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Immortality, the Good Life and Romantic Love in Groundhog Day and Only Lovers Left Alive
Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2022-09-14 , DOI: 10.3366/film.2022.0208
Rick Zinman

Groundhog Day (GD) (1993), directed by Harold Ramis and Only Lovers Left Alive (Lovers) (2013), directed by Jim Jarmusch, are fantasy films that use the device of practical immortality in order to raise important philosophical questions about what constitutes a good life and to explore the nature of romantic love. GD provides fairly conventional answers about how to live a good life by focusing on issues of spiritual redemption, selflessness, and developing one’s human potential. In contrast, Lovers provides a dark portrayal of a civilization on the brink of extinction through a visual tour of a desolate post-industrial landscape in Detroit. However, Lovers offers a glimmer of hope for the future. The lifestyle and values of married vampires Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) represent an alternative vision of the core values needed to sustain a better world: greater reliance on human imagination, maintaining a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world, creating and appreciating works of art and living in harmony with the natural world. In essence, Lovers promotes the view that our society needs more fantasy and imagination in order to survive. Both films also offer a perspective on the importance of romantic love in living a good life. Although these perspectives often diverge from one another, they do overlap in some interesting ways.

中文翻译:

不朽,土拨鼠日的美好生活和浪漫爱情,只有恋人活着

土拨鼠日( GD ) (1993) 由哈罗德·拉米斯执导,《只有恋人还活着》 ( Lovers ) (2013) 由吉姆·贾木许执导,是奇幻电影,它们使用实际不朽的装置来提出关于什么构成的重要哲学问题美好的生活,探索浪漫爱情的本质。GD通过关注精神救赎、无私和发展个人潜能等问题,提供了关于如何过上美好生活的相当传统的答案。相比之下,《恋人》通过对底特律荒凉的后工业景观的视觉之旅,对濒临灭绝的文明进行了黑暗的描绘。然而,恋人为未来带来一线希望。已婚吸血鬼亚当(汤姆希德勒斯顿饰)和夏娃(蒂尔达斯文顿饰)的生活方式和价值观代表了维持一个更美好世界所需的核心价值观的另一种愿景:更多地依赖人类的想象力,保持对世界的好奇和好奇感,创作和欣赏艺术作品,与自然世界和谐相处。从本质上讲,《恋人》提倡这样一种观点,即我们的社会需要更多的幻想和想象力才能生存。这两部电影还提供了关于浪漫爱情在美好生活中的重要性的观点。尽管这些观点经常相互分歧,但它们确实以一些有趣的方式重叠。
更新日期:2022-09-14
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