可能彼时的姜文也想塞一堆隐喻和符号进去，塞得满满当当丝毫不输后来做作干瘪的《柳浪闻莺》，但意境这种东西真是难以复刻，有的电影讲述故事，有的电影营造意境，《柳浪闻莺》当属于后者，那种妙手偶得的诗意天成，把或疯癫或张扬或迷惘或狂狷的各色人物、或浅薄或直白或深刻或曲折的各种象征统统熔铸其中（并非演技高下，完全归因于电影的境界高低，同样是风骚，陈冲于太阳却毫无许晴于邪不压正之突兀、冒出），几处魔幻的镜头堪称神来之笔毫无造作之嫌，令我数度怀疑这是否真的是中国导演拍出来的电影，彻底打破华语观影量严重不足的我对华语片只有稳打稳扎走彻彻底底的现实主义道路才能得救的偏见.
最喜欢第一部分，用这种疯癫的拍法拍疯癫的人和疯癫的事，真是再合适不过了.
「Understanding makes the mind lazy.」「You'd really do that? Really? Come out of your seclusion for me? → Indeed I will.」「She had fulfilled the dream, and they'd snatched it away from her. But what she possessed deep down was something no one could ever take away from her. Her courage. And it was that courage and her passion for books that she bequeathed to me, along with the Chinese lacquered tray.」「How right she was when she said that no one ever feels alone in a bookshop.」【Julie Christie - Narrator (uncredited)】柳浪闻莺是西湖十景之五，位于西湖东南岸，清波门处的大型公园.
分友谊、闻莺、聚景、南园四个景区.
柳丛衬托着紫楠、雪松、广玉兰、梅花等异木名花.
南宋时，这里是京城最大的御花园，称聚景园.
当时园内有会芳殿和三堂、九亭，以及柳浪桥和学士桥.
清代恢复柳浪闻莺旧景.
有柳洲之名.
其间黄莺飞舞，竞相啼鸣，故有“柳浪闻莺”之称.
