影视听力 第54期: 柳暗花明 Away From Her

世上最远的距离/不是/明明无法抵抗思念/却故作丝毫不把你放在心里/而是用冷漠的心/对爱你的人掘了一条无法跨越的深渠."一对共处近50年的夫妻因遗忘了美好的记忆，婚姻开始遭受侵腐…

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。)

“Away From Her” is the first feature film written and directed by Sarah Polley, the Canadian actress. It’s based on a short story by the Canadian author Alice Munro, and its stars——Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a married couple facing the ravages¹ of Alzheimer's disease.

That description makes the movie sound maybe a little more grim than it is. It does deal with the devastating² consequences of the disease ,you see, the vibrant³ and beautiful Fiona played by Julie Christie, slowly lose her memory and her sense of identity. But the movie is also very smart, very sharp, comical pointed⁴. It's a wonderfully observed portrait of a long-term marriage.

The acting⁵ in this movie is very fine.Gordon Pinsent who plays Grant,Fiona’s husband, is a very good actor.He has a sort of craggy, shaggy, downbeat charisma⁶. He wasn’t always faithful to his wife, but you can tell that he really loves her. And Julie Christie is just luminous⁷ in this movie. She’s lost very little of her glamour⁸, and beauty, and intelligent[ce].

But the other reason to see it is Sarah Polley who at 28 has shown herself to be very adept⁹ not only at making films, but at exploring the themes of mature old  age love with great sensitivity and insight. She takes Alice Munro’s story which is very perfect in its own right and turns it into a movie that is very nearly so.

1 ravages   

劫掠后的残迹，破坏的结果，毁坏后的残迹

参考例句：

• the ravages of war 战争造成的灾难
• It is hard for anyone to escape from the ravages of time. 任何人都很难逃避时间的摧残。

2 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

3 vibrant   

adj.震颤的，响亮的，充满活力的，精力充沛的，(色彩)鲜明的

参考例句：

• He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
• She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。

4 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

7 luminous   

adj.发光的，发亮的；光明的；明白易懂的；有启发的

参考例句：

• There are luminous knobs on all the doors in my house.我家所有门上都安有夜光把手。
• Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。

8 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

9 adept   

adj.老练的，精通的

参考例句：

• When it comes to photography,I'm not an adept.要说照相，我不是内行。
• He was highly adept at avoiding trouble.他十分善于避开麻烦。