In a very ordinary barn, an ordinary little pig, still a piglet, surrounded by his friends, is welcoming the second spring of his life. Of course, he will welcome more and more springs, and this is all because someone stopped his busy life for him and recorded the elegance, beauty and nobility of this humble life. It's a miracle about friendship.
You've always been my friend, and that's a remarkable thing in itself. I make nets for you because I like you. Besides, what is life? We are born, we live a while, and we die. A spider who spends his life only catching and eating flies is meaningless, by helping you, maybe I can add a little value to my life. Everyone knows that people should do something meaningful in life.
We are born, we grow, and when the time runs out, we die. This is the natural cycle of life.
The four seasons of the farm are like the four stages of life: the joys and sorrows are all in it, and it changes with the opening and closing of the plot. In the end, the prosperity and noise finally come to an end, the tragedy and comedy have passed away, leaving only the dull and endless. Life. "
It was not until the end of last year that I read this book, which was translated by Ren Rongrong. This translation is often looked down upon by people of insight, thinking that it is definitely inferior to the works of Kang Xin in 1979 and Xiao Mao in 2000. After I finished reading it, I thought it was, because after reading Ren Rongrong's translation, I didn't realize what was so good about this novel, and there was a place where many people could be confused like Wu Yanzu attracted female compatriot Sora Aoi to attract male compatriots. Reading through the whole article, I only remembered one sentence: It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Because, this sentence is playful.
The biggest flaw in Ren Rongrong's translation: first, the lightly sarcasm in the original was not fully expressed; second, "Charlotte's Web" is not just a children's story, it not only discusses friendship and miracles, but also educates children to love In addition to pigs, there is also a discussion of life and death, and a detachment of the cycle of life and death. If the translator cannot accurately grasp these two aspects, on the one hand, it shows the translator's defects in intelligence and sense of humor;
"Charlotte's Web" is a fairy tale, but I'd rather it never appeared as a fairy tale. Yin Haiguang said that our understanding and evaluation of any thing are based on the "cultural baseline", which is actually the dual decision of knowledge background and traditional culture. For a long time, there have been two extreme views on fairy tales: one is that fairy tales are boring things for children, just like SB's contemporary Chinese cartoons always draw cartoons as counselors; the other is that fairy tales are boring things for children. over-interpretation. Mr. He Zhaowu is an elder I respect, but he occasionally mentioned his views on "Gulliver's Travels" in "Going to School", but I can't agree with him. Mr. He felt that Gulliver was treated unfairly in the country of giants, but was welcomed in the country of small people, which reflected the weakness in the quality of the big man and the shining point of the quality of the little man. I think if it is deduced like this, Snow White did not marry the dwarf but "lived happily with the prince forever", of course, is a blatant promotion of racial superiority and inferiority and racism.
For fairy tales, or any works, first, don't look down, and second, pay attention to the posture of reading, don't kneel down to read. I have only two requirements for the text: one is interesting, and the other is interesting. Because of the former, I smirked at Zheng Yuanjie's "The King of Fairy Tales" while holding my rice bowl when I was a child; because of the latter, after I finished reading "The Nightingale" and "The Happy Prince", I began to feel that life is not as simple as composing words, sentences, and math problems. .
I just finished watching the movie "Charlotte's Web". Of course it's about friendship, of course it's about commitment, and of course it's about miracles. Yeah~ friendship, commitment, miracles, how many Hollywood actors and filmmakers have you supported! Throughout the whole film, you will feel that the mouse is still the same mouse, the sheep is still the same sheep, the goose is still the same two geese, the star is still the same star, and the moon is still the same moon. It's a pity that Charlotte is not Charlotte anymore. She no longer has the temperament to see the truth from a high place. Usually, this kind of person or this kind of animal is always a little bit bitter. Charlotte has become a poor little daughter-in-law, only to make everyone feel less ugly, so she goes to great lengths to help a pig; Wilbur seems to be a little different from what I read about Wilbur, he is no longer The child who "doesn't know his fate is miserable, but has ordinary feelings of sadness and joy" has instead become an outsider pig, watching everyone busy with it and enjoying the fruits of Charlotte's labor with peace of mind. This simply made me feel the feeling of Tang Seng when I was a teenager when I read Journey to the West.
The atmosphere of the original is much higher than this. Just like Charlotte's children go with the wind at the end, this is a direct feeling and cognition of life. Wilbur is full of fear and sadness about the unknown death, and although being made into a sausage is not such a pleasant experience, it is not about "death", nor about life. Life ends at the moment of death, and death declares its own death when it begins. In fact, Wilbur represents the natural, unthought-out feeling of death for most people, because it is a spring pig that has not yet experienced the winter wind and snow. Charlotte knew that "we are born, grow up, and when the time runs out, we die. This is the natural cycle of life." What is precious is not only this calm and unhurried demeanor, but more precious is such a calm and unhurried life and death The spider, can do everything in his power to help a pig who has never experienced the world to know himself and the cycle of life and death. It is a pity that the movie "Charlotte's Web" did not focus on excavating these most moving points, but wasted a lot of ink on two inexplicable crows. The speech of the inverted teeth makes the whole film exude a disgusting smell of Hollywood assembly line cans. And Miss Dakota Fanning's "hard" performance made my bad impression of her continue smoothly.
Oh, by the way, the little girl's friendship with Wilbur is a joke, of course she will be right when she has a "pig-like man"
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