外國媒體天能影評 - 電影

本週四「天能」要來了！找了幾篇影評來看，依舊是好中帶壞，順手翻譯了幾個
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紐時

Similar to “Inception,” which created an entire dream-world mythology
only to have its revolving-hallway tussle become its most iconic sequence,
in “Tenet,” time inversion poses a civilization-annihilating threat, but
the killer scene is, again, a corridor fight. We see it twice, and each time,
after your brain clicks to one of the combatants fighting forward in time
while the other goes backward, the sheer how-did-they-do-that ingenuity is
dazzling.

「全面啟動」建立了龐大的夢境世界，但最經典的場景，卻是在旋轉的走廊上大戰。
「天能」裡時間顛倒看似足以毀滅人類文明，但最有魄力的，依舊是走廊之戰。我們
看了兩次，每次你的腦袋算計著之中一人在時間中前進，另一人在時間中倒退，你不
得不想「他媽的有夠厲害」。



Indeed, take away the time-bending gimmick, and “Tenet" is a series of
timidly generic set pieces: heists, car chases, bomb disposals, more heists…
in which all anyone really does is crack safes and blow stuff up.

拿掉扭轉時空的小伎倆，「天能」只是一個接一個普通的場景：滔天竊案、飛車追逐、
拆解炸彈、更多竊案…大家做的不過只是拆保險箱和把東西炸掉。



So seems “Tenet,” the kind of hugely expensive, blissfully empty spectacle
it is difficult to imagine getting made in the near-to-medium future, now a
fascinating artifact of a lovably clueless civilization unaware of the
disaster lurking around the corner.

Seek it out, if only to marvel at the entertainingly inane glory of what we
once had and are in danger of never having again. Well, that and the suits.

像「天能」這種有夠貴、幸福卻空洞的華麗饗宴，在接下來的未來可能很難再拍。此
刻對於躲在角落的災難，我們的文明摸不著頭緒。去看吧！就算只是看看我們曾有過
（也許不再會有）的影視榮光。對了，還有西裝。



娛樂週刊

In the past, Nolan has worked audience anxiety to great advantage with films
like his 2001 breakthrough Memento or the 2017 war masterwork Dunkirk —
precisely owing to the fact those films had running-out-the-clock baked into
their DNA. Tenet, on the other hand, tries to run out so many at once that
it risks audience disengagement. Even its least propulsive segments are
jam-packed with a wearying amount of exposition, reams of hints and clues

過去諾蘭將觀眾的焦慮運用得淋漓盡致，像2001年的「記憶拼圖」和2017年的
「敦克爾克，這些片根本就把「時間來不及」寫到記憶體中。「天能」大概來不及太
多次，有可能讓人不耐。即便最無關劇情推進的部分，都有滿滿的解釋，大量的暗示
和線索。


In one monologue, Kapadia discusses algorithms, rehashes the Manhattan
Project, and explains the grandfather paradox — making her character feel
more like a university lecturer

其中一段獨白，Kapadia說起演算法，重提曼哈頓計劃，解釋起「祖父悖論」，感覺更
像是大學講師。



There is a gambit in Tenet that can’t help evoking The Matrix, which
continues to loom large over this corner of the cinematic universe two
decades after its release…Nolan introduces the colors red and blue to
indicate which direction the minutes are moving: forward or backward.
Tenet is red pill versus blue pill all over again — but it is hard to
locate a larger philosophical story or message to back it up. B-

「天能」有一招，叫人忍不住想起發行二十年的「駭客任務」…諾蘭用紅色和藍色
指出時間往哪個方向去。原來「天能」也是紅色小藥丸和藍色小藥丸選一，卻少了
更大的哲學架構支撐。

總評：B-



Empire雜誌

Tenet is Bond without the baggage. Filmed in Italy, Estonia, India, Norway,
the UK and the US, it’s a globetrotting espionage extravaganza that does
everything 007 does but without having to lean into the heritage, or indeed
the clichés. Just as with Indiana Jones, for which George Lucas persuaded
Bond fan Steven Spielberg they could create their own hero instead of
piggybacking on someone else’s, Nolan has made his own Bond film here.

「天能」就是沒有提行李箱的龐德。拍攝地點包括義大利、愛沙尼亞、挪威、英美，
「天能」世界繞著跑。做一切007會做的事，又不必收下遺產（或包袱）。當年喬治
盧卡斯說服是龐德粉的史蒂芬史匹柏，不需仰賴他人，就能創造自己的「印度安那
瓊斯」。諾蘭，拍了自己的龐德電影。



These are great actors — Washington, Pattinson, Branagh and Debicki are
all immensely watchable — but only towards the end, as things begin to
pay off, do you really get the chills here and there. For the most part,
everybody’s on a mission, doing their job, the film barely stopping to
breathe, certainly not to take any sentimental detours. And nobody
involved looms larger than Nolan himself.

演員很棒：Washington, Pattinson, Branagh, Debicki 都值得一看，可惜要到電影
最後，你才有一種值回票價的感覺。絕大多數時間，大家都在解任務，幾乎沒有喘息
空間，更別說情感戲。背後隱約出現的，不是別人，是諾蘭。



if you’re after a big old explosive Nolan braingasm, that is exactly what
you’re going to get, shot on old-fashioned film too (as the end credits
proudly state). By the time it’s done, you might not know what the hell’s
gone on, but it is exciting nevertheless. It is ferociously entertaining.
如果你追求的是老式的諾粉腦內高潮，你會如願以償，而且用舊式底片拍攝（片尾
大大地寫著）。片子演完了，你可能還搞不清楚怎麼了，但超刺激，嗆辣地好看。













- Palindromic

Tenet 正著讀，反著讀，是同一個字。




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