《猩猿崛起》三部曲中的种族身份构建与流行病叙事

Racial Identity Construction and Epidemic Narrative in Rise of the Planet of the Apes Trilogy

基于60年代经典科幻《人猿星球》系列电影改编的《猩猿崛起》三部曲在延续了前作中人/猿对立与冲突的剧情框架下,传达出鲜明的当代文化症候。种族与流行病意指是影片的中心叙事驱动。与前作相比,影片的种族身份书写体现出更丰富的协商、交流和融合,影射出后“9·11”时代的世界权力格局对西方文化价值的挑战。影片的“猿流感”与失语症的疾病叙事则传达出西方中心主义话语对“他者”的殖民想象和文化焦虑。而片尾人类后裔与猿族和平共处的画面也体现出构建人类命运共同体的愿望,投射出种族矛盾不断加深的社会背景下对科技未来的思考。

Rise of the Planet of the Apes Trilogy is based on the 1960s SF film Planet of the Apes.It retains the human/ape binary opposition in its narrative structure,yet showing distinctively contemporary cultural symptoms.Racial and disease metaphors are the core driving the narrative.Compared with the previous work,Rise trilogy shows a more sophisticated construction of racial identity,involving the mediation,communication and compromise of different cultural discourse,reflecting the challenge of the post⁃911 new world order on the western culture.The disease narrative in the film shows the western post-colonial imaginary on the social“others”and the cultural anxieties from it.The end of the film paints a harmonious picture of human and apes living together in a postapocalyptic future,which suggest a desire for a shared human community against the background of racial conflict and rapid technology development.