原著Tony and Susan简评
这篇影评可能有剧透
本来是写在原著《Tony and Susan》的书评的,有人说看了书评可以解答对电影的疑问,所以粘贴过来:
Susan(大学英语教授)20年前与丈夫Edward离婚,原因之一是Edward当时不切实际,一心想成为一名作家,最后却没写出任何拿得出手的作品;20年后,Susan已经与Arnold结婚,一天突然收到了Edward寄来的小说处女作手稿《Nocturnal Animals》。
手稿的部分讲述了Tony Hastings(数学教授)带老婆Laura和Helen去Maine度假,结果路遇神经病堵道,女儿对他们竖了中指,结果最后演变成了Tony被离奇赶下了自己的车,与妻女分离,第二天自己逃生后报警,发现妻女被奸杀。Tony在这个过程中是特别“懦弱”的,面对三个神经病的暴力,无法也无力做出任何反抗。
最后Susan在看完手稿后,猛然意识到Tony其实和她自己很像,“无法正视自己”,捕捉到懦弱自我暗影的投射。
从阅读感受来说,整本书心理描写非常出彩,而且语言特别美。特点就是Susan每读一段《Nocturnal Animals》,她会自己分析一下,而读者基本能够和她的观感与疑问保持同步。蛮新奇的阅读体验。
比如这句“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them? She rides back and forth between sympathy for Tony and exasperation.” 基本上就是我自己的阅读体验了。
整体故事还是蛮丧气的,会思考自己遇到同样的事情能处理地更勇敢一点吗?估计也不行。然后就是Tony因为自己的失误导致失去了妻女,以及结尾处不敢开枪,那种对他心理guilty感的描述特别揪心。
杀人犯Ray最后陈述的杀人理由 真是…………
-----------------------------------------以下有很多剧透的分割线--------------------------------------------------
自用 等电影前的一个剧情发展note 全是剧透 慎看
书分四部分写的:1.Susan简单的背景介绍,收到书稿,开始看《Nocturnal Animals》,一边看书稿一边有一些背景介绍和Susan对书的看法;2.插叙Susan的人生经历,为什么和Edward离婚,与现任Arnold又是怎么认识的;3.回到part 1,看完整本书 4.Susan想约Edward来讨论对书的看法,以及和Arnold的关系变化,看完书后的自我代入。
(电影原本说要分开拍成两部电影的,没能成行,猜测电影可能会以2-1-3-4的顺序来拍吧 以及George Clooney本来要制片 后来退出了)
第一部分:Tony突然决定开夜路去Maine,然后遇到不幸,自己逃出来后报警,找到妻女尸体,是被奸杀的。
Tony被迫跟凶手上车时用了这么一句话 “his mind sees many things, but he has not been in a fight since childhood and cannot remember winning one.”
之后凭借车里的指纹锁定了一个凶手,不久后警探Andes第一次打电话叫Tony去警局Lineup认人,Tony感觉其中一个人想三个凶手中的Turker,但没敢确定,不了了之,结果出来Andes给他说那其实就是指纹能对上的凶手。
第二次叫Tony去警局认人,这次是盗窃案里抓回来一个凶手,本来是三人团伙作案,Turker被警察当场击毙,另一个跑了,只抓到一个。警探说跑掉的那个是符合Tony这个案子里凶手Ray的描述的,抓到的这个凶手Tony确认是当时作案的凶手Lou,剩下Ray在逃。
此时距离凶杀案发生已经过去了差不多一年,Tony逐渐从伤痛中恢复,“In the late afternoon inside his house, he looked for his soul and saw only white indifference beneath the calculated displays of grief and, as that became wearisome, irritability and rage. He recognized the privileges grief had given him. What no one knew was how he had fooled them. He was an artificial man, fabricated of gestures.”同时,他还在纠结自己到底要跟一个已婚之妇搞外遇还是跟自己的研究生搞到一起,最后选了后者。。
第三次警方终于把Ray抓到,但Ray一口咬定没见过Tony,并且说自己有alibi,只有Tony的口供无法立案,Ray和Lou都将被释放。
第二部分:Susan和Edward结婚,Edward20年前突然对文学有了浓厚的兴趣,一开始总跟Susan探讨自己写的诗,后来直接搬到外面去专注写书了。就是这个时候Susan认识了邻居Arnold,Arnold有妻子,但是精神有问题,去了医院。有一天Susan看Arnold没地方吃饭,就邀请他回家吃饭,然后两人纷纷婚内出轨。(这里特别描写了Arnold器大活好呢 =。=)
第三部分:Ray继续抵赖。警探Andes说自己得了癌症,因此要好好处理一下这个案子。Andes前后脚把Ray和Lou带到一处小屋,逼供。Andes让两人离开,先开枪打死了Lou,嫁祸给Ray(Andes早已设好局),Ray又跑了。Tony此时本来有机会开枪,没敢。这里还有一个与Susan同名的角色出现。
Tony开车去找Ray,在一处Trailer发现了Ray。Ray这时候坦白确实是自己杀了Laura和Helen,原因是:“It’s fun to kill people. You ought to try it sometime.”Ray详细说,他觉得Laura和Helen当时对他本人的印象就是“变态强奸杀人犯”,正因为这样,他就要变成她们想象的这个样子,所以奸杀了她们。Tony听了实在忍无可忍,开了枪。醒来Tony发现自己什么也看不见了,不知道原因,但他摸索到了Ray的尸体。他出门企图寻求帮助,在半昏厥状态中曾经听到过警察搜救的声音,想开枪以引起警察注意,结果伤到了自己,最后死掉了。
在第四部分 Susan开始思考Susan看到第一次Tony没开枪时,就在想“Safe insured Susan lives on the verge of disaster because everything she knows has happened, whereas the future is blind. In a book there is no future. In its place is violence, substituting thrill for fear, like the thrill in a roller coaster. Never forget what’s possible, it says, if you, lucky Susan with secure home and family (so unlike the world), should happen like Tony to meet something vicious in the night. If you had the gun, would you use it any better than Tony?”////“To have it and be unable to use it: for Susan that’s real life, unlike the movies, where the mere display of a gun by anybody confers the powers of God.”
以及Edward并没有如约来家里吃饭,Susan还意识到了Arnold在出轨。
最后Susan想通了自己的生活与书中Tony的共通点:“Out of the forgotten she remembers how bitterly he (Edward) resented her failure to appreciate the dignity of his writing. Like blinding, he said: your attitude blinds me.///////Evidently he’s angry still. Unforgiving twenty-five years later for an offense equivalent to blinding, and the novel his revenge.” 以及对《Nocturnal Animals》结局Tony死的解释:“While civilization oblivious to him roars in the distance, Tony lies dying, hiding from the police who should be his friends, as he hid earlier from his enemies. Dies, joyfully believing a story which is not true. It gives him comfort, but it’s not true, while death and evil rage around.” 恍然大悟。
Susan(大学英语教授)20年前与丈夫Edward离婚,原因之一是Edward当时不切实际,一心想成为一名作家,最后却没写出任何拿得出手的作品;20年后,Susan已经与Arnold结婚,一天突然收到了Edward寄来的小说处女作手稿《Nocturnal Animals》。
手稿的部分讲述了Tony Hastings(数学教授)带老婆Laura和Helen去Maine度假,结果路遇神经病堵道,女儿对他们竖了中指,结果最后演变成了Tony被离奇赶下了自己的车,与妻女分离,第二天自己逃生后报警,发现妻女被奸杀。Tony在这个过程中是特别“懦弱”的,面对三个神经病的暴力,无法也无力做出任何反抗。
最后Susan在看完手稿后,猛然意识到Tony其实和她自己很像,“无法正视自己”,捕捉到懦弱自我暗影的投射。
从阅读感受来说,整本书心理描写非常出彩,而且语言特别美。特点就是Susan每读一段《Nocturnal Animals》,她会自己分析一下,而读者基本能够和她的观感与疑问保持同步。蛮新奇的阅读体验。
比如这句“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them? She rides back and forth between sympathy for Tony and exasperation.” 基本上就是我自己的阅读体验了。
整体故事还是蛮丧气的,会思考自己遇到同样的事情能处理地更勇敢一点吗?估计也不行。然后就是Tony因为自己的失误导致失去了妻女,以及结尾处不敢开枪,那种对他心理guilty感的描述特别揪心。
杀人犯Ray最后陈述的杀人理由 真是…………
-----------------------------------------以下有很多剧透的分割线--------------------------------------------------
自用 等电影前的一个剧情发展note 全是剧透 慎看
书分四部分写的:1.Susan简单的背景介绍,收到书稿,开始看《Nocturnal Animals》,一边看书稿一边有一些背景介绍和Susan对书的看法;2.插叙Susan的人生经历,为什么和Edward离婚,与现任Arnold又是怎么认识的;3.回到part 1,看完整本书 4.Susan想约Edward来讨论对书的看法,以及和Arnold的关系变化,看完书后的自我代入。
(电影原本说要分开拍成两部电影的,没能成行,猜测电影可能会以2-1-3-4的顺序来拍吧 以及George Clooney本来要制片 后来退出了)
第一部分:Tony突然决定开夜路去Maine,然后遇到不幸,自己逃出来后报警,找到妻女尸体,是被奸杀的。
Tony被迫跟凶手上车时用了这么一句话 “his mind sees many things, but he has not been in a fight since childhood and cannot remember winning one.”
之后凭借车里的指纹锁定了一个凶手,不久后警探Andes第一次打电话叫Tony去警局Lineup认人,Tony感觉其中一个人想三个凶手中的Turker,但没敢确定,不了了之,结果出来Andes给他说那其实就是指纹能对上的凶手。
第二次叫Tony去警局认人,这次是盗窃案里抓回来一个凶手,本来是三人团伙作案,Turker被警察当场击毙,另一个跑了,只抓到一个。警探说跑掉的那个是符合Tony这个案子里凶手Ray的描述的,抓到的这个凶手Tony确认是当时作案的凶手Lou,剩下Ray在逃。
此时距离凶杀案发生已经过去了差不多一年,Tony逐渐从伤痛中恢复,“In the late afternoon inside his house, he looked for his soul and saw only white indifference beneath the calculated displays of grief and, as that became wearisome, irritability and rage. He recognized the privileges grief had given him. What no one knew was how he had fooled them. He was an artificial man, fabricated of gestures.”同时,他还在纠结自己到底要跟一个已婚之妇搞外遇还是跟自己的研究生搞到一起,最后选了后者。。
第三次警方终于把Ray抓到,但Ray一口咬定没见过Tony,并且说自己有alibi,只有Tony的口供无法立案,Ray和Lou都将被释放。
第二部分:Susan和Edward结婚,Edward20年前突然对文学有了浓厚的兴趣,一开始总跟Susan探讨自己写的诗,后来直接搬到外面去专注写书了。就是这个时候Susan认识了邻居Arnold,Arnold有妻子,但是精神有问题,去了医院。有一天Susan看Arnold没地方吃饭,就邀请他回家吃饭,然后两人纷纷婚内出轨。(这里特别描写了Arnold器大活好呢 =。=)
第三部分:Ray继续抵赖。警探Andes说自己得了癌症,因此要好好处理一下这个案子。Andes前后脚把Ray和Lou带到一处小屋,逼供。Andes让两人离开,先开枪打死了Lou,嫁祸给Ray(Andes早已设好局),Ray又跑了。Tony此时本来有机会开枪,没敢。这里还有一个与Susan同名的角色出现。
Tony开车去找Ray,在一处Trailer发现了Ray。Ray这时候坦白确实是自己杀了Laura和Helen,原因是:“It’s fun to kill people. You ought to try it sometime.”Ray详细说,他觉得Laura和Helen当时对他本人的印象就是“变态强奸杀人犯”,正因为这样,他就要变成她们想象的这个样子,所以奸杀了她们。Tony听了实在忍无可忍,开了枪。醒来Tony发现自己什么也看不见了,不知道原因,但他摸索到了Ray的尸体。他出门企图寻求帮助,在半昏厥状态中曾经听到过警察搜救的声音,想开枪以引起警察注意,结果伤到了自己,最后死掉了。
在第四部分 Susan开始思考Susan看到第一次Tony没开枪时,就在想“Safe insured Susan lives on the verge of disaster because everything she knows has happened, whereas the future is blind. In a book there is no future. In its place is violence, substituting thrill for fear, like the thrill in a roller coaster. Never forget what’s possible, it says, if you, lucky Susan with secure home and family (so unlike the world), should happen like Tony to meet something vicious in the night. If you had the gun, would you use it any better than Tony?”////“To have it and be unable to use it: for Susan that’s real life, unlike the movies, where the mere display of a gun by anybody confers the powers of God.”
以及Edward并没有如约来家里吃饭,Susan还意识到了Arnold在出轨。
最后Susan想通了自己的生活与书中Tony的共通点:“Out of the forgotten she remembers how bitterly he (Edward) resented her failure to appreciate the dignity of his writing. Like blinding, he said: your attitude blinds me.///////Evidently he’s angry still. Unforgiving twenty-five years later for an offense equivalent to blinding, and the novel his revenge.” 以及对《Nocturnal Animals》结局Tony死的解释:“While civilization oblivious to him roars in the distance, Tony lies dying, hiding from the police who should be his friends, as he hid earlier from his enemies. Dies, joyfully believing a story which is not true. It gives him comfort, but it’s not true, while death and evil rage around.” 恍然大悟。
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