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Within seconds, Kennedy surfaces, distraught, calling Kopechne’s name.
幾秒鐘后，肯尼迪浮出了水面，心急如焚地叫著科佩切尼的名字。
And then, inexplicably, he trundles off the scene and heads back to the house—
之后，令人費解的是，他拖著沉重的步伐離開現場回去了——
not to get help for his friend, but to alert the long-suffering Gargan so he can sort things out.
他沒有去為自己的朋友求助，而是去提醒臨危不亂的加根，讓加根想辦法。
Kennedy doesn’t report the incident until late the following morning.
直到第二天接近中午時分，肯尼迪才宣布了車禍一事。
In between, he has brunch with some friends.
在那之前，他還和朋友吃了早午餐。
THE REST OF the movie shows how the devious machine established by family patriarch Joe Kennedy—
影片剩余部分則展示了肯尼迪家族這時的喬·肯尼迪——
by that point a gnarled, bedridden root vegetable with angry eyes, played here with alarming authenticity by Bruce Dern—
他此時已經成了一位飽經風霜、臥床不起，眼中充滿了憤怒的植物人，布魯斯·鄧恩在本片中為該人物貢獻了無比精湛的演技——
pulled off, with Ted’s participation, a highly implausible semi-cover-up of the incident,
設立的狡猾的機器如何在泰德的配合下，為事故上演了一處十分不可思議的半遮半掩的戲碼，
thus saving the Senator’s congressional career.(The presidency, of course, remained elusive.)
以此拯救了這位參議員在國會的政治生涯。(當然，總統一職仍然是可望而不可及。）
With Chappaquiddick, Curran (The Painted Veil, Tracks) walks a tricky line, deftly:
在《查帕奎迪克》中，卡蘭(《面紗》、《足跡》也是他的作品)巧妙地走了一條十分復雜的路線：
Should we feel revulsion for Kennedy, the spoiled overgrown kid whose family cleaned up his messes,
我們是應該厭惡肯尼迪這個被寵壞了的，還要家人給自己收拾殘局的巨嬰，
or sympathy for the man who was left to carry the staggering legacies of his brothers John and Bobby?
還是應該同情那個肩負著將約翰和鮑比兩位哥哥令人震驚的榮耀發揚光大的重任的男人呢？
Clarke makes us feel plenty of things we’d rather not.
克拉克則讓我們感受了很多我們不愿感受的東西。
His eyes are shadowed with profound decency one minute, and hollowed out in desperate calculation the next.
他的眼里前一分鐘還帶著深不可測的莊重，下一分鐘就在絕望的盤算中變得空洞了。
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, was both haunted and motivated by his dead brothers’ achievements.
有大量證據表明，逝去的兩位哥哥的成就既困擾了泰德·肯尼迪，2009年也去世了，也給了他動力。
His congressional record shows a man who fought hard for things he considered just, like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
他的國會記錄顯示，他也曾為自己認為公正的事情，比如1990年的《美國殘疾人法》和1993年的《家庭和醫療休假法》，努力奮斗過。
But what if, even more than any supposed family curse, he was haunted by the memory of a woman’s face,
但要是他還被一個眼看著那臺他最終逃出來了的汽車即將被水淹沒的女人臉上的表情折磨過，
of what she looked like just before she drowned in a submerged car that he had somehow managed to escape?
那種折磨甚至比家族詛咒對他的折磨更可怕，會怎樣呢？
Although Chappaquiddick doesn’t address Kennedy’s subsequent legislative record,
盡管影片中沒有展現肯尼迪后來的官司記錄，
it’s the silver-lining storm cloud that hangs over the movie.
但這個問題依然像烏云一樣籠罩著影片。
Human beings can end up doing good things for terrible reasons.
人有時會因為一些非常糟糕的原因做好事。
How much more convenient it would be if we could just write them off altogether.
如果我們能用行善將它們全都一筆勾銷，那該多省事啊。
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