阿瓦隆的迷雾

     After King Arthur led his knights of the Round Table to fight in the last battle for the glory of Avalon, one of the greatest knights of the Round Table died with his body stretched peacefully. It was Lancelot, King Arthur's right-hand man, Morgan's cousin, who sticked to the code of chivalry to the last moment. In medieval times, the code of chivalry were some behaviors for a knight to follow, and the quanlities the knight had to possess, which also known as chivalry, included bravery, piety and chaste devotion. Here I would like to focus on the chivalry Lancelot possessed.
     Bravery, as you may associate, is an indispensable characteristicof a knight on the battlefield. As I mentioned before, at the most crucial moment, Lancelot came back to defend his king, his country even though he was no longer a knight of the Round Table, and he clearly had the chance to survive from the war. The moment he vowed, he considered the code of the chivalry as the most important part in his life, and he was willing to fight for it throughout his life without regrets.
     Piety, also a vital characteristic of a knight, was adequately reflected on him. As soon as King Arthur introduced his love Guinevere to him, he was shocked but kept silence all the time. Even if there was a chance for him to confess himself, he did not violate his vows, his king, and his country. Additionally, when he was asked to get into Kind Arthur and Guinevere's bed, he looked staggered and embarrassed. The reason why he was hesitated to follow his heart was that he was faithful to the King Arthur and determined to keep his vows forever.
     Chaste devotion, the last characteristic of a knight I speaked of above, was rather impressived too in consideration of Lancelot. To be a knight of the Round Table, he not only devoted his love Guinevere to King Arthurhis, but devoted his life to the country. Actually, he devoted everthing, including his freedom to be himself, because he could not even reveal a little bit his personal feelings towards Guinevere, which was the hardest thing to do it particularly when facing the one you meeted everyday. However, all he could do was to hide the affection and turned it into patriotism.
     In conclusion, all the characteristics of a knight, especially Knight Lancelot, had shaped the whole Europe and continued to shape the world.

  这是由一部小说改编成的电影，由女性的视角来描述亚瑟王这段神话历史。从电影中我最大的感受就是人类在对神的追寻上的无力，在阿法隆的迷雾中迷失了，但神却一直存在着在每个人的心中，在迷雾中一直望着每一个众生，或许错误的只是人类自己。毫无疑问，这部电影的很多人物都走向了悲剧的结局，在与命运的对抗上纷纷受了伤，让人不胜唏嘘。
 
人物：
亚瑟：亚瑟的命运一开始就像众多帝王之子一样被寄托了厚望，他肩负着使王朝兴旺，抵御外侵，同时联系亚法隆的责任。年少的王子被送去郊外磨练，他单薄的身躯在时光中渐渐成长，成长为一个英勇，正义，勇猛的国王接替了自己的老父亲。他深受人民的爱戴，他的一生似乎没有主动犯过的错误，算是光辉的一个形象。在最后得知莫德瑞是自己和姐姐的儿子之后，他似乎在命运的嘲笑下懦弱了一阵子，勇猛的亚瑟最终在看见阿法隆之后躺在自己深爱的姐姐怀抱中去世。
薇薇安：薇薇安到最后似乎还不明白，正是自己的强力强为或许并不是神女的旨意，他破坏了他妹妹的家庭，使自己另一个妹妹蒙受不快，她的刻板使她过分地使用了自己的魔法，最终神抛弃了忠心的她，最后悲剧性地死在了自己的妹妹剑下。她没有明白梅林最后的去世语言，神存在在我们的周围，追求的自己的幸福也是让神发扬的途径，这位虔诚的女祭司，为所有的悲剧埋下了伏笔。
安妮兰斯洛特：兰斯洛特是一名骑士，他完美地展现了一个忠诚的骑士形象，却也只能在封建时代下选择和爱人隔雾相对，在漫长的时光中承受爱情的折磨，亚瑟在这一点上看的很开，却也不会让这段恋情公开，王国的统治需要国王的果断和舍弃。安妮觉得是本片最大的牺牲品，她年轻漂亮，却在姨妈的诅咒下得不到孩子，最终选择在上帝的忏悔下度过余生，她没有其他的路子选，在幽深的闺房中多少不能得到子嗣的王后是那么胆战心惊，因为她们的底气就存在在另王室有香火可传。
摩根：摩根的命运坎坷，在每一段人生转折处似乎神灵都在跟她作对，她窥不见迷雾后面神灵微笑的脸庞，作为神权的牺牲品，她颠沛流离。与弟弟乱伦，嫁给了深爱之人的父亲，自己的儿子和父亲火拼，阿法隆成为她内心深处唯一的寄托，那单纯的祭祀生活在海的对岸吸引着她，然而神话的结局并不是完美的，阿法隆最终消失在迷雾中不为人所找到，摩根相信神母依然存在在其他的地方，等待着她的信徒们回归。真正的神灵不应该在自己的努力下才会带给我们希望，被压迫的摩根的命运同样让人唏嘘。

  电影是围绕神秘的阿法隆展开的，这个迷雾环绕的仙境有着法力强大的女祭司们，但是显然她们错误解读了神母的神意。这些行为鼓励了凶杀，鼓励了专制，不可避免的悲剧就会产生，我们已经看到中世纪的基督教怎样被教会扭曲，上帝也许是最不愿意看到教会成为一个黑暗的组织剥削着社会各个阶层。
  那遥遥的神意会以怎样的形式驻扎在我们的生活间，安妮在片中说“也许我们都过于渺小，以至于无法了解神的意志”，命运无情地在生活留下伤痛。或许我们都不能把握到什么，只能尽自己所能做自己能做的事情，悲剧下面的人们在悲伤中躲在上帝的光辉后面，悲切的钟声依旧在述说这个古老的传说，关于神母和那些女祭司们的故事。
  

  Although this movie is through a woman's eyes,I still want to talk about King Arthur.
 The reason which makes Arthur and six other knights of the round table fight for the Roman empire for 15 years is the real hope for peace and freedom.But the powerful Roman empire put forward additional conditions when they should be free: attended the mortal battle before they went free.
   The bishop of Rome was in the name of god to ask their allegiance. Actually,they just wanted to sacrifice them because of the considerations of interests. Besides god, there was nothing that they couldn’t exploit. Even in the face of loyalty which was as pure as gold.
  King Arthur had a heart of equality and humanity. So he was aware of the cruelty of the bishop of Rome. Then he gave birth to doubt their adorable loyal heart to Rome. Truckee asked Arthur very sharp: “Arthur, you are brave when you shouldn’t be ,fight in the land which shouldn’t fight for, what’s it about?” Arthur answered:”to the Rome, although it no longer exists.”Truckee stared at him and slowly said:”what are you afraid of on earth?”
  Arthur's fear came from the fear of the world. Fear that hope does not exist, fear his belief collapse moment. Arthur was deeply hated the man who killed his mother Merlin told Arthur: what make you pull out the sword of the king is not hate for me, but a mother's love for you.After Arthur hearing these,he finally decided with Qing vamps against Saxon gang up on arrival. Only love can give a deep fear of the king of England with guidance.
  The knights once said: the killings in tomorrow will be regarded as a nightmare.
  But every tribal people would pick up the tomahawk,shield up to continue the war which would make them die again and again. They all were regarded to die for the name of freedom.We may suspect that the heroes who lived in the faith and arrogant noble personality had such limitations, but at the end,it turned out to be a person's own contradictions.
  People would build walls to security one day.People will give birth to the hearts of attack one day. You are for permanent peace, we are for in peace one day.So peace for peace ,that is never cease the battle of honor.
  There was even no way to stop this dispute. Not like Barry Ann of the Crusades team, choosing not to intervene in these disputes can make things better. The Jerusalem issue to defense in the Christian Crusaders, let the Muslim army chief Salahuddin learned Christian dignity and not be destroyed, to bless the people safely out of the city in the war and this is actually relatively weak request. It would be possible to achieve peace.
  Even the peaceful premise needed to test of blood and fire, human beings destined to use the really cruel way to test their divine desire and hope for the defence forces. Don't always believe in soft and weak peace and the environment itself can do not disorderly. Because the human is not the personal will, but they will. A person's stability, not enough to affect security of all people. But it would make unsettle some idea of human activity more violently.
  It is tempting to think of the famous person theory. The people living in the village are bad people, every one of them steals another thing, and all people finally have all things still. So here is in peace. Until one day here came a man. He didn't steal anything. The good people’s things is less and less,another person has more and more things. Finally one day, the village appeared serious confusion.
  I think the village is simplified world. Or more simply say: the serious disorder village is human own inevitable fate.

       这部电影会吸引你一直看下去，但是看完之后却有种压抑的感觉蔓延在身上每个神经...你不知从何说起，却又觉得整部电影引人入胜。
       电影由起初的缓缓铺叙，从摩根离开avalon开始，倒叙回故事的源头，再慢慢描绘整个故事，电影时长3个多小时，才讲完所有情节。虽然是以亚瑟王为故事蓝本，但电影主线却是围绕在与Avalon息息相关的几个女性角色身上，最终以Avalon这一圣地在人们信仰的灭失下逐渐消失在迷雾之中收尾。
       就我个人感觉而言，在还没看过这部电影的时候，其实我对亚瑟王的故事并不了解，所以一开始并不能很好的理解电影所要传达的意思。但随着电影的铺开，一个个鲜活的形象才逐渐展现在眼前，有为了终生的使命而不惜一切代价的戏码，也有为了爱而宁愿牺牲自己的戏码。虽然我觉得故事中主人公之间的关系有点过于复杂且有些混乱，但整部电影来说还是可圈可点的。毕竟电影里面的配乐就是吸引我的其中一点，悠扬的音乐配合电影情节有种引人入胜的感觉。
      总体来说，我认为这是一部很值得看的电影，人们总说艺术来源于生活却高于生活，电影也是如此。无论你了解或者不了解这段真实的历史...这都是一个很好的参考。

很不错的魔幻史诗片，值得一看，没有特别大的效果特技，但是人物心理刻画的很好。
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细雨朦胧，水色迷离
神秘的大陆自雾气中浮起
一切仿佛都在梦幻里
古老的殿堂，神圣的祭司
历史的轮盘悄悄转动
预言了大地的毁灭，英雄的逝去
广阔的帝国分崩离析
伟大的君王沉睡在湖水里
……

看过片子已经两三年多了，似乎每隔一段时间就会想重温一下，然后总是会无可避免地再次陷入那个世界，无可自拔地沉迷，，仿佛那是自己心灵的一个圣殿，在层层的迷雾之下，能够找到自己的所在。一遍一遍听着音乐，特别是MEILIN的逝去，Viviane的死，Morgaine的绝望和无奈，AVALON的消亡与冥冥中的重生，一次又一次被打动，仿佛与身同受。
我想每个人看这个故事的时候，感动之处都不一样吧，有人看出的是女权主义，有人看出的是反基督教的颠覆，而我看到的却是神话的终结，因消亡而达成的美。MEILIN死去的时候，白雾漫上AVALON的神殿，就像NINIANE一样感受到了害怕和无措，这个世界的消亡似乎是无法改变的了。Viviane倒下时，日月侵蚀，天地变色，那种永劫的黑暗覆过AVALON的时候，发现自己也哭了。神话的世界从此和人世永远断隔了，人们只是在想象中追忆传说中的幻境，那是多么悲哀的一件事……
因为喜欢电影，于是去啃E文原著，慢慢回味其中的语句，总有些想过和不曾想过的东西浮现在脑海中：Viviane一直说：“ALL GODS IS ONE GOD。” 。她告诉小小的Morgaine，女神有三张脸，少女，母亲，智者，分别由她，Igraine，和自己代表，Morgaine好奇地问，那Morgause呢？Viviane神秘地说，女神还有第四张脸，我们一起祈祷Morgause不要戴上那张脸吧……
而故事的最后，Morgaine登上AVALON的驳船驶往现世，接回濒死的Arthur，她的弟弟，她的爱人……
 
“我独自站在驳船里，却感觉似乎有其他人与我并立，披着长袍，高高在上，少女时的摩根，指使亚瑟与群鹿奔逐并挑战鹿王；成为母亲的摩根，在莫德里出生时几乎神形俱毁；；北威尔士王后，召唤日食，派遣阿克龙给予亚瑟沉重的痛击；还有暗精灵女王……抑或是死神站在我的身侧么？船靠岸的时候，我听到他的随从最后的呼喊，“看啊，看啊，就在那里，旭日中载着四位女王的驳船，阿瓦隆的仙灵之船……”
 
（如果熟悉这个传说的原始版本的话，真的会很佩服作者的诠释，这样的宿命感的悲剧……）
 
无可自拔地喜欢Morgaine，那样的女子，仿佛每个人都会在她身上触到自己根源性的一些东西，只属于自己……她对亚瑟说的最后那番话，已仿佛是女神借她之口说出的——
 
“摩根，难道一切都仅仅是徒劳么？我们所做的这一切……为什么我们失败了呢？”
“你没有失败，我的弟弟，我的爱人，我的孩子。多年来你守护了这片土地上的和平，撒克逊人没能摧毁它……你阻挡了整整一个时代的黑暗，直到他们开化，也有了知识和对神的信仰，成了懂得珍惜失落的美好事物的文明人……”
 
谁也不会真正明白女神将怎样实现自己的心愿——只是，她一定会达成的。也许她的消亡，也是她意志的体现。因为她从来不曾真正的消亡，在每个人的心里残留着。走在绿树丛间中，秋天飒爽的风从碧蓝的天空吹灌而下，呼吸着大自然的气息，也是大地母神的气息，AVALON依然与我们同在，每一个人的心中。作为男性，他看到的是永恒的女性：少女，恋人，母亲，智者……以及带来生也带来死的女神。而作为女性，我看到的是自己。有人曾说过，女权主义注定不会有结果，因为它想摧毁一种文明却不曾带来另一种文明的建立。错的。并不是很喜欢女权主义这个词，似乎有种以之代替男权的倾向。我认为女性运动追求的平等应该是一种自然的和谐，同样作为人，不是谁主宰谁的问题，就像AVALON中所说的，在大地女神面前，生来的时候我们是兄弟和姐妹，而最终都是她的牧师和祭司。被那个可以感受到自然脉搏的世界，神话的世界所深深吸引，又因那种消亡的无奈更加深了我对它的迷恋。
神并没有遗弃人，可是人类……是否有此自觉呢？

没看过原著，不过相信原著比电影好，因为电影无法超越原著已成为定律。
原著的作者是女性，又是通过大湖女神祭祀继承人摩根视角来叙述亚瑟王时代的故事，所以电影处处弥漫着女性忧伤哀愁的情绪。电影前三分之一是宿命论论调，中三人之一充满偶然性论调，后三分之一又是古希腊式弑父的悲剧。从头到尾，你不是在看电影，仿佛是慢饮一杯苦酒。心情不好的时候千万别看，让人情何以堪～～～

我看电影从不喜欢人物始终被感情所左右，虽然我承认人类是感情动物，但是人除了感情，还有责任。无疑这部影片感情是故事发展的主线，主要人物情感交错犹如蜘蛛网般错综复杂，各自要承担的责任义务通通不见踪影，所以我给三星。总之电影可看，但不推荐。