The Official 殷非凡 的部落格

一位日本男子帶著女友到關島渡蜜月, 再回東京補辦婚禮, 奇怪的不是蜜月與婚禮的先後順序, 而是他的女友 "不是人", 他娶的是任天堂遊戲中的角色!

"A man, known by his nickname SAL 9000, fell in love with a fictional (虛構的, 想像的) character from the Nintendo (任天堂) DS 'love stimulator' Love Plus."

這個遊戲模擬男子追求女子的所有細節, "the game invites players to pick a girlfriend and then challenges them to woo (求愛, 求婚) her by taking her out on 'dates' and perform boyfriend duties such as saying 'I love you' 100 times (實在有點多了!) into the handheld games console." 甚至可以親吻遊戲機的觸碰面板 (literally kissing the DS's touch screen).

誇張的是這場婚體行禮如儀, 除了公開儀式, 牧師, 主持人, DJ 等一應俱全. "The reception included a priest, an MC (Master of Ceremony), a DJ, speeches from friends and family, photo slideshows (幻燈片展示), wedding music and even a bouquet (花束)."

雖然, 2007 年也有一部美國電影有類似的情節, "Lars & the Real Girl, an American film, directed by Gillespie, focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept (笨拙的, 可笑的) young man, who develops a relationship with a lifeslized anatomically-correct doll he orders online." 台灣好像翻譯成 "充氣娃娃之戀", 但是劇情仍著重現代人的寂寞與疏離, 並非真正的 "以身相許".

也許, 很多人對這類日式宅男次文化 (Japan's geek subculture) 難以理解, 但是, 美國一位專門報導日本科技文化的自由記者卻有一番不同的見解. Lisa Katayama, a freelance journalist who covers Japanese tech culture for publications (出版物, 發行物) including BoingBoing.net, The New York Times Magazine, Wired and her own blog, said, "Here (in the US) it's OK to love your dog, it's OK to love your car, but it's not OK to love an anime (即 animation, 卡通動畫) character." 言下之意似乎愛狗愛車或愛虛擬人物, 只是移情的對象不同而已.

人的情感是最最複雜難解的東西, 不只是現代多元化社會才有這類的困擾, 早在希臘神話裡就有雕刻師愛上自己作品的故事. "A gifted young sculptor of Cyprus, named Pygmalion, was a woman-hater. He resolved never to marry. His art, he told himself, was enough for him." 諷刺吧!? 一個憎恨女人的雕刻家, 原本想刻出個完美女子, 以證明世上女人滿是 "瑕疵", 怎能付出愛情? 沒想到在他日夜工作 "改進" 之下, 雕像的確臻於完美, 完美到他無可自拔地愛上她.

年輕時, 只覺得這則短篇希臘神話的結尾十分浪漫, 維納斯被 Pygmalion 的苦情所感動, 讓沒有生命的雕像變成真女子, 還參加了他們的婚禮呢! 但是, 現在卻覺得作者似乎沒告訴我 : 婚後呢? 娶了 "完美" 的女子, 就注定有完美的婚姻嗎?