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New film: "12 Years A Slave"
Jan 9th 2014 / the Economist
EARLY in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave”, a Louisiana plantation-owner returns home with the two slaves he’s just bought, a man and a woman. Waiting on the veranda, his genteel wife notices that the woman is crying, and asks why. “Separated from her children,” sighs the husband, not unsympathetically. “Can’t be helped.”

Those last three words are the key to Mr McQueen’s devastating film, in that they, like so many other sequences, present slavery as the norm: long-established, legal and legitimized by scripture. To its mid-19th-century characters, there’s nothing unusual about keeping human beings as property, and no way that the institution can be changed. In the preceding scene, a jovial slave-trader (Paul Giamatti) is showing customers his wares. “This is a nigger of considerable talent,” he remarks, but there’s nothing in the way the line is spoken to suggest that anyone in the shop might be shocked. The trader sees his terrified, naked merchandise as no different from any other commodity.
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在斯蒂夫。麦克奎因的电影《一个奴隶的12年》的一开始，一个路易斯安那州种植园主带着他刚买的两个奴隶回家——一个男人和女人。他那在走廊里等待的文雅的妻子注意到那个女人正在哭泣，于是就问他丈夫原因。“因为和她的孩子分开了”他的丈夫回答到，并毫不同情的说：“你不能帮助她。”
最后的三个字就是麦克奎因先生的灾难电影的关键，还有其他许多类似的被他们当作对待奴隶的准则：这些是长期确立的，正当的并有通过书稿方式具有合法的地位。19世纪中期的特点是，不会把人类当作一种财产认为是不正常的事情，而且这种制度没法被改变。在电影早些场景中，一个天性乐观的奴隶商人（保罗。基尔马迪）正在向他的顾客展示他的商品。“这是一个很有能力的黑鬼”他评论道，但是有一些其中并没有明说的东西让所有在这个商店人的人可能都会被震撼到的。那就是这个商人把他那些惊恐的赤裸着商品（奴隶）看作跟其他的货物没有什么两样

wzb_seu007 发表于 14-5-1 22:22
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