Name: 為什麼浪漫喜劇都要在機場追愛？背後揭開了我們追尋人生意義的真相 (Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?)
Uploaded: 2025-11-30T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 5 min 20 s

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There are some storytelling tropes that are so cliche that you just know they speak to something deep inside us.

有些說故事的橋段，根本就是陳腔濫調，但你就是知道，它們觸動了我們內心深處的某個地方。

Take this one, the trope that happens at the end of so many romantic comedies,

拿這個來說，很多浪漫喜劇結尾都會出現的橋段，就是有人在機場、車站或街道上瘋狂奔跑，要在為時已晚前向另一個人表達愛意。

of someone dashing through an airport, train station, or city street to profess their love to someone else before it's too late.

我的意思是，我確定有時候會發生。

People, of course, profess their love all the time, though usually it's not so dramatic or kinetic, I should say.

人們當然一直都在表達愛意，只是通常沒有那麼戲劇性或動態。

Rvery profession confession of romantic love is dramatic.

我應該說，每一次的表白都是戲劇性的。

It's just that the drama is happening inside.

This trope externalizes those interior fireworks, which is to say, it makes the feeling cinematic.

這個橋段把內心的煙火外化了，也就是說，它讓這種感覺變得電影般的。

But, you know, it doesn't really matter if these mad dashes are happening in real life.

不過，你知道的，這些瘋狂奔跑在現實生活中是否真的發生，其實並不重要。

The trope isn't so much a reflection of reality as it is a reflection or projection of a deep desire that exists in all of us.

這個橋段與其說是現實的反映，不如說是我們內心深處渴望的一種反映或投射。

In rom coms, that desire takes the form of true love, but

在浪漫喜劇裡，那種渴望化為真愛，但

at its core, it's a desire for meaning, for a meaningful life.

說到底，它是一種對意義的渴望，對有意義的生活的渴望。

In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes.

在現代，我們活在一個沒有宇宙道德秩序的世界，一個每個人都自動認同的意義架構。

round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority.

大約在 1700 年左右，加減一個世紀，那個架構開始崩解、破碎、失去權威。

And the burden of finding meaning shifted onto individuals.

而尋找意義的重擔就轉移到個人身上。

We all became desperate seekers in a confusing and disjointed world.

我們都成了在混亂、脫節的世界裡絕望的尋求者。

It's no coincidence that this shift roughly coincides with the emergence of the novel as a form of storytelling.

這個轉變大致與小說作為一種敘事形式的出現同時發生，這絕非巧合。

In a profoundly new way, the novel concerned itself with individuals, ordinary individuals,

小說以一種非常新的方式，關注個人，普通的個人，他們的內在動機、內心生活，他們克服障礙、達成目標的能力。

their internal motivations, their inner lives, their ability to overcome obstacles, to achieve a goal.

Novels both reflected and shaped the way modern people saw their identities as narratives, as stories with a beginning, middle, and

小說既反映了，也塑造了現代人看待自己身份的方式，將其視為敘事，視為有開頭、中間和結尾的故事，

As Alistair MacIntyre writes, "The unity of a human life is the unity of a narrative quest."

正如 Alistair MacIntyre 所寫，人生的統一性就是敘事性追求的統一性。

It's fulfillment, the sense of living a full and meaningful life.

就是圓滿，一種過著充實且有意義的生活的感覺。

你可以透過很多方式獲得這種感覺。

Religion, work, community, charity, art, parenthood.

宗教、工作、社群、慈善、藝術、為人父母。

But around this time, culture, with the help of the novel, invented another way.

但在這個時期，文化在小說的幫助下，發明瞭另一種方式。

One that was theoretically, if not practically, open to romantic love.

一種理論上，即使實踐上不是，對浪漫愛情開放的方式。

那麼，愛在現代化之前就存在了嗎？

Did people feel overwhelming romantic affection before modernity?

在現代化之前，人們會感受到壓倒性的浪漫情感嗎？

"What changes," writes Charles Taylor, "is not that people begin feeling affection for their spouses, but

查爾斯·泰勒寫道，改變的不是人們開始對配偶產生感情，而是

that these dispositions come to be seen as a crucial part of what makes life worthy and significant.

這些情感變得被視為讓生活有價值和意義的關鍵部分。

The other, by being who he or she is, answers a lack...

另一個人。透過成為他或她自己，填補了某種匱乏。 

And this lack is directly to do with self-identity.

而這種匱乏直接與自我認同有關。

In some sense, the flawed individual is made whole."

在某種程度上，有缺陷的個體得以完整。

Or to put that Anthony Giddens quote another way,

或者換句話說，引用安東尼·吉登斯的說法，你讓我完整。

And so in the 1800s, there's an explosion of romantic novels, and

是以，在 1800 年代，浪漫小說爆炸性地出現，

in the following century, romantic comedy films.

在下一個世紀，浪漫喜劇電影。

These films, like those novels, are not always or even usually that sophisticated.

這些電影，就像那些小說一樣，不一定，甚至通常都不太複雜。

But fantasies of this kind don't have to be to work.

但這類幻想不一定要很複雜才能奏效。

They work because romantic love, this product, this invention of modernity, works.

它們之所以奏效，是因為浪漫的愛情，這個產品，這個現代性的發明，它奏效了。

It can be a strong anchor in a confusing and disjointed world,

它可以是混亂、支離破碎世界中的一個強大錨點，一種心理上的踏實感，一種讓你的生活變得有意義的方式。

a way of feeling psychologically grounded, a way of giving your life real meaning.

But the fantasy is allergic to complexity.

In the fantasy, the goal is simple, singular, and the achievement of that goal is all that matters.

在幻想裡，目標很簡單，是單一的，達成那個目標就是一切。

There is just something deeply comforting about seeing people on a quest for love run in straight lines toward meaning that they're absolutely certain of.

看著人們為了愛情，筆直地朝著確定的意義奔跑，總有種讓人安心的感覺。

在現實生活中，路線從來沒有這麼直。

There are no lines as we stumble and spiral, haunted by doubt and ambivalence.

我們跌跌撞撞、盤旋，被懷疑和矛盾糾纏，沒有直線可言。

And while we all face it, who can begrudge us a few fantasies here and there?

雖然我們都得面對，但誰又能責怪我們偶爾做點白日夢呢？

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本集節目由 Squarespace 贊助，這是專為創業者打造的一站式網站平臺，讓您在線上脫穎而出並取得成功。

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您可以從頭開始，使用 Squarespace 的 AI 增強網站建置工具 Blueprint AI，只需幾個步驟就能打造個人化網站，或者從我們專業設計、精緻且引人入勝的範本庫中挑選。

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您建立的每個網站都會經過 SEO 優化，讓您在搜尋結果中更容易被找到。

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您還可以在 Squarespace 中進行許多操作，例如建立會員專屬內容、影片、部落格、課程，以及您能透過單次付款或訂閱來獲利的創意作品。

The bottom line is that Squarespace is going to make a home for your products or your work that looks and feels professional.

總之，Squarespace 將為您的產品或作品打造一個看起來專業、感覺也專業的家。

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前往 squarespace.com 即可免費試用，準備好上線時，請前往 squarespace.com/nerdwriter 即可享有首次購買 9 折優惠。

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