影视英语听力 第34期：The Tracey Fragments翠西碎片
女孩翠西(艾伦·佩吉 饰)用自己的遭遇,很好的诠释了一个叫"青春"的名词.坏脾气的父亲(阿里·科恩 饰),吸毒酗酒的母亲(杰姬·布朗 饰),拿她泄欲的男友比利(斯利姆特维克 饰),比她还错乱的精神医生(朱利安·理查斯 饰),以及一帮以欺负她为乐的同学,是这个性格孤僻的小女孩生活中的痛苦来源.她活下去的唯一动力,就是深爱着她,宁愿为她被驯服为狗的弟弟桑尼(祖·斯旺达 饰).遗憾的是,当翠西领悟到这点时,桑尼却因为她的疏忽而失踪了.于是翠西踏上了寻弟之路,彻底迷走在青春之中...
对话文本:
The Tracey Fragments is a new film from the Canadian director Bruce McDonald. It stars Ellen Page, who was the title character in Juno. She plays Tracey Berkowitz, a fifteen-year-old girl in what, looks like Winnipeg, Canada, who spends a rather eventful 24 or 48 hours running around the city, looking for her younger brother who's disappeared.
Now that's a straightforward description of the plot and the movie does have one which is fairly lurid and melodramatic in places. Tracey has parents who don't really understand her, who are borderline abusive, send her to a shrink. She has a crush on a new kid at school, she's picked on and abused and humiliated by the mean girls at school. There's a lot of the baggage of a standard teenage melodrama.
What's interesting about this movie is the technique that Mister McDonald uses to tell the story, which is not only to tell it out of chronological order in a very sort of impressionistic way so that a scene flows into a scene backwards and forwards, but also using a split screen technique really a multiple window technique almost where the screen sometimes divides in 2,3,4, even as many as 100 different images that overlap and play off each other, and kind of suggest a free-associative psychological logic rather than an objective narrative logic to the story.
And this makes a big difference.It takes what I think would have felt like an overdone, overwrought almost by-the-number study of teenage unhappiness and really turns it into an exploration of this girl's psychological states. So, part of what happens is that you don't necessarily know in any given scene whether something is happening in her head or being kind of filtered and distorted from her perspective or actually really happening to her. So, what you get is a very powerful study in moods and emotions in the anger, the sexual vulnerability, the fear, the self-confidence, all of the different emotions that kind of buffet this young girl who is wonderfully played by Ellen Page, who is just a terrifically smart actress and who helps to make this movie that again, I think might not have been convincing if it had been done another way into something that's really powerful and unusual and interesting.
