2018影集：Manhunt: Unabomber

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最近剛看完Netflix上的這部影集，中譯＜緝凶：飛機炸彈客＞，一共八集，看完後，每逢等待紅綠燈的時刻就再也不一樣了。抬頭凝視那盞深紅且醒目的燈，Ted Kaczynski的理念不僅僅是影響了影集中的男主角，也以某種形式（畫面，或是聲音）烙印在我的腦袋裡，算是後勁頗強的美劇，與極地惡靈（The Terror）並列2018上半年觀後餘悸猶存／意猶未盡的美劇，非常值得一看。

（以下純粹紀錄觀後感和心情抒發，有劇透；

詳細影集介紹可參考IMDb或搜尋批踢踢EAseries的討論。）

雖根據真實案件改編（搜尋Unabomber 可找到Kaczynski的wiki頁面，看完後對本劇的背景能有詳盡的了解），可真實世界中男主角Fitzgerald和炸彈客Kaczynski並不熟識，影集中多次對認罪的攻防是虛構的，是為了戲劇效果而做的安排，但這樣的改編，或者該說加油添醋，在我看來卻是整部影集最優秀的地方。印象最深的是最後一集前半段，Fitzgerald使出殺手鐧，根據他自己對Ted理念的深刻了解，將Ted帶到證物小木屋前，以幾乎是「言語霸凌」的方式逼迫Ted認輸，字字句句戳中要害，就是要逼他無條件認罪，以下是我覺得頗精彩的段落摘錄～

（上色的部分是我覺得很厲害的地方，從來不覺得演員Sam Worthington有演技，但他在這部分的表現很出色，讓人驚艷，劇本逐字稿來源：https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=manhunt-unabomber-2017&episode=s01e08）

They're gonna stick you in an insane asylum where, slowly, you will be adjusted.
Pills, electroshock therapy, threat, punishment, reward, till finally you're cured.
It might take years, but it's gonna happen.
You will be normal, and you'll rejoin society.
You'll get a credit card, an apartment, business casual wardrobe, you know, some of those tops with the penguins on them.
And you'll get a job behind a desk where you'll work obediently 9:00 to 5:00, and your first paycheck, you get a cellphone.
Next one, you get a TV.
You know, if you splurge, you can get yourself a Nintendo.
And every night, you fall asleep watching that TV.
And every weekend, you're gonna go to the mall.
You're gonna walk around circuit city.
You're gonna look at the big-screen tvs and think, "should I get myself a 20-incher?" Or should I just keep saving up for the 27-incher? "I don't know.
" And, as you're thinking about this, slurping on your orange Julius, somebody's gonna recognize you and say, "weren't you that Unabomber guy," you know, the guy that wrote all that stuff "and killed all those people?" And you'll go, "yeah, that was me", but I was very sick.
"But I got help, and I'm much, much better now, thank you.
" And then you're gonna go back to watching your tvs.
And you won't even remember that you wanted anything more than this.
See, Ted, you predicted all this in your Manifesto.
"Many tame and conformist types seem to have a powerful need" to depict the enemy of society as sick so as to delegitimize "their valid complaints against society.
" This cabin used to be a symbol of moral courage, and now they're just gonna point it and say you've got to be insane to live this way.

上述文字簡直完美詮釋Ted的「惡夢」，但他的惡夢卻也是當代人類社會期許每一個男男女女都該「擁有」或「達成」或「令人欣羨」的目標：學歷，工作，薪水，房子，車子，手機，各式各樣帶來便利、舒適與成就感的科技產品…Fitzgerald的咄咄逼人對照Ted的一臉驚恐，有那麼一瞬間觀眾會忘了Ted是造成多人傷亡的殺人兇手，甚至對他產生同情，認同他才是被體制霸凌的受害者。

這就是本劇神祕的地方，觀影的同時我就像男主角Fitzgerald，受Ted的理念影響，卻又不得不正視他傷人無數的殘忍事實，佩服Ted的固執、耐性、有條不紊，欣賞他的純粹，卻又害怕他在宣揚理想的同時所造成的巨大破壞，害怕那毀滅的火焰會燒到自己身上。

直到最後聆聽受害者們的心聲，即便接受Ted摧毀許多人的生活，耗費政府諸多資源和時間，在心裡深處的某個角落卻還是小聲呢喃，Ted在某方面真的算是先知，不得不承認他的理念就算是放在二十一世紀的今日還頗為貼切。只是Ted抵制科技，崇尚純樸，他應該也不會想要使用臉書或是部落格之類的，若他像咱們美國總統川普一樣無時無刻都要上twitter發表高見，或許能累積不少追隨他的信徒也說不定。（可這樣感覺就變成邪教了，感覺Ted也不是這個路線的，他是隱居的孤狼，而且手段偏激！不走斂財賣t-shirt馬克杯這種路線的。）

Fitz: I just don't know when I started to feel so powerless.
Natalie: We all feel that way, everyone does.
Fitz: Yeah, we all feel like that, but what do we do about it? Nothing. We like it. We like feeling trapped, crushed. I guess freedom is far more terrifying than slavery.
Natalie: There's nothing to do. That's life. We suck it up, and we live.
Fitz: But that's not life. That's sleepwalking. Watching TV, eating trash, working to become something for someone else. Nobody doesn't something, nobody even tries. Nobody except for Ted!
Natalie: Yeah, but Fitz, he's the Unabomber. He's evil.（劇本逐字稿，來源：https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/shows/manhunt-unabomber/page-4.html，Fitzgerald的心聲就是我的心聲啊啊啊～他的困惑也是我的困惑！好險理智的Natalie提醒了他。）

我也很喜歡第六集對Ted的童年還有大學時期的刻劃，推薦我看這部劇的老公卻認為這集很無聊，有點牽強，但我總覺得探討「罪人」的源起是一部作品很重要的部分，沒有人生來就是邪惡的，在犯下殘忍罪刑的很久很久之前，每個人都是可愛的小baby，單純的青少年，求知旺盛，渴望認同，Ted和弟弟David的相處，從合作蓋小木屋，到爭執，還有疏遠，最後只剩孤獨的寫信傾訴，如同Ted在第六集尾聲的想像，他也曾渴望成為人父，成為愛人，究竟是哪個環節哪個時間點出了差錯？

片尾的紅燈讓人深思，至少我從今以後收到包裹、看到紅綠燈，都會想到Ted的論點：

Hey, Gil? But you're a sheep, and you're living in a world of sheep.
And because you're all sheep, because all you can do is obey, I can reach out and touch anyone anywhere.　（劇本逐字稿，來源：https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=manhunt-unabomber-2017&episode=s01e01）

總之，推薦這部發人深省的影集給各位！

國鳳
2018年6月12日