影片對白  Miss Aragon. Victoria. There's me.

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1940 年代的美國道德觀

對于大多數中國人來說，我們眼中的美國是當代好萊塢大片中的美國：個人至上、私欲至上，崇拜英雄偶象, 享樂主義,自由主義, 大眾化和通俗化，商品化(市場化)和娛樂化，充斥著吸毒、暴力、色情……然而真實的美國并沒有影片中展示的那么糟糕。傳統道德在美國一直有市場。在1940年代，傳統道德甚至是十分苛刻的。下面是一位美國觀眾所寫的觀后感，其中詳細討論了當時的美國社會道德，可以幫助我們更好地理解電影。

Does anyone recall a time when values, integrity, uprightness and true human compassion were a way of life? A Walk in the Clouds does. The story is sweet, romantic, dramatic, and heartwarming. The 1940's was an era when it was terrible shame to be unwed and pregnant. Daughters were often cast away or sent to some distant relative to bear their child in loneliness and disapproval, then the child was given for adoption. I know because I was one of those children. For my mother there was no Paul Sutton to love her and rescue her and her child. The father, portrayed by Giancarlo Gianni was a typical man of those desperate war torn years who was unable to get in touch with his feelings on any level except work and anger. I am more amazed at his ability to show affection for his wife than I am at the anger which rules his life. The family who eventually adopted me was just like this family. Hard horrible father, heavy drinker, full of anger, yet rapier wit and tongue. The rest of the family are so real because in those days most families who had a disagreeable father figure pulled together to make up for and cover over the hurts and embarrassment generated by that father. Very different from today's dysfunctional families. Anthony Quinn was superb and Keanu Reeves could not have been more believable as a simple man with a good heart and high values. His character is not meant to display anything but goodness, which he does beautifully. We have to rememberthat men used to be governed more by what was right than by the emotion of the moment as they are today. Aitana as Victoria is very lovely and desirable, but her character is also governed by the morals of the day. While she is sexy and flirtatious and clearly loves Paul, she stops short of using his attraction to her to seduce him because the very things she values and loves about him are his stability and uprightness. Today most women would simply go for it, but this film is not about today. It is about real love and true respect. The musical score is simply beautiful and very moving. The wine country and the shot of the California coast along Big Sur are great. Oh, by the by, for the unbelieving, after the grape harvest in the fall the branches of the vine die and become dry and brittle very quickly. The only part of a grape vine that continues to live is the stock and it's root, but even that seems all gray and dead from just looking at the outside. A fire in a dry, post-harvest vineyard would spread and destroy all, just as it did in the film. Today, there are sprinkler systems, etc. to prevent such loss, but not in the 1940's. What a great movie. I own it and will always enjoy watching it again and again.

小編感言

我想，任何一個處在困境中的女孩聽到"There's me."這句話的時候，一定都會感動得一塌糊涂。懷孕后被男友拋棄，受著傳統道德和家庭榮譽的譴責，再加上對嚴厲專制的父親的恐懼，這時的 Victoria 真的是上天無路，入地無門。她能做的就是祈禱奇跡的出現，而奇跡也果真出現了，上帝送來了 Paul Sutton 這樣一個善良、真誠的男人。當然，這是電影。生活中發生在 Victoria 身上的故事，在世界上不同地區、不同信仰的女孩身上不停上演著，可是世界上并沒有那么多的 Paul Sutton，這些女孩子的命運就在世俗的洪流中消逝了。

考考你

用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1．他被工作束縛住了。

2．上個月鮑勃和瑪麗分手了。

3．我并非真的說我的合伙人是條蛇，不過是打個比方。

A Walk in the Clouds《云中漫步》（精講之一）考考你 參考答案

1. The whole country's making money hand over fist. You've been away, out of touch. You don't know, but you will.
整個國家的人都在賺大錢。你不在國內，不了解情況。你不知道這些，但你會知道的。

2. In the war, I had time to think about what's important, about what I want out of life for me, for us.
在戰場上，我有時間去思考什么是重要的，我想從生活中為自己、為我們得到什么。

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