大屠杀影视再现的伦理困境——杰弗里·哈特曼论《辛德勒的名单》

The Ethical Dilemma of Representation within the Holocaust Films: Geoffrey Hartman’s Criticism on Schindler’s List

斯皮尔伯格导演的《辛德勒的名单》普遍地被视为一部鲜活地再现了大屠杀历史的档案性的经典电影,但杰弗里·哈特曼指出,该影片的摄影技巧、人物设置和情节处理,本质上呈现的是大屠杀历史的虚假记忆。记忆被虚构的原因既在于好莱坞电影的激情叙述逻辑同大屠杀历史化作灰烬的现实之间难以调和的矛盾,也在于娱乐至死的时代对美国式乐观主义和人道主义思想所追求的虚假慰藉的需要。

Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is widely regarded as a realism documentary film that vividly represent the history of the Holocaust. However, Geoffrey Hartman argues that the film, with artificial shoot, characters and plots, is essentially a false representation of history. The reason probably lies not only in the contradiction between the logic of passion narrative of Hollywood films and the ashes of the Holocaust reality, but also in the desire of the false consolation of the Holocaust history by American optimism and humanitarianism in the time of amusing ourselves to death.