走下去活下去:《1942》沉重的饑荒歲月
MOVIEGOERS packed cinemas across China yesterday for the first public screenings of a film that explores a painful topic for the nation - famine.
昨天影迷爲一部首次公開放映的電影涌入中國各大影院，探索這個國家的一個沉重話題- - -饑荒。"Back To 1942," directed by Feng Xiaogang, focuses on a drought which killed 3 million people in central China's Henan Province.
《1942年》,馮小剛執導，主要講訴一場在中國中部的河南省造成300萬人死亡的大幹旱。The morning showings left some members of the audience, many of whom were elderly, visibly upset.
早晨的放映讓一些觀衆，其中許多是年長者，看起來十分煩惱。
"The movie is very heavy and truthful, it reminds me of many scenes from my life," said 75-year-old Chen Mingya in Zhengzhou, Henan's capital.
“這部電影非常沉重、真實，它讓我想起了自己生活中的許多場景，”在河南省會鄭州的75歲陳明亞說。The film tells the story of refugees who fled their hometowns in search of food, a situation made worse by the Japanese invasion and a dysfunctional Nationalist government. Many starved to death on the grueling journey to nearby Shaanxi Province.
這部電影講述了一羣難民逃離家鄉尋找食物的故事，由於日本侵略和民族主義政府的失職使情況變得更糟。許多人在臨近陝西省的路上餓死。"People lost their dignity," said Feng's wife Xu Fan, who plays a farmer who sold herself for a handful of millet to feed her children.
“人們失去了他們的尊嚴，”馮的妻子徐帆說，飾演一位爲了一把小米來養活她的孩子而將自己賣了的農民。The younger generation may be unfamiliar with the period, but it had left a scar in the memories of the middle-aged and elderly. "Our nation is characterized by tremendous sufferings in history. To know where we come from helps us understand where we should go," Feng said in Shanghai.
年輕一代可能不熟悉這段時期，但它已經在老年人的記憶中留下了疤痕。“我們的國家擁有多災多難的歷史。知道我們從何而來能幫助我們理解我們應該到哪裏去，”馮在上海說道。"Hunger can make people do crazy things," said Yu Baoyou, a 51-year-old resident of Henan's Zhumadian.
“飢餓可以讓人們做一些瘋狂的事情，”徐保佑說，河南駐馬店的一位51歲的居民。Yu recalled how villagers jumped into floodwater to catch dead cattle and rotten vegetables after a dam burst in 1975 killed more than 26,000 people and left many others without food.
徐回憶起1975年爆裂的大壩造成26000多人死亡也使得許多其他人沒有食物之後，村民如何跳進洪水裏捕捉死牛和腐爛的蔬菜。Sociologists say discussions about hunger are still important today. "China still has a long way to go in the battle against poverty and starvation, and should always remember the bitter lesson of its hunger history," Zhang Youde said.
社會學家說今天討論飢餓仍然是重要的。“中國在消除貧困和飢餓方面仍有很長的路要走，而且應該永遠記住這個饑荒史上的慘痛教訓，”張佑德說。
