Believing in the unseen 《X档案：我要相信》北美上映
[size=2][color=#444444]作者：CHARLIE SHIFFLETT, 21ST CENTUR 时间：2008-08-04 来源：21世纪英文报第764期[/color][/size][size=2][color=#444444][img]http://www.21stcentury.com.cn/image_news/21st_764/21st_764_16_0.jpg[/img][/color][/size]
[size=2][color=#444444][i]FBI agents Mulder and Scully return to investigate several brutal killings.
[/i]WHILE the new movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe may be quickly forgotten, the legacy of the 1990s TV show on which it is based still lingers. Shows including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Lost and Heroes, have found success by following The X-Files’ quirky mix of philosophy, science, mythology and romance.
A fan comment from the show’s heyday illustrates just how deeply it touched its fans: “It has given my generation and others who have lost faith in everything, something to believe in, and more importantly, something to think about,” the 17-year-old Salwa Azar told The Independent newspaper in 1996, when the show was just a couple of years old.
In the show, two FBI agents investigate strange, cases for which science seems to have no explanation. Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is the skeptic. When presented with a mystery, she turns first to science, believing that an explanation will turn up. Her partner, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), believes that science can’t explain everything. Thus, he is more willing to believe in the aliens, government conspiracies and supernatural events they investigate.
The show’s most important legacy lies in its mythology that invites viewers to think about and believe in the unbelievable. In one important early episode, a character asserts, “Most people have ceased to believe in God because God presents them with no miracles to earn their faith.” The show’s creator, Chris Carter, went on to give millions of viewers reason to believe – if not in God, then in aliens.
Some of today’s hit shows follow in the footsteps of The X-Files, touching upon what Heroes creator Tim Kring calls the “primal questions”. His show Heroes, for instance, features a cast of characters with unexplained supernatural abilities. One realizes that he can stop time. Another discovers that his paintings foresee the future. When this happens, the characters begin asking “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?” – and, thus, so do the viewers.
While The X-Files certainly didn’t invent the human curiosity for supernatural meaning, it was one of the first shows to tap into it. Doing so inspired a new generation of writers willing to turn the camera on the mysteries outside the realm of science.
[b]Movie overview[/b]
A GROUP of women are abducted in the hills of Virginia. The only clues for their disappearance are the disgusting human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway.
Officials desperate for any lead listen to a priest’s questionable visions. These visions send them straight to a secret medical experiment that may be connected to the women’s disappearance.
It’s a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI has since closed down that division, so it is up to ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr Dana Scully to find the truth.
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mythology 神话
conspiracy 阴谋
lead 线索
assert 断言, 声称
primal 最初的
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