電影劇本《再見女兒》創作論述

《再見女兒》講述一個因經商離鄉而拋棄過往的父親，意識到自己是個留不下異鄉又回不了故鄉的中間人，最後彌補自己的過失的故事。隨著大陸投資環境惡化，近年開始有上百家台商開始回流台灣。筆者從台商父親的角度開始理解並研究，發現很多台商回台後卻都遇到了難關：他們大都已過中年，重新適應變遷的台灣大環境並不容易。於是，很多人便陷入了「留不下異鄉，又回不了故鄉」的尷尬處境。這樣的一群人，不僅某程度上失去對故鄉的認同感，也失去了與故鄉親人的聯繫。劇本中的男主角阿盛就是上述台商的一個典型代表。在大陸經商的他，長年在外導致與台灣的妻女疏離，進而在對岸有了另外一對妻女。父愛有限，阿盛把大部分的愛給了大陸的小女兒戀戀，而與大女兒嘉欣只是維持著表面的父女關係。這樣的關係平衡了二十年，直到小女兒以陸生身分來台唸書，與姐姐嘉欣互相照應，卻在一次的潛水活動中溺斃身亡，阿盛維持的平衡才被打破。阿盛返台再次見到疏離的大女兒，卻陷入小女兒死亡的謎團之中。阿盛最後才發現，失去小女兒的結束，只是了解另外一個女兒的開始。阿盛最後誠實地面對真相，接受懲罰，進而彌補自己的過失。劇本長度約為90分鐘，敘事主軸在於一個父親、兩個家庭，為尋找小女兒死亡的真相，掀起一場過往的風暴。副文本則是阿盛不經意所製造的姊妹衝突，以及阿盛這二十年來身為一個父親的過失。我期待以懸疑感十足的戲劇張力，來帶動劇中親人之間的情感救贖，以求讓觀眾能在觀影時集中注意力，也希望觀眾走出戲院之後，能夠照應到自己和家人之間疏離而矛盾的親子關係，得到情感上的滿足。論述部分詳述了本劇創作起源和經歷，並且舉出相同主題的《浮草》和結構類型部分相似的《分居風暴》做對照，並詳細分析本劇角色與空間設定。最後是對於本劇的創作過程的檢討。

關鍵字

父女關係；臺商；兩岸；家庭；故鄉與異鄉；電影劇本

並列摘要

Lost Daughter tells a story of a father who go abroad for business, abandoning his family. Finally he realizes that he and people like him can’t call the foreign country they reside home, nor the land they originated. Finally, he decides do something to atone for his past mistake. Recently, with the investment environment deteriorating in China, hundreds of Taiwanese enterprises turn back to Taiwan. This film tells the story of a father who is facing a dilemma either to stay in China or return to Taiwan. Many Taiwanese businessmen encounter difficulties after going back to Taiwan since most of them are no longer young. It’s not easy for them to readapt the changing environment in Taiwan. Therefore, many people are caught in an awkward situation: they can’t stay in foreign lands; nor can they go home. This group of people can’t identify with their hometown to a certain extent, and they often lost connection with their relatives in hometown. In the story of this screenplay, the leading role A-Cheng is typical of this kind of Taiwanese businessman. Running business in China, the long distance from home alienates in with his wife and daughter. Subsequently, he marries another woman and has a daughter with her in China. A-Cheng gives most of his love to the younger daughter Lian-Lian in China, but maintains a father-daughter relationship with elder daughter Jia-Xin in Taiwan. This kind of relationship lasts for twenty years. When younger daughter studies in Taiwan, she and her sister Jia-Xin look after each other. However, the younger daughter was drowned when going scuba diving. This breaks the balance that A-Cheng tries to maintain. A-Cheng goes back to Taiwan and meets with his elder daughter, and he is bewildered by the mystery of Lian-Lian ‘s death. A-Cheng realizes in the end that losing younger daughter turns out to be a beginning of getting back another daughter. A-Cheng honestly faces the situation, accepts punishment, and decides to atone for his sin. This is a 90-minutes feature-length screenplay, focusing on father and his two families. His actions seeking the truth behind the death of his daughter eventually cause a storm. The center of the plot is the conflict between two sisters, which eventually leads to the death accidentally caused by the elder daughter, and the cause of the conflict can be traced back to A-Cheng’s failure of being a father in the past twenty years. I hope to use the suspension of dramatic tension to motivate the emotional redemption among family members. I expect this can make the audience focused on the emotional aspect of the characters when watching the film, and also reflect on their own relationships with their family members. Hopefully they will get emotional satisfaction because of this reflection. This essay accounts the origination and the writing process of this screenplay, comparing this screenplay with that of Ukigusa, which has the same theme, and A Separation, which has similar structure. This essay also analyzes the characters and settings of the screnplay in detail. Finally, it reflects on the creating process of this film.