又见夏洛克
八月 28日, 2005 | Posted in 说花说柳 一枚留言昨天DOWN到了2004年公映的《威尼斯商人》,对我这个莎士比亚fans来说真的是如获至宝。虽是再熟悉不过的情节仍看得津津有味。影片快结束的时候,突然感到夏洛克的饰演者有点面熟,后来上网搜了影片介绍才知道原来是艾尔•帕西诺……我居然没认出来……
这是一个关于金钱、友谊、爱情、民族、宗教、法律和道德的故事,作为一个善良的人,不得不对夏洛克和他所代表的犹太民族报以同情,这种同情使我不会把《威尼斯商人》当作喜剧来看。一个被歧视被欺压的民族,一个除了钱之外一无所有的老头,女儿还跟一个基督徒私奔了……夏洛克发出的哀嚎,冲淡了他的贪婪和残忍,也使得巴萨尼奥与鲍西娅天作之合的爱情、安东尼奥与巴萨尼奥生死不渝的友谊都黯然失色。而他向基督社会所做的报复、向这个制度所做的反抗,却出乎意料地使自己一败涂地、人财两空。法律只代表统治阶级的利益,岂是弱势群体所能驾驭得了的?
复习一下这段经典的台词:
Hath not a Jew eyes?
Hath not a Jew hands?
Organs, dimensions?
Senses, affections, passions?
Fed with the same food?
Hurt with the same weapons?
Subject to the same diseases?
Healed by the same means?
Warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge.
If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be
by Christian example?
Why, revenge.
The villainy you teach me I will execute.
And it shall go hard
but I will better the instruction.
这出戏,没有正义和邪恶,没有对与错,没有平等没有公正,没有单纯的好与坏,这是十年前拜读时所不曾体会到的。




