影視英語聽力 第45期：Charlie Wilson's War 查理的戰(zhàn)爭
對話文本:
Charlie Wilson's War is a new film directed by Mike Nichols from a script by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from an intriguing best-seller, a true story by the late George Crile. It stars Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson, a Texas congressman who gets involved in the war against The Soviet Union in Afghanistan. His unlikely allies in this cause are a Texas socialite played with great blondeglamour by Julia Roberts.
And a kind of hangdog angry marginal CIA operative played wonderfully by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who's just all over the place this year, and has not given a bad performance in a very long time, if ever.
Now this movie is a lot of fun. There have been a lot of movies coming out recently about the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism, the Middle East and may all take a very somber grim view of the world, which is perfectly understandable.
The brilliance of Charlie Wilson's War is that it understands, I think thanks to Mike Nichols' and Aaron Sorkin's insights and ways of thinking about the role that politics and this is a political movie, a movie about politics. Politics is really a comic kind of a ridiculous undertaking even when the stakes are very very serious, as they are here.
So what we have is a lot of contradictory and wonderfully absurd figures working together in a very noble cause. You have Charlie Wilson, a liberal democrat, a staunch anti-communist but mostly just a playboy and a womanizer and a drinker and a good time guy. One of his lovers happens to be Joanne Herring and together they somehow get mixed up in all of thisintrigue that ends up contributing a great deal to the collapse of the Soviet Union. And in its way this movie is really a celebration of the American spirit. It's not just that we’re the good guys better than anyone else in the world, but it maybe that our great advantage in fighting communism and now perhaps in fighting terrorism is that we know how to have a good time.
