Name: 電影業為何而生？ (POP CULTURE: What Is Cinema For?)
Uploaded: 2017-09-18T15:07:07.000Z
Duration: 9 min 55 s

Cinema is the most prestigious cultural
activity in the modern world.

電影是最負盛名的文化
現代世界的活動。

It is for us what theater
was in the age of Shakespeare,

對我們來說，這就是戲劇
是在莎士比亞的時代。

or painting was in
the days of Leonardo DaVinci.

The art form with the biggest impact,
the largest budgets,

影響力最大的藝術形式。
預算最多。

Collectively, we recognize that film has
an astonishing power to induce emotion.

我們共同認識到，電影具有
驚人的情感誘導能力。

But it would sound weird to stop and ask
what film was really for,

但如果停下來問
電影到底是為了什麼。

它在我們的社會中起到什麼作用；

and why we spent
so much time in its presence.

以及為什麼我們花
這麼多時間在它面前。

We don't generally think of films are serving
any very strenuous or serious cause.

我們一般不認為電影是服務於
任何非常劇烈或嚴重的原因。

We ask for a lot of nice
but not terribly lasting things of films,

我們要求很多好的
但不是非常持久的東西的電影。

to while away the hours
of a long flight,

This is a great loss for us
and for cinema itself.

這對我們來說是一個很大的損失
以及對電影本身。

We should try to pin down more accurately
what films actually do for us,

我們應該嘗試更準確地確定
電影到底為我們做了什麼。

then make sure we're reliably making
and finding our way to see the best,

然後確保我們可靠地做出
並找到我們的方式去看最好的。

that is, the most useful kinds of things.

We would ideally accept that film,
like all the other art forms,

我們最好能接受這部電影。
像所有其他藝術形式一樣。

best reveals its power, when we
conceive of it as a kind of therapy.

最能顯示它的力量，當我們
把它想象成一種療法。

Let's consider five key problems and
how films can help us with them.

讓我們考慮五個關鍵問題和
電影如何幫助我們與他們。

We get ground down and frustrated
by the problems life throws at us,

我們會感到沮喪和沮喪
被生活中的問題拋向我們。

and we tend to react by
getting ever more stern and serious.

而我們的反應往往是
越來越嚴厲，越來越嚴肅。

Certain films can beautifully
address this natural tendency,

某些電影可以美輪美奐
解決這一自然趨勢。

when they show us people not
too different from ourselves,

當他們向我們展示人不
和我們自己太不一樣了。

in difficult situations,
except very much unlike us.

在困難的情況下。
除了很不像我們。

這些電影把我們的痛苦玩弄於股掌之間。

the exact things that really great
with excessive seriousness.

At their best, there's nothing trivial
about these comedies at all.

在他們最好的時候，沒有什麼是微不足道的。
關於這些喜劇的所有。

of sweetly etching us towards being
slightly nicer people to live around.

的甜美刻畫，使我們走向
稍微好一點的人生活在周圍。

Sometimes in life,
an action that seems quite small,

有時在生活中。
一個看起來相當小的動作。

You tell a little lie.
You steal a tiny bit.

You get a bit lustful and
carried away just once,

你會變得有點淫蕩和
搬運只是一次。

Films can help us by speeding up time,
and showing us in a matter of hours,

電影可以幫助我們加快時間。
並在幾個小時內向我們展示。

fearsome result of what we might
originally thought of as small failings.

可怕的結果
原本以為是小毛病。

Film can push the consequences
to the maximum.

it can make us want to
be the kind of person,

who is a touch more forthright,
and little more honest and moral,

誰是一個觸摸更坦率。
而少有誠信和道德。

readier to face an unpleasant moment now
and (thereby) head off a distant disaster.

好漢不吃眼前虧
並（從而）抵禦遠方的災難。

We leave the cinema, less inclined to be
self-righteous about the failings of others

我們離開電影院時，不那麼傾向於
自以為是

scared for ourselves and more
respectful towards things we hold dear.

自顧不暇
尊重我們所珍視的事物。

but it's usually very healthy and helpful,

但它通常是非常健康和有用的。

to feel that one's life is a bit special,

deserving of admiration and respect,
a little glamorous.

Glamour lies elsewhere, in the lives of
the famous in swankier parts of town,

魅力在於其他地方，在生活中的
著名的在城市的Swankier部分。

in activities and jobs
far removed from our own.

在活動和工作中
遠離我們自己。

It can put in front of our eyes
delightful images, many meters in size,

它可以把我們的眼前
令人欣喜的影像，許多米的大小。

shot an extraordinary colors,
vivid and immediate.

拍出了非凡的色彩。
生動而直接。

Because so many films
glamorize the wrong things,

因為這麼多電影
魅力化的錯誤的東西。

we used to thinking that an element of
alienation and corruption is a generic,

我們習慣於認為，一個元素的
異化和腐敗是一種通用。

But in fact, film is well able
to show us the less obvious,

但事實上，電影很能夠
以示我們不那麼明顯。

Whereas the worst sort of films
eject us back into our lives,

而最差的那種電影
把我們彈回我們的生活中。

the best ones leave us ready
to re-engage with circumstances,

優秀的人離開我們的時候，我們已經準備好了
以重新接觸環境。

我們已經不公平地對其產生了厭倦。

Cinema can help us love and
appreciate what we already have.

電影可以幫助我們愛和
欣賞我們已經擁有的東西。

Because it tells us about categories of
people we want nothing to do with,

因為它告訴我們關於類別的
我們不想與之有任何關係的人。

places that seem frightening, bizarre,
unremittingly depressing.

看起來很可怕、很詭異的地方。
長久的壓抑。

We going to think we're not at all
interested in people in Iran or Venezuela.

我們會認為我們一點也不... ...
對伊朗或委內瑞拉的人感興趣。

Our disenchantment make it expressed as
racism, arrogance, or just plain coldness.

我們的不甘心使其表現為
種族主義，傲慢，或者只是單純的冷漠。

Ultimately, what we suffer from is
a denial of our common humanity.

歸根結底，我們所遭受的是
否認了我們共同的人性。

Cinema can perfectly compensated for
this withdrawal of emotional energy,

電影院可以完美彌補
這種情緒能量的撤離。

by showing us the appeal of
people far away,

we'd otherwise be
completely uninterested in.

we're reminded of an obvious
but so easily forgotten fact.

我們想起了一個明顯的
但如此容易被遺忘的事實。

Our membership of the family of humanity.

We've gone so far down
the track of teaching ourselves

about the importance of
gentleness and compromise.

Many of us have unwittingly develop
problems around courage and self-assertion.

我們很多人都在不知不覺中養成了
圍繞勇氣和自我主張的問題。

Decent people have learned so well
to suppress their own appetite for a fight,

正派的人都學得這麼好
來壓制自己的戰鬥慾望。

But in a world where
conflict is unavoidable,

但在這個世界上
衝突是不可避免的。

good people sometimes need to strengthen
their willingness to face down opposition,

強人所難
他們願意面對反對意見。

not always to compromise and play it safe,

but to take risks, to get out and fight,
to relish victory,

但要冒險，要出去打拼。
來享受勝利的喜悅。

and to be a bit more ruthless in the
service of noble and deeply important ends.

而要更狠一點，在。
服務於崇高而重要的目的。

Sometimes, it's not enough
just to be right.

有時，它是不夠的
只是為了對。

You also need to win so some of us
might well benefit from seeing films,

你也要贏，所以我們中的一些人
可能很受益於看電影。

that tell tales of heroism to follow
someone who has to navigate the world,

壯志難酬
某個人必須在世界範圍內航行。

The film shouldn’t ideally leave us just
in awe at the daring of another person.

這部電影理想上不應該讓我們只是。
驚歎於他人的膽量。

It should do that for most valuable thing.

so that we too become just a little more
heroic and brave where we need to be.

以使我們也變得更多一點
在我們需要的地方英勇無畏。

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