《非法越境者》中有这样一个象征性镜头,寓意深长,耐人寻味。罗伯特告别妻子和小女儿,非法越境到美国去挣钱,幻想着摆脱贫穷的命运。他跟着一群越境者偷越边境,小心翼翼、默默潜行。这时,银幕上出现了一个空镜头:边界的铁丝网上,无力地飘荡着一只断线的风筝。这个镜头,暗喻着罗伯特越境后的命运,有力地揭示了影片主题:在号称自由的“天堂”中,罗伯特将干着不自由的奴隶般的苦役,并在流浪、逃亡、被捕、失业、饥饿、病苦,举目无亲之中,以“天堂”幻梦的破灭结束他的异国生涯。影片所表现的罗伯特的生活经历与悲惨命运,不就象那 There is such a symbolic lens in “Illegal Border Crossing” that is profound and thought-provoking. Robert farewell to his wife and daughter, illegally crossed into the United States to earn money, fantasizing about the destiny of poverty out of poverty. He followed a group of Vietnamese transgressors across the border, cautiously, silent sneak. At this moment, an empty lens appeared on the screen: the barbed wire on the border was weakly floating with a broken kite. This lens, a metaphor of Robert’s fate after the transboundary movement, strongly reveals the theme of the film: In the so-called “paradise” of freedom, Robert will engage in an uncomfortable slave-like hard labor, and in wandering, fugitive, arrested, unemployed, Hunger, suffering, unaccompanied, ending his alien life with the disillusionment of “paradise” dreams. The performance of Robert’s life experience and tragic fate, not like that