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标题: [闲聊] 《经济学人》对 <你的名字> 的报导
时间: Mon Nov 28 14:52:42 2016
英国的《经济学人》（The Economist）与美国的《时代》（Time）是公认世界上最为权威的几家新闻杂志社，我在逛FB专页时恰巧看到这篇文章，特来翻译一下，与诸版友分享，也算是帮我每周都被教授电到生活不能自理的翻译课练习一下，另外经济学人之用字句法以艰涩出名，必定有误译，还请大家不吝指教。
原文网址：https://goo.gl/pWCrSz (写于2016年11月18日)
With “Your Name”, Makoto Shinkai proves himself a director to watch
新海诚因<你的名字>向世人展现了他的导演才华
FANS of Japanese anime had much to rejoice this week. First, there was the
announcement that Hayao Miyazaki had come out of retirement. The 75-year-old
co-founder of Studio Ghibli, and the director of such beloved masterpieces as
“Spirited Away”, said that he couldn’t resist making one more feature
film, even if he will be 80 before he completes “Boro the Caterpillar”. But
that wasn’t the only good news for anime aficionados. Coincidentally, Mr
Miyazaki’s statement came just before the British release of “Your Name”,
a film so exquisite and unpredictable that its director, Makoto Shinkai, has
been called, yes, “the new Hayao Miyazaki”.
这周，日本的动漫迷可有太多事情值得雀跃了，首先是宫崎骏的复出宣言。七十五岁的宫
崎骏是吉卜力工作室的共同创办人，也是许多受欢迎的大作的导演，像是《神隐少女》等。
他表示实在不能抗拒制作更多动画电影的诱惑，即使他要完成他的《小毛虫波萝》时已高
龄八十。然而这可不是对动漫迷而言唯一的大好消息，宫崎先生（按：经济学人对人的称
呼，除第一次介绍为全名外，其余皆以先生称之，不论何人何种头衔，本文照译。）在发
表这样的声明时，刚好《你的名字》也即将在英国上映，这部作品因为精致绮丽的画面以
及出乎意料的剧情，使得导演新海诚赢得了“宫崎骏第二”的美誉。
Mr Shinkai is no imitator, though. His originality is obvious within the
opening minutes of “Your Name”, with their zooming “camera” movement,
their snappy editing, their unusual angles, their richly-detailed cityscapes
and rural vistas, and, most of all, their variety of gorgeous lighting
effects. A distinctive blend of conventional hand-drawn animation techniques
and digital flair, “Your Name” is worth seeing for the shafts of sunshine
in a dusty room, and the coruscating purple trail of a comet across the night
sky.
话虽如此，新海先生并不是一位模仿者。从《你的名字》一开始，他们独特的运镜手法，
绝妙的编制，不依循常轨的角度制作，对都市高楼及乡村景致细腻的描绘，尤其是各种璀
璨的光影效果都展现了他明显的独创性。结合了传统的手绘以及数位科技的帮助，像是照
耀进满屋子灰的房间的光束，以及闪闪发光、划过黑暗天际的紫色彗尾，都是《你的名字》
中值得一看的亮点。
It’s so disorientating in its rhythms—and so lovely to behold—that it’s a
while before the film reveals itself to be a fast, well-observed, “Freaky
Friday”-style body-swap comedy. Its teenage heroine, Mitsuha (voiced by Mone
Kamishiraishi), is a schoolgirl who is bored of life in her lakeside mountain
town. Never mind its idyllic views and its ancient rituals, there are no
cafes for her to go to, so she dreams of living as a boy in the hustle and
bustle of Tokyo. And, somehow, her dream comes true. One morning, she can’t
understand why everyone keeps telling her that she behaved weirdly the
previous day, but she eventually figures it out: two or three times a week,
she wakes up to find that her mind has switched places with that of Taki
(Ryunosuke Kamiki), a Tokyo resident of her own age.
电影一开始就很容易看出，这是一部如同《怪诞星期五》一般的身体交换类喜剧，不过马
上就会沉醉在剧情节奏中，以及讨人喜爱的画面。故事中的女主角三叶（配音：上白石萌
音），是一名厌倦了湖边山脚下的村落生活的高中生，对于田园生活及传统仪式不感兴趣
，反而很在乎村中连一间咖啡店都没有，因此她很向往能够像个男孩般在熙来攘往的东京
生活（按：此处疑似对剧情有一点误解）。然后呢，在某种程度上，她的愿望实现了。一
天早上，她不能够理解为何周遭所有人都跟她说她前一天十分不一样。后来她发现到，每
周两到三次，她醒来时都会在不熟悉的地方，身分也变成了泷（配音：神木隆之介），一
位与她年龄相仿的东京人。
At first, this bizarre phenomenon works out well for both of them. When Taki
is in Mitsuha’s body, his basketball skills turn her into a school champion,
and when Mitsuha is in Taki’s body, her feminine sensitivity impresses the
girl he has a crush on. Not that the youngsters are always so intent on
helping each other. Obsessed as she is by metropolitan cafes, Mitsuha can’t
stop ordering expensive desserts whenever she takes over Taki’s identity.
Taki, meanwhile, can’t stop fondling Mitsuha’s breasts whenever he takes
over hers—much to the bemusement of her younger sister.
于是呢，就会开始发生一些奇怪的事情，像是当泷在三叶的身体里时，他的篮球球技足以
让她成为全校第一；当三叶在泷的身体里时，她女性般纤细的气质吸引了他暗恋的对象。
这对年轻男女可不是都互相帮助的，比如说当三叶接管了泷的身分时，因为对于大都会咖
啡店的沉迷，她不断地享受昂贵的甜点；同时间当泷接管了三叶时，他无法控制抚弄三叶
胸部的兴趣，这让她的妹妹感到十分困惑不解。
A further twist is that, once they return to their own selves, Mitsuha and
Taki soon forget what they did during the switch. This fairy-tale logic is
something of a narrative cheat, but the amnesia is ultimately what gives the
film its considerable poignancy. Like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
”, “Your Name” forces us to ask how much of ourselves we lose whenever a
memory slips away, and why crises which once felt monumental can come to seem
trivial just a few years later.
更曲折的是当泷与三叶换回各自的身体时，他们会很快忘记交换时发生的事。这样童话般
的逻辑实际上却是一种利用叙述欺骗观众的手法，特别是当“健忘”为本片带来大量的沉
重时。像是“无瑕之心的永恒之光（按：此句实为电影《王牌冤家》的片名直译）”般，
《你的名字》让我们去思索当记忆消逝时，我们失去的什么，以及为何我们对于重大的危
机事件，总是遗忘的这么快。
And that is just half of the film. “Your Name” would have been a quirky
delight if it had stuck to the romantic high-school mix-ups, but it races
past them on its way to a bigger, stranger and more momentous story. It would
be wrong to reveal how exactly it leaps to a thrilling new genre while
retaining its initial nuanced charm and humanity. But it is fair to say that,
as innovative as Mr Shinkai undoubtedly is, he sticks to the anime tradition
of making everything go spectacularly psychedelic and apocalyptic towards the
end of the film. Anyone who came out of “Arrival” with a hunger for more
expansive, heart-rending science-fiction will tuck into “Your Name” as
greedily as Mitsuha/Taki tucks into her/his delicious desserts.
到此，影片只进行到一半。《你的名字》本来可以只是个充满著高校混乱生活以及多变欢
愉的浪漫剧，但是它被推进到了更为宏大、奇妙、磅礡的故事。如果说本片在保留了最初
的魅力以及人情互动之于，跃入了令人振奋的全新作品类型是不尽精确的，但绝对可以说
，新海先生毫无疑问地、创造性地在维持日本动画的传统中，把每一样元素像是迷幻感与
启发性等特质，扩展到了更为壮丽的境界。任何刚看完《异星入境（按：本片在英美于撰
文时的该周上映，2017年2月17日才会在台湾上映）》观众，如果汲汲于寻觅更为广阔、揪
心的奇幻类片子时，想必会好好享受《你的名字》这部作品，就像三叶享受美味甜点一样。