That bit in The Life of Brian, where the People’s Front of Judea resent being mistaken for the Judaean People’s Front: do young viewers get the joke? It was meant as a satire of the left. Socialists in the 1970s were forever splintering into obscure factions or “tendencies”. Watched again now, the scene remains clever. It does not remain entirely relevant.
1979年出品的英国喜剧电影《万世魔星》(The Life of Brian)有这样一个细节:“人民的犹地亚阵线”(People’s Front of Judea)的人,因为被误认为是“犹地亚人民的阵线”(Judaean People’s Front)而愤愤不平。如今的年轻观众还能看懂这个笑点吗?编剧意在讽刺左翼。上世纪70年代的社会主义者不断分裂为各种鲜为人知的派系或“倾向”。如今重看,依然觉得这场戏构思巧妙,但它已不再切合当今的现实。
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