巴瑞第二季

令人伤感的是，美剧总是虎头蛇尾。

巴瑞第一季抓住了一个天才的闪光点：如果一个杀手误入演艺圈会怎样？因为都是圈里人，演员训练班、临时演员的艰辛拍的入木三分，颇有周星驰喜剧之王的感觉，呆萌杀手与菜鸟演员反差，剧情的双线交融，很有黑色喜剧的感觉。

但是，后面就开始崩了，第一季最后杀警之后，就不可能是喜剧了，美国再开放也不能这样，但巴瑞先天就这样了，怎么也不能上升到严肃的高度吧？

第二季就完全乱了，几条线索完全是东拼西凑。黑帮弱智搞笑，是无厘头喜剧；女主感情经历，是女性成长剧；巴瑞和“叔叔”，是伦理大悲剧；巴瑞和“老师”，是战争创伤剧。再加上警察借刀杀人，异能少女飞檐走壁等乱七八糟的剧情，简直就是大杂烩。最后没法收尾了就乱杀一气，这样还能续订吗？

其实，既然想出了杀手与演员这个灵感，就应该围绕这个主题发挥，比如杀手为啥适合做演员？有啥优势？演员技能对做杀手又有啥帮助？暗杀行动碰上拍电影，会产生啥化学变化？

可惜了呀，开了个好头，剧情却走入死胡同……

比第一季精彩，节奏快，剧情吸引人。不过第一季结尾埋下的伏笔要带入第三季了。比第一季精彩，节奏快，剧情吸引人。不过第一季结尾埋下的伏笔要带入第三季了。比第一季精彩，节奏快，剧情吸引人。不过第一季结尾埋下的伏笔要带入第三季了。比第一季精彩，节奏快，剧情吸引人。不过第一季结尾埋下的伏笔要带入第三季了。比第一季精彩，节奏快，剧情吸引人。不过第一季结尾埋下的伏笔要带入第三季了。

第一季前几集好看在于每个角色的行为与身份的矛盾碰撞，从而塑造出对立的幽默感；另一条线通过戏剧的穿插来表现人物内心深处的情感发展。两条线并行一方面轻松幽默另一方面又不失戏剧表现的情感张力。整体都非常学院派，让人欲罢不能。

到第一季最后两集，迫于制造高潮及矛盾将剧情引向激烈的暴力冲突已经失色不少。而第二季一开始就把第一季这种通过身份和行为错位的幽默感丢掉了，变成了单纯的杀手游戏，杀手游戏又因为没有足够宏大的背景而变得寡淡无味，这部剧基本上废了。

其实应该是从第一季第六集就废了；剧情方向发展错误。如果杀车臣老大的人不是barry，而是由阴差阳错的车臣对手进行，或许后面还有的看；而为第二季留引子的杀警察则将这部剧导向了万劫不复。

今天看《紧急呼救》第二季里接线员姐姐的家暴故事，很自然地想起《巴瑞》对家暴题材的描写。两者都强调了家暴发生后女性想逃却难逃的挣扎心理，还有逃离后的悔恨。但由于《巴瑞》是大男主POV戏，编剧组写的更复杂些。 男主角巴瑞在女主面前一直是以她的守护骑士形象出现，他支持她成为更好的自己。排演女主被家暴的经历时，巴瑞连连拒绝对她动手，即使只是演戏。女主回忆起阴影，觉得自己懦弱胆小时，巴瑞劝慰她说你已经很勇敢了。看起来巴瑞是最积极无害的伴侣。 可是在女主前夫激怒巴瑞时，他被怒火冲昏头脑掏枪上膛，枪口却意外对上了女主。这一刻巴瑞惊恐至极。愤怒冲动的他和那个家暴人渣又有什么区别？

Barry误将枪口对准Sally

在Sally编导的那场戏中，巴瑞演绎着施暴者，就是将他潜藏的暴力因子展示给众人看。之前看到微博上跃小才太太的剧评中说，最后一集如果不是Sally的突然变卦，刚被删了一耳光、处在怒火中的巴瑞真有可能伤害到她。骑士若是翻了脸——本质上和“渣男”竟没有分别。所以所谓好与坏的区别，只在个人私心下的一念之间。善与恶是个历史悠久的大命题，单是一部作品必然讨论不明白，所以Bill的《巴瑞》也只是想反映一种状态：挣扎、矛盾、自我的巴瑞的存世状态。（所以HBO提议就叫这部剧巴瑞，太有先见之明了。）

舞台上怒火中烧的Barry

影视作品常刻画施害者的暴戾，受害者的痛苦，《巴瑞》主创却写了个新角色:一个站在旁观视角的、害怕使用暴力的男人。陷入道德困境，首要条件是心中有道德准线。Bill曾经说，他很怕自己的anger issue，怕自己控制不住暴躁情绪。善良的人总是恐惧自己，太多人偏于掩饰心机阴暗的一面，将其作为秘密武器，世界上却还有这样一些人担忧着它误伤到他人。

访谈中Bill说，他们两个白男导演必定是不能全然共情家暴受害者的，所以找到亲历者了解，“因为那才是真实的。”当知晓了暴力所带来的严重后果，人们才会警惕暴力的发生。正如巴瑞见识过他自己造成的伤害，他才慢慢从杀手麻木的职业状态中醒来。巴瑞经历了阿富汗错杀平民后周围的哭喊；经历了昔日战友遗孀的悲痛欲绝；经历了珍妮丝被他当作问题解决后，Cousineau先生的崩溃。所以巴瑞拒绝再按下扳机，拒绝扮演施暴者，拒绝成为一个“坏人”。直到灯一盏盏熄灭，他复又沉入黑暗。剧集到这里逻辑上也许出现了偏差，但足够震撼观众。接下来第三季如何开始，是巴瑞的困境，更是给Bill和主创团队的难题。

不过答案或许已经在第一季出现过了，是借麦克白之口精彩道出——“Life is but a walking shadow.”巴瑞只是一个行走着的影子，或许终会融入黑暗之中。这些“喧哗和骚动”着的纠结，或者说是戏剧冲突，其实“没有任何意义”，只博观众一笑便罢了。

“行走的影子”

写到这顺便聊聊感情线，主创团队和多数观众都认为男女主之间的关系是不成熟的“伪爱情”，女主是索取者，男主是奉献者，就这么简单罢了。但我还是非常喜欢他们俩的relationship，其实有相当多可以细品的地方……

这部剧品质非常高，高在编剧，高在演员，高在很多地方。但它不会火，起码不像权游那么火，或者拿更相近的例子，不像嗜血法医那样火。 我想大概是那种真实感太强烈。那种幽默中透着诡异的感觉，反而突出了这种真实感，而巴瑞的人设注定是一个走向黑暗的结局，那些幽默点变成了戏剧性的悲凉。 想夸这剧的优点在于人物角色的塑造，barry,sally gene, fuches, noho，基本上笑点集中在noho身上，因为他真的好可爱。 barry在对待父亲角色上很难抗拒，这点在退役后被fuches带着杀人和接受gene指导演戏变成倾诉心事都能体现，另外他擅长杀人不代表他缺少人性，因为杀人技能被认可从而被集体接纳这恰恰说明他的人性，反社会人格并不在乎被接纳。 非常讽刺的是sally的反抗故事得到了人们认可，而她真实的软弱故事很难表现在大众面前，就算真的演，大众也可能因为这样真实的暴露而不适（这也是我认为为什么这部剧不会火的一个原因）。

我个人很喜欢gene这个角色，天然的导师，富有演戏的热情即使自己只能接路人排队的戏码也要演出两个版本，优雅自信幽默，但也感性温柔。会给人直接的批评帮助学生达到情绪，也会课后给他们演戏指导，一句话就能鼓励学生改变人生，但也视财如命，任何指导都算在账本里。他是个有缺点的好人。

相比fuches同样的father figure，就要难堪丑恶的多了，演员真的把那种装腔作势讨人厌的感觉演得太好，就是个混的，为了生存什么都干得出来，像是地下道里努力的老鼠。barry想脱离他就恼羞成怒陷害gene。

noho太可爱了，捡漏王，明明是个秃头，戴眼镜打电话为啥有种精英秘书的感觉。发型这事果然是看脸的。

I'm sorry, can we stop for a second? I just, I feel like I need to say something, Barry.

[Barry: okay.]

This piece that I'm doing for class, is exactly what I should be doing.

[Barry: yeah I know it's great, what you're doing is…]

I'm terrified, okay? Because my piece is real. It's not a character, it's me. Raw, unapologetic truth with a capital T. All caps, actually, I'm thinking like a writer now.

I mean this was stuff I couldn't even talk about without lying, and here I am about just stripped naked in front of a bunch of strangers and share something I am massively ashamed of. Not literally, I don't believe in nudity, unless it drives the story forward.

I am afraid they're gonna judge me and I'm afraid that Sam is gonna find out and do something crazy, but I have to do this. It's my story to tell. But then so many other women have the same story. What, am I the spokesperson for them now? Could I be the face of the movement? I mean, what if I get it wrong? I resent the fact that Nick can get up there and talk about his stomach condition and it's not like he has to be the poster boy for bulimia but I get up there whatever I say it's like… "what are we saying about women?" … I mean, this is just MY STORY. "But what if you get it wrong, Sally?" "I don't know, you can't get it wrong Sally." "But you cannot tell either Sally, because it's who you are." Which makes the thing that my agent sent me on today so fucking insulting. 'Payback Ladies'? It's just another shit male idea of what strong women are. Oh oh ohh grab a gun and in some stilettos and it's gonna god damn blowout, and look how strong you are now! Sally! It's bullshit! Which by the way so is this, this is quite possibly the worst thing I've ever read, but you wanna know the worst part? You wanna know what's really driving me fucking crazy? I'm so jealous that you're reading for this, I've never had a director session for a feature, which is the same thing as a movie, P.S.. And I have been doing this for way longer, and I think you'd agree that I am way better. I… MADE YOU. And I'm actually represented by Gersh--well at least I was, I don't even know whether they rep me anymore after what I said in there today but still at least I held my ground because I am an artist, okay, an artist… and this is not fucking arts! But then, I mean, to be honest of course I am so happy for you! I mean, of course I want you to get this part and I want to be the one to help you learn your lines and fix your inflections but I need you to know that if you do get it, it's gonna make me like, like a hundred times more insane. Okay? … [Gasp.] Continue!

I'm okay with the fact that Sally doesn't really love Barry, not even a bit. She just feeds off Barry's indecisiveness and uses him as a bandage to cover her wound from both Sam and every other embodiment of "toxic musculanity" in her life; her intention for Barry is the same as what she said about Emma Stone's agent, that she wanted him to be her agent so that she could dump him when she got big. And I love the writing of Sally's character so much just because of that. She and Barry never really had a benign relationship, so what's the point of resenting her for being a bitch to him? Sally aspires for ascending. Barry takes pains in order for descending from a god-like place (which he was himself both unaware of and didn't know how to utilize) to the every-person mundaneness that Sally would give anything to leave behind.

Bill Hader is an instantaneously likeable person; the creator's monster, Barry Berkman, however, is not. The real touchstone of Barry's character is his absolute lack of character despite of him having the most sensational events of life. Even his dreams are so itchingly dull and devoid of intellectual self-reflection that it makes him pitiful to watch. To me, that's what makes Barry Berkman as should-be-just-another-male-leading-role in today's show industry utterly fanscinating; once they gave him a sharp character as if he were some kind of Macbethian anti-hero, all the magic would be lost. Indeed, the Barry/Macbeth parallel was drawn in Season One, but it was done so unpretentiously that it added almost nothing to our protagonist's personality; rather, it only spoke of the similarity between his real life tragics and the theatrical tragedy. That Barry had to go through partially what Macbeth did does not readily make him a Macbeth-like character. He is more ambivalent and less archetypical than that. He is the one left-out possibility of being a murderer that hasn't been discussed and tried out exhaustively up till now in the movie industry because of its unexcitedness. Sally, uncaring and narcissistic as she is, has no reason to see through the hollowness of his personality and learn that her boyfriend has been going through some shitty, incubating tormants and plights. (Actually there is more reason for her not to see that since her ignorance is a part of the comedy.) The transcendence from absurdity to ridicule is totally sensible to me, and it's so funny the moment you realize that how unrelatable yet sympathetic Barry's character is whereas how relatable yet obnoxious Sally's character is and that they are placed in a distanced, intimate relationship, struggling to move in two opposite directions while being stuck together in one storyline.

Barry is the freaking monster, who, I'm gonna say that again, could have been a god as he used to took lives without reason, mercy or regret but he chose to descend down towards the earth. Instead of turning into a human, he was forced by his humanity to become a monster. Sally is the most of the human race, who have been dreamt of ascending up towards the sky for tens of thousands of years. But they will never make it, neither will she--their monstrous cruelty keeps them safely tied to the ground while mutilating each other as human members. How can I help but name calling Barry and Sally as two ungrateful pieces of shit? As in the end they are both about just being the same person in different positions and over different time frames, I guess the joke is on me.