2005年NPR美国国家公共电台六月-'My Summer of Love,' No Average Teen Flic

…name worth remembering. His last movie, Last Resort was a critical favorite. His latest was named the best British film of 2004, and has just been released in US theatres. It is called My Summer of Love, and Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan says it’s not too typical teenager summer frolic.

Hollywood may pander¹ to the teenage market, but it carefully avoids the kinds of troubling stories about young people that might actually say something. The studios steer² clear of troublesome emotions, difficult relationships and obsessive³ behavior. Director Peter Jackson in his pre-Lord of The Rings days explored all of these in his incendiary 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Now Polish-born British director Pawel Pawlikowski explored some of them again in the exceptional My Summer of Love. It’s a film as different from its sundry⁴ day teen’s exploitation title as its pair of protagonists⁵ are from each other.
What’s your name?
Mona.
You don’t look like a Mona.
It’s not my real name. Cause of me bother, I always complain those kids with a start calling me Mona. Cause me real name Lisa, Mona Lisa. Get it?
Yes, I studied the original. I’m Thomson.

Aristocratic Thomson and working class Mona, soon realize they share a babyface nihilism and a contempt for whatever anyone else takes seriously.

Thomson is a dreamer, Mona, a driven doer. All the former is in need of a complice, the latter is looking for an instigator⁶ to point her in the wrong direction.
He don’t *…
Why?
So they * anymore.They also share a yearning⁷ for the fantasy of all consuming romance.
Well, anyway he had a wife and a kid…
Man like that should be castrated.
As their personal relationship deepens, as their notions of fantasy and reality get jumbled⁸ up, it’s an open question as to who is in more danger of getting sinned by the symbiotic⁹ bond.

We should teach that we get a lesson.
Pawel Pawlikowski is an assured and intuitive writer/director, his sensitivity for people enables him to truly get inside his character’s heads. For his actors, he uses a system of controlled improvisation¹⁰. Pawlikowski started with a 37-page shooting document as opposed to the standard 120-page script, using two gifted adventurous¹¹ actresses, making their feature debuts¹². He has achieved wonders. Pawlikowski gets his cast act dramatically, unexpectedly, but always believably. He’s created a provocative¹³ love story about two people who will never forget each other but not for anything like the reasons they initially¹⁴ imagined.

Kenneth Turan reviews movies for Morning Edition and for the Los Angeles Times.

1 pander   

v.迎合；n.拉皮条者，勾引者；帮人做坏事的人

参考例句：

• Don't pander to such people. 要迎合这样的人。
• Those novels pander to people's liking for stories about crime.那些小说迎合读者对犯罪故事的爱好。

2 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

3 obsessive   

adj. 着迷的, 强迫性的, 分神的

参考例句：

• Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
• He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。

4 sundry   

adj.各式各样的，种种的

参考例句：

• This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤。
• We can see the rich man on sundry occasions.我们能在各种场合见到那个富豪。

5 protagonists   

n.（戏剧的）主角( protagonist的名词复数 )；（故事的）主人公；现实事件（尤指冲突和争端的）主要参与者；领导者

参考例句：

• Mrs Pankhurst was one of the chief protagonists of women's rights. 潘克赫斯特太太是女权的主要倡导者之一。 来自辞典例句
• This reflects that Feng Menglong heartily sympathized with these protagonists. 这反映出冯梦龙由衷地同情书中的这些主要人物。 来自互联网

6 instigator   

n.煽动者

参考例句：

• It is not a and differs from instigator in nature. 在刑法理论中，通常将教唆犯作为共犯的一种类型加以探究。 来自互联网
• If we are really the instigator, we are awaiting punishment. 如果我们真的是煽动者，那我们愿意接受惩罚。 来自互联网

7 yearning   

a.渴望的；向往的；怀念的

参考例句：

• a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
• He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。

8 jumbled   

adj.混乱的；杂乱的

参考例句：

• Books, shoes and clothes were jumbled together on the floor. 书、鞋子和衣服胡乱堆放在地板上。
• The details of the accident were all jumbled together in his mind. 他把事故细节记得颠三倒四。

9 symbiotic   

adj.共栖的，共生的

参考例句：

• Racing has always had a symbiotic relationship with betting.赛马总是与赌博相挂钩。
• Engineering completely new symbiotic relationship is obviously not an imminent possibility.筹划完全新的共生关系显然是可能性不大。

10 improvisation   

n.即席演奏(或演唱)；即兴创作

参考例句：

• a free-form jazz improvisation 自由创作的爵士乐即兴演出
• Most of their music was spontaneous improvisation. 他们的大部分音乐作品都是即兴创作的。

11 adventurous   

adj.爱冒险的；惊心动魄的，惊险的，刺激的　

参考例句：

• I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
• He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。

12 debuts   

演员首次演出( debut的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He never really debuts the idea of taking money from his parents any longer. 他从此就再也没有认真起过向父母要钱的念头。
• This young soprano debuts next month at the metropolitan opera. 这位年轻的女高音歌唱家下个月将在纽约大都会歌剧院举行首演。

13 provocative   

adj.挑衅的，煽动的，刺激的，挑逗的

参考例句：

• She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
• His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。

14 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。