2014年十大影片之選——時報金牌影評人推薦

4. The modern state provides Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan” with its controlling metaphor, and it is interesting to note that the particular state in question — Vladimir Putin’s Russia — is the one in whose belly Mr. Snowden now resides. Mr. Zvyagintsev depicts it as a cruel, beautiful and passionate place, and tells a simple, primally powerful story of marital distress, political corruption and heroic vodka consumption in gorgeous, almost hallucinatory wide-screen compositions.

4.現(xiàn)代國家是安德烈·薩金塞夫(Andrey Zvyagintsev)的《利維坦》(Leviathan)中充滿控制性的隱喻，影片所談的國家是弗拉迪米爾·普京(Vladimir Putin)治下的俄羅斯，有趣的是，斯諾登就藏匿在這里。薩金塞夫把它描繪為一個殘酷、美麗而又熱情的地方，講述了一個關(guān)于不幸的婚姻、政治腐敗與痛飲伏特加的故事，簡潔而又有力，寬銀幕構(gòu)圖幾乎能讓人產(chǎn)生幻覺。