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MOVIE REVIEW: THE WANDERING EARTH
Dave Taylor （已經徵得作者同意翻譯並轉載）
Just when we thought we』d figured out how to address global warming, it turns out that the sun has gone rogue and in less than a century it’s going to destroy Earth and eventually expand to the size of our solar system. We can’t build enough space stations to save mankind and we can’t colonize another planet since that’s going to be destroyed all too soon. Instead, what if we built thousands of massive rocket thrusters at key spots on the planet and shot the entire planet out of the solar system and onward to the Sol-like sun a 2,500 year journey away?
就在我們以為已經找到解決全球變暖問題的方法時，太陽卻變得異常兇猛，在不到一個世紀的時間裡，它將毀滅地球，最終擴張到我們太陽系的大小。我們不能建造足夠的空間站來拯救人類，我們也不能殖民另一個星球，因為它很快就會被摧毀。相反，如果我們在地球上的關鍵地點建造數千個巨大的火箭推進器，並將整個星球從太陽系發射出去，然後在2500年的旅程之外，進入類似太陽的太陽系，結果會怎樣呢?
That’s the fantastic and fascinating premise of the new Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth and it’s an idea so crazy that might just work. Thousands of thrusters and massive underground cities to ensure billions of people around the world can survive and breed, generation after generation, until the planet can be neatly repositioned in the new system. Meanwhile, everything is utter chaos and when the rotation of the Earth is stopped so that the thrusters can push our planet in the right direction, it’s a smart thing to be 500m underground in one of the cities.
這就是中國科幻大片《流浪地球》(the Wandering Earth)的奇妙和迷人的前提，這個太瘋狂的想法可能行得通。成千上萬的推進器和巨大的地下城市確保世界各地數十億人能夠一代又一代地生存和繁衍，直到地球能夠在新的系統中整齊地重新定位。與此同時，一切都是徹底的混亂，當地球停止轉動，推進器可以把我們的星球推向正確的方向時，在一個城市地下500米生存是明智的選擇。
Great sci-fi stories are about people, not just technology, however, and The Wandering Earth centers on three generations of a Chinese family: grandfather Gan Zi』ang(Ng Man-tat), father Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing), and son Liu Qi (Qu Chuxiao). The film opens as the United Earth Government announces its plans to save Earth and mankind: To shoot out of the solar system. Leading the journey will be a massive space station that will ensure safe travels. It’s Liu Peiqiang who’s volunteered to be part of the space station staff, a job that will keep him in space for almost twenty years. Meanwhile, his 7yo son Liu Qi doesn’t really understand what’s going on. Zoom forward 17 years and things have gotten rough, but the Earth is indeed on its journey out of our system; it’s poised to slingshot past Jupiter and use that gravitational pull to speed up the journey.
然而，這個偉大的科幻故事是關於人的，而不僅僅是關於技術，《流浪地球》講述的是一個中國家庭的三代人:祖父韓子昂(吳文達飾)、父親劉培強(吳京飾)和兒子劉啟(屈楚蕭飾)。電影開場時，聯合地球政府宣布了拯救地球和人類的計劃:飛出太陽系。領導這次旅程的將是一個巨大的空間站，它將確保旅行的安全。劉培強自願成為空間站工作人員的一員，這項工作將使他在太空生活近20年。與此同時，他7歲的兒子劉啟並不真正明白髮生了什麼。再回首看17年前，事情變得艱難起來，但地球確實正在偏離我們的正常軌道系統;它準備彈射過木星，利用引力加速旅程。
By this point Liu Qi has become a brilliant but highly cynical tech who dabbles in creating strange technologies and yearns for the father he’s never known. His mother, in the way of all drama, passed away many years earlier, so he’s been raised by his grandfather. Along the way an orphan girl Han Duo (Zhao Jinmai) has been adopted by the family, Qi’s adopted sister. She’s a teenager and her ceaseless gum chewing and occasional whining are one of the few humanizing elements of this male-heavy cast.
至此，劉啟已經成為一名才華橫溢但又憤世嫉俗的技術人員，他涉足創造新奇的技術，並渴望見到這位他多年未見的父親。他的母親，像所有的劇情一樣，在許多年前去世了，所以他是由他的祖父撫養大的。一路上，孤兒朵朵(趙金麥飾)被劉啟一家收養，成為了他的妹妹。她還是個十幾歲的孩子，不停地嚼口香糖，偶爾發牢騷，這些都是這個男性角色為主的為數不多的人性化元素之一。
So they’re flying past Jupiter and it’s all looking good for the gravity slingshot. Until it isn’t and everyone realizes with some alarm that the Earth has been almost 10-degrees off course and is being pulled into Jupiter’s massive gravity not flung past it. Worse, it’s knocked almost all of the planetary thrusters offline! That’s the main plot element around which everything else revolves and it’s up to Liu Qi, Han Dao, tough military captain Wang Lei (Li Guangjie), scientist Li Yiyi (Zhang Yichi) and half-Australian, half-Chinese sidekick Tim (Mike Sui) to get one of the big equatorial thrusters online before it’s too late.
它們飛過木星，引力彈射看起來不錯。直到每個人都警覺地意識到，地球偏離了軌道近10度，正被拉入木星的巨大引力中，而不是被甩過它。更糟的是，幾乎所有的行星推進器都被擊毀了!這是其他一切都圍繞著的主要情節元素，這取決於劉啟、韓多多、強悍的軍事上尉王磊(李光潔飾)、科學家李依依(張依馳飾)和有一半澳大利亞血統、一半中國血統的搭檔蒂姆(邁克·隋飾)在一切都還來得及之前，把一個巨大的赤道推進器送上線。
There’s a lot to like about this fast-moving adventure sci-fi epic, from the sheer audacity of the core storyline to the gorgeous sets and external shots, to the gritty realism of the underground cities. Like all good science fiction, it asks the viewer to ponder some fundamental questions about who should be saved, what cost we’re willing to pay to survive, and what plans we might create if we’re really heading to heck in a handbasket, however big or small. The visual effects are stunning and rival the best of Hollywood’s sci-fi epics. That’s no surprise when visual effects teams like Base FX, Pixomondo, Bottleship FX, Weta and Macrograph were involved. There’s also a 3D IMAX version that I managed to catch (it was only in US theaters for two days before being bumped off the screens by the Lego movie) and it was lush and entirely immersive on the huge screen. The deep frozen and half-destroyed skylines of the Chinese cities were terrific.
這部快速發展的科幻冒險史詩有很多值得喜歡的地方，從核心故事情節的大膽設置，到華麗的布景和外部鏡頭，再到地下城市堅毅的現實主義。就像所有優秀的科幻小說一樣，它要求觀眾思考一些基本問題:誰應該被拯救，我們願意為生存付出什麼代價，以及如果我們真的陷入困境，我們可能會制定什麼樣的計劃，無論這些困境是大是小。視覺效果令人驚嘆，堪比好萊塢最好的科幻史詩。當視覺特效團隊如Base FX, Pixomondo, Bottleship FX, Weta和Macrograph參與其中時，這並不奇怪。還有一個3D IMAX版本，我設法趕上了(它只在美國影院上映了兩天，就被樂高電影(Lego movie)趕下了大屏幕)。中國城市的天際線被凍得嚴嚴實實，幾乎被摧毀了一半。
But The Wandering Earth isn’t great science fiction. Modern film audiences are sophisticated enough to find a story that ignores the most basic of physics jarring. A nerdy scientist who could explain how the Earth still had an atmosphere once it stopped spinning, how no-one noticed for 17 years that the Earth’s trajectory was off by almost 10 degrees, or how we could build cities big enough to house over three billion humans that are 500m underground would have solved the narrative problem. Also, the temperature on the Earth’s surface should be absolute zero if we’re racing through deep space too; how is it vehicles can still function on that surface? And the final solution (no spoilers here!) really doesn’t hold water and would not have a happy ending.
但是《流浪的地球》並不是一部偉大的科幻小說。現代電影觀眾足夠老練，能夠找到一個忽略最基本的物理學原理的故事。專業的科學家誰能解釋地球一旦停止轉動怎麼還能有大氣這一現象,怎麼沒有人注意到17年來地球的軌道偏離了將近10度,或我們如何能夠建造足夠大的城市來容納超過30億地下500米的人類。同時，如果我們也在深空中穿行地球表面的溫度應該是絕對零度，那麼一切機械是如何在地面上運行的?而最終的解決方案是什麼(這裡沒有劇透!)其實這部戲裡還是有一些內容是站不住腳的。
The acting is all over the place too. At times teen Han Duo (known in the film as Duoduo) acts like a whiny toddler, just to turn around a few minutes later to inspire everyone with a stirring speech. I was also intrigued by the tension between Liu Qi and his long-absent father Liu Peiqiang, but the film offered little insight into either of their feelings about this tragic separation. As with so many other sci-fi films, we’re left asking the question of whether a grand story and beautiful visual effects are sufficient to create a great movie. And as with too many, the answer is 「not really」.
表演痕跡比較明顯。有的時候，十幾歲的韓朵朵開始就像一個愛發牢騷的蹣跚學步的孩子，但是後幾分鐘後就會轉過身來，用一段激動人心的演講激勵每個人。我也被劉啟和他久別的父親劉培強之間的緊張關系所吸引，但是這部電影並沒有讓我們深入了解他們對這次悲劇性分離的感受。和許多其他科幻電影一樣，我們不禁要問，一個宏大的故事和美麗的視覺效果是否足以創造一部偉大的電影。和很多人一樣，答案是「不完全是」。
（這部分主要是作者對於人物性格的塑造和行為方式的一些質疑）
And then there’s the political side of the film, which is fascinating. There are no Americans in the story. None. The only American flag we see is draped over a coffin, in fact. The United Earth Government has Russians, French, English and other nations represented, but no Americans. Except for MOSS, that is. And who’s MOSS? The sentient computer system that runs the space station. Think HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey and you』ll be on the right track.
然後是電影的政治方面，很吸引人。故事裡沒有美國人。一個也沒有。事實上，我們看到的唯一的美國國旗是蓋在棺材上的。聯合地球政府有俄羅斯、法國、英國和其他國家的代表，但沒有美國人。除了莫斯。但是莫斯是誰?運行空間站的有知覺的計算機系統。想想《2001太空漫遊》裡的哈爾，你就會走上正確的軌道。
（這段和下一段主要是作者作為一個美國人，因為沒有看到電影裡有美國人的一些鏡頭和內容感到有一些小小的失望，心情可以理解～）
All of this leads to the observation that the experience for me as an American watching The Wandering Earthwas undoubtedly similar to that of a Chinese film aficionado watching an American sci-fi blockbuster and wondering why China never shows up, Chinese actors are never on screen, and somehow Chinese ingenuity and perseverance never seems to help save the day. Quid pro quo, I suppose.
所有這一切觀察到的對我作為一個美國人看流浪地球，無疑類似的中國電影迷看美國科幻大片,想知道為什麼中國從未出現,中國演員永遠不會在屏幕上,在某種程度上中國的創造力和毅力似乎永遠不會在拯救地球上起到太多的幫助。我想這是同理心的問題。
The film is also in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles and those subtitles move fast! There’s a lot of dialog and you really have to pay attention to catch all the nuances, which is too bad because you’re really going to want to be enjoying the gorgeous visuals and effects, whether in space, on the space station or back on a very, very chill Earth. Perhaps there』ll be a dubbed version at some point in the future, but until then, be prepared (or learn Chinese quick).
這部電影也有中文字幕和英文字幕，而且那些字幕移動得很快!有很多對話，你必須注意捕捉所有的細微差別，這太糟糕了，因為你其實很想要享受華麗的視覺效果，無論是在太空，在空間站，還是在一個非常寒冷的地球上。也許將來會有一個配音版，但是在那之前，要做好準備(或者快速學習中文)。
（看見沒，美國朋友們都要努力學習中文了，我們還不趕緊學好英文，好儘快在電影工業上追趕）
Finally, with all of that said, I still enjoyed The Wandering Earth. It’s a massive, exciting concept and a solid tension-building story that will keep on the edge of your seat as Jupiter exerts more and more gravitational pull on our little planet. Could we realistically push Earth into a new universe? Does that really matter when you’re in the theater seeking some entertainment? I say go see it and enjoy a wholly different science fiction epic that marks a milestone in Chinese cinema.
最後，儘管如此，我還是很喜歡這個流浪地球的故事。這是一個巨大的，令人興奮的概念，一個有著堅實的緊張結構的故事，因為木星對我們的小行星會發出越來越多的引力。我們真的能把地球推進一個新的宇宙嗎?當你在電影院享受這步電影的時候，這些問題真的很重要嗎?我建議你去看一看，欣賞一部完全不同的科幻史詩，它標誌著中國電影的一個裡程碑。
PS：最近幾天我一直在觀察國外電影人對於中國首部大科幻《流浪地球》的反應。應該說，大部分都是非常支持和興奮的國外觀眾，國外有的影院裡播放完《流浪地球》之後都在起立鼓掌。（以下截圖來自國外的部分評論）
總之，很欣慰，中國科幻電影的發展需要我們自己的努力學習，嚴格要求自我，同時，也少不了國外的先進技術和經驗的分享。
2019，年過完了，我們就要繼續努力！
翻譯：很酷，大家在電影結束的時候都起立鼓掌！
Dave Taylor 就是本文的作者，也是一個專業的影評人，他是劉慈欣的鐵粉。評論裡有人提醒他國內春節檔上映的電影只有120分鐘，但是其實原版本是135分鐘的，所以作者好奇究竟刪除的是什麼？
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