剑桥风云

Through the first epidode we've experienced the beautiful life in Cambridge and the four roles' typical personalities.And we have to capture their mainly hearted theme through the dialogues of their daily life.They are living a life for finding a job outside the Cambridge world,what's that should be like?In this period of time,any conspiracies?

恍惚间以为自己在看一部纪录片，戏剧化了的，或许也是经过美化的。

有追求、有怯弱、有矛盾、有友谊、有爱情、有尊严、有妥协……有很多很多，只是没有英雄和自由。

看这部剧，是出于好奇，好奇于锦衣玉食之中诞生的共产主义思想（或许 只是反法西斯？

）。

马克思告诉我们，物质决定意识。

但人世间的奇妙就在于：总有别样的人，选择别样的路，让历史没法儿评说我信仰，信仰却不能排除万难。

整部剧一直在纠结呀纠结，就像钱钟书先生的那本书名：《写在人生边上》。

他们行走在悬崖边上，风起云涌之际，不知前路何方

BBC的剧通常有一种质量保证，尤其是对文艺型的片。

于是乎BBC很自然地把Cambridge Spies拍得文艺腔十足，不去评价好坏，至少是种风格。

本来是冲着Toby Stephens去的，结果看到BBC美男一箩筐……进而对Tom Hollander的演技大赞，对Samuel West也不能自已了。

感叹一句，这到底是个男色经济时代。

讲正题。

先声明，我对G片没有特别倾向，给剑桥风云五星绝对讲得出道理。

人和人之间的情感绝对讲级别。

你跟隔壁班级某同学的情感如果设定为0，跟自己班的可能是1，跟前后桌的是2，跟同桌的是3，跟好朋友的可能是4，跟爹妈是5，跟那个老给你不及格的老师可能是-100（只是个比方）……随后，你跟爱人的级别多少？

跟同志的级别多少？

跟挚友的级别多少？

跟“主义”的级别又是多少？

他们说，“友情高于一切”。

什么是“一切”？

Kim说老婆是他的“一切”，于是友情就高过了“一切”。

“如果要我选择背叛国家或背叛朋友，我希望自己有勇气去背叛国家”——不是所有朋友都能值得Guy说这句话，唯有那种同理想共生死的兄弟才够得上。

光凭这一点，这片子就够感人。

BBC不仅善于改编剧本，还善于挑演员。

在我看来，主演四人中有三个都在超常发挥。

列举几个我脑袋里“喀”不掉的镜头：Toby Stephens：对着他的共产党老婆说“我不爱你”，那眼神真作孽；在和Anthony一起看到斯大林与希特勒结盟的新闻后，那个失落和惶恐的神情；知道Anthony想要退出时，满脸的愤怒和失望……他的戏多而不滥。

Samuel West：被兽医召唤那次，怕死型“抖霍”，却还本能地数落一下墙上的画，然后继续“抖霍”；两次与女王的交谈都很风趣，表情是紧张与暗喜交织；对Donald把秘密透给老婆一事发飙，面无表情地爆发摔杯子，把Donald吓得半死……他有很多种不同的严肃表情。

Tom Hollander：在Julian走过时完全被吸引的眼神，魂都游出来了；知道Julian死讯后欲哭无泪、“奥闷痛”到极致；去买领带时一副“知识分子里的流氓”腔调；去莫斯科前跟Anthony借书那一幕我十年八年都忘不掉……我学的就是他骂人的痞样。

看到他们在Dining Hall里吃饭的情景，让我想起自己披着gown在high table上跟先生们共同进餐的情景，还有不远处那个叫Trinity的college。

原来是那样复古。

我个人万分喜爱他们在剑桥毕业那段。

Good bye the old days——带着愤怒、志气、理想和友爱，他们出卖国家，却不出卖灵魂。

关于剑桥的故事太多太多, 从此地走出的名人也载满史册。

一直没有想起去英国前看了一半的《剑桥风云》。

那时候迷迷糊糊地下了这四集片，满心期待，也算是为行程做准备吧。

十分钟之后发现是政治片，虽然情节吸引人，但还是到半即废，现在想想确实符合自己性格……直到有那么一个晴朗凉爽的日子，穿过国王学院，踏上旁边草地石刻《再别康桥》的某座不起眼的石桥，听人提起，这就是Guy Burgess, Philby那帮人当年"裸蹦"之桥，才金光回闪，顿有种神奇的穿越感…… Goodbye, Cambridge! Goodbye old life!红彤彤的理想，真正能实现的又有多少人?这部英剧间接告诉我们，因为历史和现实的残酷，答案是很少。

但是这不能磨灭埋没在历史洪流中这些勇士的贡献。

即便是剑桥五杰这样相对有名的人，我们也对其真正生活了解甚少，一些迷题争论也无从考究。

感谢这样一部严谨认真的剧，给我们或多或少展示了故事的一面……四个面相姣好的演员中，我最爱饰演Guy Burgess的Tom Hollander。

虽然媒体评论大多是类似于“他是由于身高原因不得不将戏路限制在搞笑这一特质之上”，我还得为此人叫冤，像Guy这种人物，虽然幽默讨喜，终究还是悲剧性结局……第二，除去舞台剧表演经验，对于伯吉斯的演绎也是Hollander的成名作之一吧？

说回剧本身，如果说Philby一行人牺牲之物都浮于水面，那么Burgess的牺牲和痛苦则是更深沉而抽象的。

他牺牲的也许就是自己又爱又恨的英格兰和宁静的后半生吧。

苏联浑浑噩噩，疾病缠身的结局让人慨叹命运的不公。

神秘放浪、口无遮拦、忠于同伴和深爱的人（他从来没忘记Julian），四人中感情最丰富，同时也最理智清醒的他没有像Philby那样得到实在的结果，船上对祖国的告别是他能得到的最后一点慰藉。

那一刻，真正是对年轻、对自己的根、对无所作为的告别。

我常想，如果将guy在苏联的后半生拍成一部富有浪漫主义色彩的悲剧，也未尝不可。

多少伟大的灵魂不是在郁郁寡欢中化为灰烬？

但是理想主义留下了不能磨灭的遗产，它成了一种氛围，几乎随处可见。

过了两天，又经此桥，看到一人站在桥上，面对剑桥一片夏日的绿色，满对清冽的River Cam，脱了上衣大喊一声：Goodbye, Cambridge! Goodbye Old Life! 随后一跃而进，旁人欢呼。

这也是当初四人跃下桥的回响吧。

首先抒发一下形而下的东西：这片子最吸引我的就是tom hollander，他演的Guy Burgess 是至今为止看到过最喜欢的一个...他在戏里...实在是迷人到我见犹怜，若我是男人，定要去跟他搞基（啊这是怎样一种可怕的择偶观）然后是形而上的东西：其实我对所谓的贵族精神、兄弟会、布鲁姆斯伯里文化圈就像对外星球上的元素周期表一样缺乏了解的兴趣，那其实是一个和我们完全无关的世界不是么。

剑桥太美，若是我，这种从一个庭院到另一个庭院再到另一个庭院的生活真真不错，我情愿在那里读一辈子书不出来。

只是我真羡慕这种人生，不用工作也可以生存，可以做自己最喜欢的事，而且一旦做了，就要做到最好，活着可以没有安全感，但是一定要有信念...啊这是怎样单纯又浓郁的人生。

当然我这样的格局，很难理解剑桥出来的人怎么会为了人类大同的理想选择做叛国者，帮助苏维埃背叛英格兰...大概只有太祖那句最高指示可以解释：知识越多越反动。

当然像我们这样生活在一个拥有最先进生产力的天朝的兵蚁，生活的原则往往残忍而简单，那就是“搵食不易，事事小心”。

你没有选择的权利，你只有不选择的权利。

多么令人震撼的一部英剧，无法用语言形容。

看了一次便不敢看第二次。

一次看毕便久久不能自拔，脑海中萦绕的只有一句话：人的一生有的时候真的是一个玩笑--虽然并不好笑。

我看的英剧不多，但如果非要排个座次，那么这部就是当仁不让的第一。

BBC拍的四集电视剧。

讲的是真实的故事，但是不晓得有多少杜撰的成分在。

演员都演得好极了。

看上集的时候只觉得Tom Hollander（演Guy Burgess）的那个出色，看到下集才觉得Toby Stevens和Samuel West也很好。

Toby Stevens的Kim Philby很有深度。

他也应该这样。

Rupert Penry-Jones大概是戏份最少的，人物略显脸谱化。

剧情多么复杂呀，从他们四个30年代在剑桥Trinity College对共产主义的热忱开始，一直到50年代二战结束，冷战时代的开始。

他们四个人，Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean，30年代时都在剑桥。

除了Donald在Trinity Hall之外其他三个人都是Trinity的，Anthony Blunt那时已是Trinity College的fellow，formal的时候坐在high table上。

尽管如此，大部分学院内部的场景是在St. Johns拍的（经过我的考证），当然还有Kings大草坪和The Backs拍的戏。

据说Trinity当时拒绝了拍摄剧组的要求。

哈哈哈。

Trinity想必是不缺这个钱罢。

Burgess和Blunt从始至终是彻头彻尾的同性恋，Burgess心里最爱的人是Julian Bell，当时另一个Trinity的同学，是Virginia Woolf的侄子。

他很清秀。

Guy Burgess: Isn't he beautiful? His name is Julian Bell. He frightens me 'cause he burns so brightly. Bright, beautiful flames burn out.Blunt，Burgess和Bell三人在Kings的草坪上晒太阳玩耍，Bell抢了Burgess的帽子跑掉了。

（关于Blunt， Burgess & Bell，Kim Philby当时和Maclean开玩笑，说这三个人的名字出现在一起听起来像Tunbridge Wells的某个律师事务所的名字。

lol）Anthony Blunt: Even when you're silent the noise is remarkable.Guy Burgess: Noise?Anthony Blunt: The noise of your heart pumping away on your sleeve. The cacophony of your gawp.Guy Burgess: Does it show that much?台词很戏剧化，非常精致，非常highbrow，甚至有点装蛋，但很有文学性，很有趣，很符合他们的地位，那种坐在厕所里喝着酒还看着Middlemarch的人。

Kim Philby前两集还是个热血的傻小子的样子，女友多如云，私生活混乱，(Burgess: "The university should give you a medal for keeping things up.") 然后两集里他的深度，果决，复杂情感一层一层被揭开，很令人感动。

一个间谍的生活，他关心他的朋友们，特别是Burgess和Maclean都比较脆弱， happy & unpredictable。

Philby为了保护Maclean，把一个要defect到英国的苏联官员揭穿了，于是那个人死在华盛顿的酒店里，形若自杀，留下三个孩子。

Philby出于对Burgess的保护把他调到华盛顿，他查出了Maclean作为Homer的身份，安排他和Burgess一起潜逃到苏联去。

那一个晚上Maclean和Burgess在家中吃晚饭，Maclean讲怎样自己搭秋千，含着无比复杂的感情。

他的妻子Melinda流泪了。

他们都知道当晚他就要登上夜航的船，秘密逃亡苏联，从此永远不会回到英格兰，这片他生活了近40年的土地。

还有临行前Blunt给Burgess订大衣的事情，他送给他一件大衣，他说把我的Middlemarch拿去吧。

很深的感情蕴在那本精装的书里。

Philby和Melinda的戏处理的真动人，他是在利用她？

他真的爱她？

天哪。

无比哀婉。

有一个情节是间谍联络人要求Philby劝说Melinda住到纽约的娘家去，这样Maclean可以周末去看妻子，便于传送情报。

而Kim Philby可以说的那样动听而婉转，让Melinda以为他是爱她，为她动了情，为她的安全考虑才这样说的。

（Philby说，I'm thinking for you only.)唉，换了任何一个女人都难以抗拒。

历史事实是Melinda最终离开了Maclean去和Philby过日子了，那是他们都defect到苏联之后的事情。

很多戏处理的非常动人，关于友情和爱情的戏，还有间谍们的脆弱，压力，痛苦，道德的挣扎，良心的纠结。。。

事实究竟是怎样我也不得知哦不得知。

总之拍得很好，dramatized的很好。

Blunt和queen mary一起喝酒，queen问他，像你这样的人不是间谍就是同性恋，你是哪个？

Blunt微微笑了，说，a little of both, actually.还有收获之一：知道了defection这个词儿的意思

如果BBC想感动你，你就很难装酷......很多哲学家美学家都讨论过贵族精神。

俺对英国文化不熟悉，也没有被牛津剑桥的等级含义逼疯过。

但看完这片子，抓着头发想一想，俺的一点理解是：1.他们看起来缺乏野心，或者贪婪。

在英国，雄心壮志是一个尴尬的字眼。

所以会有Effortlessly Fabulous这个词。

2.他们甚至缺乏专注的兴趣3.他们不需要工作。

所以他们可以做自己喜欢的事。

但如果做，就一定要做的很好。

4.他们不能缺乏坚定的信仰。

信仰黑白与否无关紧要，但一定要有勇气有能力来维护之。

5.永远不能离开Gentleman's Club.请注意这是绅士俱乐部，不是功利至上的社交网络。

这是个传统问题，和道德无关。

6.可以失去生命，但要挽回尊严。

俺想，虽然俺们一辈子都需要工作，养家糊口，但俺按照这些规矩做人，大概也能体味到一点所谓的贵族精神。

同时期的德国，却是贵族体制被摧毁的大变革时期。

无论贵族精神与否，贵族和平民中都有令人感叹的故事。

世界和历史是多么奇妙。

这片子里对美国人的态度，是不屑一顾，极端鄙视的。

“许多人可能会说，自杀可能是"光荣的"出路……但我认为，恰恰相反，那是一种懦弱的解决方式。

”-- Blunt回忆录在1930年代中期对于我和当时的很多人来说共产主义俄国是反对法西斯主义的唯一堡垒在那时西方国家对德国采取了暧昧的妥协的立场我被Guy说服为了反对法西斯主义我加入了他的苏联间谍组织这是一个出于良知的决定反对的是纳粹我选择了良心-- Blunt回忆录华丽丽的分割线---英语底子好的同学可以看这个The True Memoirs of Anthony Blunt Summary: A year after Guy's death, Anthony remembers his friend - and their folly - as best he can. Notes:Inspired by slowascent's Yuletide Letter and her love of the seven deadly sins, especially the sin of pride. Work Text:August 30th, 1964Guy went mad a bit, after Julian died. Perhaps I should have seen it then. It was the sort of madness that was too easy to dismiss, and it might have been that I wanted to dismiss it. We four friends had spent many years making excuses for one another, but I had known Guy the longest and excused the most. Friends since the beginning, I suppose I found it harder than most to admit he might be going so terribly wrong. He'd always had his excesses, little foibles and quirks. It is how things begin, isn't it? With Guy it was always matter of degrees, each action seems less harsh in the light of what came before. I wanted to believe that he wasn't off the rails, that it was simply more of his usual. More fool myself, and that is something not easily admitted.He'd always been a bit madcap, hadn't he? We were so different, he and I, for all that our lives and upbringings had been so similar. It was likely what drew us together, at least it was why I noticed him at Cambridge. When you moved in the same circles as Guy, it was hard not to notice him. Loud and flamboyant, the sort to speak his mind - no, not speak it, for the word speak implies some sort of decorum. Guy shouted it from rooftops and pulpits. Discretion was not his friend. Whereas things in my life were so careful and controlled, compartmentalised, Jackie said the same thing to me so many years later. That I had boxes and found it all too easy to simply shut something away. Shouldn't I have? My compartmentalisation kept us safe, so many times. When Guy went off on his tangents - even when we were both Apostles - I was the one that stood sure and true. I was the one that remained calm when so many simply reacted and acted. The mark of an English gentleman, that deep-rooted stoicism, wasn't it? I epitomised that very thing and always had. I couldn't be any other way. Even when Guy told others he was a friend of Stalin whilst drunk at parties, I would be the one smiling benignly at Guy's little joke. I was always able to pretend it was a joke, but guy never was. He always felt things so strongly. He threw himself into all of it, holding nothing of himself back. I warned him of the danger of it, but Guy was never the sort to listen to such advice.Julian was the first warning, or he should have been. He'd almost gone to him, after that party we were at. Raining. It was already raining Julian had said, the crowd having gone quiet in that convenient way that it did. Inconvenient, actually, where Julian was concerned. That night Guy had been drunker than most nights. An accomplishment when one thinks about it seriously. He'd been so determined to leave the house, to find Julian. To explain to him privately that we hadn't changed. That we were working for Moscow and our rejection of socialism was part of the cover. I stopped him. I was the one that wouldn't let him go. Perhaps I was the one that made it so hard for Guy when Julian died. Had I let him go that night... There's little time for regret in our lives, if any. I refuse to doubt my decisions then. At the time they were the right ones. Guy couldn't have let Julian know any more than we could have let anyone know. It was the point of it, wasn't it? Distancing ourselves from the movement in order to have more use.It wasn't a friendship without troubles, even when we were at Cambridge. Guy was brilliant, and if I were utterly and brutally honest, I'd say he was smarter than I was. Yet he squandered it shamefully throwing away a brilliance in a way that always bothered me. There was so much he could have done. There was no doubt he'd have been that much more valuable an asset had he not drank and caroused so. It wasn't like anyone could have altered that. When we were still in school it was the norm, just a bit of boys being boys. Once we had graduated, well, there was never any stopping Guy, nor changing Guy.I realise now I couldn't have. I never thought it at the time, I thought I had him under control. Yes, he said things no one should, especially one in our position. Guy would get drunk and say the most obscene things. Few ever paid them any mind. He was known as a bit of a drinker and if he declared himself a spy at a party, who would think his words the truth? Should I have noticed it then? I told myself there was nothing to notice. Guy would be Guy, I excused it over and over, always taking note but doing little. I would say a word here and there, nothing more than suggestions or mild admonishments. They were laughed off. Why wouldn't they be laughed off? I never could have seriously admonished Guy and somehow he knew that.. Too many things we laughed off and brushed away. Pride is such a funny thing, isn't it? Not that I would have called my perceived control of Guy pride, I still have issues with referring to it as such. It seemed so reasonable then. We were friends, friends before anything else, before everything else. Shouldn't a man be capable of keeping an eye on his friends, be capable of keeping them in line? A better friend might have seen that it wasn't the simple thing I told myself it was/ Frankly, Guy was out of control long before I cared to admit it.So many at school knew what we were, even if I'd never been as open as he was. I refer to the communism, that is, not the homosexuality -- though I am sure many knew that as well, such an ill-kept secret as it was in those days. There was no shame in being a communist, not as a student. Being an anti-fascist was a point of pride for many, and later in life it was seen as a sort of undergraduate rash. It was an ailment that one had the good sense to recover from. We were Apostles the, an informal fellowship of students who gathered for many reasons. Many of us homosexuals, all of us anti-fascists, that sort of movement was nearly expected when we were students. Just as it was expected we would move on from it after college to join the establishment. Only, we never did recover from it, we only seemed to. It was all part of the master plan. One couldn't be an effective spy if one was known to have socialist tendencies. It was logical, sensible, the most useful thing that we could have done: distance ourselves from our own pasts. But it hurt Guy deeply, having to pretend that he'd rejected Communism, especially to Julian.I would swear it all changed when Julian died. I'd rather not use the word died, it sounds so innocuous, as if he were elderly and passed on in his sleep. Julian was killed, yet another death at the hands of those same fascists we all hated. There were times that it seemed Julian had the simpler and easier task. There was elegance in our roles – an excitement - that didn't exist in Julian's open devotion to the cause. I told myself that. We all did, I'm sure, that we were fighting the longer fight, the more important one. What would have changed for us if we could have done what he did? If we could have been open in our fight against the forces that tried to devour Europe?He knew, you know. He knew that Julian and I had been together. I knew of his affection for Julian but it didn't stop me. Guy never saw how they would have been the end of each other, fanned flames burning too quickly. Their passion, however different and sometimes misguided, would have been the end of them both. That isn't to say there was anything noble about my affair with Julian. I was fond of him, yes, but never in love. Love was such a dangerous thing. As dangerous as happiness, moreso when they came together. The four of us - any spies really - couldn't afford such luxuries, not and perform our chosen task and be safe.I should have seen it. I should have seen it after Julian's death but I wouldn't allow myself to. Pride, hubris, call it what you will. Perhaps even something so much simpler: the loyalty of four friends to one another. Beyond any cause or any devotion, those friends were the things that I had to keep safe and that I held to be most important. Do you know I believed it? I believed that I, Anthony Blunt, could keep us safe. I thought that I could protect each of us against the world. What an utter fool I was. There was nothing and no one that could protect us from ourselves, we were always our own worst enemies. Guy and Donald were both problems, but it was Guy that mattered most to me. Kim and Donald; Guy and myself. It was how things had always been and how they would always be.I never knew if he was hurt by Jackie's defection, as it might have been called. Jackie wasn't as important to Guy as Julian had been. I always felt that he was more a distraction to Guy, something to keep him occupied when he couldn't be bothered venturing out to one of his less than reputable locales. Perhaps that alone should have warned me away. Once his distraction was gone - once his distraction was mine - he became ever the more on edge. I've said already how brilliant he was. Brilliant and mad -- no, lost is a better word then mad. Guy needed our cause, he needed to believe. Julian, to him, had been an ideal, the personification of a concept and a belief. Not only someone he loved, but his beacon in an otherwise dark world. What Guy felt he should be and how he should be. When Julian was killed it all changed. He clung to the cause, wrapping himself in it as one would a blanket on the coldest of nights.I should have seen. I should have seen and I should have stopped it, long before I became so tired. There is a part of me that believes, still, this end could have been avoided. If I had acted earlier or made more of an effort that we could have all been safe. Guy deserved more than a warm coat and a sad life lived out away from the country he loved so. I never wrote him once he'd been exiled. The letters might have been intercepted after all. I couldn't have, and maintained my own secrets. Sad that those secrets that in the end were made public. In the end, we were all betrayed. When we became agents at Cambridge, we were such idealists, and we believed. It was exciting. Did I ever say that? There was this whiff of adventure that came with being a spy. It was a life that I could never have imagined otherwise. A life I could never have had otherwise. When did it stop being such an adventure? When did watching over my friends become such a task and a trial? The years took their toll. I would say that it was inevitable, but I am not fond of admitting inevitability. I'm not fond of admitting my own faults, nor am I fond of admitting my own part in our downfall. Yet fond or not, it is there. My hubris led us as much to our downfall as their excess did.Silly, isn't it? To think that we shared secrets that changed the world, and yet it was the simplest things that affected us. Julian's death. Jackie. Stalin making a pact with Hitler in order to buy himself time. The last... Were it not for Kim and myself, I think we would have lost Guy then. He would have self-destructed or done something truly foolish. He was always on the edge, you realise. When I heard of what he did in Washington, driving drunk, appearing at that dinner at Kim's house, I knew just how far Guy had gone. That he'd lost his belief in some way, and had gone over the edge, seeking his own downfall. Only his self-destruction would pull in those associated with him. It would pull in Donald, Kim and myself. Or it may have been that he was already gone long before Washington and that even to this day I'm fooling myself. I'm letting that same pride colour my memories. It's a difficult thing see things clearly that are in the past. Our visions are filtered to show the events in the light they find most favourable. In some ways our memories are like paintings. They are creations of our own mind that relates to the world but does not truly reflect it. We see that world in the painting through the filter of the artist with our own perceptions layered atop that. A difficult thing to consider when it's something as personal as our own own past. Am I remembering correctly, interpreting the events the way they occurred? Or have my perceptions shaped my very memories? Do I remember things the way I wish them to be? I can no longer tell.

I cannot praise enough this TV series by BBC. It is not just a story of four spies who were graduated from Cambridge. It had represented the mentality of British intellectual during pre-WW2 years. They had tried their best to pursue what they believed even though the cost was their lives.Wonderful cast by Toby Stevens and other three actors. They did act as Etonians and Cambridgers. Some may not like the previaling scene of homosexuality. However, that was how it should be both at Eton and at Cambridge.Highly recommanded!