影视听力 第34期:The Tracey Fragments翠西碎片

剧情简介

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:(系普特网友整理，文本只包括旁白影评部分，不包括电影原声。)

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 straightforward¹ description of the plot and the movie does have one which is fairly lurid² 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 humiliated⁴ by the mean girls at school. There's a lot of the baggage of a standard teenage melodrama³.

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 chronological⁵ order in a very sort of impressionistic way so that a scene flows into a scene backwards⁷ 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 overlap⁸ and play off each other, and kind of suggest a free-associative psychological logic⁶ rather than an objective narrative⁹ logic to the story.

And this makes a big difference.It takes what I think would have felt like an overdone¹⁰, 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 buffet¹¹ 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.

1 straightforward   

adj.正直的，坦率的；易懂的，简单的

参考例句：

• A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
• I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。

2 lurid   

adj.可怕的；血红的；苍白的

参考例句：

• The paper gave all the lurid details of the murder.这份报纸对这起凶杀案耸人听闻的细节描写得淋漓尽致。
• The lurid sunset puts a red light on their faces.血红一般的夕阳映红了他们的脸。

3 melodrama   

n.音乐剧；情节剧

参考例句：

• We really don't need all this ridiculous melodrama!别跟我们来这套荒唐的情节剧表演！
• White Haired Woman was a melodrama,but in certain spots it was deliberately funny.《白毛女》是一出悲剧性的歌剧，但也有不少插科打诨。

4 humiliated   

感到羞愧的

参考例句：

• Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当，父母也失体面。
• He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻，丢尽了面子。

5 chronological   

adj.按年月顺序排列的，年代学的

参考例句：

• The paintings are exhibited in chronological sequence.这些画是按创作的时间顺序展出的。
• Give me the dates in chronological order.把日期按年月顺序给我。

6 logic   

n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性

参考例句：

• What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
• I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。

7 backwards   

adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地

参考例句：

• He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
• All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。

8 overlap   

v.重叠，与…交叠；n.重叠

参考例句：

• The overlap between the jacket and the trousers is not good.夹克和裤子重叠的部分不好看。
• Tiles overlap each other.屋瓦相互叠盖。

9 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。

10 overdone   

v.做得过分( overdo的过去分词 )；太夸张；把…煮得太久；（工作等）过度

参考例句：

• The lust of men must not be overdone. 人们的欲望不该过分。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The joke is overdone. 玩笑开得过火。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

11 buffet   

n.自助餐；饮食柜台；餐台

参考例句：

• Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐？
• Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告诉我你们的自助餐有什么特色菜吗？