要笑得多虚伪,才能融入这世界
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笑是你的眼睛,口唇;
嫣然一笑,清软如云的留痕,浪的波纹;
眉开眼笑,温润如水的潋滟,风的柔绵;
捧腹大笑,畅然如山的俊朗,海的奔放;
笑是你的闪光,涌进他的心窝。
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有时候,我们已忘了笑最美好,最真实的样子。笑得太多,却太虚假,似乎只这样才能融入这世界。长此以往,假如有一天,所有人脸上都挂着假笑,那世界会虚伪成什么样子呢?
请到“黑镜”中一探究竟。
Black Mirror is a television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.
《黑镜》旨在反映生活和技术的黑暗面,目前已出到第三季。
Today, we are going to appreciate the first episode of season3 : Nosedive.
今天,我们一起欣赏第三季第一集:《急转直下》
In a future entirely controlled by how people rate others on social media. All the legal citizen will have their eyes implanted a special chip to check out the score of those people around you.
这是个看评分的世界。只要是合法公民,眼睛里都会植入特殊晶片,用于实时查看视野范围内各个人的评分。
Everyone has a overall score according to the stars people give you through their mobile phone. People who get 4 out of five can enjoy privilege, while those whose score is less than 1 can hardly survive.
手机上都装有评分系统,对其他人的任何事都可以给一到五星的评价。这些分数综合起来就成了对每个人的评价,4分以上受人尊重,3分以上普普通通,2分以上倍受鄙视,1分以上就举步维艰了。
Lacie, our leading character, lives in a future world where people's status is governed by their rating on social media. She is a 4.2 and needs to be a 4.5 to be able to afford to rent an apartment at the plush Pelican Cove compound.
女主莱希就生活在这样被社交媒体控制的世界。 她必须要把自己的分数从4.2提升到4.5才能租到一栋位于鹈鹕湾的高档公寓。
However, most of her interaction are confined to her inner circle, and they are largely mid-to low a ton of reciprocal five stars from service industry workers, but there’s not much else. So in terms of quality, she could use a punch up right there to increase her score in a short term.
但是,她大部分社交集中在好友圈,而且其中大部分是中下等人。她还有一大堆服务行业工作人员的五星好评,此外别无其他。为了能在短期内提升分数,她必须在质量方面提升。
Thus she calls upon well-regarded childhood friend Naomie for approval and gets invited to Naomie's forthcoming wedding. Naomie and those guests of her wedding are all high fours, so it is a great opportunity to climb up.
因此,她联系上了儿时好友奈奥米,并受邀参加她的婚礼。奈奥米及其婚礼宾客都是高于四分的上等人,所以这是个爬像上层社会的绝佳机会。
Unfortunately, for missing the flight, on the 9-hour endless journey, a lot of events conspire to make Lacie's rating even lower. Being angry, laughing, hopeless yelling and all kinds of her emotions are started to release.
由于错失航班,去婚礼的漫长路上并不顺利,莱希的分数一降再降。途中她有过生气,兴奋,甚至绝望地大喊,各种情感开始释放。
Finally, inspired by a frank talking trucker, Susan, who lost points for speaking her mind, but she can enjoy the unstrained joy. She told her a true story, in which there is a “five star” person but still can do nothing in the face of cancer. No matter how many points you’ve got, the cancer doesn’t give a shit, it just keep growing. So how does the so-called high points make sense?
但她却遇到了一位好心人苏珊。苏珊曾因为说真心话失去了分数,却也活得潇洒自在。她讲述了一个真实的故事,曾经有一个总是获得5颗星的人,然而在癌症面前却还是无能为力,任之摧残。不管你的分有多高,癌细胞照样扩散,那获得高分又怎么样呢?
It’s not late to take a tumble, Lacie realizes that all those high-fours are so hypocritical and merciless, and she crashes the wedding from which she is now barred for her low status and blasts off against Naomie, her pretentious circle of friends and the system.
莱希经历了一切,恍然大悟,发现追求分数只会使人变得虚伪无情,所以她冲到由于自己分数降低而被拒绝的婚礼现场大闹一场。
Consequently, Lacie loses all her score and get arrested. In the police station, the chip is taken out of her eyes. At that every moment, the true world unfolds before her. For the first time, she starts saying what she wnated when she wanted. For the first time, she is happy.
最终,莱希失去了所有分数,并被捕入狱。在警局,她被迫摘除了眼睛中的晶体。此刻,她才看见了世界最真实的样子。第一次,她摆脱束缚,想说什么说什么,第一次,她真正地开心。
In this world, we are all so caught up in our own heads. It is easy to lose sight of what is real and what matters.
在这个世界,我们太过于关注自己。往往容易忘了什么才是真的,什么才最重要。
Just drop it out there. It’s incredible how fast you slip off the ladder when you start doing that. Shedding those fuckers, it was like taking off tight shoes.
摆脱一切束缚吧!当你开始这么做的时候,或许自己都不相信自己会转变和成长得那么快。卸掉那些伪装,就像脱掉了双不合脚的鞋。
►作者:朱树智, 一个极具灵气的女子,热爱英语。