此的人生。童年钻进母亲怀抱，老年葬进无名坟墓。生老病死终其一生，用表演与窥探，组成一个个疏离阴惨的现代家庭。没有一幕赤裸色情的画面，没有半句淫秽露骨的台词，只有咄咄逼人精明暧昧的性暗示穿插在色彩压抑吊诡的录像带中。我们心知肚明人生的天花板安装着监控摄像头，所以一言一行都不敢表达内心深处的爱，因为不想把事情变复杂，所以不寻求沉重繁琐的负担。最初怀着慈爱善心建立关系，最终却打着感情旗号做起生意。那个绞尽脑汁救赎祖母的男孩拥有纯洁的眼神，但他也是黑暗中最冰冷分裂的人。

7.5 视点有趣，监视反监视的大战，呈现出一种扭曲 裂变的家庭关系。

阿托姆伊戈扬早期代表作，疏离的家庭关系，诡异的剪辑和音乐，营造出不同的悬疑气氛

如果用唐代诗人来类比当代导演，伊戈杨就是介乎李白和李贺之间的存在

Van (Aidan Tierney) frequently visits his grandmother, Armen (Selma Keklikian) who is living in a poor quality nursing home.

伊戈扬的家庭伦理片总是如此不拘一格的怪异

丑陋的家庭以一种闭路电视的形式展现出来，我们惊叹耻笑之余，也感到了窥视的兴奋

哈内克对影像与人的关系和影响有着痴迷的狂热，而《合家观赏》里伊戈扬也加入了录影带元素，不过伊戈扬的录影带承载了父亲平静生活下的暗流与欲望，承载了在现实生活中永远不会知晓的秘密，录影带成为了揭示阴暗的证据，成为了坦诚相待的工具，这倒更容易让人想到索德伯格的《性，谎言与录像带》

Arsinée Khanjian（唸白）永遠那麼閃耀。

多媒体达人伊戈扬。早期作品全是烧脑片，文思不乱。表现亲人疏离的家庭戏用电视肥皂剧风格加磁带拍摄，无表情对白有点品特的冷笑话感觉。他很在意自己的亚美尼亚出身啊。男主是个与继母乱伦的孝顺孩子，长得蛮可爱

kudos for tackling so many topics in one story, as if a combination of Michael Haneke and Orhan Pamuk