### 《恩培多克勒之死》:一场反叙事的思辨实验,给倦于“戏剧感”观众的清醒剂 相较于同类型哲学命题电影常用的“戏剧冲突爆破”或“情绪渲染堆叠”,斯特劳布与于伊耶的这部作品更像一次“拆解叙事”的冷静手术——没有高潮戏码,没有主角光环,甚至连台词都像被浸了水的棉絮,缓慢却有力地渗进观众脑海。这不是一部用来消遣的电影,它像一块冰冷的石头,需要你沉下心去敲击。威廉姆·伯格演的哲学家不是雕像,是烧尽最后一根蜡烛的人:他跟信徒争辩时,眼尾的红不是愤怒,是困兽般的哀求;站在火山口时,背影居然比石头还凉,却又像株即将燃尽的艾草——没有戏剧感的“爆发”,只有把骨头熬进角色里的沉郁。你要是受得了那种慢吞吞、像考古记录片一样的调调,想看点跟现在商业片完全不一样的东西,那这片子绝对能戳中你,不然可能会看到睡着。你看他拍辩论戏,没有大喊大叫,就是两个人站在台阶上,一句一句把“存在”“湮灭”掰碎了说,我当时看的时候居然跟着屏气,怕一喘气就漏了台词里的针脚。这片子节奏极慢,也没什么情节起伏,如果你能耐下心来,去感受那种近乎考古的严肃和诗意,它会给你带来一种独特的震撼,但要是想找乐子,那还是算了吧。
The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination. Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.相关搜索:
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