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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
《返老还童》
○车厘子 编译
又译：本杰明·巴顿奇事
Director: David Fincher（大卫·芬奇）
Cast: Brad Pitt…Benjamin（布拉德·皮特……本杰明）
Cate Blanchett…Daisy（凯特·布兰切特……黛西）
本杰明·巴顿一出生就像个老人。母亲难产而死，父亲将他抛弃，一对在养老院工作的黑人夫妇收养了他。和黛西相遇时，他是一位古稀老人，而她却是一个天真少女。他们相遇、相知、相爱，却因为相反的成长历程，不断地擦肩而过。两人的命运在40岁出头的时候才终于有了交集，可温情过后，又要面对一个越来越老，一个越来越年轻的尴尬命运。
相遇时，他古稀她年幼；永别时，她古稀他襁褓，留下的只有无尽的感叹和唏嘘。
Monsieur Gateau: [on why the clock he made runbackwards]I made it that way. So that perhaps the boys that welost in a war might stand and come home again. Home to farm, work,have children, to live long, full lives.
盖图先生：[解释他造的钟逆时针行走的原因]我特意做成这样的。这样我们在战争中失去的孩子们也许就可能重新站起来，返回家乡。回家耕种，工作，生养子女，并享受悠长丰富的人生。
Benjamin: Momma... momma! Some days I feel different thanthe day before.
Queenie: Everybody feels different about themselves oneway or another. But we’re all going the same way. Just takingdifferent roads to get there, that’s all. You have got your ownway, Benjamin.
本杰明：妈妈……妈妈……有时候，我感觉一切和前一天不一样了。
奎尼：每个人在某种程度上都对自己有不同的感觉，但我们最后都会去往同一个地方，只是走的路不同罢了。你有属于你自己的道路，本杰明。
Benjamin: [on the nursing home]And death was acommon visitor. People came and went. You always knew when someoneleft us. There was a silence in the house. It was a wonderful placeto grow up. I was with people who had shed all the inconsequencesof earlier life. Left wondering about the weather, the temperatureof a bath, the light at the end of the day. For everyone that died,someone would come to take their place.
本杰明：[说起养老院的生活]死亡是这里的常客。人们你去我来，你总可以感觉到有人离去。房子里总是寂静无声。这是个美好的成长之地。我和这些抛开了前尘往事的人住在一起，只用谈论天气、洗澡水的温度和一天行将结束时的阳光。每有一个人去世，就会有另外一个人进来住进前者的房间。
Benjamin: It’s funny how sometimes the people we rememberthe least make the greatest impression on us.
本杰明：有时候，那些我们最不容易记住的人却往往给我们留下了最深刻的印象，多可笑啊！
Benjamin: What if I told you that I wasn’t getting older,but I was getting younger than everybody else?
Mrs. Maple: Well, I’d feel sorry for you. To have to seeeverybody you love die before you do. It’s an awful responsibility.Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would weknow how important they are to us?
本杰明：要是我告诉你，我不是在变老，而是比别人越来越年轻呢？
梅普尔夫人：那样的话，我为你感到遗憾。你不得不要眼看着所有你爱的人都比你先死去，这份责任太可怕了。本杰明，我们注定要失去我们所爱的人，要不然我们怎么会知道他们对我们有多么的重要？
Benjamin: It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks thesame. Smells the same. Feels the same. You realise what’s changed,is you.
本杰明：回家是一件很滑稽的事。家依旧，气味依旧，感觉也依旧，可你却意识到，真正发生改变的，是你自己。
Benjamin: Our lives are defined by opportunities, eventhe ones we miss.
本杰明：我们的生命取决于机遇，包括那些错过的机遇。
Benjamin: While everybody else was aging, I was gettingyounger. All alone.
本杰明：别人都在不断老化的时候，我却独自一个人的……越变越年轻。
Benjamin: [When his birth father dies]You could bemad as a mad dog at the way things went. You can swear and cursethe fates... but when it comes to the end... you have to letgo.
本杰明：[生父离世时]你可以像只疯狗一样对周遭愤愤不平，你可以辱骂或者诅咒命运，可到最后一刻，你还是只能放手。
Benjamin: Life wasn’t all that complicated. If you want,you might say I was looking for something.
本杰明：生活并没有想象中那么复杂。如果你愿意，你也可以说我是在寻找着某样东西。
Benjamin: Sometimes we are on a collision course and wejust don’t know it. Whether it’s by accident or by design, there’snot a thing we can do about it.
本杰明：有时候，我们就站在即将发生冲撞的轨道上却浑然不知。无论是意外还是蓄谋，对此我们都无能为力。
Daisy: You barely have a line, a crease. Every day I havemore wrinkles. Not fair.
Benjamin: I love your wrinkles. Both of them.
Daisy: What’s it like, growing younger?
Benjamin: Can’t really say. I’m always looking out of myown eyes.
Daisy: Will you still love me when my skin grows old andsaggy?
Benjamin: Will you still love me when I have acne? When Iwet the bed? When I’m afraid of what’s under the stairs?
Daisy: What? What are you thinking?
Benjamin: I was thinking how nothing lasts. And what ashame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.
黛西：你基本上没有一道皱纹，连一点纹路都没有，而我的皱纹却每日剧增，这不公平。
本杰明：我爱你的皱纹，两条我都爱。
黛西：越长越年轻是一种什么感觉？
本杰明：其实我也说不出来。一般我都只用双眼来看这个世界。
黛西：当我的皮肤老化松弛时你还会爱我吗？
本杰明：当我满脸粉刺时你还会爱我么？当我尿床的时候，当我害怕楼下有什么动静的时候，你还会爱我吗？
黛西：什么呀？你在想什么呢？
本杰明：我在想没有什么是永恒的，多可悲啊！
黛西：有些东西是永恒的。
Benjamin: [Voice over, letter to his daughter] Forwhat it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case, too early, tobe whoever you want to be. There is no time limit, start wheneveryou want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules tothis thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope youmake the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. Ihope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet peoplewith a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proudof. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strenght tostart all over again.
本杰明：[旁白，写给女儿的信]不论你想成为什么样的人，都值得为此付诸努力，时间永远都不嫌太晚——或者对于我来说，太早——这个过程没有时间的期限，只要你想，随时都可以开始。要改变或者保留原样都可以，没人会限制你。我们可以度过美好时光，也可以虚度光阴，但我希望你活得精彩。我希望你能看到令你惊叹的事物，我希望你体会从未有过的感觉，我希望你遇见具有不同观点的人，我希望你的一生能让自己搞到自豪。如果你发现你的生活并非如此，我希望你能有勇气重新来过。
Benjamin: Some people are born to sit by a river. Someget struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some areartists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Someare mothers. And some people... dance.
本杰明：有些人一生下来就坐在河边，有些人被闪电击中，有些人对音乐有天赋，有些人是艺术家，有些人游泳，有些人懂得纽扣，有些人通晓莎士比亚，有些人是母亲，而有些人……会跳舞。
