【正文】 e had a go, here39。s my stab at the riddle inside the enigma. 本片的故事的確很有力而且講得動聽，但也并不特別。在我看來，是片中的政治內(nèi)容將它提升到了現(xiàn)有高度。This is indeed a robust and wellexecuted human story, but it39。s not an exceptional one. For my money, it39。s the political dimension that39。s taken it into the stratosphere. 本片塑造了一個領(lǐng)導人，而且其上映適逢歐美領(lǐng)導人令許多民眾感到失望。民眾已心知肚明不能指望那些領(lǐng)導人來解決問題，但還是希望他們至少盡其所能。然而相反的，從英國到阿拉伯，那些領(lǐng)導人證明了他們只為自己考慮。而伯蒂只想盡自己的職責。為了做到這一點，他愿意承受辛勞和侮辱。但他甚至不會去行使權(quán)力，因為他的命運是成為君主，但不是支配國家。The film is about a leader, and it es at a time when many of us feel that our leaders have let us down. We39。ve learned that we can39。t expect them to solve our problems, but we39。d at least like them to do their best. Yet from Westminster to the Arab world, they39。ve been demonstrating that instead, they39。re in it for themselves. Bertie, on the other hand, wants only to do his duty. To achieve this, he39。s prepared to submit himself to both exertion and indignity. In return, he won39。t even get to exercise power, since he39。s destined to reign, not rule. 倫敦市長鮑里斯約翰遜認為《國王的演講》的成功，體現(xiàn)了對世襲制的廣泛支持。從某種意義上說，他可能是正確的。英國人已經(jīng)認識到，民主制需要候選的領(lǐng)導人作出虛假的承諾，當然，他們不可能兌現(xiàn)這些承諾。伯蒂沒有必要承諾什么，因此也不需要拋棄他的誠信。Boris Johnson sees the success of The King39。s Speech as demonstrating popular support for the hereditary principle. In one sense, he could be right. We39。ve e to realise that democracy requires potential leaders to make us false promises。 naturally they then fail to fulfil them. Bertie has no need to make promises, and thus no need to forgo his integrity. 伯蒂與我們所知的大部分領(lǐng)導人不同（他的對手希特勒是個典型），因為他不想要權(quán)力。人們和電影一樣，更喜歡主人公有充分理由不情緣做主人公。人們常說，越貪心就越得不到。下議院議長根據(jù)儀式挪到他椅子上時不情不愿不是沒有理由的。He differs from most of the leaders we know of (archetypally Hitler, his antagonist) in that he doesn39。t want the job. People, like films, prefer reluctance in a hero with good reason. It39。s often been said that to want the top job should be enough to disqualify someone from actually getting it. Not for nothing is the speaker of the House of Commons ritually dragged unwillingly to his chair. 伯蒂的弱點使我們感到親切，而不會有損他在隆重儀式上的魅力，當然如果上I39。m a Celebrity這種電視節(jié)目時就不一樣了。雖然他是貴族，但他沒成為伯靈頓俱樂部的公子哥兒，他并不擁有一切天然優(yōu)勢。與那些公子不同，即使某事物不再吸引他，他也會堅持下去。當然他的兄弟就放棄了，就像我們也會遺憾地癡迷于個人的權(quán)利欲望。Bertie39。s vulnerability shows him to be one of us without negating the pomp that lends him glamour, as might an appearance on I39。m a Celebrity. Though he39。s blueblooded, he39。s not one of our own Bullingdon toffs, already blessed with every advantage that life can bestow. And unlike them, he won39。t be walking away if the game ceases to appeal to him. His brother, of course, does just that, his behaviour foreshadowing our own unfortunate obsession with personal rights and cravings. 總之，我認為《國王的演講》代替了現(xiàn)實生活中將令我們賣力鼓掌的演講。當然這是一家之言。In short, The King39。s Speech stands in for the reallife speech that we39。re all desperate to applaud. But what do I know?7 /