“不可能的世界”——电影《奇幻人生》中的非自然叙事

"Impossible world"——Unnatural Narration in Film Stranger than Fiction

影片《奇幻人生》于2006年在美国上映,讲述了一位国税局审计员某一天突然发现自己是一部小说中的人物的故事,其运用了大量的非自然叙事手段,包括非自然的叙述者、非自然的人物以及非自然的空间,营造了一个“不可能的故事世界”,展现了人物的内心世界,推动着影片的情节发展,突出有关现代人生存状态、追寻生命意义等主题,并以此吸引了大批观众。与此同时,将电影文本分析与非自然叙事研究相结合,对于创新电影脚本设计、拓宽非自然叙事的研究领域亦有所裨益。

Stranger than Fiction tells a story in which a senior agent for the Internal Revenue Service,named Harold Crick,finds himself a character in a novel by accident,and it utilizes lots of unnatural narration,including its unnatural narrator,unnatural character and unnatural space,which enables the movie to be quite strange and attractive.In addition,unnatural narration of the movie plays a role in presenting characters’inside world,developing the plot and reflecting the theme of modern people’s livelihood and their pursuit of existing meaning.In the meanwhile,this paper combines the analysis of movie text with unnatural narration,which will be beneficial for expanding the studying field of the unnatural narration.