八部觸目驚心的紀錄片
High on Crack Street（1995）
毒癮Following the struggle of three crack addicts, ‘High on Crack Street’ digs deep into the complex daily lives of individuals striving to obtain their next fix. From prostitution to pregnancies to STDs, we see the true dark side of drugs they don’t show you in school. There is something quite shocking about just how badly crack ruins lives. Unfortunately there is no happy ending to this story—six months after filming Boo Boo was still hooked on a 200 dollar a day habit, Dicky was imprisoned and, sadly, Brenda died. A remarkable film about a horrific plague, ‘High on Crack Street’ is unwavering in it’s portrayal of crack addiction.
“毒癮”是一部有關吸毒人員的紀錄片。本片跟蹤拍攝了三名吸毒人員的日常生活，通過鏡頭深度觀察到吸毒人員爲滿足不時來襲的毒癮而不計後果的瘋狂人生。賣淫、計劃外懷孕到最後染上性病，片中主人翁的陰暗人生給觀衆提供了學校課本里學不到的教材，向觀衆展示了令人震驚的事實——毒品如何一步步摧毀掉正常人的生活。片中主人翁註定了結局悲慘，布布到最後任然要爲每天高達200美元的毒品消耗而疲於奔命；迪克的結局是漫無邊際的鐵窗生活；可憐的布倫達死在了她最愛的毒品上。這部值得關注紀錄片真實的向觀衆展現了沾上毒品有多可怕。
Suicide Forest
自殺深林
Lying at the base of Mount Fuji, Aokigahara Forest has a rather unsettling reputation as a suicide hotspot . This documentary follows a geologist as he performs a walk through of the forest, looking for both those who have, and may soon, succumb to depression. Spotting an abandoned car in the parking lot on the way in, passing signs dissuading suicide, and taking an ill trodden path into the bewildering forest, it isn’t long before we’re shown our first images of forsaken souls—all of whom hang from Aokigahara’s thick ligatures. From this point onwards, it only gets worse. I encourage all with a strong heart to watch this bleak, but brief, portrayal of the utter desperation in full.
富士山腳下的青木原深林是日本有名的自殺深林。本片跟隨一名日本地理學家走進這片恐怖的深林，尋找那些因爲不堪生活壓力在這片深林裏結束自己生命的人們以及那些已經逝去的自殺者。跟隨鏡頭我們看到了進入深林口被自殺者遺棄的汽車和勸阻人們珍惜生命的警示牌。通過一條人們走出來的小路進入到這片充滿死亡氣息的的深林，一件自殺者留下的遺物駭然呈現在觀衆面前——一條上吊的繩子，繼續的搜索是更多的驚駭呈現在鏡頭面前。影片通過對死亡深林的探索向觀衆呈現自殺者壓抑、絕望直至死亡的全過程。請心臟承受力不好的觀衆謹慎觀看。
The Iceman Tapes（1992）
急凍殺手自白書Vicious, ruthless, remorseless, brutal, fearless, violent, disturbed and callous are just some of the words which can be used to describe serial contract killer Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski. ‘The Iceman Tapes’ attempts to take the viewer into the broken mind of a cold-blooded paranoid psycho-sociopath through a series of interviews conducted by psychiatrist Michael Baden. From his upbringing to his reasons, watching Kuklinski describe his atrocities in detail with little to no emotion is a truly unsettling, yet compelling, experience. In his own words: “I am what you call . . . a person’s nightmare.”
邪惡、無情、冷酷、殘忍、無懼、暴力、麻木....這一系列的形容詞都可以用在一個人身上，他就是“急凍殺手”庫克林斯基。紀錄片“急凍殺手自白書”通過心理學家邁克爾.巴登對急凍殺手面對面採訪，以及對他童年成長環境的探析，總結出這個冷血殺手的偏執和反社會行爲的原因。片中，庫克林斯基對他殘忍施暴細節的平靜陳訴令人不寒而慄但是卻讓人情不自禁的繼續深究。用他自己的話說“我就是你們所說的那種人....我是別人的噩夢。”
Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog)1955
夜與霧Drawing the viewer in with an almost poetic charm, few films portray the intricacies of the Holocaust better than this 1955 French film, Nuit et Brouillard, or—to give it its English title—Night and Fog. Featuring the camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek, we are taken on an uncompromising, and unforgiving, journey through the encampments history, and the fate of its occupants. From construction to destruction, Nuit et Brouillard etches horrific images onto the minds of its viewers which will seldom leave their memory.
如詩歌般地陳述歷史，也只有這部1995年上映的法國紀錄片可以將這段紛繁複雜的大屠殺拍的如此極致。夜與霧向觀衆陳訴了在波蘭奧許維次以及邁丹尼克集中營大屠殺的歷史故事。觀衆被鏡頭帶到了一個讓人無法忘卻也無法原諒的殘酷歷史中，集中營難民的悲慘人生讓人駭然。從開始到結束，“夜與霧”將那些恐怖的記憶深深引入觀衆腦海，永遠難忘記。
Atomic Wounds（2006）
核之傷For all the propaganda and scaremongering that occurred during the Cold War, it is difficult for us to imagine the human effects of nuclear weapons—besides the massive loss of life, of course. We tend to imagine nukes as pulverizing all whom stand in it’s way, but a nuclear weapon doesn’t simply destroy, it poisons, it burns, it corrupts. Those unlucky enough not to be obliterated are left to suffer a horrific and painful death—often over months, years or even decades, rather then minutes or seconds. ‘Atomic Wounds’ takes us on an up close and personal trip to the victims of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, documenting the terrifying effects of atomic warfare on those who were not struck down in the initial cataclysm. It is difficult to watch this film without asking “how could we ever do this to our fellow man?” We often forget that the victims of Nagasaki and Hiroshima we’re living and breathing humans, just like you and I. We see a statistic. This film ensures that we remember that there is only misery under those numbers.
在所有關於冷時期的那些駭人聽聞的傳說裏，核武器的強大殺傷力是人們可想而知的，然而除了死亡以外，恐怕還有很多核武器帶給人們的影響是難以想象的。我們一般會想到核武器在爆炸瞬間毀滅掉的事物，然而，核武器帶給人類的災難卻並瞬間的，而是長期的。核武器的劇毒、輻射、腐蝕性可以讓無保護的人們無一倖免地被恐懼和劇痛折磨到死。這個折磨至死的期限也許是幾個月、幾年、甚至是幾十年。“核之傷”把觀衆帶到長崎和廣島，近距離了解那些核武器的受害者的生活。本片記錄了原子彈在日本投放以後，被其輻射的無辜百姓所遭受的觸目驚心的影響。看完這部片子人們禁不住問“人類爲什麼對自己的同類如此殘忍？”我們也常常會忘記長崎和廣島那些受害者其實和我們一樣都是人類。核武器給人類的傷害爲世人所知的也許只是一個受害人數的數字統計，這部紀錄片讓我們記住那些數字裏面隱藏的悲慘人生。
Conspiracy of Silence
無聲陰謀Apologies for the poor quality on the above video, ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ has never been released, and numerous parties have been attempting to prevent this documentary, espousing the perversion and abuse of power that occurs at the highest levels in society. A representation of how influence and wealth can be used for personal gain and the suppression of criminal acts, ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ takes us into the world we all know that exists, and yet hopes it does not.
因爲極差的畫面質量，這部紀錄片並沒有被公映，這讓很多人案子慶幸。很多人也全力阻止這部紀錄片的上映，因爲這部片子記錄了社會高層們濫用手中權力。講述了這些社會高層們如何用手中權力爲自己獲利，甚至違法。“無聲陰謀”將觀衆帶回一個醜陋的現實裏，雖然我們希望這個現實是不存在的。
Interview with a Cannibal（2012）
採訪食人獸What drives a man to kill and cannibalize an innocent woman? Well, why not ask such a man… in his own living room? ‘Interview with a Cannibal’ does just that, with the infamous case of Issei Sagawa—propelled to fame through his crimes, he was deemed insane by the courts and thus released without charge. A fascinating insight into the life of a man lost in his own fantasies, this documentary challenges perceptions about what humans are truly capable of—as well as allowing us to understand the path one must take to reside where he now sits.
是什麼驅使一男人殺掉一個女人並將她大快朵頤掉？在這個饕餮家裏採訪他？“採訪食人獸”就是這樣一部紀錄片，跟隨鏡頭去了解佐川一政——因爲臭名昭著的食人罪行而名聲大振，他被法官判爲精神病人，而後無罪釋放。一部怪異的紀錄片，帶你洞察佐川一政的食人動機。這部紀錄片絕對挑戰大衆對人類行爲底線的理解——同樣也讓我們瞭解一個人是怎樣變成如此變態的食人饕餮的。
Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children(2007)
保加利亞棄兒Words simply cannot explain what is expressed in this BBC documentary. Put simply, Bulgaria has a serious problem with child abandonment, particularly of the disabled—and, worse yet, the government is apparently unable to care for them sufficiently. Recording numerous children over a nine month period, we are offered a unique insight into the appalling inner workings of a Bulgarian orphanage. With many of the children’s poor lives consisting mainly of sitting in a room rocking back and fourth amongst themselves, these children have little hope for the future: no education, no therapy… no help. The plight of an otherwise intelligent young lady known as Didi starkly highlights the failing of the Bulgarian system: she is classified as ‘untreatable’ and thrown amongst the disabled, despite being quite the opposite—a maddening position if you ask me, and her behavior soon reflects this fact as she eventually succumbs to rocking and self harm to burn away her days.
文字已經很難描述BBC這部紀錄片所想要表達的內容。兒童在保加利亞被遺棄的問題是十分嚴重的，特別是殘疾兒童。更糟糕的是，保加利亞政府並未對棄兒們提供很好的保護。本部紀錄片深入保加利亞兒童收養院，對棄兒在兒童收養院的生活進行了長達九個月的觀察，揭露了保加利亞兒童收養院裏令人震驚的工作過程：很多收養院的兒童每天只能呆坐在房間裏，前後搖晃身體度日。在這裏的孩子看不到任何生活希望，他們沒有任何受教育的機會，也沒有任何康復醫療的機會....有着特殊才能的女孩迪迪的在收養院裏的困境足以證明收養院工作的失敗。迪迪被定義爲“無法醫治”，然而事實表明她的行爲卻與正常孩子無異，卻受到與殘疾兒童同樣的對待——如果你問我她在怎樣的環境裏生活，我只能回答說：令人發狂。然而無奈的命運前她只能屈服，到最後如不正常的孩子一樣，前後搖晃身體度過她的每一天。
