This article looks at the 2014 Swedish comedy-drama Force Majeure as a kind of moral thought experiment, but also insofar as it might not fit such a model. The idea of a cinematic ethics, of cinema as providing an avenue for thinking through ethics and exploring ethical questions, finds at least one expression in the idea of film as experimental in this sense. At the same time, simply subsuming film to the philosophical thought experiment risks forgetting what film itself brings to the proceedings; and how the cinematic medium might allow for an experimentation that goes beyond what can be done within the philosophical text. As experimental in a broad sense, Force Majeure evokes an experience, the extraordinary event beyond one's control, capable of putting a moral agent to the test, challenging one's sense of who one is and what one stands for. The film unfolds as a reflection on the results of this encounter with experience, and on the kind of moral self this experiment brings to light; and in the cours...

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遭遇不可抗力

本文将 2014 年的瑞典喜剧《不可抗力》视为一种道德思想实验，但也可能不适合这种模式。电影伦理的观念，电影作为提供一种思考伦理和探索伦理问题的途径，至少在电影作为实验的观念中找到了一种表达方式。同时，简单地将电影纳入哲学思想实验有可能忘记电影本身为诉讼程序带来了什么；以及电影媒体如何允许进行超出哲学文本所能做的实验。作为广义上的实验性，不可抗力唤起了一种体验，一种无法控制的非凡事件，能够考验道德力量，挑战一个人” 对一个人是谁以及一个人代表什么的感觉。这部电影展现了对这种与经验相遇的结果的反思，以及对这个实验所揭示的道德自我的反思；在课程中......