國影電影編號：M202210009

放映規格：DCP

級別：輔12級

片長：62分鐘

發音：英語

字幕：中、英字

色情男女 Lovers

但漢章 Fred TAN｜臺灣、美國 Taiwan, USA｜ 1983｜DCP｜ Colour ｜ 62min

懷抱星夢的丹尼隻身在好萊塢闖蕩，他以應召伴遊為業，白晝在大街煙視媚行，夜晚流連於酒吧、舞廳，其俊美外貌傾倒男女眾生，不僅引來已婚貴婦、金獎電影製作人提議包養，同志友人大衛也頻送秋波。人人都想佔有他，他卻誰也不愛，直到某夜邂逅迷人的女子崔西，兩人陷入繾綣激情，卻也為親密關係的束縛感到迷惘。這頭遊戲人間的浪蕩狐狸，最終是否願被愛情馴養？

《色情男女》是但漢章就讀UCLA電影研究所時的畢業製作，片中對酷兒情慾、男體凝視的坦率描繪，領先虞戡平及蔡明亮等華人導演，亦反映他對西好萊塢市同志地景的細膩觀察。有別於同期新電影回歸鄉土的清新質樸，但漢章鮮明的西化風格及大膽選題，在當時堪稱一朵斑斕奇花。儘管題材聳動辛辣，他卻刻意採用鬆散的生活切片、布列松式的內斂演技指導，勾勒人心潛抑的情感暗流；片中實驗性的音畫分離、場景跳接，亦比楊德昌《恐怖份子》更早，用近似的現代主義手法，去冷銳剖析都會男女的疏離情感、蠢動欲望。

Danny, who dreams of being a star in Hollywood, makes his living as an escort. During the day, he wanders around in extraordinary clothing. At night, he plays at bars and discos. His beauty attracts cravings for him from a wealthy married woman to an award-winning producer. His gay friend shows affection to him as well. Everyone yearns for having him, but he loves nobody until he meets an adorable girl Trissy one night. Love and sex drive the two into ecstasy. However, the burden of intimacy also raises the question: could the lascivious nature be tamed with devotion?

Lovers is TAN’s final project at UCLA. Its brazen depictions of queer desire and gaze on male bodies are pioneering, which would be the themes for other directors such as TSAI Ming-liang and YU Kan-ping in later years. The film shows TAN’s observation of gay culture in West Hollywood. The western style and audacious topics of TAN’s work are brilliant at the time; it is quite different from other films of the Taiwan New Cinema period focusing on locals with realistic styles. Though the subject matter seems to be provocative, the directing style is restrained. TAN used fragments in everyday life and gave Bressonian instructions to indicate repressed emotions. TAN experimented with non-sync sounds and jump cuts for addressing alienated and aroused feelings in cities. These techniques of modernism were also embraced by Edward YANG in Terrorizers (1986) later on.