Name: 為什麼說《Aftersun》是一部傑作？ (Why Aftersun is a Masterpiece | *Spoilers*)
Uploaded: 2025-04-28T14:24:42.000Z
Duration: 17 min 29 s

Good evening, this is the Oscar Expert here, and it's time to talk about After Sun in depth with spoilers.

晚上好，我是奧斯卡專家，是時候深入討論《太陽之後》的劇透了。

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I've seen it twice now, I have a lot to say about a movie that I feel is a masterpiece.

我已經看過兩遍了，對於這部我認為是傑作的電影，我有很多話要說。

This video has no regard for spoilers, it is not intended for you to watch it if you haven't seen the movie, and I would hate for this video to be what spoils the movie for you.

本視頻不考慮劇透，如果您還沒看過電影，也不打算觀看本視頻，我也不希望本視頻會破壞您對電影的欣賞。

So to give a quick sum up, After Sun is about a woman reflecting on a vacation that she had with her father two decades ago when she was 11 years old, and there's clearly joy and love in their connection, but there's also this tension or pressure beneath the surface that's slowly building up that stems from the dad's mental health issues that he's quietly dealing with.

簡單總結一下，《太陽之後》講述的是一個女人回想二十年前她 11 歲時與父親度過的一個假期的故事，他們之間的聯繫顯然充滿了快樂和愛，但在表面之下也有一種緊張或壓力在慢慢積聚，這種緊張或壓力源於父親默默面對的心理健康問題。

By the end, this fairly languid film becomes deeply painful as we learn that this vacation was the last time that these two ever saw each other.

影片最後，當我們得知這次度假是兩人最後一次見面時，這部相當乏味的影片變得令人深感痛苦。

It's implied that Kalem committed suicide after this vacation, leaving Sophie with just memories and video footage to pour over and piece together who he was and what she couldn't see in him before.

這暗示著卡勒姆在這次度假後自殺了，留給索菲的只有回憶和視頻片段，讓她去拼湊他是誰，以及她之前看不到的他。

It's very clear that Kalem is quietly dealing with depression throughout their vacation.

很明顯，在整個假期中，卡勒姆都在默默地應對抑鬱症。

Moments in the beginning where he slides out the back door for a cigarette while Sophie is sleeping and does this dance paints a portrait of a man trying to ease his mind.

影片開頭，他趁蘇菲熟睡時從後門溜出去抽菸，並跳起這支舞的片段，描繪了一個男人試圖緩和情緒的形象。

The same goes for the father's interest in Tai Chi.

父親對太極拳的興趣也是如此。

We see that he's bought several books on it and he practices often.

我們看到他買了幾本相關書籍，而且經常練習。

Sophie just thinks in the moment that he's just doing his goofy ninja moves, which speaks to the separation that exists between who Sophie thought that she was looking at and who she was really looking at.

蘇菲只是在那一刻認為他只是在做他那愚蠢的忍者動作，這說明了蘇菲認為她在看的人和她真正在看的人之間存在著分離。

Him saying he doesn't know how he made it to 30 and doesn't think he can make it to 40.

他說他不知道自己是怎麼做到 30 歲的，也不認為自己能做到 40 歲。

Kalem's mental state is pretty half-sketched, but I think that's very intentional.

卡勒姆的精神狀態相當半吊子，但我認為這是他有意為之。

We get some clues as to why he might be feeling this way, but we don't ever fully understand it because we only are given as many clues as Sophie has, which makes sense considering that this entire movie is from Sophie's perspective.

我們得到了一些關於他為什麼會有這種感覺的線索，但我們並不能完全理解，因為我們只能從蘇菲那裡得到儘可能多的線索，考慮到整部電影都是從蘇菲的視角出發，這也是合情合理的。

And also, sometimes mental illness and depression don't even have a clear source that you can point to.

此外，有時精神疾病和抑鬱症甚至沒有明確的源頭。

話雖如此，我們能看到什麼呢？

Kalem is a man whose life has clearly not gone according to plan.

卡勒姆的生活顯然沒有按照計劃進行。

Even the fact that he became a father to Sophie at the young age of 20 implies that he may have missed out on some key moments in his development or his 20s.

即使他在 20 歲時就成為索菲的父親，也意味著他可能錯過了自己成長或 20 歲時的一些關鍵時刻。

We learn that he's not together with Sophie's mother and that he struggles financially, which is something that clearly brings him a lot of shame.

我們瞭解到，他和索菲的母親並不在一起，經濟上也很拮据，這顯然讓他感到非常羞愧。

We see how he beats himself up over not being able to buy this rug.

我們看到了他如何為買不到這塊地毯而自責。

Or when Sophie loses the expensive goggles, he seems to spiral a little bit mentally in these moments.

或者當索菲弄丟了昂貴的護目鏡時，他似乎在這些時刻精神有點恍惚。

And when asked by Sophie, where did you think you would be when you were 11?

當索菲問你，11 歲時你覺得自己會在哪裡？

It's pretty painful for him to think about, and he doesn't seem to want to answer.

他想起來就很痛苦，似乎也不想回答。

But think about the time that he, like Sophie at 11 years old, felt the entire world was in front of him.

但仔細想想，他也曾像 11 歲的蘇菲一樣，覺得整個世界就在眼前。

And now at age 31, he is a financially struggling, separated parent of an 11-year-old.

現在，31 歲的他經濟拮据，父母離異，還有一個 11 歲的孩子。

After Sun is very insightful about how the characters' respective ages play into the different realities that they're navigating.

太陽之後》對人物各自的年齡在他們所經歷的不同現實中的作用很有見地。

In the beginning of the movie, Sophie jokes that her dad is turning 130, but beneath this joke I think is the feeling that 31 just feels so far away to an 11-year-old.

在電影的開頭，蘇菲開玩笑說她的爸爸快到 130 歲了，但在這個玩笑的背後，我認為是 31 歲對於一個 11 歲的孩子來說是如此遙遠的感覺。

Sophie is basically in the middle of like her own coming-of-age journey on this vacation.

在這個假期裡，蘇菲基本上正處於自己的成長曆程中。

But in contrast, Callum doesn't even know how he made it to age 30.

但相比之下，卡勒姆甚至不知道自己是怎麼活到 30 歲的。

Sophie is almost at her beginning, and Callum feels like he is approaching a dead end in his life.

蘇菲的人生幾乎就要開始了，而卡勒姆覺得自己的人生也快走到了死衚衕。

That's why birthdays are so exciting to Sophie, but so painful to Callum.

這就是為什麼生日對蘇菲來說是如此令人興奮，而對卡勒姆來說卻是如此痛苦。

At the end of the movie, Sophie thinks that he would probably like it if she got everybody to sing happy birthday to him.

電影結束時，蘇菲想，如果她讓大家一起為他唱生日快樂歌，他可能會喜歡。

But when she does, Callum just seems like haunted by this moment.

但當她這樣做時，卡勒姆就好像被這一刻纏住了。

When you're 11, every age feels like a new chapter in your life.

11 歲時，每個年齡段都像是人生的新篇章。

But at a certain point, age can become a scary thing.

但到了一定程度，年齡就會變得可怕。

Callum tells Sophie that she can be whatever she wants to be because she has time.

卡勒姆告訴索菲，她可以成為任何她想成為的人，因為她有時間。

And I think he almost says this enviously, feeling like he no longer has time on his side.

我覺得他幾乎是羨慕地說出這句話，覺得自己不再有時間了。

And that's why it's also significant that Sophie in the present day, looking back on these memories, is now the same age as her father.

這也是為什麼現在的索菲在回顧這些記憶時，與她的父親同齡，這一點也很重要。

So perhaps from this perspective of her being older, she can understand more about him and empathize with his experience in a way that she just wasn't capable of doing when she was 11.

是以，也許從她年長的這個角度來看，她能更多地理解他，對他的經歷感同身受，而這是她 11 歲時無法做到的。

And I think it's implied by the dark lighting in Sophie's present day apartment that she has probably been to very dark places in her life.

我認為，蘇菲現在的公寓裡昏暗的燈光暗示著她一生中可能去過非常黑暗的地方。

No doubt her dad leaving was one of them.

毫無疑問，她父親的離開就是其中之一。

And I think she now has a greater understanding of what he was going through.

我想她現在對他的經歷有了更深的理解。

Much of Aftersun details how Sophie and Callum are having opposite internal experiences at this resort, despite them, you know, spending most of their time together.

儘管蘇菲和卡勒姆大部分時間都在一起，但《日落之後》的大部分內容都在詳細描述他們在這個度假勝地的截然相反的內心體驗。

Sophie thinks it's nice that everybody shares the same sky.

索菲認為，大家共享同一片天空很好。

And much of Aftersun involves the two staring at the sky or playing in the water.

在《Aftersun》中，兩人大部分時間都在凝望天空或戲水。

The blue of the sky and the sea often bleed together visually.

在視覺上，天空和大海的藍色常常交織在一起。

And occasionally the film transitions seamlessly from shots of the sky to shots of the sea or the pool.

影片偶爾會從天空鏡頭無縫切換到大海或泳池鏡頭。

So maybe those things are kind of the same in terms of what they symbolize.

是以，就其象徵意義而言，這些東西也許是一樣的。

But for sure, the water, I think, is something that represents something different to each of these characters.

但可以肯定的是，我認為水對每個角色來說都代表著不同的東西。

To Sophie, water is beautiful and bright, glistening, and it represents possibility and dreams.

對蘇菲來說，水是美麗的、明亮的、閃閃發光的，它代表著可能性和夢想。

From underwater, she gazes at the teens in the resort, imagining her future.

在水下，她凝視著度假村裡的青少年，想象著自己的未來。

Sophie clearly admires the older kids and looks forward to being a teenager.

索菲顯然很羨慕大孩子們，並期待著成為一名青少年。

And lots of the older kids also have this all-inclusive band that lets them get things for free at the resort, which is something that her dad certainly can't afford for them.

很多大一點的孩子都有全包帶，可以免費在度假村裡玩，她爸爸肯定負擔不起。

And the fact that that's associated with the teenagers, I think, has to do with Sophie's vision of the future.

我認為，這與青少年有關，與索菲對未來的憧憬有關。

You know, the possibility that she could have, like, this all-access pass.

你知道，她有可能有， 就像，這個全通通行證。

Like in that moment where Sophie is underwater, looking at all the teenagers, being romantic and everything, that yellow all-access band is clearly in view.

就像蘇菲在水下看著所有的青少年，浪漫地做著一切的那一刻，黃色的通行帶清晰地映入眼簾。

But to Callum, water is dark, menacing, and bottomless.

但對卡勒姆來說，水是黑暗的、來勢洶洶的、深不見底的。

When Sophie loses her goggles in the ocean, which is a financial blow to Callum, he just kind of sadly watches the goggles, like, drift down into the dark sea.

當索菲在海里弄丟了護目鏡，這對卡勒姆來說是個沉重的打擊，他只是有點悲傷地看著護目鏡，就像，飄進了黑暗的大海。

And there's that moment towards the end where Callum wanders into the ocean at night when his mental health problems hit a peak, and the blackness of the sea fully engulfs him.

在結尾處，當卡勒姆的精神問題達到頂點時，他在夜裡徘徊在大海里，黑漆漆的大海將他完全吞沒。

Like, the water is thrashing and aggressive, and the blackness of it almost implies, like, death.

比如，水流洶湧澎湃、咄咄逼人，而它的黑色幾乎意味著死亡。

So even the water in this film represents two different things to these different characters, which speaks to how our subjective experiences of the world can be so vastly different.

是以，即使是影片中的水，對這些不同的角色來說也代表著兩種不同的事物，這也說明了我們對世界的主觀體驗可以如此大相徑庭。

At 11, Sophie's at an age where she's starting to develop more emotional perceptiveness.

11 歲的索菲正處於開始發展更多情感知覺的年齡。

That's an age where you start to take a little bit of a deeper interest in relationships and people.

在這個年齡段，你開始對人際關係和人產生更濃厚的興趣。

And Frankie Correo, to her credit, really brings that maturity, but also that silliness that an 11-year-old has.

弗蘭基-科雷奧（Frankie Correo）的表現值得稱讚，她不僅表現出了 11 歲孩子的成熟，也表現出了 11 歲孩子的傻氣。

It's just as much about her trying to understand her father at age 11 as it is about her later on in life trying to understand her father.

這本書既講述了她 11 歲時試圖理解父親的故事，也講述了她後來試圖理解父親的故事。

Some moments that I think are clear examples of Sophie taking an interest in her dad and knowing him on a deeper level, when she asks, Where did you think you'd be when you were 11?

我認為，蘇菲對父親產生興趣並對他有了更深層次瞭解的一些時刻，比如她問："你以為你 11 歲的時候會在哪裡？

Asking him questions that he doesn't always want to answer.

問他一些他並不總是願意回答的問題。

And in that brilliant shot where we see Sophie recording the moment with her mind camera, where the conversation between the two is being reflected off of a blank TV, I think that speaks to just Sophie trying to record her father.

在那個精彩的鏡頭中，我們看到蘇菲用她的心靈攝影機記錄下了那一刻，兩人之間的對話從一臺空白的電視機上反射出來，我認為這恰恰說明了蘇菲試圖記錄下她的父親。

And I think that she can tell that there's something, like, a little bit wrong.

When she loses her expensive goggles and her dad is quietly upset about it, she leans on him and she says, I know they were expensive.

當她弄丟了昂貴的護目鏡，爸爸為此悄悄地不高興時，她靠在爸爸身上說，我知道它們很貴。

And he almost seems, like, surprised that she noticed.

他似乎很驚訝她會注意到這一點。

This gesture shows that she's, like, aware that he has these economic problems and she doesn't want to be kept away from knowing these things just because she's a kid.

這個舉動表明，她知道他有這些經濟問題，她不想因為自己是個孩子，就不知道這些事情。

There's also that moment where she gestures to him that, like, she knows that he smokes cigarettes, which is something that he doesn't want to tell her.

還有那一刻，她對他做了一個手勢，好像，她知道他抽菸，而這是他不想告訴她的。

And she kind of gives him this look like, it's OK, like, I know.

她給了他一個 "沒關係，我知道 "的表情。

And then there's the moment where she puts the sheets on Callum as he's passed out in his bed after his spiral of a night.

當 Callum 度過了一個漩渦般的夜晚後昏睡在床上時，她為他鋪上床單。

And the composition of the shot mirrors the shot in the beginning of the film where Callum tucks Sophie in and then goes out the back for a cigarette.

這個鏡頭的構圖與影片開頭卡勒姆為蘇菲蓋好被子，然後從後面出去抽菸的鏡頭如出一轍。

I think the shot shows that Sophie feels like she is capable of taking care of her dad in the way that he is capable of taking care of her.

我認為這個鏡頭表明，蘇菲覺得自己有能力照顧爸爸，而爸爸也有能力照顧她。

And when her dad apologizes for that rough night, when they're at the clay pools, she doesn't really say anything, but she just, like, rubs the clay on him.

當她爸爸為那個難熬的夜晚道歉時，當他們在粘土池邊時，她什麼也沒說，只是把粘土抹在他身上。

And I think that's a sign of her trying to forgive and comfort him.

我認為這是她試圖原諒和安慰他的表現。

She asks him where he got the mark on his shoulder and he doesn't tell her.

她問他肩膀上的印記是怎麼來的，他沒有告訴她。

She's more than ready to listen, even if it cracks the portrait of the perfect happy dad that Callum wants to put on.

她非常願意傾聽，哪怕這會破壞卡勒姆想要塑造的完美幸福父親的形象。

He tells Sophie that she can tell him anything about boys and drugs that she takes.

他告訴索菲，她可以告訴他任何關於男孩和吸毒的事情。

But what's tragic is that Callum won't reciprocate that same openness that he is asking of Sophie.

但可悲的是，卡勒姆並沒有像索菲一樣對她敞開心扉。

There's a great scene where they're in the hotel room and Callum is taking his cast off and he's, like, quietly in pain and he cuts himself and he's bleeding.

有一場戲很精彩，他們在酒店房間裡，卡勒姆正在拆石膏，他安靜地忍受著疼痛，他割傷了自己，血流不止。

And Sophie is on the other side of the wall, just kind of picking his brain, trying to ask more about his relationship with her mom.

索菲就在牆的另一側，她在刨根問底，試圖問出更多關於他和她媽媽的關係。

But while he's giving her some answers, he's hiding something more painful, like, literally going on with his arm, but also, you know, not literally, like, metaphorically hiding his pain.

但是，當他給她一些答案的時候，他卻在隱藏一些更痛苦的事情，比如，字面上的他的手臂，但是，你知道，也不是字面上的，比如，隱喻性地隱藏他的痛苦。

And the cast in general, I think, is just symbolic of, like, him having an injury.

我認為，石膏一般只是他受傷的象徵。

And the shot composition of this scene is really brilliant.

這個場景的鏡頭構圖也非常出色。

The contrast of warm and cold lighting and the wall as a barrier, this shot illustrates the rift between these two and Callum's failure to allow the two to fully connect, as well as their vastly different emotional states on this vacation.

通過冷暖光的對比和牆壁的阻隔，這個鏡頭展現了兩人之間的裂痕，卡勒姆未能讓兩人完全溝通，以及他們在這次度假中截然不同的情感狀態。

There is one scene where Callum does reveal something sad about his life, where on his 11th birthday, his parents and everybody forgot.

有一個場景，卡勒姆確實透露了他生活中的一些傷心事，在他 11 歲生日那天，他的父母和所有人都忘記了。

Maybe this explains that he had a poor support system or an uncaring family.

也許這說明他的支持系統不完善，或者家庭不關心他。

Maybe that contributed to, like, his poor mental health.

也許這也是導致他精神狀況不佳的原因之一。

Or maybe this piece of information is important because it shows how Callum is trying harder to be a good dad to Sophie like his parents weren't to him.

或者，這條資訊之所以重要，是因為它顯示了卡勒姆如何更加努力地成為索菲的好爸爸，就像他的父母沒有對他那樣。

But in really each moment of the film, Callum is being a pretty awesome dad.

但實際上，在影片的每一個瞬間，卡勒姆都是一個非常棒的父親。

He and Sophie get to watch, like, other kids throwing tantrums and think, well, like, you know, that's not us.

他和索菲看著別的孩子發脾氣，就會想，那不是我們。

And yet the devastating realization at the end of After Sun is that sometimes love isn't enough, especially in the face of severe mental illness and depression.

然而，在《太陽之後》的結尾，我們卻深刻地認識到，有時愛是不夠的，尤其是在面對嚴重的精神疾病和抑鬱症時。

And I'm sure that looking back, Sophie is trying the best she can to be grateful for and hold on to the genuine love and guidance that her father gave her, despite that she may have trouble forgiving him for leaving.

我相信，回首往事，索菲一定會盡最大努力去感激和堅守父親給予她的真摯的愛和指導，儘管她可能難以原諒父親的離開。

A lot of the communication in After Sun is kind of indirect.

太陽之後》中的很多交流都是間接的。

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