《世界末日》：我们的安妮公主，演中年妈妈了

In Queens, New York, 1980, Jewish 12-year-old Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) befriends Johnny (Jaylin Webb), a troubled Black kid who opens Paul’s eyes to a wider world. As their friendship gets them both into trouble, Paul begins to see that the world isn’t quite what he thought it was.

1980年，在纽约皇后区，12岁的犹太人保罗·格拉夫(Banks Repeta饰)和一个麻烦的黑人孩子约翰尼(Jaylin Webb饰)成为了朋友，约翰尼让保罗看到了更广阔的世界。当他们的友谊让他们都陷入麻烦时，保罗开始看到世界并不完全是他想象的那样。

“You just want me to be like you,” says 12-year-old Paul Graff () in Armageddon Time, unenamoured with his posh new school uniform for the posh new school his parents are making him go to. “No,” says his father (Jeremy Strong), “I want you to be a whole lot better than me. That’s what I want.”

“你只是想让我像你一样，”12岁的保罗·格拉夫(Banks Repeta饰)在电影《世界末日》中说道，他对父母让他去的豪华新学校的豪华新校服并不感兴趣。“不，”他的父亲(Jeremy Strong饰)说，“我希望你过得比我好得多，这就是我想要的。”

There’s a world of pain there, as there is throughout Armageddon Time, a semi-autobiographical melting-pot that explores much of what made the young James Gray a man.

贯穿《世界末日》始终的，都是一个充满了痛苦的世界，这是一部半自传式的大熔炉，探讨了是什么让年轻的詹姆斯·格雷成为一个男人。

That line – “I want you to be a whole lot better than me” – which mixes a father’s protectiveness with a self-loathing inseparable from his Jewishness, is delivered with heartbreaking humanity from Strong, whose uniquely troubled eyes deliver desperation, insecurity, disappointment.

这句台词——“我希望你能过得比我好得多”——混合了父亲的保护和与他的犹太身份不可分割的自我厌恶，Strong以一种令人心碎的人性表达出来，他那独特的不安的眼睛流露出绝望、不安和失望。

（说起来，虽然安妮海瑟薇这么年以来片约不断，还是忘不了最开始认识她的那一部《公主日记》，这是很多人的童年印象吧？）

Many of Gray’s films are introspective, interior personal journeys – Two Lovers, The Lost City Of Z and Ad Astra all feel disarmingly intimate. But here he has doubled down, taking a trip into his own childhood with a soulful drama that follows his young avatar, Paul, as he navigates adolescence within that white middle-class Jewish upbringing.

Grey的许多电影都是自省的、内在的个人旅程——《两个情人》、《迷失Z城》和《星际探索》都让人感觉人物之间很亲密。但在这部电影中，他十分努力地通过一部深情的戏剧，回到自己的童年，讲述他的年轻化身Paul在白人中产阶级犹太家庭的成长过程中度过青春期的故事。

那几年，在那个人均美特斯邦威的时代

哪怕放在今天

你也必须要说一句

不！过！时！

我的书架上，甚至还有一本《穿普拉达女王》的原著

真是可怕

以前真是什么书想看

The Jewish kid befriends a Black kid, and it’s the best of times and the worst of times, as Paul is treated to a succession of wake-up calls, his eyes slowly opening to the reality of the social structure propped up around him.

犹太孩子和黑人孩子成为朋友，这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代，Paul被一连串的现实闹铃叫醒，他的眼睛慢慢睁开，看到了支撑着他周围的社会结构的现实。

Politics are never far away: Paul’s left-leaning parents, gently aghast at the barely disguised bile coming out of Ronald Reagan’s mouth as he campaigns to be President, are not quite as enlightened as they’d like to think. Gray gets into the cracks, tackling morality, class warfare and racism, but never with too heavy a hand, as Paul begins to see things from different perspectives.

政治从未远离:Paul的左倾父母被罗纳德·里根竞选总统时几乎不加掩饰的愤怒吓到了，他们并不像他们想的那样开明。Gray介入其中，处理道德、阶级斗争和种族主义等问题，但从不过于强硬，因为Paul开始从不同的角度看问题。

So, it’s warm but not rose-tinted, sweet but not sentimental. At worst it feels slightly contrived towards its conclusion, with things dramatised a little bit more than they maybe needed to be. But still, it’s a means to an end, with the young Paul learning – the hard way – about hypocrisy, injustice and privilege. Never, though, at the expense of the film remaining a touching character study.

所以，它温暖而不失美化旧时光，甜蜜而没有很多愁善感。全片最大的缺点是，它给人感觉结尾有点做作，事情被戏剧化了一点，而不是他们可能需要的。但是，这仍然是达到目的的一种手段，年轻的Paul学会了——艰难的方式——虚伪，不公正和特权。然而，绝不要以牺牲电影中感人的人物研究为代价。

* rose-tinted=To focus on the positive aspects of something, often something that was actually quite negative. 让消极的事情，看上去很积极。

Both a coming of age and an exploration of an era, this self-biographical reminiscence feels both regretful and hopeful – a filmmaker trying to make peace. It’s not sugar-coated, but it’s full of love.

这部自传式的回忆录既是一个时代的成长，也是对一个时代的探索，让人感到遗憾和希望——一位试图创造和平的电影人。它没有被糖衣包裹着，但充满了爱。