Name: 【TED】Beeban Kidron: 電影共通的非凡之處 (Beeban Kidron: The shared wonder of film)
Uploaded: 2013-05-02T10:07:34.000Z
Duration: 13 min 13 s

Evidence suggests that humans in all ages and from all cultures

研究顯示不同年紀與文化的人們

create their identity in some kind of narrative form.

從不同的敘事文本創造自我認同

From mother to daughter, preacher to congregant,

teacher to pupil, storyteller to audience.

human beings have always told their histories and truths

人類不斷傳頌他們的歷史與真理

But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world,

但在日漸世俗、破碎無條理的世界中

unmediated by our own furious consumerism?

且不受到浮誇消費主義的影響？

我們正在灌輸給我們的年輕人？

the 20th century's most influential art form.

20世紀以來最有影響力的藝術形式

in as many languages, genres and philosophies

we've seen a vast integration of global media,

now dominated by a culture of the Hollywood blockbuster.

被現今好萊塢的商業大片文化所占據

讓感官刺激，非故事本身，重於一切

What was common to us all 40 years ago --

the telling of stories between generations --

As a human being, it puts the fear of God in me.

我們的年輕人要如何創造未來？

and so few narratives of what's possible?

對未來的可能性，也幾乎沒有文本可參照

接觸文化的機會卻前所未有的貧乏

在2006年我們創立「電影俱樂部」組織

an organization that ran weekly film screenings in schools

If we could raid the annals of 100 years of film,

如果我們能取得這100年來的電影資料

to the fragmented and restless world of the young.

給這些生活在片斷、浮躁社會中的年輕人

with kids in age groups between five and 18

watching a film uninterrupted for 90 minutes.

不間斷的看完一部90分鐘的電影

The films were curated and contextualized.

to choose the richest and most varied diet that we could provide.

選擇我們提供影片中
最有價值跟多元性的片子

It was an education of the most profound and transformative kind.

In groups as large as 150 and as small as three,

我們的俱樂部大至150人，小至3人

these young people discovered new places,

is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, "Miracle in Milan."

是1951年狄西嘉導演的《慈航普渡》

和貧民窟、貧窮和夢想有關的主題

I had seen the film on the occasion of my father's 50th birthday.

我在我父親50歲生日的那天看了這部片

Technology then meant we had to hire a viewing cinema,

現今的科技迫使我們須租用放映廳

find and pay for the print and the projectionist.

影片、並支付沖洗膠卷和放映師的費用

the emotional and artistic importance of De Sica's vision was so great

狄西嘉在情感和藝術上的著墨對他如此重要

that he chose to celebrate his half-century

with his three teenage children and 30 of their friends,

與他3個青少年的孩子和其他30位朋友一同觀賞

slum-dwellers float skyward on flying brooms.

貧民窟的人們乘著掃帚向上飛翔

也是我第一次看這部片的30年後

和不可置信的樣子與我當時相同

And the speed with which they associate it

他們很快的將之與《貧民百萬富翁》

with "Slumdog Millionaire" or the favelas in Rio

In a FILMCLUB season about democracy and government,

某一季，俱樂部的主題是民主與政府

we screened "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."

Made in 1939, the film is older than most of our members' grandparents.

本片於1939年上映
比大部分成員的祖父母都還要老

Frank Capra's classic values independence and propriety.

這部導演法蘭克‧卡普拉的經典電影
看重獨立與禮節

in the political machine as a force of honor.

Shortly after "Mr. Smith" became a FILMCLUB classic,

《史密斯遊美京》成為俱樂部的經典影片
不久之後

there was a week of all-night filibustering in the House of Lords.

英國上議院中正徹夜上演著議事阻撓