远方的梦与念
开通文学城博客，记录日常的生活与遐想。
今天终于看完了《沉默的荣耀》。整体而言，这是一部很有看点的电视剧，情节紧凑惊险，国共双方的较量也拍得十分精彩。东海小组身处孤岛，既象征着物理上的隔绝，也隐喻着命运的孤立无援。这样一个小小的情报小组要与整个台湾特务系统抗衡，结局注定悲惨，关键在于他们无路可退。蒋介石最后的一句“杀无赦”，让这些台湾的共产党渗透者彻底“沉默”。
然而，东海小组的贡献仍然巨大。吴石利用它的身份所做出的作战计划，故意误导蒋介石，让国军在西南的最后反攻中失败。小组后来提供的情报成功让解放军粉碎了国民党对上海的轰炸计划，使国军损失惨重，也为舟山和海南岛的解放立下了重要功劳。对吴石将军而言，这些成果足以让他死而无憾。即便最终被枪决，他仍然带着平静的微笑走向死亡，正如他对陈宝仓将军所说的那样：“既如此，便如此。”死又如何？
剧中聚集了不少知名演员，阵容可谓强大。许多老戏骨与资深演员即使只出现在短短几场戏中，也愿意为这部作品助阵。这就是大剧本的魅力。它可以吸引各路演员参与进来，蹭热度。比如第一集中饰演张灏的演员，本就是在观众中颇有名气的徐洪浩，虽然只出场几十分钟就领盒饭，却让开场显得格外有分量。那位跳海牺牲的女交通员戏份更短，却也由一位有些名气的年轻演员出演。可见这部剧的吸引力之大，不仅能让实力派演员心甘情愿“客串几分钟”，也让年轻演员争相抓住与前辈同台亮相的机会。
我在之前的帖子中提到，演技上，于和伟与饰演谷正文的余皑磊堪称势均力敌，二人斗智斗勇，火花四溅。谷正文一度被整得几乎丧命，他的手下俞队长也被吴石设计除掉。在对主要人物的刻画中，编导显然下了一番功夫，使人物具有一定的立体感。我们看到，吴石将军不仅是一位坚定的共产党卧底，还是一位温情的丈夫与父亲。他对副官聂曦既有师长的指导，也有上级的关怀，显得既睿智又细腻。在与敌人的博弈中，他处变不惊、沉着冷静。每当险情出现，他总是淡淡地说：“我想想办法“，而且常常就能想出办法，并总能化险为夷，甚至反制敌人。
相比之下，谷正文的人物塑造就显得扁平许多。作为剧中的关键角色，他的原型在历史上曾有复杂经历，早年参加共产党和学生运动，后叛变投敌，甚至为汪伪政权效力，可谓“三料叛徒”。然而剧中几乎未呈现他的复杂背景，编导只突出他“抓共谍”的本事。他精于算计、反应敏捷，却被单一地塑造成一个“坏人”或“邪恶的代表”。观众难以看到他为何如此卖命？难道他只享受抓人的快乐？他既不贪财，也不好色，脑中似乎只有破案与工作，缺少了动机的描述，使人物显得失真。
当然，剧集篇幅有限，编导不可能详尽展现每个人物的家庭与心理。但至少应让观众理解谷正文的动机。难道他的唯一的兴趣就是抓共谍？资料显示，他有十个子女，可剧中从未体现他对家人的态度与情感。观众看到的只是他冷酷、残忍的一面。例如，为了击垮陈泽民，他利用后者的家人作为软肋。又如，当他与俞队长因捏造罪证被关进监狱、面临三天后的死刑，他居然镇静从容，毫无惧色。这对一个叛徒出身的来说，面对死亡如此的淡定有些不可思议。这种淡定更像编剧的方便安排，而非人物内在逻辑。毕竟作为叛徒，他不可能对死亡毫无恐惧。由此，这一角色的心理深度与人性复杂性被削弱了，只剩一个邪恶的面具。
不过，谷正文也有几个短暂的人性瞬间。例如，他得知郑书记想吃牛肉，便破例带她去吃牛排；又如在吴将军被捕后，他在吴公馆看到吴的子女，女儿抱着弟弟大声对他说：我弟弟要睡午觉。谷并未恼怒，只是笑笑说：好，睡完觉再出来说话。这些细节透露出人物某种温情的一面，但编导并未进一步挖掘，让观众无从判断这是真诚的善意还是策略性的伪装。因此，谷正文最终仍显得不够丰满。
另一个存在缺陷的角色是台工委的郑书记。问题不在人物设定，而在演员的选择。郑书记作为台湾地区地下党的最高领导人，虽最终叛变，但他毕竟是老红军干部，曾经经历过战争着的洗礼和磨难。剧中将他的生活描写得颇为糜烂，这本无可厚非，可饰演他的演员却让人难以信服这是一位高级领导人。他说话摇头晃脑、翻白眼、唾沫横飞，像个多动症患者，神经病，缺乏领导的沉稳气质。相比之下，同样叛变的陈泽民至少让人觉得像那么回事。郑书记的表演则显得轻浮、突兀，几乎成为整部剧的最大一处败笔。
饰演黎晴的隆妮也令人失望。或许编导选她是看重颜值和外形，但我觉得她的颜值远不如饰演阿菊的演员。黎晴原本是保密局派去渗透东海小组的女特工，为了替牺牲的哥哥报仇而恨共产党。她的立场转变本可成为剧中最具张力的转折点，然而编剧处理得过于仓促。她在得知哥哥真正的死因后态度突变，不仅隐瞒情报，还两次冒险救出交通员朱枫，甚至划小船送情报回大陆。这种急转直下的转变缺乏情感与逻辑铺垫，在白色恐怖的氛围下，让人难以相信，更像是为了迎合意识形态的结局而硬设的情节。
当然，电视剧不可能让每个角色都多面呈现。但对于吴石、谷正文、黎晴、郑书记这些关键人物，多维的人物塑造是提升作品深度与可信度的关键。若人物被简化为“正”“邪”的符号，整部剧的紧张感与真实感都会被削弱。可惜的是，《沉默的荣耀》在塑造反派与灰色人物时，未能深入展现其复杂的人性，使这场惊心动魄的谍战少了几分厚度与余味。
2025.10.17 于美国
Regarding “propaganda,” I believe every form of writing carries a certain perspective or ideological bent—including your own comments. Just look at YouTube talks, CNN, or Fox News. Each presents its own kind of propaganda. As critical readers, we should engage with all sides and form our own judgments rather than drawing conclusions too quickly. When I write about a TV series, I critique characters based on their act within the story and evaluate how the playwright and director portray them, whether their presentations feel truthful and realistic or biased and flawed.
You identify yourself as a Chinese American, while I usually think of myself simply as American. Still, as a first-generation immigrant from China, I continue to regard myself as Chinese. My children, in contrast, would call themselves Chinese Americans. What I don’t quite understand is your apparent hostility toward “China,” even though you try to detach it from the CCP. After all, it is the same China, whether under the CCP or the KMT, that is recognized by most countries in the world, including the United States. I assume that you, your parents, or your grandparents, if you are now in the U.S., all came from that same China. Right?
Therefore, your final statement, “From the perspective of China, the nation, 吴石 is a felon, a defector, a despicable loser,” is quite mind-boggling to me. Which “China” are you referring to? A China without the CCP? Such a China does not currently exist. In this TV series produced in China, however, 吴石 is not portrayed as a felon or defector. Clearly.
All my comments concentrate on one point that this TV series is for political propaganda, not a historical document. As Chinese Americans who are privileged with freedom and democracy, we should align with the national interests of China, not with communist regime.
From the perspective of China, the nation, 吴石 is a felon, a defector, a despicable loser.
The very existence of this TV drama, dedicated to his life and deeds, is proof that he continues to be remembered, not as a loser, but as a man of conviction. Through this story, I came to know Wu Shi and to admire the courage that history has often overlooked. In history, both in China and elsewhere, many truly wise and admirable people have lived without wealth and many died in tragedy, yet they are remembered for their integrity, courage, and accomplishments. They are NOT despicable.
He was executed actually. He lost everything, anything. His whole family, including his two children, were grimly persecuted by communist regime for 30 years. He was a despicable huge loser.
But to China, the nation, 吴石 was a felon, a defector, a renegade. His treacherous conducts ultimately resulted in the extreme distress and cataclysm that billions of Chinese people endured from 1949 to 1979.
Tens of millions of people died from hunger, terror, massacre and persecution during the three decades. To the worst, five thousand years of Chinese Civilization was almost exterminated.
While Chairman Mao was the primary perpetrator, 吴石 was a major accomplice. It was him who factually consigned China into the hands of Chairman Mao, and eventually resulted in the darkest three decades in Chinese history.
中国内战，让无数仁人志士汗颜。政权之争、兄弟倪墙、同室操戈，是中华民族最大的伤害。到了如今，台海风浪不平，被外夷利用，令无数爱国华人痛心扼腕。中华民族复兴是无数真正的华人最大的心愿，然而许多政客为了一己之私，罔顾民主大义，真是历史的罪人。突然想起林则徐那首挂在禁烟衙门外的一副对联：海纳百川，有容乃大；壁立千仞，无欲者刚。
愿中华民族伟大复兴，早日到来！