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20190411英語流利閱讀筆記 恐怖片裡的人性悖論,你瞭解多少?

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簡介內容簡介:Why so many of the protagonists in horror films are mothers為什麼恐怖電影主角多是母親Horror flicks, for all their sensationalist

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20190411英語流利閱讀筆記 恐怖片裡的人性悖論,你瞭解多少?

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Why so many of the protagonists in horror films are mothers

為什麼恐怖電影

主角

多是母親

Horror flicks, for all their sensationalist tendencies, have long interrogated expectations of motherhood。 Pregnancy is shown not as a blessed state but as a dangerous, gory trauma。 Childbirth is frightening, and the resulting

offspring

often even more so。 The assumption that women ought to become sweet, caring

homemaker

s has been undermined by casting them as villains。

恐怖片,儘管有其聳人聽聞的傾向,長期以來卻不斷拷問著人們對於做母親的憧憬。在恐怖片裡,懷孕並不是一種幸福的狀態,而是一種危險的、血淋淋的創傷。分娩令人恐懼,由此誕生的後代往往更加可怕。(恐怖片)將女性塑造成反派,這弱化了女性本應是甜美、體貼的家庭主婦的世俗之見。

In recent years film-makers have returned to these ideas and put several mothers at the centre of stories。

近年來,電影製作人們又重新開始表達這些看法,將幾位母親設定為故事的中心人物。

The characters are often ambivalent about their responsibilities and the expectations placed on them。 Both “The Babadook” (2014) and “Hereditary” (2018) include scenes in which the mother says

the unsayable

: they wish their children were dead, or had not been born。

這些角色們通常對她們所肩負的責任及被賦予的期許感到矛盾。《鬼書》(2014)和《遺傳厄運》(2018)中都出現了母親說出不該講的心裡話的場景:她們希望自己的孩子死掉,或者壓根沒出生。

Other films have

cast

women

as

formidable heroes。 Evelyn (Emily Blunt), the survivalist mother in “A Quiet Place” (2018), helps to protect her family against monsters that hunt using sound。 She gives birth noiselessly and without help, and takes charge when her husband dies。

另外一些電影將女性塑造成令人敬畏的英雄。《寂靜之地》(2018)中的伊芙琳(艾米莉·布朗特飾)是一位生存主義母親,她協助保護自己的家人擺脫一群靠聽聲音捕獵的怪物們的攻擊。她在毫無幫助的情況下噤聲分娩,並在丈夫被殺死後承擔起保護家人的責任。

Horror is most

unsettling

when it invites audiences to imagine danger in safe places, particularly the home, and so mothers make ideal protagonists。 At the same time, these figures allow film-makers to undermine assumptions that women are vulnerable (especially when pregnant), weak and fearful, as well as the idea that motherhood is always a rewarding experience。

This makes for complex and

nuance

d characters。

當觀眾被引導著去想象發生在安全地點,特別是發生在家裡的危險時,恐怖片是最嚇人的,而這時母親們則成為絕佳的主角之選。與此同時,透過這些人物形象,電影製作人得以弱化(人們慣常)對女性的臆測和對做母親的看法:女性是脆弱的(尤其當懷孕時)、無力的且恐懼的;生兒育女總是一個意義非凡的經歷。

一個個複雜而微妙的熒幕角色也由此誕生了。

詞彙詳解:

1。 protagonist [pr‘tg()nst]

n。 主角,主演;主要人物,領導者

Contrary to traditional theories of tragedy, Miller chooses the common man as his tragic protagonist, who is striving for seeking his self-entity, dignity and the value of life。

與傳統悲劇觀相左,米勒選擇小人物最為悲劇的主角。 這個小人物不懈找尋自己的身份,尊嚴和人生的價值。

2。 horror films恐怖片,恐怖電影

3。 offspring [’fspr]

n。 後代,子孫;產物

4。 homemaker 主婦

5。 the unsayable

adj。 不可說出的

不易表達的

6。 cast … as… :將…塑造成…

7。 unsettling

adj。 使人不安的;(訊息)擾亂的

v。 動亂不定;心緒不寧(unsettle的ing形式)

8。 nuance [‘njuɑns]

n。 細微差別

complex and nuanced character 複雜而微妙的角色

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