阿瓦隆的迷雾

  Although this movie is through a woman's eyes,I still want to talk about King Arthur.
 The reason which makes Arthur and six other knights of the round table fight for the Roman empire for 15 years is the real hope for peace and freedom.But the powerful Roman empire put forward additional conditions when they should be free: attended the mortal battle before they went free.
   The bishop of Rome was in the name of god to ask their allegiance. Actually,they just wanted to sacrifice them because of the considerations of interests. Besides god, there was nothing that they couldn’t exploit. Even in the face of loyalty which was as pure as gold.
  King Arthur had a heart of equality and humanity. So he was aware of the cruelty of the bishop of Rome. Then he gave birth to doubt their adorable loyal heart to Rome. Truckee asked Arthur very sharp: “Arthur, you are brave when you shouldn’t be ,fight in the land which shouldn’t fight for, what’s it about?” Arthur answered:”to the Rome, although it no longer exists.”Truckee stared at him and slowly said:”what are you afraid of on earth?”
  Arthur's fear came from the fear of the world. Fear that hope does not exist, fear his belief collapse moment. Arthur was deeply hated the man who killed his mother Merlin told Arthur: what make you pull out the sword of the king is not hate for me, but a mother's love for you.After Arthur hearing these,he finally decided with Qing vamps against Saxon gang up on arrival. Only love can give a deep fear of the king of England with guidance.
  The knights once said: the killings in tomorrow will be regarded as a nightmare.
  But every tribal people would pick up the tomahawk,shield up to continue the war which would make them die again and again. They all were regarded to die for the name of freedom.We may suspect that the heroes who lived in the faith and arrogant noble personality had such limitations, but at the end,it turned out to be a person's own contradictions.
  People would build walls to security one day.People will give birth to the hearts of attack one day. You are for permanent peace, we are for in peace one day.So peace for peace ,that is never cease the battle of honor.
  There was even no way to stop this dispute. Not like Barry Ann of the Crusades team, choosing not to intervene in these disputes can make things better. The Jerusalem issue to defense in the Christian Crusaders, let the Muslim army chief Salahuddin learned Christian dignity and not be destroyed, to bless the people safely out of the city in the war and this is actually relatively weak request. It would be possible to achieve peace.
  Even the peaceful premise needed to test of blood and fire, human beings destined to use the really cruel way to test their divine desire and hope for the defence forces. Don't always believe in soft and weak peace and the environment itself can do not disorderly. Because the human is not the personal will, but they will. A person's stability, not enough to affect security of all people. But it would make unsettle some idea of human activity more violently.
  It is tempting to think of the famous person theory. The people living in the village are bad people, every one of them steals another thing, and all people finally have all things still. So here is in peace. Until one day here came a man. He didn't steal anything. The good people’s things is less and less,another person has more and more things. Finally one day, the village appeared serious confusion.
  I think the village is simplified world. Or more simply say: the serious disorder village is human own inevitable fate.

《The mists of Avalon》（《亚瑟王传奇》/《阿瓦隆迷雾》）
不是今年那部票房惨淡的《King Arthur》（《亚瑟王》）,而是2001年，根据魔幻小说家Marion Zimmer Bradley1982年的同名小说改编的迷你剧集。是属于目前为止，我所见到的对有关亚瑟王传奇及其人物体系交待最为丰富和完整的影视作品了。亚瑟、桂妮蔚、兰斯洛特、梅林、湖中夫人等等人物都有出现，并且如蟠龙在梅林协助下幽会伊格琳生下压瑟、亚瑟和姐姐摩根结合生下毛德列、兰斯洛特和湖中夫人的关系、毛德列轼父等平时罕见有出现的情节也一一交待，算是让我这个准亚瑟迷过了些瘾头。

相比今年出品的《亚瑟王》，这部《阿瓦隆迷雾》的气质要阴柔迷离的多，虽然也有些战场厮杀血肉横飞的镜头，但重点却决非于亚瑟大一统的征战过程。所有的男性角色都隐藏在了女性背后，亚瑟和兰斯洛特因为搭着桂尼蔚的关系，还稍多一些镜头，其他的圆桌骑士，统统成了只会在餐桌上大块朵颐的食客。

其实这从片名《the mists of Avalon》已经可以了解，为什么不是《the mists of Camelot》？Camelot（卡米洛城）是亚瑟统一不列颠建立丰功伟业的城堡，而Avalon则是传说中亚瑟和毛德列决战后，灵魂归处的神秘岛屿。
“岸边，月光里驶来一艘披着黑纱的帆船；船上清一色黑衣女子，为首三人头戴凤冠，啼哭不止。亚瑟命伯畏将自己背上船放下，三女王迎上前来，其中个头高高，面目皎洁的那位将国王的脑袋靠在自己怀里，称他兄弟。”

Marion Zimmer Bradley大概就是从“三女王接归亚瑟”中得到了灵感，干脆以在传说中“云霞明灭或可睹”的阿瓦隆岛为源，把大不列颠王荡气回肠的征战史写成一段亦真亦幻的传奇。

阿瓦隆，隐藏在大雾弥漫的湖中，她是湖中夫人的居所，是女神的圣地。当基督教在大不列颠岛如火如荼的遍布开的时候，从前崇拜the Godness（女神）的人民纷纷投向the God（上帝），湖中夫人对未来的担忧、焦虑一天天的增加。为了维护女神的地位，她和梅林策划了蟠龙王和伊格林的邂逅，带走亚瑟同母异父的姐姐摩根教授其法术，协助亚瑟取得“削钢剑”，设计亚瑟和姐姐摩根乱伦生下毛德列……湖中夫人倾其一生乃至性命，皆是为了能让“女神”信仰在人世间永驻，能让传承Avalon血液的亚瑟和摩根在中土继续维护阿瓦隆的势力，能让女神的尊严在世间永远歌颂。

这是一场古老神祗在新文明到临前争取生存的斗争，是新旧两个时代交锋的一场迷雾。显然其中隐隐象征/比喻着母系氏族的没落（但是如果按照年份来考，又不足信），或者更加确切的说，是人类在历经了自然原始力量的崇拜后，随着对未知越来越多的的掌控，开始摈弃野性的力量，崇尚文明的一番历程。

亚瑟在之前的诸多艺术作品中，一直是以一个虔诚的基督徒形象出现，还有发动圆桌骑士寻找圣杯的行为。在片中，他虽然继承着纯正阿瓦隆血统，却娶了信仰基督教的桂尼蔚，他是一个试图在女神和上帝中寻找平衡的王，但这种结合原本就脆弱，甚至连他自己都无法同时对两个神保持相等的爱和信仰！而女神祭祀的继承者摩根得知自己中计和亚瑟结合，羞愧愤怒地和阿瓦隆/湖中夫人斩断关系。这是湖中夫人始料未及的结果，孤注一掷的她，去依靠毛德列，却不知道他早已在养母的教唆下背弃了阿瓦隆的真义。
父子俩在战场上的厮杀毁灭了阿瓦隆最后的继承人，当上帝的子民越来越多，也就意味着阿瓦隆的魔力在人世间越来模糊。阿瓦隆不可避免的消失在了茫茫的白雾中。

阿瓦隆的衰灭是片子的主线，穿插其中的，才是亚瑟王和他的骑士们：兰斯洛特的骑士之爱，毛德列的大逆不道，卡米洛城，圆桌，战争……
这还是不是原汁原味的亚瑟王？或许，像克里夫·欧文那样浴血疆场的才是更加贴近历史的真实（《亚瑟王》）；或许，像肖恩·康纳利那样庄严凛然才是“永远的王”（《第一骑士》）；或许……
谁知道呢，谁又曾知道呢？The mists of Avalon!


导演：Uli Edel
编剧：Marion Zimmer Bradley (novel)/Gavin Scott (teleplay)
演员:
Anjelica Huston ..... Viviane
Julianna Margulies ..... Morgaine
Joan Allen ..... Morgause
Samantha Mathis ..... Gwenwyfar
Caroline Goodall ..... Igraine
Edward Atterton ..... Arthur
Michael Vartan ..... Lancelot
Michael Byrne ..... Merlin
Hans Matheson ..... Mordred
官方网站：http://tnt.turner.com/movies/tntoriginals/mists/

注：根据资料，得知1998年，美国曾出品《Merlin》（《梅林》），想来是另一种视角，根据评价“瑰丽的爱与魔法”猜测，写的应该是梅林与湖中夫人爱恨交织的一段，而布列松的《兰斯洛特》不知道，什么时候能有机缘一睹

The movie “the mists of Avalon” is a very different movie to tell the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female character including his mother Igraine; his half-sister Morgaine; his aunt Viviane, the Lady of the Lake and his wife, Gwenwyfar. The film also shows the decline of people’s faith in Avalon. The film is set in the period when Christian invaded England and people’s faith in Avalon gradually declined.
The distinction between this film and others is that rather than casting Arthur as a distant, unknown person with little or no explanation but from the perspective of the female characters to show a different Arthur. On the other hand, the focus of this film is Arthur’ sister, is presented as a woman with unique gifts and responsibilities at a time of enormous political and spiritual upheaval who is called upon to defend her indigenous matriarchal heritage against impossible odds. The film stands as a watershed for feminist interpretation of male-centered myth by articulating women's experiences at times of great change and shifts in gender-power. The typical battles, quests, and feuds of King Arthur's reign, however, act as secondary elements to the women's lives.

看时介绍说是一部迷你电视连续剧，是用女性特有的细腻为我们讲述了有关女神和她如何在历史的长河中失落的故事。我想应该是这样的，最令我印象深刻及心疼的应该就是莫根了，她是亚瑟王的姐姐，也许因为是神母教的传人，她有着超越常人的坚强，但同样的她也只是一个徘徊在信仰与情感之间的柔弱女子，但在经历了粉身碎骨的痛苦之后，她明白了自己的使命并拥有了心灵，但正是因为这样，才让人更觉得心疼，心疼她所经历的一切，心疼她的身不由己。最终，迷雾笼罩了整个阿瓦隆，死亡和失落终结了这个时代，虽然有太多的不舍，但又何尝不是这个时代该有的命运呢。这个时代的终结其实与任何人都无关，人类文明的进步毁灭的又岂止是这些。

The Mists of Avalon
The movie “the mists of Avalon” is a very different movie to tell the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female character including his mother Igraine; his half-sister Morgaine; his aunt Viviane, the Lady of the Lake and his wife, Gwenwyfar. The film also shows the decline of people’s faith in Avalon. The film is set in the period when Christian invaded England and people’s faith in Avalon gradually declined.
The distinction between this film and others is that rather than casting Arthur as a distant, unknown person with little or no explanation but from the perspective of the female characters to show a different Arthur. On the other hand, the focus of this film is Arthur’ sister, is presented as a woman with unique gifts and responsibilities at a time of enormous political and spiritual upheaval who is called upon to defend her indigenous matriarchal heritage against impossible odds. The film stands as a watershed for feminist interpretation of male-centered myth by articulating women's experiences at times of great change and shifts in gender-power. The typical battles, quests, and feuds of King Arthur's reign, however, act as secondary elements to the women's lives.

       《阿法隆的迷雾》这部电影让我接触到了宗教之外的另一圣域：女神和阿法隆。摩根作为神女教的继承人，不得不离开自己同母异父的亲弟弟亚瑟而前往阿法隆。为了各自的历史使命他们分道扬镳，然而命运却又戏弄搬地让他们“重逢”，摩根被欺瞒而怀上亚瑟的孩子，但是这孩子却被人利用来夺位。不得不说摩根的命运是悲剧的，但是她却坚强面对，由最初的叛逆不屈服到后来的明白自己使命并拥有心灵的安宁。