本文旨在以寓意的讀法討論晚近幾部新馬華人電影，整個討論緊扣離散與文化記憶等概念。文化記憶不應被視為過去的紀錄、檔案或遺跡而已，文化記憶超越個人與社會，是一種文化現象，其功能在激發不同世代的人在不同地區的離散想像。本文所討論的幾部電影雖然性質不同、風格互異，卻相當巧妙地，或以其歌曲，或以其影像，或以其劇情，召喚不同地區華人的文化記憶。這些電影也說明了國界的文化意義不大，連結不同國家的華人的反而是離散想像。離散作為象徵性資本，非但擴大了這些影片的文化想像，也為這些影片的詮釋增添不少可能性。

This paper is an attempt to read some recent Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese films allegorically by resorting to such concepts as diaspora and cultural memory. Rather than conceptualizing cultural memory as a record, an archive, or a residue of the past, this paper takes cultural memory to be a phenomenon that goes beyond the individual and society, a phenomenon that strikes sparks in the imaginations of generations of diasporic people living in different countries or regions. The films under discussion may differ in style and nature. Nevertheless, they tend to conjure up the cultural memories of Chinese people in various communities, either through their songs, their images, or their stories. These films testify to the fact that the cultural meanings of borders are unproductive and that what links together Chinese living in different nations is but diasporic imagination. As symbolic capital, diaspora not only broadens the cultural imagination ignited by these films but makes possible additional dimensions of their interpretations.