影視英語聽力 第23期：Mister Lonely寂寞先生
一個年輕的美國人(迭戈·路納飾)孤獨(dú)地生活在巴黎，他的職業(yè)很特別，就是在街頭表演邁克爾·杰克遜模仿秀，一天，在退休人之家，他邂逅了一個美麗的同行，模仿瑪麗蓮·夢露(薩曼莎·莫頓飾)的藝人，并對她一見傾心。邁克爾于是跟著夢露來到蘇格蘭高地上的一個海濱城堡，這里是名人模仿者的大本營，亞伯拉罕·林肯、小紅帽、三個臭皮匠、英國女王、甚至還有教皇和麥當(dāng)娜，夢露的女兒秀蘭·鄧波和她占有欲很強(qiáng)的丈夫卓別林(丹尼斯·拉維特飾)。這些人建造了這個城堡，希望有一天，人們能來到這里，觀看他們完美的演出。與此同時，一個奇跡正在拉丁美洲的叢林里發(fā)生。
對話文本:
Mister Lonely is a new film from director Harmony Korine. It’s his first film in almost ten years. He gained some notoriety and a little bit of critical respect back in the late 90s when he made Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy. Those were in many ways harsh, provocative but very interesting and daring movies. Mister Lonely is also interesting and daring, but instead of being harsh and provocative, it’s gentle, strange and disarmingly sweet.
It imagines a world in which being a celebrity impersonator is a kind of special and unusual identity. The main character played by Diego Luna is a guy who dresses up like Michael Jackson, and he doesn’t really even look that much like Michael Jackson. He just feels somehow that he is in tune with Michael Jackson.
And he meets and develops a crush on a woman played by Samantha Morton, who dresses and, as she says, lives as Marilyn Monroe. She is married to Charlie Chaplin and their child is Shirley Temple and they all live together in a commune in the Scottish highland that’s entirely populated by these celebrity impersonators.
That’s a very strange idea for a movie and it could have been campy, cute, knowing andironic. But instead, there is something very sincere and heartfelt about this movie. And one of the ways that it expresses itself is through these beautiful images that Korine fills the screen with. He’s really just a master of composition and camera movement and color.
While the movie doesn’t quite hold together and it’s a little bit too oblique and elusive for my taste. It really leaves you with a very unusual set of moods and feelings and ideas. And it’s a movie that I think will grow on me and will grow on anyone who takes a chance to go and see it.
