【英语时差8,16】高中校园的最后「血战」

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"Blood," directed by Chris Nahon and starring Korean actress Gianna Jun, is an expansion of the 48-minute animated¹ film of the same name. In the movie, Saya (Gianna Jun), a 400-year-old half-human half-vampire, cooperates with a secretive organization to hunt down other bloodsuckers. Her archenemy and final target is Onigen, the leader of the demons². Saya's latest mission brings her to a high school on the U.S. army base in Tokyo. Here she meets her first real friend in a long time, Alice, who is the daughter of the base's General. Saya's dilemma⁴ of killing⁵, often brutally⁶, her bloodthirsty half's kind in order to save her other half is the center of the story. The movie adds depth to the original anime, a gore⁷ sword-slashing thriller⁸, by challenging the traditional views of vampires⁹ and humans, good and evil. Its message is strictly¹⁰ anti-war: The act of killing diminishes humanity, even if it is done for a "just" cause. Gianna Jun puts on a brave show in her Hollywood debut¹¹. However, she falls short of delivering the complexity¹² of a 400-year-old who spends most of her life killing things. Of course, part of the challenge is her admitted difficulty with acting¹³ in English. If Jun intends to continue her career in the International market, she must try to tackle the language problem.

animated film 动画片

secretive (adj.) 秘密的；神秘的

to hunt down 猎杀；追殺

demon³ (n.) 魔鬼；恶鬼

dilemma (n.) 困境；进退两难

gore (n.) 血腥；血

to diminish (v.) 縮減；削弱

to fall short 不及；未達

complexity (n.) 复杂性；错综复杂的事物

to tackle (v.) 著手处理或解決

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