百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[46]The Life of David Gale 大衛(wèi)·戈?duì)柕囊簧?/h1>

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2018年07月09日

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導(dǎo)演：艾倫·帕克
編?。翰槔硭?middot;魯?shù)婪?br /> 主演：凱文·史派西
凱特·溫絲萊特
勞拉·琳妮
首映日期：2003-02-21 I appear to be alone in my adoration of this strong film...
我似乎是獨(dú)自在崇拜這部優(yōu)秀的電影……
——Emily Blunt, Blunt Review
The film's far from perfect, but it was entertaining, engaged me throughout and offered up a nice dose of surprise.
電影遠(yuǎn)非完美，但它很有趣，始終吸引著我，給我提供了分量相當(dāng)足的驚喜。
——JoBlo, JoBlo's Movie Emporium
What a great ending! Great performance and good surprises!
真是個(gè)好結(jié)局！表演很棒，給人一個(gè)很好的驚喜！
——Keysha H

David Gale（Kevin Spacey）is a prisoner on death row in Texas. With only a few days to his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half million-dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom（Kate Winslet）, a journalist from a major news magazine known for her ability to keep secrets and protect her sources. He tells her the story of how he ended up on death row, revealed to the movie audience through a series of lengthy flashbacks.
Gale is head of the philosophy department at the University of Texas and an active member of DeathWatch, a group campaigning against capital punishment. He loses a televised debate with the Governor of Texas when he is unable to point to example of a demonstrably innocent man being executed. Later, a graduation party, he encounters Berlin（Rhona Mitra）, an attractive female graduate student who had been expelled from the school, corners the inebriated Gale and succeeds in getting him to have rough sex with her She then falsely accuses Gale of rape. Later, she drops the charges and flees, but the negative publicity costs Gale his career, marriage, and reputation.

Constance Harraway（Lara Linney）, a fellow DeathWatch activist, is a close friend of Gale's who consoles him after his life fall apart. However; Harraway is found raped and murdered, suffocated by a plastic bag taped over her head. An autopsy reveals that she had been forced to swallow the key of the handcuffs used to restrain her, a psychological torture technique utilized under the communist regime of Nicolae Ceau?escu, which Gale and Harraway had both protested against. The physical evidence at the crime scene points to Gale, who is convicted of her rape and murder and is, ironically, sentenced to death. In the present Bloom investigates the case in between her visits with Gale. She comes to believe that the apparent evidence against Gale does not add up. She is also tailed several times in her car by a figure who turns out to be Dusty Wright（Matt Craven）, the alleged one-time lover and colleague of Harraway's. Wright slips evidence to Bloom that suggests Gale has been framed, implying that the “real” murderer videotaped the crime. Bloom pursues this lead until she finds a tape revealing that Harraway, who was suffering from terminal leukemia, had committed an elaborate suicide to look like murder. She and Wright are both seen on the videotape, showing that they framed Gale as part of a plan to discredit the death penalty.
Bloom does not find this evidence until the day of Gale's scheduled execution. In a frenzy, she tries to give the tape to the authorities in time to stop the execution. She arrives at the prison just as the warden announces that it has already been carried out. The tape is then released, causing a media and political uproar over the execution of an innocent man. Later, Wright receives the fee that Bloom's magazine agreed to pay for the interview, and delivers it to Gale's ex-wife in Spain, along with a postcard from Berlin apologizing for the false rape accusation. His ex-wife looks distraught, knowing Gale told the truth and that she effectively stole their child away from him.
Much later still a videotape labeled “Off the Record” is delivered to Bloom. This tape picks up at the point where Wright confirmed that Harraway was dead, then continues on to show him stepping aside to allow Gale, also present and party to the suicide, to caress her body. It was in doing this that Gale left his fingerprints on Harraway's plastic suffocation bag.
The plot has some parallels with the 1999 Clint Eastwood drama True Crime, but with a different outcome.
大衛(wèi)·戈?duì)枺▌P文·史派西飾）是德克薩斯州的死刑犯，在離行刑日只剩幾天的時(shí)候，某主流雜志記者貝西·布魯姆（凱特·溫絲萊特飾）前往采訪戈?duì)?，布魯姆因擅長保守秘密和保護(hù)消息來源而出名。戈?duì)柕穆蓭熍c她協(xié)商，以50萬美元買下戈?duì)栆宦纷呦蛩佬谭傅慕?jīng)歷，整部影片以倒序的方式向觀眾展示了戈?duì)柕囊簧?br /> 戈?duì)栐堑驴怂_斯大學(xué)哲學(xué)學(xué)院的主管，兼任倡導(dǎo)反對死刑的臨終看護(hù)組織中的一名活躍的成員。在一次電視直播的辯論賽上，他因無法舉出無辜人士被執(zhí)行死刑的例子而敗給了德克薩斯州州長。在之后的畢業(yè)生晚會上，他遇到了柏林（赫那·米特拉飾），一名早就被學(xué)校開除卻極具魅力的女研究生，她趁著戈?duì)柡茸淼臋C(jī)會和他發(fā)生了性關(guān)系，后又誣告他強(qiáng)奸。雖然柏林后來撤消了控訴離開了，但此事給戈?duì)枎淼呢?fù)面影響讓他失去了工作、婚姻和名譽(yù)。 康斯坦斯·哈爾威（勞拉·琳妮飾）是臨終看護(hù)組織的一名激進(jìn)分子，同時(shí)也是戈?duì)柗浅Ｒ玫呐笥?，在戈?duì)栂萑肜Ь硶r(shí)一直安慰鼓勵(lì)他。不久哈爾威遭遇強(qiáng)奸，頭部被塑料袋包裹窒息而死。驗(yàn)尸報(bào)告顯示，哈爾威被迫吞下了束縛她用的手銬鑰匙，這是一種心理折磨式的刑罰，是前羅馬尼亞領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人尼可拉耶·希奧塞古常用的手段，這種刑罰手段也正是戈?duì)柡凸柾罅Τh反對的。然而，具有諷刺意義的是，犯罪現(xiàn)場的物證都指向戈?duì)枺隊(duì)柋恢缚貜?qiáng)奸罪和謀殺罪，被判處死刑。
布魯姆通過采訪和調(diào)查此案，發(fā)現(xiàn)認(rèn)定戈?duì)柺亲锓傅淖C據(jù)并不充分。在此期間，布魯姆還數(shù)次被自稱是哈爾威前男友和同事的達(dá)斯提·賴特（馬特·奎文飾）跟蹤，賴特把一些資料塞給布魯姆，告訴她戈?duì)柺潜幌莺Φ模凳菊嬲膬词衷诜缸飼r(shí)制作了錄像帶。布魯姆憑著線索找到了錄像帶，發(fā)現(xiàn)哈爾威患有白血病，精心制造了一起貌似兇殺的自殺。哈爾威和賴特都出現(xiàn)在錄像里，他們故意陷害戈?duì)枺牟邉澊税敢员磉_(dá)對死刑的質(zhì)疑。
布魯姆是在戈?duì)枅?zhí)行死刑當(dāng)天，才找到這卷錄像帶的，她要把錄像帶及時(shí)交給警方，時(shí)間非常緊迫。當(dāng)她趕到監(jiān)獄時(shí)，看守說死刑已經(jīng)執(zhí)行。布魯姆公開了這卷錄像，對無辜人士執(zhí)行死刑這件事引起媒體和政治的騷動(dòng)。不久，賴特收到了布魯姆的雜志付給本次采訪報(bào)道的費(fèi)用，并把這筆錢寄給了戈?duì)栠h(yuǎn)在西班牙的前妻，同時(shí)她還收到柏林寄來的明信片，為誣陷戈?duì)枏?qiáng)奸一事道歉。戈?duì)柕那捌蘅春笾懒烁隊(duì)枌λ恢笔侵艺\的，而她卻帶著孩子離開了戈?duì)枺瑐挠^。
很久以后，布魯姆收到了一盤貼著“在錄像外”標(biāo)簽的錄像帶，它從在犯罪現(xiàn)場賴特確定哈爾威死后開始錄制，這時(shí)賴特退到一旁，戈?duì)柍霈F(xiàn)了。作為這次自殺的組織參與者，他親吻了哈爾威的身體，在引起哈爾威窒息的塑料袋上留下了自己的指紋。
這部影片的劇情與1999年克林特·伊斯特伍德主演的戲劇《犯罪真相》一樣，但是采用了不同的結(jié)局。

execution［?eksi'kju:∫?n］n. 執(zhí)行；實(shí)行；完成；死刑
lengthy［'le?θi］adj. 漫長的；冗長的；啰唆的
demonstrably［'dem?nstr?bli］adv. 可論證地；明確地
reputation［?repju'tei??n］n. 名聲；名譽(yù)；聲望
regime［rei'?i:m］n. 政權(quán)；政體；社會制度；管理體制
ironically［ai'r?nikli］adv. 諷刺地；說反話地
videotape［'vidi?uteip］n. 錄像帶
uproar［'?pr?:］n. 騷動(dòng)；喧囂
suffocation［?s?f?'kei??n］n. 窒息；悶死
重點(diǎn)掌握
■ … who consoles him after his life fall apart.
fall apart是英語中一個(gè)固定搭配，在文中是“失去自制；失去自信；反常”的意思，比如：Even the seasoned troupers fall apart. 甚至一些有臨場經(jīng)驗(yàn)的演員也失常了。fall apart還有“破碎；破裂；崩潰；瓦解；破產(chǎn)”的意思，比如：The army fell apart. 軍隊(duì)土崩瓦解了。另外，fall apart還可以用于表達(dá)“脫離關(guān)系；關(guān)系破裂”的意思，比如：We used to be good friends, but fell apart about a year ago. 我們過去曾經(jīng)是好朋友，但大概一年前關(guān)系破裂了。

Kevin Spacey Interviewed By Rebecca Murray
Can you describe David Gale?
I play a pretty popular professor of philosophy at a University in Texas. He's also one of the leading opponents of the death penalty. In the course of the film, he's accused of a crime, which you see so you know whether he did it or whether he didn't. And a little later he's accused of the murder of his colleague, which you don't see so you don't know whether he's innocent or guilty. The film operates in this ticking clock manner about whether you'll ever find out if he's innocent or guilty.
Was this a difficult film for you?
I don't know that difficult is the word that I'd use. I think there are challenging scenes but difficult implies that it was hard to get there, or hard to understand what the scenes were all about. Some of the scenes that, for me, were the most important and tender and filled with emotional commitment, ［were the scenes］with Laura Linney. We just had the most extraordinary time developing the relationship. I admire her enormously and her commitment to this part was remarkable. 你能描述一下大衛(wèi)·戈?duì)栠@個(gè)人物嗎？
我飾演的是德克薩斯一所大學(xué)里非常受歡迎的哲學(xué)教授，同時(shí)也是反對死刑的激進(jìn)分子。在影片中，他一開始被指控犯罪，你能在影片中看到他是否犯罪。之后他又被指控謀殺同事，這件事沒有被拍攝出來，所以你不能確定他是無辜的還是有罪的。本片以定時(shí)的形式，讓人們一直關(guān)注能否在最后一刻找到事實(shí)的真相。
拍攝這部影片對你來說困難嗎？
我想我不會用“困難”這個(gè)詞來形容。確實(shí)有些場影很有挑戰(zhàn)性，但是，“困難”就意味著某些場景很難拍攝或者難以理解。我覺得和勞拉·琳妮的幾場對手戲很重要也很細(xì)膩，要投入大量的感情。我們相處融洽，拍攝過程順利，她演技一流，我非常欣賞她。

本片的主題是反對死刑，使得影片在上映時(shí)掀起了一次反死刑風(fēng)暴。
導(dǎo)演艾倫·帕克希望通過此片提醒一些人不要輕而易舉地判處被告死刑。
導(dǎo)演艾倫·帕克憑此片獲得柏林金熊獎(jiǎng)提名。