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1913年，在一個荒涼的小島上，西西里當地居民過著平靜安逸的生活，一代代人在這片土地辛勤勞動、繁衍生息。而這一切都被一個突然到來的美國人打破了。這位鑲著金牙的美國人到處游說著西西里的人們，說外面的世界是那么的繁華，在那里，人們是生活在天堂里，到處都是黃金，人人都是富翁。外面的世界的土豆有火車車廂那么大，胡蘿卜像船那么長，樹上結的都是金幣，像樹葉一樣大批的飄落下來。不僅如此，這個 “外來客”還拿出照片向這里人們證明他荒謬的話，還說他現在的任務就是陪伴那些離開了西西里，已經在繁華的世界中享受生活的人們。曼庫索家族（西西里的居民之一）中的一位成員已經離開西西里到繁華世界去了，全家都在等他的消息，而這位美國人帶來了他的消息。為了成為繁華新世界的公民，西西里的人們必須放棄現有的生活狀態才能獲得重生。他們要放棄自己的信念信仰，放棄這片家園，要把自身訓練得強壯，要學會服從，只有成功地從“原始人”變為“現代人”，這樣，才能穿越通往繁華新世界的金色大門。必須經過幾周時間在海洋中艱苦的穿行，才能到達“眼淚島”和“愛麗絲島”——對他們進行最終考驗的地方。新世界的守門人負責對他們進行逐項考驗，他們的身心都要達“現在人”的要求。在這個通向天堂，但卻像地獄的地方，許多家庭都要進行選擇，并不是每個人都能進入這個大門，而有些人，卻是命運注定要通過黃金大門……
對話文本:(系普特網友整理，文本只包括旁白影評部分，不包括電影原聲。)
The Golden Door is a new film from the Italian director Emanuele Crialese. It tells the story of a group of Sicilian peasants leaving their homeland and making the arduous crossing across the Atlantic to Ellis Island. This is a familiar story. It’s been told before on the film and it is a part of the family histories of an awful lot of Americans. But what makes this film unusual and special is that it doesn’t only show the physical passage from one place, Sicily, to another ,America. But a kind of time travel, these people are really leaving the Middle Ages and setting sail for the modern world.
The main character Salvator Mancuso played by a wonderful Italian actor named Vicento Amato, on his way to the boat, he meets an Englishwoman named Lucy, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg who is a strange bird indeed in the setting, she is wearing very fine clothes, she has upright bearing, she speaks perfect English, we never know what she is doing in steerage with the rest of these immigrants on their way to the New World.
The director has a remarkable eye, and he tells the story through a series of striking tableaux that really make you feel the strangeness, the fear, the disorientation, the excitement, all of the experiences that these people must have had in what feels like such a long ago time that wasn’t really that long ago at all.
Vocabulary
Tableau plural Tableaux [countable]
1. a group of people shown in a work of art
2. a group of people arranged on stage like a picture
3. something you see that looks like a picture, especially a group of people who are not moving or speaking
Tableau vivant ( plural : tableaux vivants) is French for "living picture."
