布莱尔时代以来英国电影对社会现实的复现与重置

The Re-presentation and Re-arrangement of Social Reality in British Cinema Since the Blair Era

谈及英国电影,我们往往囿于其不清晰的指涉和模糊的边界。但近二十年的英国本土电影无疑是展现其社会潜意识变迁的良好样本。其突出的特点:暴力表现、现实主义和历史复现互相交叠重合,无不与其统一民族想象的消失和民粹主义的兴起相关,甚至指向了英国脱欧这一事件的必然性。同时探寻三个特点,仿若抓住一条贯穿当代英国电影的线索,且关联起近四十年来英国政治经济的变更,也为思考英国社会症结之原因提供了良好的模型。

When talking about British cinema, we are often confined to its unclear references and blurred boundaries. But the British cinema of the last twenty years is certainly a good sample of the subconscious changes in its society. The overlapping between violence, realism and historical reenactment is a striking feature of the film, which is linked to the disappearance of the national imagination and the rise of populism, and even points to the inevitability of the Brexit. The simultaneous exploration of these three features is like a thread that runs through contemporary British cinema, while relating the political and economic transformation that have taken place in Britain over the last forty years and providing a good pattern for thinking about the causes of British social problems.