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Eye of the Beholder

pic1Genre: Drama
Rating: R, for strong violence, sexuality, language and brief drug content
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, k. d. lang, Jason Priestley and Genevieve Bujold
Credits: Written and directed by Stephan Elliott. Produced by Nicolas Clermont and Tony Smith. Released by Destination Films.
Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: January 28, 2000

Because of Double Jeopardy's success, Judd is being used to sell Eye of the Beholder, even if more screen time is given to Ewan McGregor as The Eye, a high-tech private detective suffering from visions of the young daughter whom his wife took away from him because he was spending too much time staring at surveillance[1] monitors.

Ewan McGregor is on a mission to shadow[2] a murderous blackmailer played by Ashley Judd. Professional detachment[3] erodes as McGregor becomes inappropriately fascinated by his target, turning his surveillance of Judd into a voyeuristic obsession[4].

Not to be outdone[5] in the back story department, Judd's Joanna Eris was abandoned by her father as a little girl, spent her youth in juvenile detention centers, and has grown up to become an enchanting murderess who hooks up with wealthy men to enact a pseudo-feminist revenge (back to Double Jeopardy
).



 

注解:

1. surveillance:监视、看守。例如a surveillance radar system是指“雷达监视系统”。Monitor这个词也有“监视、监听”的意思,但surveillance更强调正式地、职业地监视,比如监视犯人、被保护人等。

2. shadow:你肯定知道shadow是“影子”的意思,但在这里做了动词,是什么意思呢?对,就是象影子一样地——“跟踪、盯梢”:she was being shadowed 她正被人盯梢。另外shadow做动词还可以表示“投影于……、使……变暗”等意思。

3. detachment:detach是“拆卸、使分开”的意思,detachment是它的名词形式,但本文中用到的是detachment的另一个含义:超脱、公正,也指无关痛痒、冷漠超然的态度。


 



As The Eye says in one of his rare conversations with Joanna: "You're just a daughter without a father and I'm a daddy who's lost his little girl." The filmmakers seem to see this bizarre[6] relationship as true love.

 

《守护者》 pic2

类别:情节剧
分级:限制级,有“暴力、色情、禁语和一些吸
   毒”内容。
演员:尤恩·麦格雷格、阿什莉·贾德、

   k·d·朗、杰森·普莱斯特利、
   吉纳维芙·比约尔德
制作:史戴芬·艾略特编导,尼古拉斯·克莱蒙
   特和托尼·史密斯制片

   目标影业发行。
片长:1小时47分
影院首映日期:2000年1月28日

  由于《双重危险》的成功,贾德又成为《守护者》的卖点。尽管在此片中,更多的镜头给了监视者尤恩·麦格雷格,他是一个懂得高科技的私家侦探,由于把太多的时间用在了监视器的前面,她的妻子携女离开了他,而他也因此受到小女儿的幻觉的折磨。

  尤恩·麦格雷格的任务是跟踪一个凶残的敲诈者(阿什莉·贾德饰演)。然而麦格雷格偏偏不合时宜地被他的追踪目标迷住了,于是职业性的冷漠逐渐消退,而他对贾德的监视也逐渐变成不可救药的窥视。

  没有超出老戏的套路,贾德饰演的乔安娜·厄里斯很小的时候,就遭到父亲的遗弃,她在少年看管所中渡过了自己的青春,并长成为一个充满魅力的女杀手,她专门引诱那些有钱的男人,并充当一个申张伪女权主义的复仇者(回到了《双重危险》的情节)。

  正如这位监视者在与她的几次罕有的对话中所说的:“你只是一个没有父亲的女孩,而我却是一个失去了小女儿的父亲。”电影的制作者似乎把这种怪异的关系看作是真正的爱。

 



 

4. obsession:obsess的名词形式:着迷、困扰;着魔、被鬼迷住。常用来表示不正常的喜欢,深陷其中而非常苦恼。

5. outdone:outdo的过去分词。outdo是及物动词,表示“超过、战胜、比……做得更多”的意思,例如outdo each other互相赶超。

6. bizarre:奇形怪状的、异乎寻常的、怪诞的。例如bizarre patterns 稀奇古怪的图案。常见的表示“奇怪”的词有strange, odd, queer等,但bizarre表示“奇怪”的程度更深,一般形容“非常奇怪、奇异、不可理解”才用到这个词。