如果歲月無處安放 A Harbor of Time
這一切不知能否留住
What comes and goes, you never know
時間是一幀幀只往前不倒退的告別
Time is a frame-by-frame farewell without regression
是回憶無法挽留
Do memories never stay,
還是歲月無處安放
or do the years never find their rest?
如果一部電影可以窮盡人生
If a film shall walk the miles of a lifetime
It is almost a coincidence that the filmCinema Paradisocaptures me with its director Giuseppe Tornatore, who has also directed one of my all-time favoritesLa leggenda del pianista sull"oceano(The Legend of 1900).
純屬偶然的機會觀看了《天堂電影院》，因為其導演朱塞佩·多納托雷拍的另一部作品《海上鋼琴師》恰好也在我最喜歡的電影榜單之列。
Somehow tinged with a lingering sentiment of nostalgia, the filmCinema Paradisois so naturally framed that even within a compacted two hours, one shall be able to obtain vicarious fragments of his own life in this magnificient, moreover profound work.
《天堂電影院》這部作品略帶懷舊思緒，情節流暢自然，立意深刻，在僅僅兩小時內，這部電影卻能使觀影者拾起關於自己人生的記憶碎片。
Late in the 1940s after WWII, Cinema Paradiso on the island of Sicilia, Italy, was the only access to which each and every local family had in escaping from all the stresses and strains of post-war traumas by seeking temporary solace from the sweets and bitters of films.
義大利西西里島上有家天堂電影院，二戰過後幾年，當地幾乎每家每戶都常前去這家電影院，忘卻戰後創傷，在電影中寄託他們的歡笑與淚水。
Six-year-old Salvatore (nicknamed Toto), son of a war widow, discovered his love for films in Cinema Paradisso where he first met the cinema projectionist Alfredo, who early in Toto"s boyhood, imparted him the knowledge of cinema projection as his best fatherly friend.
六歲的多多在二戰中喪父，他在天堂電影院愛上了電影，也在那兒遇見了亦父亦友的電影放映師艾弗多，自幼從他那兒習得了電影放映的技能。
Each film in the cinema however, was censored by a local priest who ordered Alfredo to edit out any scene of a romantic kiss or embrace. Out of curiosity, Toto had always wished to collect the films of missing scenes but was impeded by Alfredo who asked him to leave the films in the cinema.
然而，電影院里每部電影上映前都會有個牧師進行審核，讓艾弗多刪減去影片中的接吻和擁抱的畫面。出於好奇的多多常常想去收集這些刪減片段的膠捲，但艾弗多卻不允許多多把這些膠捲帶回家。
Just as every teenage boy would dream of epic romance, Toto, in his adolescence, accidentally captured his first love Elena with his video recorder - it was as if the girl was heaven-sent and there was no possible way for Toto to contain his feelings for Elena.
和每個夢想有段轟轟烈烈愛情的少年一樣，青春期的多多也由一次戶外攝影，偶然遇見了他的初戀艾琳娜。這個女孩有如天賜般走進多多的生活，讓多多再也無法抑制內心對艾琳娜的感情。
Somehow perplexed by this desired romance, Toto heard from Alfredo the story of a soldier who in agreed promise of love, had been waiting under the balcony of a princess for 99 days but left on the 99th night, a day away from winning the princess over. As eager as Toto was to know the reason for the soldier"s decision, the answer failed him.
正在多多渴求這份感情卻頓生困惑之時，他聽艾弗多講了一個士兵的故事，這個士兵與公主約定每天在她陽台下等候，直到第100天公主必須履行約定、接受士兵，但士兵卻在等到第99天晚上的時候離開了。多多不理解士兵的做法，想知道為什麼卻得不到答案。
So in all weathers, the young man kept waiting every afternoon under Elena"s balcony in expression of his heartfelt loyalty, yet to no avail. Just when Toto was drown in such desperation that he had torn all the calendar pages into pieces, he heard Elena whispering his name at his back as she walked into the projection room and reached Toto in acceptance of the young man"s persevering fervor.
多多決定一試，告訴艾琳娜他會每天下午在她窗外等她。多多風雨無阻的等待，想對艾琳娜表明他的真心，卻最終未得到艾琳娜的應答。正當多多絕望之下將日曆頁都撕成碎片時，他聽到背後艾琳娜在呼喚他的名字，這時艾琳娜走進了放映室，走到多多身旁，接受了這位年輕人不懈的熱情。
The two love birds clang to each other all the way to the height of summer, where they left footprints up the bumpy hills, down the shady valleys, and in the undulating fields.
這對熱戀中的情侶相互依偎，一直到盛夏來臨。叢山間，峽谷里，麥田中，他們一路都留下了彼此的足跡。
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer"s lease hath all too short a date.
——William Shakespeare
「五月的蓓蕾，風吹滿地，
夏日的租期，匆匆而逝。」 ——莎士比亞
When the wild summer was close to end, Toto learnt from Elena"s letter of her moving to another city for college.
當瘋狂的夏天臨近尾聲時，多多在艾琳娜的來信中得知，她要搬家去另一座城市上大學。
Sleepless days and nights in the sweltering heat of July, like a spellbinding chapter unfinished, were there but to seize the mind of a young man who, worn out from waiting, was desperately desirous of a storm to extricate his withering soul. Finally, the storm Toto had hankered for came.
七月燥熱難寐的日日夜夜，像是一章未完的章節，令人想入非非。這位衣帶漸寬的年輕人也正翹首企盼著一場暴雨淋漓，拯救自己幾近乾涸的靈魂。這場暴雨，終究是被多多盼來了。
Toto, however, had lost touch with Elena, ever since he came back from military service in a year. The idyllic, at times torrid summertime had gone, like a dandelion caught in a light breeze, and slipped through the young man"s grasps like grains of sand; no matter how hard he tried to cup his hands, the tiny particles of time seemed to slip through the cracks, collecting in a vortex of memories.
多多服兵役一年歸來家中，從此和艾琳娜失去了聯絡。有如田園詩一般、熱烈時有的夏日轉瞬即逝，像是微風拂過的蒲公英，又彷彿手中瀉落的沙粒，無論這位年輕人怎麼掬留，時光還是從縫隙間溜走，只剩下回憶令人越陷越深。
Somehow abandoned by his beloved girl and confined alone to the daunting prospect, Toto was so completely consumed with a sense of deflation that even blind Alfredo could tell from his unassured voice.
被心愛的女孩拋棄之後，孤獨一人的多多頓感前途黯淡，這種徹底的挫敗感蔓延開來，甚至此時已是盲人的艾弗多也能從他萎靡的聲音中感受出來。
Fino a quando ci stai tutti i giorni, ti senti al centro del mondo, ti sembra che non cambi mai niente. Poi parti, un anno, due, e quando torni cambiato tutto, si rompe il filo. Non trovi chi volevi trovare, le tue cose non ci sono più. Bisogna andare via per molto tempo, e moltissimi anni, per ritrovare, al ritorno, la tua gente... la terra dove sei nato...
La vita non è come l"hai vista al cinematografo,la vita è più difficile.
——Alfredo
Living here every day, you think it"s the centre of the world, that nothing will ever change. Then you leave, for a year or two, and when you come back everything is changed. The thread is broken. You don"t find what you"re looking for. What was yours is gone. You need to go away for a long time... for many years... before you can come back and find your people, the land where you were born.
Life is not what you see in films. Life is much harder.
「日復一日生活在這裡，你會以為這裡就是世界中心，事情不會由任何改變的。但如果你離開一兩年，再回來時，每件事都會改變。線也斷了，你會發現人事全非。屬於你的都已消失。你必須離開這裡一段時間，直到你有所成再回來看看親友，回到這個你出生的地方。
人生不像電影，人生艱難多了。」 ——艾弗多
The young man boarded the leaving train, and at the mercy of time, did not come back to town in 30 years and with no phonecalls or letters, until the death of Alfredo came as a thunderbolt, awakening middle-aged Roman director Salvatore with a spasm of melancholy - there was but a dreadfully long stretch of time.
這位年輕人登上遠行的列車，可時間不饒人，這一去就是整整三十年，沒有電話，沒有寄信，直到有一天，艾弗多去世的消息像晴天霹靂般，驚醒了中年已成為導演的多多，一陣憂鬱隨之襲來。時間一晃就已過去了數十年。
Thirty years away from home, in a city with no hometown acquaintance in sight. As Salvatore, in retrospection, traveled back to the home village, his room was already neatly decorated just as it was thirty years ago. For a second, the photos on the walls and the ways how things were arranged would make one realize how adept mothers are at storing memories in a child"s room.
遠離家鄉三十年，打拚在一個舉目無親的城市。當多多再次回到鎮上時，家中的房間已被精心打理過，彷彿三十年間從未變過。有那麼一瞬，牆上的照片和房間的擺設會讓人覺得，這世上再沒有人能比母親更懂在孩子房間里存儲回憶。
We, as viewers of Cinema Paradiso, shall more or less find fragments of our own lives in this audio-visual feast.
作為天堂電影院的觀眾，我們或多或少能從這場視聽盛宴中重拾生命中散落的記憶。
There has alwaysbeen such an old place in town
where loads of memories dwell,and you, in helplessness,shall never be too ready to see it off in flying dusts with the changing of age and time.
在家鄉，總有這樣一個老地方
承載著太多回憶，而毫無防備的你
只能在時代更迭中，無助地目送它遠去在塵埃中。
There has always been someone who loves you like a father,though you and this person might not share a bond of kinship.
生命中總有一個人
他不是你的父親，卻以父親一樣的方式愛你。
There has always been a moment of solicitude
where you find every departure from homeland hitherto a distant journey with no turning back.
總有那麼一刻牽掛
讓人覺得，每次離開故鄉都像是一場沒有回頭的遠行。
There had always been a person
who inadvertently tempted you in youthful years which had been uneventful til then.
總有那麼一個人
無意間闖入你本波瀾不驚的青春。
There has always been a summer
which lingered in your reverie
even when that summer had long gone.
總有一個夏天落幕後，
你卻遲遲走不出來。
The belated gift from Alfredo might as well be the highlight and climax of this film, where Toto"s childhood promise was exquisitely kept. Romantic kisses and embraces perfectly embody child Toto"s pursuit for the pure beauty of love, a part that had been missing due to the absence of Toto"s father who was killed in war. Yet for young Toto, his fervent romance with Elena, again ended up unsettled when he lost touch with Elena after military service.
艾弗多遲到的禮物可以說是全片的一處亮點和高潮，也是對多多童年承諾的回答。鏡頭中浪漫的接吻和擁抱代表了童年多多對於愛情純粹之美的追求，而這一元素卻恰巧是二戰中失去父親的多多所缺失的。而對於青年多多，他與艾琳娜痴醉的愛戀，又再一次因為服兵役歸來與她失去聯絡而不了了之。
Some would argue that what Alfredo should encourage Toto to do by then is to find Elena instead of leaving the town for a new life. As a fatherly role in Toto"s life, what Alfredo hoped for Toto was, nevertheless, not to be confined in a cinema projection room for his entire life, but rather to chase after his own dream without looking back.
一些觀影者會認為，艾弗多應當鼓勵多多去找艾琳娜，而不是從此離開鎮子、開始新生活。但艾弗多扮演著多多生命中父親般的角色，他對多多的期望是這位年輕人能夠不用像自己一樣，一輩子困在電影院放映室的空間里，而是能夠一去不回頭，追逐自己的夢想。
Sorry for the belated promise and sorry for the missing years would be all that Alfredo wanted to convey, after an approximate lapse of 40 years, through this special gift for Toto. When the film started to play, all black-and-white memories of Toto flashed back and merged into the flowing scenes of kisses, reminding him, after the trials of life throughout these elapsing years, of the immortal paradise of love he had yearned for deep down as a child.
答應你的約定不會忘記，如數歸還你錯過的青春，這大概就是艾弗多想要通過這份時隔四十多年的禮物向多多表達的意味吧。當最後的那部電影開始放映時，多多那些年所有的黑白記憶又閃現眼前，匯入流動的親吻鏡頭合集；在這些年匆匆逝去、經歷生活的各種艱難後，一幀幀昔日錯過的畫面又一次喚醒他童年印刻在內心深處的、那永不消逝的愛的天堂。
Memories are never effaced;
they shall only be pieced together,
just as what a film editor would always do with films.
回憶不會被抹去，
它只會一點點拼湊
就像影片剪輯師所做的那樣。
Life is not what you see in films.
Life is much harder.
In making a film so grand as life, sometimes you have to be so determined as to cut and let go of homies, and your family and love at large.
人生不像電影，
人生艱難多了。
要拍攝人生這樣宏大的電影，有時不得不狠下心捨去、擱置你的親友甚至愛人。
Yet one could still be an editor of his or her own life,
one who is grateful for the extant pieces and holds on to the belief that somewhere in life,there would be a moment of miracle when the missing pieces shall in one way or another, find their way back to you.
儘管如此，每個人依舊能成為自己生活的剪輯師,
對手頭尚存的素材心存感激，同時堅信
生活的某個路口，總會有奇蹟的一瞬
那些曾遺失或錯過的片段會以某種方式找回到你。
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