電影也藉由空間帶出了許多記憶,例如在那座城市中誕生的名人們,都被貼在一家酒館的牆面上,包括男主角最愛的詩人William Carlos Williams,這部電影將日常敘述成一首詩,可以說是回應了William Carlos Williams詩作的風格。以下和大家分享一首如同冰箱上會黏的便利貼文字,卻又極為詩意可愛的一首詩。
This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
The Line There’s an old song
My grandfather used to sing
That has the question
“or would you rather be a fish?”
In the same song
Is the same question
But with a mule and a pig,
But the one I hear sometimes
In my head is the fish one.
Just that one line.
Would you rather be a fish?
As if the rest of the song
Didn’t have to be there.