利利刃出鞘「丽娜说电影系列二利刃出鞘」

#有哪部电影你看过五遍以上#

前言

丽娜说电影《利刃出鞘（Knives out ）》,我是丽娜，很喜欢这部电影，是一部离奇的悬疑推理剧。 比较费脑筋，引人思考，而且不同的人会有不一样的看法，没有标准答案，大家可以自由想象。

欢迎朋友们和我交流，交换一些看法，也许可以让我们互相更加了解对方的人生观和价值观。希望我们可以找到一些精神上的共鸣。

The story of Knives Out takes place in modern-day Massachusetts in 2019, so the themes that it addresses are ones that audiences can relate to, and gives us character viewpoints that we can relate to in one way or another. The first set of characters we meet are the Thrombeys, who are your typical wealthy, white American family. Although not all of them are perfectly ABle, as seen by Walt, who walks with a cane, each of them strongly embody the privileged upper-class. They all dress in clean, high fashion clothing, all have expensive smartphones and drive shiny new cars. However, all of them have earned their success thanks in part to the patriarchal head of the family, Harlan Thrombey; his daughter Linda built her real estate business “from the ground up” with a million-dollar loan from Harlan, his son Walt runs Harlan’s book publishing company, and Joni, Harlan’s daughter-in-law gets an “Allowance” as well as tuition money to put her daughter, Meg, through College.

《利刃出鞘》的故事发生在 2019 年的现代马萨诸塞州，因此它的主题可以找到与现实相关的话题，并为我们提供了能以某种方式与之相关的角色观点。我们遇到的第一组角色是哈兰斯隆比家族，他们是典型的富有的美国白人家庭。虽然并非所有人都完全有能力，正如拄着拐杖走路的沃尔特所看到的那样，他们每个人都强烈地体现了特权上层阶级。他们都穿着干净、高级的时尚服装，都有昂贵的智能手机，开着闪亮的新车。然而，他们所有人取得的成功，大部分依赖于家族的大家长哈兰·斯隆比；他的女儿琳达（Linda）用哈兰（Harlan）的百万美元贷款“从头开始”建立了她的房地产业务，他的儿子沃尔特（Walt）经营着哈兰的图书出版公司，哈兰的儿媳乔尼（Joni）获得了“津贴”以及学费，让她的女儿梅格（Meg）上大学。

This is an American-style movie. The murder happened in an old manor and an American-style villa. During the whole story reasoning process, it reflects many social phenomena, but it also contains inheritance, love and tolerance. I like this movie so much. Before I express my personal opinion, I want to ask a few questions first, so that everyone can watch the movie with questions and have a deeper understanding of the movie. Everyone is welcome to exchange views with me, hoping to resonate spiritually.

这是一部美式推理电影，凶案发生在古老的庄园、美式的别墅中，在整个故事推理过程中，反映了很多社会现象，却也包含了传承、爱与包容。丽娜很喜欢的一部电影，在丽娜发表个人观点之前，先提几个问题，这样大家可以带着问题观看，对电影理解更深。欢迎大家和我交换看法，希望可以产生精神上的共鸣。

At the end of the article, I will write my answers, so we can compare whether our understanding is consistent, and exchange views when we have the opportunity.

文章末尾，我会写上我的答案，可以对比一下我们的理解是否一致，有机会再交流看法。

This biggest contrast of power is if we compare the Thrombeys to Harlan’s nurse, Marta. Although we learn that Marta is an immigrant from somewhere in South America, we never actually learn where specifically. Each of the Thrombeys claim that she is from either Paraguay or Uruguay, and even Ransom calls her Harlan’s “Brazilian Nurse”. This recurring “joke” illustrates that none of the Thrombeys have actually bothered to remember where she is from, or even ask her at all. Not only do we hear who she is from the Thrombeys first, but she is also interviewed by the detectives last. Although understandable, since she isn’t a family member, she saw Harlan every day, perhaps knew Harlan better than anyone, and she was one of the last people to see him alive. In spite of that, none of them suggested that Marta should be interviewed first because they cared too much about being interviewed themselves.

如果我们把斯隆比家族的人与哈兰的护士玛尔塔进行比较，特权和不平等非常明显。虽然我们了解到玛尔塔是来自南美洲某个地方的移民，但我们从未真正了解具体来自哪里。家族里的人都说她来自巴拉圭或乌拉圭，甚至兰森称她为哈兰的“巴西护士”。这个反复出现的“笑话”表明，没有一个家族里的人关心她来自哪里，甚至根本没有问过她。我们不仅首先从家族的人口中听到了她是谁，而且她还是最后一个接受侦探询问的人。虽然可以理解，但因为她不是家人，她每天都能看到哈兰，也许比任何人都了解哈兰，她是最后看到他活着的人之一。尽管如此，他们都没有建议玛尔塔应该先接受询问，因为他们太在乎自己作为家族里人的特权。

However, when each of them is asked about what had happened, they lie and claim otherwise, in order to avoid the question. Even though their lies aren’t directly pertinent to the case, and the detectives later admit that none of those is a strong enough motive to kill Harlan, each of them lied to protect their image and reputation. Contrasted to Marta, who at this point in the film is the least powerful, but also has the most to hide. Not only was she the last to see Harlan alive, for all she knows she killed Harlan and is now hiding that to protect her mom, who is undocumented and could be deported if Marta was found guilty. The fact that Marta’s police questioning is pushed to the end not only shows the imbalance of power between the Thrombeys and Marta but also shows that, as Marta says to Blanc, “You’re not much of a detective”.

然而，当他们每个人都被问及发生了什么事时，他们会撒谎并试图回避。尽管他们的谎言与案件没有直接关系，而且侦探们后来承认这些谎言都不足以杀死哈兰，但他们每个人都撒谎以保护自己的形象和声誉。与家族里的人形成鲜明对比的是，玛尔塔是最没有分量的，但却是最了解情况的。她不仅是哈兰死之前最后一个看到哈兰的人，而且她误认为是自己为哈兰注射错误的药而害死了哈兰，现在为了保护她的母亲，她刚开始时候隐瞒了这一点，因为她的母亲没有证件，如果玛尔塔被判有罪，母亲可能会被驱逐出境。玛尔塔的问询被推到最后，体现了斯隆比家族的人的特权和玛尔塔地位之间的不平等，所以玛尔塔才对布兰克说出那样的话：“你不是一个合格的侦探”。

So how do you think, Marta can be guilty in this crime ?

那么你怎么看，玛尔塔是真正的凶手吗？

Another example of a character exercising their power is by Linda’s son Ransom in the final act. Once Blanc has pieced it all together as to how Harlan was killed, Ransom appears to be the guilty party. Once Ransom has been accused, he turns on Marta and threatens her with lawyers, and how little jail time he’ll receive for attempting to kill Harlan and the other housekeeper Fran. This part in the film perfectly illustrates the way that our society works and has worked for a long time; regardless of how much evidence is stacked against you, and as long as you have enough money and influence over the accuser, you have a higher chance of only receiving a “slap on the wrist” for your crimes. Not only is dominance being shown, but Ransom is also a white man talking down to Marta, who is a South American woman and is threatening her with his power. Even though at this point in the movie, Marta has inherited all of Harlan’s assets and is immensely more powerful than Ransom, he knows full well, and even says that he’ll barely get any jail time for his “alleged crimes”.

另一个行使特权体现不公平待遇的例子，琳达的儿子兰森在最后一幕中。一旦侦探布兰克把哈兰是如何被杀的线索整理在一起，兰森似乎是有罪的一方。一旦兰森被指控，他就会试图嫁祸给玛尔塔，用律师威胁她，以及证明他试图杀死哈兰和另一个管家弗兰的作案时间不够。影片中的这一部分充分地反应了我们社会的现实，并且是长期存在的现实问题：“不管有多少对你不利证据，只要你有足够的钱和权力，你就有可能减轻处罚甚至逃掉处罚”。兰森不仅表现出了他的特权，而且还是一个白人男子，玛尔塔是一名南美女性，他可以用他的特权威胁她。尽管在电影中，玛尔塔继承了哈兰的所有遗产，但兰森非常清楚，甚至说他几乎不会因为他的“所谓的犯罪”而入狱。

We can see such unexpected ways that just when you think you have it all figured out, you realize something doesn’t add up.” For the first half of the movie, you believe that Marta has killed Harlan, whether intentional or not. Where the film subverts our expectations is that Harlan doesn’t die by the vengeful hands of Marta, but rather her own innocent mistake and a hasty cover-up by Harlan so Marta’s mother isn’t deported.

我们可以看到这种意想不到的方式，当你认为你已经弄清楚了一切时，你就会意识到有些地方可能被遗漏。在电影的前半部分，你可能会认为玛尔塔杀死了哈兰，不管是有意还是无意。这部电影出乎我们预料的地方是，哈兰不是死于玛尔塔之手，而是她自己阴差阳错的“拿错药物”（实际上情况是，哈兰的外孙兰森从外墙爬上进入哈兰卧室，通过注射器将哈兰的治疗药物和吗啡置换，并将解药拿走。这样一来，按照兰森的想法，护士玛尔塔会看着药瓶上的名称为老爷子哈兰注射药物，玛尔塔以为拿起的是治疗药物，其实是吗啡，从而杀死哈兰并嫁祸护士，使其失去继承权。巧合的是，玛尔塔是一个十分优秀的护士，通过药物液体粘稠度极细微的区别，就可以本能的拿对正确的药品，不需要看药瓶上的文字标识，所以她给哈兰注射的是对的药物，但她自己并不清楚，而且不知道自己拥有这种奇妙的能力。）和哈兰的仓促掩盖（哈兰想把所有资产由玛尔塔继承，发现情况不对之后，为了避免玛尔塔陷入官司，所以立完遗嘱之后自刎），所以玛尔塔的母亲没有被驱逐出境。

Because as Meg mentioned earlier, “He’s a truly selfless man”, Harlan knows that if Marta were found to be the cause of his death, that due to the Slayer Rule, Marta wouldn’t inherit the fortune and his family would take it instead. Fast forward to the end of the movie, once the true suspect has been caught and Marta knows that she’s inheriting Harlan’s estate, we see her drinking out of Harlan’s “My House, My Rules, My Coffee!” mug, her hands leaving only “My house” visible, staring over the balcony of the family mansion looking down on the Thrombeys. This final scene is perhaps the best in the entire film, not only because it’s such a subtle way to show Marta literally standing tall over the easily hateable Thrombeys, but also because the discrimination roles are flipped here. The once rich, white family is left defeated and penniless by Harlan and Marta, the once lower-class immigrant is standing on the balcony of their former family home, more powerful than them all.

因为正如梅格之前提到的，“他是一个真正无私的人”，哈兰知道，如果玛尔塔被发现和他的死有关系，按照继承法中杀手规则，只要是因继承人直接原因导致被继承人死亡，继承人就失去继承资格，最终会被家族的人继承。快进到电影的结尾，一旦真正的嫌疑人被抓住，玛尔塔知道她继承了哈兰的遗产，我们看到她喝着哈兰的“我的房子，我的规则，我的咖啡！”杯子，她的手只留下“我的房子”可见，凝视着家庭豪宅的阳台，俯视着斯隆比家族。这最后一幕也许是整部电影中最好的，不仅因为它以一种微妙的方式展示了玛尔塔在斯隆比家族中成功继承全部遗产，还因为被歧视的角色在这里反转了。曾经富有的白人家族的人被哈兰和玛尔塔打败，身无分文，曾经的下层阶级移民站在他们以前家的阳台上，比他们所有人都强大。

My answers:

我的答案：

1、BCD

2、AB

3、A

4、AB