Alice in den Städten
1974

爱丽丝城市漫游记

Alice in den Städten (Original Title)

德国摄影记者菲力浦过着流浪式的生活,有一次被派到美国完成一项采访,但他并没有完成任务。途中与一个神秘的美国女子邂逅之后,无意中成了她那九岁的小女孩的监护人。菲力浦必须带着小爱丽丝穿越德国、帮她寻找奶奶的过程中,互相有了意想不到的了解,故事回避单刀直入,发展充满惊喜,主题的显现极其优雅,让观众慢慢体会美国大众文化对战后欧洲的影响。

1974年5月17日

Philip:

沿着桥墩之下,漫步到海边,和心上人共披一件毯子,就是我心向往之境。

照片永远无法真正反映亲眼所见。
It just never shows what you saw!

旅途很糟糕,只要一离开纽约,一切就不会再改变,看什么东西都一样,无法想像任何事情,尤其无法想像任何改变,我彻底迷失了方向。
It was a horrible journey. Once you leave New York City, nothing changes anymore. It all looks the same. You can't imagine anything anymore. Above all, you can't imagine any change. I became estranged from myself.

好几天晚上,我发誓第二天一早就回去,但我还是继续旅行,听那些令人作呕的电台节目,夜晚在千篇一律的汽车旅馆里,看着毫无人情味的电视,与世隔绝。
Some nights, I was sure I would go back the next morning. But then I'd keep on driving...listening to that vulgar radio, and every night in a motel that looked just like all the others before. I'd watch that barbarous television. I didn't know what hit me. 

“美国电视缺乏人性之处,并不是因为插播太多广告,尽管那也令人厌恶,而在于所有节目变得广告化,变成了对现状的鼓吹,所有电视影像都降格成同等丑陋讯息,有一种邪恶的轻蔑感,没有令人平静的画面,它们都想从你身上得取一些什么。”
“What's so barbaric about this TV is not that it chops up everything and interrupts it with ads, though that's bad enough. Far worse is that everything it shows turns into advertising too, ads for the status quo. All these TV images come down to the same common, ugly message, a kind of vicious contempt. No image leaves you in peace. They all want something from you.”

这些漂亮的老房子要被拆掉真可惜,它们租金太低了,这些空地看上去就像坟墓,“老房子之墓”。
I think it's a pity that the beautiful old houses are being torn down. They don't bring in enough rent. The empty spaces look like graves. Like house graves.

Angela:

在这座城市里,当你站在十字路口前,感觉就像是,走进一座树林的空地。
In this city...when you reach an intersection...it's like...entering a clearing in the woods.

人一旦失去自我认同感,就会和世界失去了联系。
That happens when you lose all sense of your own self. And you lost that long ago.

你把你的故事和经历,当成了生鸡蛋,仿佛只有你一人能够体会,那就是为什么你不停地拍照,因为照片是能让你握在手上,证明是你这个人在观察世界的证据,这也是为何你来到这里,其实只是希望有人听你倾诉,其实你是在自言自语。
Your stories and your experiences you treat them like raw eggs. As if you were the only one to experience things. And that's why you keep taking pictures. They're something you can hold on to, more evidence that it was you who saw these things. And that's why you came here. To have someone listen to you, to you and your stories that you're only telling to yourself.

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