前几天,我去电影院看了《致青春2•原来你还在这里》。我猜这大概又是一部让20大几岁的演员装成高中生样子的电影。事实上也果然如此。
The one unexpected part came in the casting of the characters. Typically, Chinese youth films tend to focus on the chemistry between a high school bad boy and his polar opposite, a *prim, upstanding female character. Never Gone switches the roles and turns it into the story of a rich, straight-A boy who meets an *underprivileged girl. But after a fleeting moment of surprise, I soon realized it was just the same Cinderella tale all over again.
令我没有想到的是角色的设定。典型的中国青春片大多描绘的是在高中校园里,一个坏男孩和一个端庄优秀的女孩之间的化学反应。之前还从来没有过男女双方的形象互换:一个成绩优秀的富家男孩遇见了一个来自下层社会的女孩。但随着惊喜感的消逝,我慢慢开始意识到,这不过又是一个灰姑娘的故事。
Youth-oriented films seem trapped in a fixed pattern: They all center on a *sensational love story, rife with anxiety
青春片似乎都陷入了一个固定的套路:一场轰轰烈烈的爱情故事,以及对于学校生活和前途的焦虑。而这些都以戏剧化的方式呈现出来——大量戏剧化场面。而正是这些老套且几乎可以预见的情节,抹杀了影片的所有乐趣。
Then a friend recommended an American film, Everybody Wants Some!!, released earlier this year. It was the work of the veteran American director Richard
于是,一个朋友向我推荐了一部今年早些时候上映的美国电影《各有少年时》。这部影片是老练的美国导演理查德•林克莱特之作,且因其讲述的一个大学生恶作剧而广受好评。
The story couldn’t be any simpler. In late August 1980, three days before the new semester starts at Texas Southern University, an 18-year-old freshman named Jake arrives in his new dorm and meets his roommates. Those three, short days form the time
影片的情节十分简单。故事发生1980年8月底,在南德州大学开学前三天,一名叫做杰克的18岁大一新生来到新宿舍,并见到了他的室友们。这短短的三天便构成了整部影片的时间框架。在这三天里,这些男孩们曾风流一夜,飘飘欲仙,也曾无所事事,百无聊赖——年少张扬而又无拘无束。他们也会一起聊天,一起打棒球,一起探求自我。
The whole time while watching the film I was waiting for something to happen–the usual *clunky plot twist, one that veered the narrative into the realm of *sappy teen dramas. But nothing like that did. The film has no climax and little drama. Everything seems to flow naturally, as if the characters are in an *eternal present. The film is
在观影全程,我都在等待着一些事情的发生——常见的繁冗的情节转折,让主人公陷入少年的多愁善感。但这些都没发生。这部影片没有高潮也极少有戏剧化的起伏。一切进展得都如此自然,就像角色们都身处一个永恒的现在。电影只讲述了青春里的三天时光,但那展示的似乎就是青春的全部。
If you have watched
如果你曾看过林克莱特经典的“爱在”三部曲:《爱在黎明破晓前》(1995),《爱在日落黄昏时》(2004),《爱在午夜降临前》(2013);或是他历经长达12年创作的《少年时代》(2014),你大概就会了解,这就是他突破传统的叙事风格。
“Richard
“理查德•林克莱特从不关心他电影里的情节,他也从不将自己限于流派之中,”美国记者布莱恩•毕晓普在前沿网上评论道。“林克莱特喜欢的只是和他的角色们在一起。”
Some movie critics have called Everybody Wants Some!! another one of
一些电影评论家将《各有少年时》称为林克莱特的又一杰作。我不会对这部影片有如此高的评价,大概是我无法从影片设定中找到共鸣。很显然,这是一个赞颂美国80年代的怀旧影片,片中人物都蓄着浓密的胡子,穿着喇叭裤。但是林克莱特描绘青春的新意,却十分吸引人。
Perhaps the only word that I can think of to best describe the film is “different”–and not in a bad way.
或许,我能想到的,用来形容这部电影的最好的词便是——“与众不同”,而且这方法还不错。
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