Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' is a love letter to UFO culture
韦斯·安德森的《小行星城》是一封写给UFO文化的情书
UFO fever is at a seeming all-time high.
UFO热似乎达到了空前的高度。
Given that those pesky UFOs (or unidentified anomalous phenomena/UAP as they're now known) refuse to reveal themselves, this is the ideal time for "Asteroid City," a fun new Wes Anderson sci-fi flick centered around a band of junior scientist inventors convening in the Arizona desert in the mid-'50s to experience a close encounter during a high school science competition.
鉴于那些讨厌的不明飞行物（或现在所知的不明异常现象/UAP）拒绝暴露自己，这是《小行星城》（Asteroid City）的理想时间，这是一部新的有趣的韦斯·安德森科幻电影，围绕一群年轻的科学家发明家在50年代中期聚集在亚利桑那州沙漠，在高中科学比赛中体验亲密接触。
Released wide on June 23, 2023 by Focus Features, "Asteroid City" is a joyous yet oftentimes somber affair that will provide ample kicks and giggles to Andersonian acolytes yet might seem a bit obtuse for mainstream audiences unfamiliar with his particular brand of cerebral indie indulgences.
《小行星城》于2023年6月23日由Focus Features广泛发行，是一部欢乐但又经常阴郁的电影，将为安德森的影迷带来很多乐趣和笑声，但对于不熟悉他独特的独立思维沉迷品牌的主流观众来说，可能有点迟钝。
Related: 1st 'Asteroid City' trailer reveals Wes Anderson's take on a space-age alien encounter
相关：第一部《小行星城》预告片揭示了韦斯·安德森在太空时代遭遇外星人的经历
Recalling the deluge of AI-driven homage trailers imitating writer/director Anderson's signature style of ensemble casts, pastel-colored production design, symmetrical shot compositions, esoteric wit, overly-articulate children and deadpan dialogue delivery, it's somewhat refreshing to finally get the real deal once again instead of the digital mimicry recently spread all over YouTube.
回想起大量人工智能驱动的致敬预告片，这些预告片模仿了作家/导演安德森的标志性风格，包括演员阵容、舒适的制作设计、对称的镜头构图、神秘的智慧、过于清晰的孩子和面无表情的对话，最终再次获得真正的交易，而不是最近在YouTube上传播的数字模仿，这有点令人耳目一新的感觉。
This picture-postcard Americana outing lovingly recreates a vintage 1955 desert town in the U.S. Southwest complete with golden sunset vistas, atom-bomb tests, stalwart cacti and red-rock mesa landscapes. "Asteroid City" is a stylized dream where a massive meteor crater provides the town with tourism dollars and limited renown amid its remote location and relative isolation.
这次风景如画的美国之旅充满爱意地再现了1955年美国西南部一个古老的沙漠小镇，这里有金色的日落景色、原子弹试验、健壮的仙人掌和红岩台地景观。“小行星城”是一个风格化的梦想，一个巨大的陨石坑为小镇带来了旅游收入，但由于地处偏远和相对孤立，它的知名度有限。
The trademark nostalgic atmosphere and a jarring play-within-a-play narrative still provide enough of a cartoonish playground for the exceptional assembled cast of Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jake Ryan, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Hong Chau, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia Lillis and Jeff Goldblum.
标志性的怀旧氛围和不和谐的戏中戏叙事仍然为詹森·舒瓦兹曼、斯嘉丽·约翰逊、汤姆·汉克斯、杰克·瑞安、杰弗里·赖特、蒂尔达·斯文顿、布莱恩·克兰斯顿、爱德华·诺顿、阿德里安·布劳迪、洪周、列维·施瑞博尔、霍普·戴维斯、格蕾丝·爱德华兹、阿里斯托·米汉、索菲亚·莉莉斯和杰夫·高布伦等杰出的演员阵容提供了足够的卡通乐园。
As the story unfolds, we witness a mass gathering of super smart kids who are gathering for the Junior Stargazers and Space Cadets Convention. Here, budding geniuses vie for the top prize of a science scholarship with a range of next-generation inventions and contraptions that the U.S. government would secretly love to acquire from the eccentric prodigies, including a "Galactotron telescope" and "disintegration raygun."
随着故事的展开，我们见证了一群超级聪明的孩子聚集在一起，参加少年观星者和太空学员大会。在这里，崭露头角的天才们争夺科学奖学金的最高奖项，他们拥有一系列下一代的发明和装置，美国政府暗地里希望从这些古怪的神童那里获得这些发明和装置，包括“银河加速器望远镜”和“解体射线枪”。
During the competition festivities, a flying saucer with a silly-looking extraterrestrial arrives to steal the storied asteroid that the city of 87 citizens is most famous for. This event causes a swift military quarantine of the entire area, trapping all its assortment of quirky characters as the teen brainiacs attempt to establish communication with the outside world as the restrictions drag on with no end in sight and the adults quibble.
在比赛庆祝活动期间，一架飞碟和一个长相傻傻的外星人来到这里，偷走了这座拥有87名市民的城市最著名的传说中的小行星。这一事件导致整个地区迅速开启军事隔离，捕捉了各种各样的古怪人物，因为青少年的大脑试图与外界建立联系，以及限制措施迟迟不结束，成年人也吹毛求疵。
In terms of where "Asteroid City" falls in terms of style and content, it lies somewhere between "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," and perhaps slightly brushing up against "The Darjeeling Limited."
就《小行星城》的风格和内容而言，它介于《月出王国》和《史蒂夫·塞苏的水生生物》之间，或许更接近《大吉岭有限公司》。
Core themes of existential dread and musings on death don't interrupt its vibrant bit of nostalgia that will keep select audiences smiling beyond the Looney Tunes-like UFO that drops in on this celebration of discovery to set panic in motion.
存在主义的恐惧和对死亡的思考的核心主题并没有打破它充满活力的怀旧之情，这使一些观众很开心。而不是像《疯狂的旋律》(Looney tunes)UFO突然出现在庆祝活动中，引发恐慌。
The separate story framing the main narrative finds stage actors in these exact roles back in New York in a black-and-white faux documentary for an older teleplay also titled "Asteroid City," and narrated by a dapper Rod Serling-ish Bryan Cranston.
构成主要叙事的独立故事发现，舞台演员在纽约的一部黑白假纪录片中扮演这些确切的角色，这部纪录片也是一部名为《小行星城》（Asteroid City）的老电视剧，由衣冠楚楚的罗德·瑟林式布莱恩·克兰斯顿（Bryan Cranston）讲述。
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robert Yeoman is the longtime Anderson collaborator who provides those familiar compositions (shot on old-fashioned Kodak 35-mm film) that the Texas-born auteur filmmaker is celebrated for, with a wealth of striking tracking shots, portrait close-ups and sweeping horizontal pans all orchestrated to a stirring score by Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat ("The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Shape of Water").
奥斯卡提名的电影摄影师罗伯特·约曼（Robert Yeoman）是安德森的长期合作后半，他提供了那些熟悉的构图（用老式柯达35毫米胶片拍摄），这位出生于得克萨斯州的导演电影制作人以此闻名。其中有大量引人注目的跟踪镜头、肖像特写和横扫水平平移，所有这些都由奥斯卡获奖作曲家亚历山大·迪斯普拉特精心编排的，配乐激动人心。（《布达佩斯大饭店》（The Grand Budapest Hotel）、《水的形状》（The Shape of Water））。
The shallow artifice of post-war America and its simplistic suburban life and honest values is rattled to its foundations here in this dust-draped purgatory, filled to the rim with Golden Age sci-fi tropes like jetpacks and ray guns. It's a wonderfully dry cinematic martini freshly concocted from an automated dispenser and consumed as a satisfying tonic for fear just under the shifting sands of life.
战后美国的肤浅技巧、简单的郊区生活和诚实的价值观在这个尘土飞扬的炼狱中摇摇欲坠，到处充满了黄金时代的科幻比喻，如喷气背包和射线枪。这是一杯非常棒的干爽的电影般的马提尼酒，从自动售货机中新鲜调制出来，在生活的流沙下，作为一种令人满意的补品来饮用。
And just like Wes Anderson's collage of complex characters and their provocative rumination on humanity’s cosmic role and their quest to leave, "Asteroid City" is simply pure intoxicating escapism that goes down oh so smoothly.
就像韦斯·安德森(Wes Anderson)将复杂的人物拼贴在一起，对人类在宇宙中的角色进行了发人深省的反思，并寻求离开一样，《小行星城》纯粹是一种令人陶醉的逃避现实，它进展的如此顺利。
