晚饭之后,两人坐下来深入讨论了关于婚姻、家庭的问题。从这段对白可以看出,两人的观点可以说是针锋相对,这也是可以理解的。相对弗朗西丝卡比较保守的观点,罗伯特对婚姻家庭的观点则显得有点让人错愕,承认自己have a bit of problem with this American ethic,说明他不是太赞成这种传统的家庭伦理观念。当然,一个人观念的形成总会跟个人的社会经历联系在一起,罗伯特到处流浪,居无定所,所以对他来说,家只是一个短暂停留的地方,伴随他的永远都是神秘,永远不会知道下一个目的地是哪里。正因为如此,他才离婚。对于弗朗西丝卡来说,习惯于平淡家庭生活的她已经把这种家庭伦理奉为标准的道德准则。这也是她后来为什么最终选择留下来而没有和罗伯特远走高飞的原因。然而这没有阻挡弗朗西丝卡疯狂地迷恋上罗伯特,在弗朗西丝卡眼中,罗伯特永远是那么神秘,那么潇洒,这和她眼前的生活状态完全两样,她似乎隐隐觉得这就是她所想象的生活。这一段也是弗朗西丝卡思想状态转变的关键时刻,在朗读弗朗西丝卡的台词时要注意她情绪的变化,例如当罗伯特说自己朋友遍天下时,弗朗西丝卡问“women friends too”,此时她对罗伯特已然动心,所以询问略带醋意,women一词要稍微重读。
对白三
Robert:You are not coming with me,are you?
Francesca:No matter how many things I turn it over in my mind.It doesn’t seem it is the right thing.
Robert:For whom?
Francesca:For anyone.They’ll never be able to go through the talk.And Richard will never be able to get his arms around this.It will break him in half.He doesn’t deserve1 that.He has never hurt anyone in his whole life.
Robert:He can move on.People move.
Francesca:His family has had this farm for over 100 years.Richard doesn’t know how to live anywhere else.And my kids…
Robert:They are practically grown.You said they hardly talk to you.
Francesca:Yeah,they don’t say much.But Carolyn is only 16.And she is to find about all of this by herself.She is going to fall in love and she will try to build a life with someone.If I leave,what does that say to her?
Robert:What about us?
Francesca:You have to know deep down the minute we leave here,everything will change.Robert:Yeah,it could get better.
Francesca:No matter how much distance we put between ourselves and this house,I carry it with me.I feel it every minute we are together.And I will start to blame loving you for how much it hurt.And then,even these four beautiful days seem like something sordid2 and a mistake.Robert:Do you think what happens with us happens to anyone?What we feel for each other?We are hardly two separate people now.And some people search all their life for this and never find it.Others don’t even think it exits.You are gonna tell me that this is the right thing to do.Giving it up?
Francesca:We are the choices that we have made.You don’t understand.Don’t you see?Nobody understands when a woman makes a choice to marry and have children.In one way,her life begins,in another way,it stops.You build a life of details and you just stop and stay steadily so that your children can move.And when they leave,they take your life of details with them.You are expected to move on again,and you don’t remember what it was that moved you because nobody has asked you in so long,not even yourself.But you never think love like this is going to happen to you.
Robert:But now that you have it.
Francesca:Well,I want to keep it forever.I want to love you the way I do now for the rest of my life,but if we leave,we lose it.And I can’t make an entire life disappear to start a new life.All I can do is to try to hold on to both of us somewhere inside of me.You have to help me.
注释
1.deserve/dizE:v/v.应受,应得
2.sordid/sC:did/a.肮脏的,卑鄙的
译文
罗伯特:你不会跟我走,是吗?
弗朗西丝卡:不管我想了多少次,总觉得这样做不对。
罗伯特:对谁不好?
弗朗西丝卡:对任何人。我家人会受不了这闲话的。理查德永远不会接受这事的。这会伤透他的心。他不该受此对待。他这一生没害过人。
罗伯特:他可以搬走。人们都在流动。
弗朗西丝卡:他的家族拥有这片农场已有百年。他不知道到别处如何生存。还有我孩子……罗伯特:他们已经长大了。你说他们甚少和你交谈。
弗朗西丝卡:是的,他们是不太说话。但是卡罗琳才16岁。她也会自行学会这一切。她也将谈恋爱,设法和别人一起生活。如果我走了,我给她树立了什么榜样?
罗伯特:我们怎么办?
弗朗西丝卡:你得知道,我们离开的那一刻,一切都变了。
罗伯特:事情会好起来的。
弗朗西丝卡:不管我们走多远,我都会想起这间房子的。我们在一起的每一刻,我都能感受得到它。我会因内心痛苦而开始怪罪爱你。然后,我会觉得即使这美好的四天也许也是个错误。
罗伯特:你以为我们的事会发生在别人身上?我们对彼此的感觉怎样?我们现在不再是两个毫无相关的人了。一些人穷尽一生寻找真爱都没找到。其他人甚至认为世上没有真爱。你得告诉我这样做是对的。放弃真爱吗?
弗朗西丝卡:我们是我们所做的抉择。你不明白。你不明白吗?一个女人一旦决定结婚生子,一方面可以说她的生命重新开始了,另一方面,她的生命也结束了。你把生活建立在琐碎之上,你就得把个人需要放在一旁好让你的孩子成长。他们离去时亦将你的琐碎一生带走。然后你要继续前进,但不记得是什么令你活着,因为许久没人问过你,你也没有问自己。因你从未想过会遇上这样美妙的爱情。
罗伯特:但你现在遇上了。
弗朗西丝卡:我想永远保留它。在后半生我会像现在这样爱你,但是我们现在要是走了,我们就失去这份爱了。我不能令一生消失了再重新开始新的生活。我所能做的只能将我俩深埋心底。你得帮我。
对白分析
独自在家的四天里,弗朗西丝卡经历了一段终生难忘的、不该发生的婚后一夜情式的爱情。面对家庭和爱情,弗朗西丝卡别无他法只能选择家庭和亲人,只能无奈地将这段爱情深埋在心底。朗诵时要将他们矛盾而痛苦的心理表现出来。
影片以其独特的视角触动了中年人内心深藏的一份年少时的向往和浪漫,以及对眼前生活所表现的无可奈何,引起了观众对家庭和道德的大讨论,曾一度受到影评家和观众的批评,认为影片教唆人们违背传统家庭伦理,但影片最后的处理让批评得以缓和。两个儿女也被母亲的精神感动,认识到要珍惜眼前的家庭和亲人。这是一场家庭和爱情的斗争,很难说谁战胜了谁,只是活在当下。既然选择了家庭的琐碎,就得对这个家庭、对孩子负责,而不是凭一己私欲抛弃自己应承担的烦恼和责任。