生命的抉擇：談〈聶隱娘〉與《刺客聶隱娘》的個人意志展現

Choice of life: On the personal will of ''Nie Yin-Niang'' and ''The Assassin''

2015年8月，侯孝賢改編自唐人裴鉶《傳奇》佚書中名篇〈聶隱娘〉的電影《刺客聶隱娘》正式在臺公開上映，這部侯導唯一「十年磨一劍」之武俠作品，在電影及文化圈皆引起軒然大波，不僅眾多媒體爭相報導、影評人競相評論、網民熱烈議論外，臺灣甚至於2015年底舉辦一場「傳奇聶隱娘學術研討會」，透過編導座談會和學術篇章的交流，來進行跨領域的精采對談，其中，小說與電影的比較常是學者關注的面向之一。由於兩者在情節上已有巨大分歧，電影頂多借用小說中的幾句對話和人物元素而已，所以學者們大抵朝兩者殊異之處論述。然筆者認為，縱使內容安排、角色設定和彰顯主題差異甚大，但仍有貫穿兩者的核心元素，即是聶隱娘其人所展現的個人意志。例如小說聶隱娘在選擇婚配、效忠對象上，看似心中有一把衡量是非的尺，且不受世俗道德的干擾，反映了強烈的自由意志；而侯導演繹下的聶隱娘，即便曾在諸多事件中表現出內心的拉扯，但最後仍選擇依從自身意志行事，做出不愧於心的決定；能夠展現如此毅然的個人意志，這對身處唐代的女性來說並非易事，「刺客」身分固然能給予她們行事上的恣意與方便性，但聶隱娘自身所具備強大的內心和人格特質才是關鍵所在。故本文嘗試以此為題，著重析論小說和電影中的聶隱娘形象，並歸納出其在人倫關係的親疏、效忠對象的轉變與生命出路的抉擇上，兩者是如何呈現鮮明的個人意志和殊途同歸的人生取向。

In 2015, Hou Hsiao-Hsien was re-edited from the film ''The Assassin'', the famous ''Nie Yin-Niang'' in the ''Legend'' wrote by Pei-Xing in the Tang Dynasty. This martial artist's only ''Ten Years of Grinding a Sword'' martial arts works in the film and cultural circles. All of them caused a great uproar. Not only many media rush to report, film critics competed for comment, and netizens enthusiastically talked about it. Taiwan even held a ''legendary Nie Yin-Niang Academic Seminar'' to conduct cross-disciplinary exchanges through the exchange of symposiums and academic chapters. Brilliant dialogue, in which the comparison of text and image is often one of the scholars' concerns. Because there is a huge disagreement between the film and the thesis, the film borrows a few words of dialogue and character elements in the film, so the scholars can talk about the difference between the two, but I believes that even if the content arrangement, role setting is different from the theme, but it can penetrate the core elements of the two, that is the personal will of Nie Yin-Niang. When the scholar Yue Heng-Jun explored the propositions of the legendary ''will'' and ''destiny'' of Tang Dynasty, he once said: ''Read the legends of the Tang Dynasty. In those stories, the characters are sharp and eloquent, and they feel that they are unassuming in their lives. The thirst of freedom of will.'' This can be regarded as the annotation of Nie Yin-Niang; while Nie Yin-Niang, who is under the command of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, even showed her inner feelings in many acts, but she still chose to follow her own will.She able to show such a resolute personal will, this is not easy for women in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to its ''Assassin'' identity, Nie Yin-niang's own strong inner and personality traits are the main key. Therefore, this thesis attempts to analyze the Nie Yin-Niang in the thesis and the film, and how to present its distinctive and special personal will between the relationship of family, the change of the loyalty person and the choice of life.