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【吹水同學會】代入父親立場 找到故事女巫

2021-03-19

(續3月5日期)在《大魚奇緣》這部電影中,主角思考父親所說的故事,從中了解父親是一個怎樣的人,而這一切,就由游泳池開始。

父親這一生都熱愛游泳,他精彩的故事中總是有水和那條大魚(all his amazing stories were related to the water and the big fish)。所以即使父親病重,仍希望游泳池是完好無缺的。在清洗游泳池間,他不斷思考父親的話,彷彿被父親點醒了(He suddenly felt enlightened during the time he cleaned his dad's swimming pool)。他開始轉換角色,試圖從父親角度來思考(He started to put himself in his dad's shoes and think in his perspective)。總之,他站在游泳池旁,有一瞬間,他看到了那條父親故事中的大魚,卻隨即消失(At one point, he saw the big fish in his dad's story but it disappeared almost immediately)。

這使威爾決定花時間從父親的立場角度來認識父親。有兩個人幫助了他。一個是住在小鎮的安妮,另一個是跟他們有幾十年友誼的家庭醫師(There are two persons who helped him to understand his dad: one is Annie who lived in a small town, the other one is their family doctor who has been a friend with them for a few decades)。威爾問安妮,他父親到底是怎樣的人。其實,威爾想知道,父親經常往別處跑,究竟在外面有沒有婚外情?因為他總是覺得父親愛他別處的生活遠勝過愛自己的妻子和兒子?(He wanted to know if his dad had an affair because he thought his dad loved his life elsewhere more than his own wife and his kid )

安妮佐證了父親故事中部分的真實性,安妮告訴威爾,人人都愛他的父親,因為他帶給人希望與歡樂(he brought people hope and joy),最後,讓威爾大大意外的,安妮說自己不只是小鎮故事中的安妮,還是父親故事中的女巫(witch)。下回再續這兩位人物如何幫助男主角威爾重新認識父親。

●馬漪楠 (曾獲行政長官卓越教學獎(英國語文教育學習領域),與丈夫岑皓軒合著暢銷書《Slang:屎爛英語1,2&3》,《全家變泰》及《放養孩子 ─ 育出自學力》。)

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