片名：《來自地球的人》 Man From Earth
嘿，夥伴 Hey, buddy.
不浪費你時間嘛，不是嗎？ You don't waste time, do you?
我盡量 I try not to.
那麼，你需要幫忙嗎？ Well, you need help?
當然 Sure.
你想要告訴我們… would you like to tell us
這到底是怎麼回事嗎？ What the hell that was all about?
我不喜歡說再見 I don't like good-Byes.
這就是離別派對的意義所在，約翰 Kind of the point of a good-Bye party, john.
一起經歷了這麼多麻煩，你知道嗎？ Went to a certain amount of trouble, you know?
就不能再多待一會兒嗎？ Could've at least stayed a few minutes, huh?
吃一些我們熱心準備的食物？ Eaten some of the food we so feverishly prepared?
我道歉，哈利 I apologize, harry.
你為什麼走得這麼匆忙？ But why are you moving so quickly?
你幾天前才辭職的 You only resigned a couple of days ago.
你拿到史丹佛歷史系職位了 You got the history chair at stanford.
我希望 I wish.
嗯，墨西哥玉米餅、雞翅膀 Well, taquitos, chicken wings,
調味燒烤和啤酒 Roastie-Toasties and beer.
如果我們有更充裕的時間 If we'd had more time,
我們就能弄點更豐盛的了 We'd have done something a little more grandiose.
在麥當勞吃燭光晚餐 Candlelight dinner at mcdonald's.
脫衣舞女郎 Strippers.
墨西哥玉米餅就可以了 Taquitos are fine.
好吧 A'right.
阿特也會過來 art's gonna be along, too.
他正在跟一個學生說話 He's, uh, talking to a student. Pfft.
是喬治要頂替你的職位嗎？ Is george taking over for you?
喬治或者是欽貝爾，院長決定了嗎？ George or trimbell, Has the dean made up his mind?
他還沒宣佈 He hasn't called.
我的天啊！ My god!
這…這是什麼？ Wh-What is this?
看起來像是梵谷的畫 It looks like a van gogh,
但我以前從沒見過 But i've never seen it before.
這是真品嗎，約翰？ is that an original, john?
不是，只是某人給我的禮物 No, it's just a gift someone gave me.
不過，這是個上乘的複製品 Still, it's a superb copy.
我想應該是同一時期的 Contemporaneous, i think,
我能仔細看看嗎？ May i take a closer look?
請便 Please, yeah.
嗯，跟梵谷用的框架一樣 Yeah, it's the same stretcher as van gogh used.
背後有寫著法文 Yeah, there's writing on the back in french.
喔，"致我的朋友雅克·波恩" Oh, "to my friend jacque borne."
知道那是誰嗎？ Wonder who that was?
我猜是他認識的某個人吧 Someone he knew, i guess.
推論得很好，福爾摩斯 Brilliant deduction, sherlock.
想必你會找人鑑定、估價吧？ Surely you'll have this looked at, appraised?
這個，再說吧 Well, maybe sometime,
但我不會真的想拿它換錢 But i wouldn't really want money for it.
就這樣吧 That does it.
把東西放到廚房去 Put that stuff in the kitchen.
不，我要放到浴室，約翰 No, i'm gonna put it in the bathroom, john.
煤氣停了，還能用電 Gas is off, electricity's on.
大家不要拘束 Get comfortable while you can.
傢俱下午就要搬走了 The furniture's going this afternoon.
我好多年沒坐在地板上了 It's been years since i sat on a floor.
我都不記得她的名字了 Heh. I can't remember her name.
呃，那樣對背脊很好 Eh, it's good for the back.
我們可以做瑜珈嗎？ Can we do yoga exercises?
可以做密宗瑜珈 (男女雙修) tantric yoga, we can.
那麼你還要等我們問嗎？ So you're leaving good old "we teach u."
你得承認這一切太突然了 Rather suddenly, you must admit.
說實話吧，約翰 Truth time, john.
有什麼困難嗎？ Is there a problem?
沒有 No.
喔，拜託，你知道我們想要幫忙 Oh, come on, you know we wanna help.
很感激，不過真的… That's appreciated, but really…
沒有什麼困難 There's no problem.
現在我很好奇了 Well, now i am curious.
你要去哪裡？ Where are you going?
放棄了教授的職位… Givin' up tenure…
十年的教授生涯 A decade of professorship,
成為系主任的機會 In line to chair the department,
你卻不知道你要去哪裡？ And you don't know where you're going?
就當是幽閉恐懼症吧 Call it cabin fever.
經過一段時間，我就會待不住 After a while, i get itchy feet.
我以前都是這樣的 I've done this before.
不，不可能 你才這麼年輕，怎麼可能 No, no, no, you're too young to have done this before.
而他這十年來絲毫都不會變老 And he hasn't aged a day in ten years.
每個女教職員 Every woman on the faculty
都會不惜一切找到他的秘訣 Would give anything to have that secret.
她們就是為了追逐這個嗎，伊迪絲？ Is that what they're after, edith?
喔，少來了，哈利 Oh, stop, harry.
哇，你能拉動這個嗎？ Wow, can you pull this?
天哪 what the hell?
你都獵殺什麼？ What do you hunt?
大多數是鹿吧 Deer, mostly.
有時也獵殺熊 Around big bear.
就靠弓和箭？ With a bow and arrow?
大多數人也打不到一隻鹿 Most people can't bag a deer
就算有來福槍和瞄準鏡 With a rifle and a telescopic sight.
不過鹿肉的確好吃 Though, good eatin'.
最好的野外遊戲 The best wild game.
活得自然，吃得自然 Lives naturally, eats naturally.
嗯，很不錯 well, it's beautiful.
阿特 Art.
啊 Ah.
那麼，我能拿個"A"吧？ So, can i get an "a" for awesome?
喔，我的天 Oh, my gosh.
很好玩 That was fun.
嘿，約翰 Hey, john.
你認識琳達，你上學期教過她 You know linda. You had her last semester.
你好 Hi. Hey.
她現在是我的人了 我正要帶她回家 She's one of my victims now. I'm taking her home.
她想過來打聲招呼，說再見 She wanted to come by and say hello good-Bye.
阿特是不是像我聽到的一樣難搞？ Is art as tough as i hear?
喔，考古學是很難搞的 Oh, archaeology's tough.
詹金斯博士是個好老師 Dr. Jenkins is a fine teacher.
喔，回答得很圓滑 oh, that's very politic.
是真的啊 嗯 It's very true. Uh-Huh.
給你帶著路上看 Something for you to read on the road, pal.
《洞穴的陰影：與早期人類的共同點》 "Shadows of the cave: parallels to early man. "
作者：M·詹金斯 Author: m. Jenkins.
出版或是銷毀 Publish or perish.
我寧可閱讀 I'd rather read
而不想寫一本 Than write another one.
謝謝你 Thank you.
嗨 Hi.
喔，各位，這是琳達 Oh, everybody, this is linda.
琳達，跟大家打個招呼 Linda, this is everybody.
你好，琳達 Linda. Hi.
那麼 So.
你要去哪裡，約翰？ 像我們真的關心似的 Where you going, john, like we give a damn?
我們已經問過了 we've already covered that.
約翰的腳癢了，待不住了 John's got itchy feet.
有非處方藥物可以治療啊，約翰 There are over-The-Counter remedies for that, john.
那麼是有困難了 So there is a problem.
沒有 No.
我只是喜歡不定期的移居 I just like to move on now and then.
這是個人問題 It's a personal thing.
那就不要干涉隱私了 Well, not to pry.
很抱歉，我沒有什麼可以招待你們 I'm sorry i don't have more to offer you.
只能聊聊天，歇歇腳 Got conversation, some seats for your behinds,
還有… And, uh…
他又在躲避我們了？ is he ducking out on us again?
我倒是有這個 …i do have this.
喔喔喔！約翰走路綠牌威士忌！ Oh ho ho! Johnny walker green!
真不知道他們還做綠色的 didn't even know they made it in green.
他們付給你多少錢？ What do they pay you?
反正不夠好招待我的朋友 Nothing is too good for my friends.
不過很抱歉，現在只能用塑膠杯了 But i'm sorry, We are down to plastic cups now.
這種褻瀆我還是能容忍的 That's a sacrilege I'll tolerate.
我來倒酒吧 I will do the honors.
喔，出來吧 Oh, come to papa.
喔！來，杯子，杯子 Ooh! Here, cups, cups.
來吧 There we go.
過來一點 Step on in here.
給你… There ya go…
給主角一杯…借過一下，阿特？ One for the birthday boy Excuse me. Art?
不，我不要 No, not for me.
喔，不，我不喝酒 Oh, no, I don't drink.
我們不會記你過的，親愛的 we're not gonna card you, darling.
好吧，那至少過來舉個杯 All right, here, join the circle at least.
祝長壽、好運 Well, to long life and good fortune
祝我們尊敬的朋友 To our esteemed friend
以及同事，約翰·奧德曼 And colleague, john oldman.
願他能找到恩賜的福氣 May he find undeserved bliss
無論他到何處去 Wherever he goes.
來，來 Here, here.
祝你健康 (俄語) Skael. Na zdorovye.
乾杯，約翰 One off the top, john.
喔，太棒了 Mm! Oh, that's good.
不好意思 Excuse me.
約翰，我們都很遺憾見到你離開 John, we're all sorry to see you go.
真的 Truly.
好，就這樣吧 Okay. Now we're done with that,
那麼下午剩餘時間我們要做什麼呢？ What do we do for the rest of the afternoon?
誰有好的話題嗎？ Anyone got a good topic?
說說這個怎麼樣？ Like this, maybe? Heh.
那是什麼？ What is that?
這是一個鸚鵡喙的雕刻刀石器 It's a burin of a parrot beak.
傾斜的雕琢點… Inclined chisel point…
可能是前馬格德林時期的 Probably early magdalenian.
我能看看嗎？ 當然 may i see that? Sure.
的確是，沒錯 Yes indeed, that's what it is.
雕刻刀石器是什麼？ What's a burin?
雕刻刀石器是一種打火石 A burin is a flint tool
用來在木頭和骨頭 特別是鹿角上挖槽 For grooving wood and bone, antlers especially,
用來製作長矛和魚叉 To make spear and harpoon points.
馬格德林人 並沒有使用打火石的記載 Magdalenians weren't noted for flint work,
所以這是一個很重要的標本 So this is a very nice specimen.
好吧，馬格德林是什麼？ Okay, what's a magdalenian?
晚期的克羅馬儂人 A later cro-Magnon,
沒有生產技術 Without gettin' technical.
是舊石器時代最後的文化 It's the final culture of the upper paleolithic.
如果石頭會說話就好了 對吧，阿特？ If stones could speak, eh, art?
你從哪裡得到這個的，約翰？ So where'd you get that, john?
信不信由你，在一家舊貨店買的 只花了兩毛五 Believe it or not, from a thrift shop A quarter.
你運氣可真好！ You lucky dog!
我也要去挖掘這種東西 I gotta go digging for this kind of stuff.
我能…？ Can i, uh…？
好 Yeah.
嗯 Huh.
也許… Maybe…
我很高興你們這樣做 I'm glad you did this.
做什麼？你是說來這裡？ Did what? You mean come over?
也許？ Maybe?
當然 Definitely.
哦，謝謝 Gee, thanks.
嗯，我們也很高興 Well, so are we.
我們也是 So are we.
我們不能讓你就這麼走了 We couldn't let you just run off.
謝謝 Thanks.
約翰，到底怎麼了？ John, what is up, huh?
你是美國的通緝犯嗎？ Are you on america's most wanted?
我們不會告發你的 We won't turn you in.
是啊，快點說吧 Yeah, come on, out with it.
我們都是朋友 You're among friends.
愛管閒事的朋友 Snoopy friends.
算了吧 Forget it.
你在製造神秘 You are creating the mystery here.
顯然你有話要說，說吧！ Obviously, you have something you'd like to say. Say it!
嗯，也許我… Well, maybe i...
十、九、八、七… Ten, nine, eight, seven…
哈利，別這樣 Harry, stop.
我想我要試著告訴你們一些事情 There is something i'm tempted to tell you, i think.
我以前從沒說過 也不知道說出來會怎樣 I've never done this before, and i wonder how it'll pan out.
我想知道 是否能問你們一個愚蠢的問題 I wonder if i could ask you a silly question.
約翰，我們是老師 John, we're teachers.
我們總是在回答愚蠢的問題 We answer silly questions all the time.
嘿！ Hey!
假使一個來自舊石器時代的人 What if a man from the upper paleolithic
一直存活到今天呢？ Survived until the present day?
你說存活是什麼意思？ What do you mean, survived?
從沒死過？ Never died?
對，他會是什麼樣子？ Yes. What would he be like?
嗯，我知道一些人 Well, i know some guys.
你去過奧沙克高原嗎？ You ever been to the ozarks?
這是個有趣的想法 It's an interesting idea.
怎麼，你是在寫科幻小說嗎？ What, are you working on a science fiction story?
就算是吧，這個人會是什麼樣子？ Say i am. What would he be like?
會很累 Pretty tired.
嗯，說真的 Well, seriously,
就像阿特的書名所說的 As art's book title suggests,
他也許跟我們都一樣 He might be like any of us.
丹，一個穴居人？ Dan. A caveman?
嗯，在解剖學上 Well, there's no anatomical difference
一個克羅馬儂人和我們並沒有區別 Between, say, a cro-Magnon and us.
除了我們會長得更高些 Except that as a rule, we've grown taller.
身高進化的優勢是什麼？ What's the selective advantage of height?
在草叢中更容易看見掠食者，親愛的 Better to see predators in tall grass, my dear.
實際上，越高越瘦 Actually, tall and skinny
在溫暖的氣候中，就越能有效的散發體熱 Radiates heat more effectively in warmer climates.
原始人也是 And as for neanderthals,
我是說，我們都見過類人猿 I mean, we've all seen apish people.
我們仍然擁有這種特徵 That strain's still with us.
但他會是個穴居人 But he'd be a caveman.
不，他不會 No, he wouldn't.
約翰假設的那個人 John's hypothetical man
已經活了140個世紀… Would have lived through 140 centuries…
嗯，差不多 Yeah, roughly.
…而且一直隨著時代在改變 …and changed with every one of them.
我是說，假如是一般的智商 I mean, assuming normal intelligence.
我們認為舊石器時代的人 Well, we think men of the upper paleolithic
跟我們有一樣的智慧 Were as intelligent as we are.
只是他們知道的比較少 They just didn't know as much.
約翰假設的那個人，會隨著人類的發展學習 John's man would have learned as the race learned.
實際上，如果他有求知慾 In fact, if he had an inquiring mind,
他的知識將會非常驚人 His knowledge might be astonishing.
如果你真的寫了那本書，一定要給我看看 If you do write that, let me have a look at it.
我肯定你會犯一些人類學的錯誤 I'm sure you'll make some anthropological boners.
好啊 It's a deal.
他靠什麼生存？ What would keep him alive?
生物學家怎麼說？ What does the biologist say?
香煙 Cigarettes.
還有冰淇淋 And ice cream.
好，好，我說 All right, all right, i'll play.
好吧，嗯，從科幻小說的角度 All right, um, in science fiction terms,
我會說… I would say…
他靠的是完美的身體細胞再生功能 Perfect regeneration of the body's cells,
特別是一些重要器官的細胞 Especially in the vital organs.
實際上，人類身體的功能 Actually, the human body appears designed
是可以活到190歲左右 To live about 190 years.
我們大多數人都是死於慢性中毒 Most of us just die of slow poisoning.
也許那個人做了某些正確的事情 Maybe he did something right,
一些其他人都做錯的事情 Something everybody else in history had done wrong.
是什麼，像是吃食物 What, like eat the food,
喝水和呼吸空氣嗎？ Drink the water, and breathe the air?
在近代之前 Prior to modern times,
那些東西都是很純淨的 Those were pristine.
我們已經把生命延伸到… We've extended our lifespan in a world that's, uh…
一個不適合居住的世界 Not fit to live in.
你知道，是有這種可能的 You know, it could happen.
胰臟細胞24小時代謝一次 The pancreas turns over cells every 24 hours,
胃壁細胞要三天 The stomach lining in three days,
整個人體需要七年 The entire body in seven years,
但這個過程會衰退 But the process falters.
廢物累積終將導致功能喪失 Waste accumulates, eventually proves fatal to function.
如果那個人的免疫系統出現突變 Now if a quirk in his immune system
產生完美的解毒功能 Led to perfect detox,
完美的復原功能，那就行了 Perfect renewal, then yeah.
他就能躲過衰老 He could duck decay.
嗯，我們都想擁有這個秘訣 Mm, that's a secret we'd all love to have.
你們真的想要那樣嗎？ Would you really want to do that?
活一萬四千年？ Live 14,000 years?
嗯，如果能保持健康而且不衰老 Well, if i could stay healthy and i didn't age,
為什麼不呢？ I mean, why not?
是啊，多麼好的一個學習機會 Yeah. What a chance to learn.
有人餓了嗎？ Is anyone hungry?
你知道嗎~我越想越覺得有可能 You know, the more i think about it, yeah, it's possible.
任何事都有可能，對吧？ Anything is possible, right?
畢竟，一個時代的魔法，就是另一個時代的科學 After all, one century's magic, another century's science.
他們還以為哥倫布是瘋子，對嗎？ They thought columbus was a nut job, right?
巴斯德(發明了狂犬疫苗)、哥白尼？ Pasteur, copernicus?
還有更早之前的阿里斯塔克(希臘哲學家) Aristarchus long before that.
對 Right.
我曾有機會和哥倫布一起航行 I had a chance to sail with columbus,
只不過我不喜歡冒險 Only i'm not the adventurous type.
我倒是很肯定地球是圓的 I was pretty sure the earth was round,
但在那個時候，我仍然以為 But at that point, i still thought
他也許會在某個邊緣掉下去… He might fall off an edge someplace…
看看周圍，約翰 Look around, john.
我們剛剛都跌倒了 We just did.
我猜這也許是個笑話 I suppose there's a joke in there somewhere,
但我卻不知道哪裡好笑 But i don't get it.
沒什麼好笑的 There's nothing to get.
我們到底在說什麼？ What are we talking about?
我們剛在說一個… We were just talking about a caveman…
一直存活到現在的穴居人 Who survives until the present time.
就像你說的，一旦我學會了學習 As you said, what a chance to learn,
這是多麼好的一個學習機會 Once i learned to learn.
你是不是?在我們來之前就開始喝酒了？ Did you start the whiskey before we got here?
就當這是科幻小說吧 Pretend it's science fiction.
想想看 Figure it out.
好吧，一個…非常老的克羅馬儂人 Okay, a Very old cro-Magnon
一直活到現在 Living until the present.
喔！ Oh!
什麼？ What?
約翰剛剛透露他已經一萬四千歲了 John just confided that he's 14,000 years old.
喔，約翰，你甚至不像超過九百歲 Oh, john, you don't look a day over 900.
好吧，好吧 Okay, okay.
好吧，史巴克，我陪你玩(星艦系列的尖耳瓦肯人) All right, spock, i'll play your little game.
你想說什麼？笑點在哪裡？ What do you want? What's the punch line?
每過十年左右，當人們開始… Every ten years or so, when people start
注意到我不會變老，我就會離開 To notice i don't age, i move on.
很好，反應很快，約翰 That's very good, that's very quick, john.
你寫完了一定要給我看看 I wanna read that story when you're done.
你想知道更多嗎？ You want more?
當然，相當有意思 By all means. This is great.
好吧，現在… All right, now…
那麼你認為你是一個… So you think that you are a…
克羅馬儂人 A, uh, cro-Magnon.
嗯，我沒在學校學過 Well, i didn't learn it in school.
這應該是最接近事實的猜測 That's my best guess,
根據考古學的記載，地圖、人類學的研究 Based on archaeological data, maps, anthropological research.
從美索不達米亞開始 Since mesopotamia,
我已經弄清楚了…最後四千年的事情 I've got the last…4,000 years straight.
你比大多數人還厲害，請繼續吧 You're ahead of most people, so please, go on.
嗯，你們都知道背景知識 Well, you know the background stuff,
那麼我就長話短說了 So i'll make it brief.
在我自稱的第一個生命階段 In what i call my first lifetime,
我活到了大約35歲… I aged to about 35…
就你們現在見到的樣子 What you see.
我成為部落的領袖 I ended up leading my group.
因為他們認為我是有魔力的 They saw me as magical.
我甚至不需要靠鬥爭去獲得 I didn't even have to fight for it.
然後他們產生了恐懼，把我趕跑了 Then fear came, and they chased me away.
他們認為我 They thought that i was
偷了他們的生命來保持年輕 Stealing their lives away to stay young.
吸血鬼神話的史前起源 The prehistoric origin of the vampire myth.
很好！ That is good!
最初的一千年 First thousand years,
我可不是道聽途說的 I didn't know up from sideways.
你是怎麼知道最初的一千年的？ How do you know the first thousand years?
一個有根據的推測，基於… An informed guess, based on what…
我腦海裡殘留的記憶 I've learned in my memories.
大多數人幾乎不記得自己的童年 Most people can scarcely remember their childhood,
但你還保有那時候的記憶？ But you have memories of that time?
像你們一樣，有選擇的保留 Like yours, selective.
生命中的高潮、低潮，還有創傷 You know, the high points, the low points, traumas.
都會永遠留在腦海裡 They stick in the mind forever.
不管是3歲或35歲的事，想起來仍然會覺得隱隱作痛 Put down at 3 or 35, you still feel a twinge.
繼續 Go on.
因為我不會死，我一直遭到追捕 I kept getting chased because i wouldn't die,
所以我學會了加入新的族群 So i got the hang of joining new groups i found.
我也有了週期性遷離的想法 I also got the idea of periodically moving on.
當然了，我們是半遊牧民族嘛 We were semi-Nomadic, of course,
要隨著氣候和獵物遷移 Following the weather and the game we hunted.
頭兩千年很冷 The first 2,000 years were cold.
我們認識到在低海拔區會暖和些 We learned it was warmer at lower elevations.
那是後冰河時期吧，我猜 Late glacial period, i assume.
當時的地勢是怎麼樣的？ What was the terrain like?
山 Mountainous.
西部是廣闊的平原 Vast plains to the west.
西部…這是你從學校裡學到的 West-Something you learned in school.
朝著日落的方向 West-Something you learned in school.
我懷疑我從現在的法國海岸 I suspect i saw the british isles
看到了不列顛群島 From what is now the french coast.
巨大的山脈… Huge mountains…
聳立在深不見底的峽谷的另一側 On the other side of an enormous deep valley
夕陽在峽谷裡投下深深的陰影 That was shadowed by the setting sun.
之後冰河融化了 This is before they were separated
它們就被升起的海平面，從大陸分離開了 From the continent by rising seas, as glaciers melted.
真的發生了嗎？ That happened?
是的，在更新世的末期 Yes, the end of the pleistocene.
到目前為止，他說的都很吻合 So far, what he says fits.
是啊，跟任何一本教科書都吻合 Oh, yeah, into any textbook.
我就是在教科書上發現的 And that's where i found it.
我怎能回想起這麼多知識呢？ How can i have knowledgeable recall
如果我沒有知識的話 If i didn't have knowledge?
這都是追溯回去的 It's all retrospective.
我能做的就是以現代的發現 All i can do is integrate my recollections
來結合我過去的回憶 With modern findings.
穴居人，你要給我當頭一棒… Caveman, you gonna hit me over the head with a club
然後把我拖進臥室裡嗎？ And drag me into the bedroom?
你清醒著會更好玩 You'd be more fun conscious.
喔，約翰 Oh, john.
讓我搞清楚一下 Let me get this straight.
我們不是在說輪迴轉世吧 We're not talking about reincarnation.
你所說的這些回憶 You're not saying that you remember
不管到底是什麼 Whatever the hell it would be,
不會是在兩百個人世 200 separate lifetimes, dying
死而復生、生而復死之類的吧？ And being born again and yada yada?
一次人生 One lifetime.
一些人生 Some lifetime.
哇 Wow.
也許真有輪迴轉世這麼個東西 Maybe there is something to this reincarnation thing.
你注定不斷地回到人世 You're supposed to come back
不斷地學習 Again and again, learn and learn,
約翰，你就以某種方式… And somehow, john, you just managed
超越了所有其他生命 To bypass all the other bodies.
那麼，重點是什麼？ Well, what's the point?
海洋是怎麼樣的？ What about oceans?
很久以後才看到 Didn't see them till much later.
那你怎麼區分海洋和湖泊？ So how would you know an ocean from a lake?
浪濤…和一些其他的特徵 Big waves…Something else
我只能憑回憶推測 I can only surmise in retrospect.
你有好奇過這都是從哪裡來的嗎？ Were you curious about where it all came from?
我們會仰望天空，發出疑問 We would look up at the sky and wonder.
"天上一定有些大人物 "There's gotta be some big guys up there.
不然是什麼造就了地上的這一切？" What else made all this down here?"
起先我以為 At first i thought
自己有毛病… There was something wrong with me…
也許我是個壞人，所以我會不死 Maybe i was a bad guy for not dying.
然後我開始懷疑自己是被詛咒了 Then i began to wonder if i was cursed
或者也許得到了祝福 Or perhaps blessed.
然後我想也許我肩負使命 Then i thought maybe i had a mission.
你仍然這麼覺得嗎？ Do you still think you do?
上帝的行為令人難以捉摸 God works in mysterious ways.
我想我只是偶然而已 I think i just happened.
哇 Wow.
你好 Hello?
什麼事，艾莉？ Yes, ellie?
怎麼了？ What's wrong?
珊蒂？ Sandy?
來了 Coming.
什麼？ Yeah?
這裡有艾莉的期中考卷嗎？ Do we have ellie's midterm here?
有，抱歉 Yeah, sorry.
我把它和期刊放在一起了 I picked it up with the periodicals.
找到了 Got it.
不，你在擔心你的父母嗎？ No, you're worried about your parents?
別…別擔心 Don't…Don't worry.
你過了，是C+ You passed, c+.
照顧好自己吧 Take care of yourself.
好孩子 Good kid.
醫學預科生為什麼要擔心歷史？ What does pre-Med need with history?
知道了 Got it.
謝謝你 Thank you.
抱歉，各位 Sorry, guys.
約翰，請繼續說 John, please continue.
拜託，我還以為都說完了 Come on, i thought we were done with that.
不！繼續吧 No! Let's go on with it.
很有意思 It's interesting.
而且我覺得他說得很有道理 Besides, i think he's making a certain amount of sense.
就像黑格爾，從荒謬的前提推出邏輯 Like hegel Logic from absurd premises.
那幅梵谷的畫呢？ That van gogh?
是他給我的 he gave it to me.
我那時候叫做雅克·波恩 I was, uh, jacque bourne at the time,
一個養豬農民 A pig farmer.
養豬農民？ A pig farmer?
我喜歡用雙手幹活 I like to work with my hands.
他經常去我那裡作畫 He would come out to the place, paint.
我們談論如何在藝術中捕捉自然 We talked about capturing nature in art.
透納，塞尚，畢卡索 Turner, cezanne, pissarro.
喔，諾爾德的風景畫 Oh, the nolde landscapes.
他不是梵谷那個時代的人 Not in van gogh's time.
否則梵谷會很喜歡他的作品 He would have loved them, though.
是的 Yes.
不過我不明白 Well, i don't understand
你為什麼不記得來自哪裡？ Why you can't remember where you're from.
地理又沒有變化 Geography hasn't changed.
我是從… I learned that in…
韓森教授乏味的課堂上學到的 Professor hensen's tepid lectures.
但你說得沒錯 But you're right.
你五歲的時候住在哪裡？ Where did you live when you were five years old?
小石城 Little rock.
你媽媽帶你去市場嗎？ Your mother, she took you to the market?
對 在哪個方向？ Mm-Hmm. What direction was it?
相對你家來說 From your house.
我不知道 I don't know.
多遠？ How far?
三個街區吧 Um, three blocks.
那裡有沒有什麼地標… Were there any references
讓你記憶猶新的？ That stuck in your mind?
嗯，有一個加油站 Well, there was a gas station
還有一大片田地 And a big field.
媽媽不允許我單獨去那裡 I was told i could never go there alone.
如果你今天回到那裡 And if you went back there today,
還會是一樣的嗎？ Would it be the same?
不會，我肯定完全不同，高樓聳立了 No. I'm sure it's all different and built up.
所以有句老話"家鄉是回不去的" Thus the saying"You can't go home again"
因為已經不存在了 Because it isn't there anymore.
再來想像我的情況… Picture it on my scale-
我在一望無垠的平原上到處移居 I migrated through an endless flat space
新事物層出不窮… Full of endless new things…
森林、山脈、苔原、峽谷 Forests, mountains, tundra, canyons.
我記憶裡的是過去見到的事物 My memory sees what i saw then.
而我眼前的卻是高速公路、擴張的城市 My eye sees freeways, urban sprawl,
以及艾菲爾鐵塔下的麥當勞 Big macs under the eiffel tower.
早些時候，世界變得越來越大 Early on, the world got bigger and bigger,
然後… And then…
試想我必須丟棄多少知識 Think what i've had to unlearn.
現在你又必須離開了 And now you're moving on.
就像你說的，當人們開始談論到我沒有變老 As you've said, there's talk of my not aging,
我就必須離開 And when that happens, i move on.
這麼說來，你就必須換一個身份 Well, it might make sense to set up your next identity,
計劃好下一個十年，然後開始新的生活 Your next ten years, and then just drop into it.
我已經這麼做過幾次了 I've done that a few times,
甚至假裝成我的兒子 Even passed as my own son.
"喔，你也是工程師？ "Oh, you're an engineer, too?
原來你是班的兒子，他是個好人" You're ben's son. He was a good man."
這樣能省掉文書上的麻煩 Saves trouble with credentials and references.
當然，我也搞砸過幾次 On the other hand, i've been busted a few times.
1862年在比利時蹲了一年監獄 Spent a year in jail, belgium, 1862-
我不會忘記那段經歷的 I won't forget that-
因為我偽造了政府申請表 For faking a government application.
你什麼時候來美國的？ When'd you come to america?
1890年，就在梵谷去世之後 1890, right after van gogh's death,
跟一些法國移民一起… With some french immigrants...
搬來的 Moving on.
你回答了所有的問題 An answer for every question.
但還有一個，約翰 Except one, john.
你為什麼告訴我們這些？ Why're you doing this?
突發奇想，也許不是個好主意 A whim. Maybe not such a good idea.
我… I…
我想以真實的身份向你們告別 Wanted to say good-Bye to you as me,
而不是你們所認識的那個我 Not what you thought i was.
嗯，既然這不是笑話 Well, since this isn't funny,
那麼我們覺得你可能會有麻煩 We think you might have a problem.
很大的麻煩 A very serious problem.
我要去搬箱子了 I've got boxes to move.
我來幫你 i'll give you a hand.
你有沒有什麼紀念品或手工製品… Wouldn't you have some relic, an artifact…
能讓你想起早年的生活？ To remind you of your early life?
比如這個？ Like this, maybe?
舊貨店 Thrift shop.
真的？ Really.
如果你活了一百…一千年… If you lived 100…1,000 years…
你還會留著這支筆嗎？ Would you still have this?
你為什麼會想去保存它？ What would cause you to keep it?
紀念你的起源？ As a memento to your beginnings,
更何況你根本就沒有… Even if you didn't have…
起源的概念？ The concept of beginnings?
它會被丟掉、遺失了 It would be gone, lost.
不 No.
我沒有什麼手工藝品 I don't have artifacts.
留著吧 Keep that.
有意思 Interesting.
你本來可以撒謊的 You could have lied about that.
我不在的時候不要談論我 Don't talk about me while i'm gone.
他是認真的？ Is he serious?
如果是，我很遺憾地說他… If he is, i'm sorry to say he's...
喔，他怎麼能把這個秘密隱藏了十年？ Oh, how could he have concealed that for ten years?
至少他看起來並不危險 Least he doesn't appear to be dangerous.
你在幹嘛？ What are you doing?
看看有沒有隱藏的麥克風 Checkin' for a hidden mic.
或者偷拍攝影機 Candid camera.
他捏造了這些瘋狂的故事 He's fabricating these wild stories.
我從沒見過他這樣 I've never seen him acting like this.
喔，太瘋狂了 Oh, it's crazy.
好吧，好吧，你儘快 All right, all right, as soon as you can, then.
我愛你，你知道的 I love you, you know.
我知道 I know.
從我來辦公室的第一週起 Since my first week at the office.
你呢？ And?
我很在乎你 I care very much about you,
但現在你知道是什麼情況了 But now you know what you'd be getting into.
你真的認為自己是個穴居人嗎？ Do you really think you're a caveman?
你認為呢？ Do you?
你能愛我嗎？ Could you love me,
還是你已經不再相信愛情了？ Or don't you believe in that anymore?
我經歷過太多次了 I've gotten over it too many times.
我喜歡你… Fond of you...
當然我被你吸引住了 Certainly attracted to you.
就這樣？ That's it?
我可以試著解決問題 I can work with that.
如果我說的都是事實 If what i'm saying is true,
你和我們的孩子會老去 You and any children will age.
而我不會 I won't.
總有一天我會離開 And one day i'll leave.
你則會再次重複老夫少妻的故事 You'll go back to your may-December romances.
事實很簡單 The simple fact is
我不能承諾你永遠 That i can't give you forever.
永遠有多遠？ How long's forever?
誰又真的得到過？ Who ever really has it?
我父母在我出生前就分開了 My parents split up before i was born,
我母親的第二次婚姻只持續了… And then my mom's next marriage lasted
多久？整整三年？ What, a whole three years?
然後是生老病死 只在上帝一念之間… Then there's death, illness, acts of god...
沒人知道他們的生命有多長久 No one knows how long they have.
或多短暫 Or how little.
我愛你 I love you.
你想從我這裡拿走什麼都可以 Take whatever you can get.
比如一個十年？ Like ten years?
你幹嘛這樣？ Why did you do that?
想看看你有多快 測試一下反應速度 I wanted to see how fast you were. Check your reflexes.
我腦袋後面可沒長眼睛 I don't have eyes in the back of my head,
我也聽不到跳蚤的腳步聲 I can't hear a flea walking,
我不是什麼超人 I am not in any way superman.
嗯，我可是黑帶二段呢 Well, i'm a second-Degree black belt.
那就再練一千年吧 Give it another thousand years.
好吧，知道了，知道了 Well. I got it, i got it, i got it.
天哪 Jesus.
優雅的示範，哈利 Smooth demonstration, harry.
坐下來，丹 Sit on it, dan.
我還有一些問題 i still have questions.
我也有，約翰 i-I do too, john.
我是說，史前部分講完了嗎？ I mean, are we done with prehistory yet?
你還記得任何你的原始語言嗎？ Remember any of your original language?
一點點，有件事沒有改變太多… A little. One thing hasn't changed much...
你畫過洞穴壁畫嗎？ Did you ever do any cave art?
你知道法國埃齊耶的彩繪壁畫？ Do you know the rock art at les eyzies?
嗯 Mm-Hmm.
那是一個叫做… It was the work of a man named...
吉羅的人 Giraud.
他擅長繪畫 He did a pretty good job.
他能畫出那些… He would draw the animals
我們想要找來吃的動物 That we hoped to find to eat.
有一天我們打獵毫無收穫 One day after a fruitless hunt,
我們酋長把他的牙齒打掉了 Our chief stomped his teeth out
因為這次他的魔法失效了 Because his magic had failed him.
之後他只能靠別人咀嚼食物餵他 After that, someone had to chew his food for him.
最後，他得了…我猜想是… Finally, he got- I suspect-
下巴傷口感染 An infected jaw,
於是他被遺棄了 And he was abandoned.
真可怕 That's awful.
你必須知道該獵殺什麼 You have to know what to kill.
這就是所有你的學生… Is this why all your students
都認為你的歷史知識 如何淵博的原因嗎？ Say your knowledge of history is...So amazing?
不，大部份還是學習所得的知識 No, that's mostly based on study.
記住，這只是一個人一次只能在一個地方 Remember, it's one man, one place at a time,
我獨自 My solitary viewpoint
對我幾乎一無所知的世界的觀點 Of a world i knew almost nothing about.
那麼，我們來談談… Well, let's talk about
你親身經歷的… What you say you do know about-
歷史時期吧 Historical times.
別慫恿他 Don't encourage him.
伊迪絲 Edith.
之後幾千年，氣候變暖和了 Next few thousand years, it got warmer.
幾千年… A few thousand years-
看吧，現在我知道你在猜測 See, now, i know you're guessing.
你很難推算出具體時間，阿特 You can't get there from here, art.
好吧，請繼續 Well then, pray, continue.
我們獵殺馴鹿、長毛象… We hunted reindeer, mammoths-
野牛、野馬 Bison, horses,
狩獵漸漸北移 The game retreated northward
隨著氣候的變化 As the climate changed,
你們學會了種植糧食 You got the idea of growing food
而不僅僅是去採集 Rather than gathering it,
飼養動物而不僅僅是獵殺牠們 Raising animals rather than hunting them.
我是不是把氣氛挑起來了？ Am-Am i getting warm, here?
我想是的 I bet i am.
人們開始依湖而居 Lakeside living becomes commonplace,
捕魚、打鳥… Fishing, fowling
得了吧！ Come on!
約翰，這都是教科書上的東西 John, this is out of any textbook.
甚至是你的書 Even yours.
你說的大都正確 You got most of it right.
最後我向東而行 Eventually i headed to the east.
我對世界感到越來越好奇 I'd grown curious about the world.
我掌握了獨自旅行的技巧 I'd gotten the hang of going it alone,
學會如何在我想要時融入人群 Learning how to fit in when i wanted to.
東方 East.
朝著太陽升起的地方？ Towards the rising sun?
是的，我以為那邊會暖和一些 Yes. I thought it might be warmer there.
那時我看到了海洋 That's when i saw an ocean.
可能是地中海 The mediterranean, probably.
大約是在青銅時代的初期 It was around the beginning of the bronze age,
所以我沿著東方的貿易之路前行 So i followed the trade routes from the east,
銅、錫 Copper, tin,
一路上學習語言 Learning languages as i went.
每個地方，都有創世神話 Everywhere, creation myths,
各種神靈，如此之多 差別如此之大 New gods, so many, so different.
我終於意識到這麼做… I finally realized that it was...
也許是毫無意義的 Probably all hogwash,
所以我當了兩千年的蘇美人 So i was sumerian for 2,000 years,
直到漢摩拉比統治巴比倫 Then finally babylonian under hammurabi.
他是個偉人 Great man.
後來我又成為腓尼基人 航行了一段時間 And i sailed as a phoenician for a time.
作為狩獵者是很容易移居的 See, moving on had been easier as a hunter-Gatherer...
但村莊出現之後就難了 Difficult when villages emerged,
在集權城市出現後更加困難 Tougher still in city states where authority was centralized.
陌生人總是被人懷疑 Strangers were suspect.
不過我仍然不停地移居 It seemed as though i was always moving on.
我還學會了新的技巧 I learned some new tricks-
有幾次甚至還裝死 Even faked my death a couple of times.
我繼續東行 I continued east
到了印度 To india,
很幸運趕上了佛陀的時代 Luckily at the time of the buddha.
很幸運 Luckily.
他是我所遇見過最非凡的人 Most extraordinary man i've ever known.
他教了我很多 He taught me things
我從沒想過的事 I'd never thought about before.
你跟隨…佛陀學習？ You studied... with the buddha?
直到他死去 Until he died.
他知道我有些與眾不同 He knew there was something different about me.
但我從沒告訴過他 I never told him.
真是令人著迷 This is fascinating.
我幾乎相信這是真的了 I almost wish it were true.
對阿 如果是真的，你為什麼要告訴我們？ Yeah, if it was true, why are you telling us?
我是說，也許我們離開以後 I mean, we might leave here today,
會到處去說 Go out there, tell everybody.
它會在懷疑中逐漸被人們淡忘的 It would vanish in disbelief.
房間裡講的故事 A story that goes around the room.
沒什麼可信度 No credibility.
即使我能讓你們相信我 Even if i could make you believe me,
一個月後，你們還是會懷疑 In a month, you wouldn't.
可能有人還會叫我神經病 Some of you would call me a psychopath,
其他人則會為無意義的玩笑而惱怒 Others would be angry at a pointless joke.
有人已經開始生氣了 Some of us are angry now.
這…這是個壞主意 This...This was a bad idea.
呃 我愛你們，不想讓你們 Uh, i love you all, and i do not want
經歷任何不快 To put you through anything.
那你幹嘛還這麼做？ Then why are you doing it?
因為我想說再見… Cause i wanted to say good-Bye-
以你自己的身份 As yourself.
我想你已經做到了 I think you've done that,
不管你自己是什麼人 Whoever that self is.
放輕鬆，伊迪絲 Easy, edith.
我們只是在給他打分數 We're just grading his homework.
我知道是怎麼回事 你在扮好人 丹 I see what's going on. You're playing the good cop, dan.
沒關係，好好享受吧 That's fine. Just enjoy it.
很好 但我認為這整件事都只是鬼扯！ All right, i think this whole thing is just a crock!
我本來該走了，但我會留下 I should leave, but i'm gonna stay.
知道為什麼嗎？ 因為我想知道這是怎麼回事 You know why? Cause i wanna see what this is all about.
我也是，這到底是怎麼回事？ So do i. What is this all about?
讓我們問問剛到的佛洛伊德博士 let's ask dr. Freud, who's just arrived.
嘿，威爾，威爾！ Hey, will! Will!
嗨 阿特 Art. Hey.
約翰！ John!
很高興趕上了 I'm glad i caught you.
有人說你要搬走了… Someone mentioned that you were leaving-
給你電話留言了 Called you, told you that i've lost it.
很高興你能來 事情變得有些出乎意料 Glad you're here. Things are going in unexpected directions.
是啊，我聽說了 Yes, so i hear.
嗨 Hi.
你餓了嗎？ Are you hungry?
喔，謝謝你，不餓 Uh, thank you, no.
喝威士忌嗎？ Whiskey?
約翰走路綠牌 Johnny walker green.
喔，好 Oh, yes.
你看起來很面熟，親愛的 You look very familiar, my dear.
我是琳達·墨菲 Linda murphy.
我選修了你週二的心理課 格魯柏博士 I'm in your tuesday psych 1 class, dr. Gruber.
啊，看來這門課… Ah, well, this lesson
變得有意思了 may be something I could not have imagined.
那我就不客套了，約翰 I regret being so obvious about this, john,
但是這些人都很關心你 But these people are all very concerned for you.
是啊 我正在剪紙恐龍呢 Yes, i'm cutting out paper dinosaurs.
真希望我從開始就在這裡了 I really wish i'd been here from the beginning.
我也是 Me too.
我想說幾句 Let me just say something right now.
世界上沒有任何方法 There's absolutely no way in the whole world
可以證實約翰所說的故事 For john to prove this story to us,
而我們也無法反駁 Just like there's no way for us to disprove it.
不論我們覺得如何荒唐 No matter how outrageous we think it is,
也不論我們自以為多麼學識淵博 No matter how highly trained some of us think we are,
都沒辦法去反駁他 There's absolutely no way to disprove it.
我們這位朋友不是穴居人 就是個騙子 或瘋子 Our friend is either a caveman, a liar, or a nut.
所以我們與其懷疑 So while we're thinking about that,
為什麼不就讓他說下去？ Why don't we just go with it?
我的意思是，見鬼，誰知道呢 I mean, hell, who knows,
也許是他說服我們 He might jolt us into believing him,
也許是我們把他拉回現實 Or we might jolt him back to reality.
說服？ Believing?
誰的現實？ Whose reality?
這麼說…你是個穴居人 So... you're a caveman.
是的，嗯… Yes. Uh...
我想我曾經是個克羅馬儂人 Uh, i was a cro-Magnon, i think.
你不確定自己是不是穴居人？ You don't know if you're a caveman or not?
不，這點我確定 No, i'm sure about that.
那就算是克羅馬儂人了 A cro-Magnon, then.
你什麼時候意識到的？ When did you first realize this?
當克羅馬儂人第一次被確認的時候 When the cro-Magnon was first identified,
當人類學家給他們一個名稱的時候 When anthropology gave them a name,
我也就有名稱了 I had mine.
嗯，請繼續 Well, please continue.
我想你應該還有話要說 I'm sure you must have more to say.
你要我躺在沙發上嗎？ Would you like me to lie on the couch?
隨你便 as you wish.
作為一個醫生，我很好奇 As a physician, i'm curious.
在你描述的漫長生命中 In this enormous lifetime you describe,
你曾經生病過嗎？ Have you ever been ill?
當然，跟任何人一樣多 Sure, as much as anyone.
重病呢？ Seriously ill?
有幾次 Sometimes.
什麼病，你知道嗎？ Of what? Do you know?
史前時代的，我無法告訴你 In prehistory, i can't tell you.
也許得過一兩次肺炎 Maybe pneumonia once or twice.
最近幾百年 Last few hundred years,
我得過傷寒、黃熱病… I've gotten over typhoid, yellow fever,
天花…在黑死病中倖存了下來 Smallpox... i survived the black plague.
鼠疫？ Bubonic?
喔 那很恐怖 Oh, that's terrible.
比史書上描述的可怕得多 More so than history describes.
還有天花…但你身上沒有疤痕？ And smallpox...But you're not scarred.
我不會結疤 I don't scar.
不，約翰，那是不可能的 No, john, that is not possible.
拜託，讓我們暫且從表面上 Please, let's take john's story
接受約翰的故事，再作透徹的分析 At face value and explore it from that perspective.
和故事的其他部分相比 不結疤算不上稀奇 If he doesn't scar, it's no stranger than the rest.
約翰，能請你來一下我的實驗室嗎？在你要走前 John, would you please stop by my lab, befor you take off
讓我這個生物學家朋友 Suffer a few tests from
給你做幾個測試 Your friendly neighborhood biologist.
我對實驗室有點戒心 I'm leery of labs.
我怕進去了就會被關上一千年 Afraid i might go in and stay for a thousand years
被抽煙的傢伙研究個不停 While cigarette smoking men try to figure me out.
你該不會認為我會出賣你吧？ You don't think that i would betray you?
隔牆有耳 Walls have ears.
醫學測試也許可以證明你的說法 Medical tests might be a way of proving what you say.
我不想去證明 I don't wanna prove it.
那麼你只是告訴我們 So you're telling us this,
這個世紀奇談 The yarn of the century,
卻不在乎我們是否相信？ And you don't care if we believe it or not?
我想我並不指望你們會相信 I guess i shouldn't have expected you to.
你們可不像你們眼中的我那麼瘋狂 You're not as crazy as you think i am.
阿門 Amen.
我一直很喜歡你 I've always liked you.
是喔？謝謝你，親愛的 Why, thank you, dear.
不過我現在改變看法了 Now that's changing.
你該不會相信這些天方夜譚吧 Surely you don't believe this nonsense.
我想對於我們熟識和信任的人 I think we should remain courteous to someone
應該保留起碼的禮貌吧，伊迪絲 Who we've known and trusted, edith.
你坐在這裡…無法反駁他的故事 Here you sit-You can't break his story.
就只能私底下蔑視他 All you can do is thumb your nose at it.
你是不是就在這麼做，約翰？ Is that what you're doing, john?
在心裡偷偷地嘲笑我們？ Are you laughing at us inside?
我希望你不要那麼想 I wish you didn't feel that way.
你所說的…與常識相牴觸 What you're saying…It offends common sense.
相對論和量子力學也是如此 So does relativity, quantum mechanics-
這就是自然界 That's the way nature works.
但你的故事 和我們所瞭解的自然並不相符 But your story doesn't fit into nature as we know it.
但我們對於自然知之甚少，丹 But we know so little, dan.
我們知道的太少 We know so little.
你們有幾個人認識… How many of you know
自身領域的五個天才學者… Five geniuses in your field
與你們的理論相違背… That you disagree with...
那些你恨不得掐死的天才？ One you would like to strangle?
把他們全都掐死 Strangle them all.
我最不能聽到的是 It's bad enough we have to listen
哈利的那些白痴笑話 To harry's idiotic jokes.
十分感謝，伊迪絲 Thank you very much, edith.
也許到我110歲的時候就能和你一樣聰明了 Maybe when i'm 110, i'll be as smart as you are.
就算你活到約翰那個歲數 If you lived as long as john did,
你還是不會長大成熟的 You still wouldn't grow up.
別這樣了 冷靜點 Come on, guys. Take it easy.
我們多久才能碰到一個 How often do we get to meet someone
自稱來自石器時代的人？ Who says he's a stone age man?
一次就夠了 Well, once is enough.
伊迪絲 Edith.
好吧，以你這樣的心智 All right. A guy with your mind-
一定學了很多東西 You'd have studied a great deal.
我有十個學位，包括你們所有人的… I have ten degrees, including all of yours...
除了你的，威爾 Except yours, will.
這讓我覺得自己真渺小 That makes me feel a trifle lilliputian.
一共花了170年 That's over the span of 170 years.
我1840年在牛津拿到了生物學學位 I got my biology degree at oxford in 1840,
所以我會稍微落後於時代 So i'm a little behind the times.
其他幾門學科也是 The same in other areas-
我無法跟上與日俱增的新知識 I can't keep up with the new stuff that comes along.
沒人能做到 No one can.
即使在他們自己的專業上 Not even in their specialty.
別再說什麼神話傳奇 So much for the myth
超常智慧和所謂的不朽之身了 Of the super-Wise, all-Knowing immortal.
我明白你的意思了，約翰 I see your point, john.
不管一個人活了多久 No matter how long a man lives,
他都無法超越他所處的時代 He can't be in advance of his times.
他不可能比這個族群 知道得更多最優秀的人 He can't know more than the best of the race knows,
如果那樣…我是說 當世人都知道地球是圓的時 If that-I mean, when the world learned it was round,
你也才知道 You learned it.
這需要一些時間 It took some time.
在通訊發達以前 News traveled slowly
消息傳播得很慢 Before communications were fancy.
而且還有社會上的桎梏 There were social obstacles,
和偏見，也有來自教會的阻力 Preconceptions, screams from the church.
十個博士學位 Ten doctorates.
真是不可思議 約翰，你每個都教過嗎？ That's impressive, john. Did you teach them?
一些吧 Some.
你們也都能做到 You might have all done the same.
雖然我活了一萬四千年 但並不代表我是個天才 Living 14,000 years didn't make me a genius.
我有的只是時間 I just had time.
時間 time.
看不著，聽不到 We can't see it, we can't hear it,
無法稱重，也無法在實驗室裡測量 We can't weigh it, we can't measure it in a laboratory.
只能主觀感受其中的變化 It's a subjective sense of becoming
一奈秒之前的我們已經不再 What we are instead of what we were a nanosecond ago,
下一奈秒又會變成另一個人 Becoming what we will be in another nanosecond.
霍皮人將時間視為一種景觀 The hopis see time as a landscape,
存在於我們之前和之後 Existing before and behind us,
而我們移動…在時間中移動 And we move…We move through it,
一片一片地穿越它 Slice by slice.
鐘錶能測量時間 Clocks measure time.
不，它們測量的是自己 No, they measure themselves.
鐘的客觀參照物只是另一個鐘 The objective referent of clock is another clock.
很有意思，但這跟約翰有什麼關係？ How very interesting. What has it got to do with john?
喔，他…他可能是一個… Oh, he-He might be a man
生活在我們所知時間之外的人 Who lives outside of time as we know it.
是啊 Yes, uh, well.
這年頭很多人都會把槍帶在身上 People do go around armed these days.
如果我向你開槍…約翰 你會是不死之身嗎？ If i shot you, john...You're immortal?
你能存活下來嗎？ Would you survive this?
我從沒說過我是不死的 只是活得久 I never said i was immortal, just old.
我也許會死 I might die.
而你也會窮其餘生 And then you could wonder
在監獄裡苦思究竟殺了什麼 The rest of your incarcerated life what you shot.
呃 可以嗎？ Well, uh, may i?
可惜不是槍 Preferable to a gun.
威爾 你有點過份了 Will, that was a bit much.
喔，是書 Ooh. Books.
還有博士文憑 Doctorates.
是啊 你長大了 改變了 Yes, you have grown and changed.
但人總是本性難移 But there is always innate nature.
你會不會覺得… Wouldn't you be more comfortable
蹲在後院裡更舒服？ Squatting in the backyard?
有時候會的，威爾 Sometimes i do, will.
仰望星空 Look up at the stars.
驚歎 Wonder.
那原始人怎麼看這些呢？ And what did primitive man make of them?
一個很大的謎團 A great mystery.
天上有很多神 There were gods up there then.
會看星象的巫師告訴我們的 Shamans who knew about them told us.
他們仍然這麼認為 They still do.
你曾希望這一切會結束嗎？ Have you ever wished it would end?
沒有 No.
一萬四千年 Fourteen thousand years.
傷痛、疾病、災難 Injuries, illness, disasters.
你全都倖存下來了 You've survived them all.
你真的非常幸運 You're a very lucky man.
請進 Come in.
約翰·奧德曼？ John oldman?
是的 Yes.
我們是慈善組織的，來拿傢俱 Charity now. We're here to pick up the furniture.
都是你們的了 It's all yours.
來 搬椅子 Here, take this chair.
我去角落裡喝酒 I'm gonna go drink in the corner.
你…你捐掉這些？ You're, uh... you're donating it?
所有一切？ Everything?
我還會有更多的 I'll get more.
你總是這麼輕裝上路嗎？ Do you always travel this light?
只有這樣才能移居 It's the only way to move.
喔 你… Oh, you-
你已經談了很多 You've talked a good deal
關於你豐富的人生經歷 About your extraordinary amount of living.
你是怎麼看待死亡的，約翰？ What do you think of dying, john?
你害怕死亡嗎？ Do you fear death?
誰不怕呢？ Who wouldn't?
原始人是怎麼看待死亡的？ How did primitive man regard death?
我們的觀念很實際 Well, we had the practical concept.
有人走著走著停下來 You know, we stopped,
倒下去，再也沒有爬起來 Fell down, didn't get up,
然後開始散發惡臭，腐爛 Started to smell bad, come apart.
我們可以理解外傷… Injuries we could understand-
比如有人的內臟跑出來了 If someone's insides were all over the ground.
感染… Infections...
是我們無法理解的謎團 They were, uh, mysterious.
至於衰老… Aging...
則是最大的謎團 The biggest mystery of all.
你意識到自己與眾不同了 You realized you were different.
但我花了更長時間才瞭解到 自己怎樣不同 Longer to realize how i was different,
去尋找方法綜合… To find a way to synthesize
我的經驗變成自己的觀念 My experience into a view of myself.
一開始 我還以為 At first, i thought everybody had
別人都有問題 Something wrong with them.
他們變老，然後死去，動物也是… They got old and they died, animals, too...
但不是我 But not me.
喔 請原諒我，親愛的 Oh, forgive me, my dear.
你過得很簡單 You live simply.
我擁有城堡，但卻老是離開 I've owned castles, but why leave a lot
那我為何要留下許多呢？ If you're always leaving?
我也有錢 I have money.
怎麼 你花五毛錢 買了AT&T的股票了 約翰？ What, you get into at&t at 50 cents, john?
隨著年齡的增長 As one grows older,
時間流逝得越來越快 The days, weeks, months go by more quickly.
一天或者一年 What does a day or a year
或者一個世紀 對你來說意味著什麼？ Or a century mean to you?
生死的循環？ The birth-Death cycle?
是湍流 Turbulence.
我遇到一些人 I meet someone,
知道了他們的名字，說了幾句話 然後他們死去了 Learn their name, say a word, they're gone.
其他人就像海浪，潮來潮去 Others come like waves. Rise, fall.
就像麥田，隨風飄拂 Ripples in a wheat field, blown by the wind.
你曾經覺得厭倦嗎？ Do you ever get tired of it all?
我偶爾會感到厭煩 I get bored now and then.
人們總是重複同樣的愚蠢錯誤 They keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
嘿 Hey.
於是你認為自己 Then you see yourself
跟其他人類分隔開來 As separate from the rest of humanity.
我並不想那樣 I didn't mean it that way.
不過當然… But of course...
我是這麼覺得 I am.
那麼當你知道自己一直活著 Are you comfortable knowing that you have lived
所有你認識的人卻一個一個地死去 While everyone you knew- Everyone you knew, john! -
你覺得好受嗎？ Has died?
對於失去朋友我感到很遺憾 I've regretted losing people...
我時常這樣 Often.
那你是否會覺得內疚… Have you ever felt guilt about that-
類似倖存者會感到的那種內疚？ Something akin to survivor's guilt?
從嚴格的心理學意義上來說？ In the strict psychological sense?
我想我會 I suppose i have.
是的 Yeah.
但我又能怎樣？ But what can i do about it?
的確 Indeed.
很抱歉，女士 I'm sorry, ma'am.
先生們，我… Gentlemen, i'm-
我要留著沙發 I'm gonna keep the couch.
謝謝 Thanks.
女士們？威爾？ Ladies? Will?
喔，不… Oh, no...
你心臟不好，別客氣了 You've got a heart condition. Don't grump about it.
嘿，換個話題好嗎，威爾？ Hey, how about changing the subject, will?
不要再說死亡了 Enough with the With the dying.
但這是他選擇的話題，哈利 But this is the flip side of his coin, harry.
我對他的感受很好奇 I'm very curious to know his feelings.
還是你想讓我問問他的父親？ Would you prefer i asked him about his father?
我以為你們總是先問 I thought you always started with
"談談你的母親吧" "Tell me about your mother. "
是的，但史前時代是父系氏族 Yes, but prehistory was strongly patriarchal.
所以你肯定記得你的父親 Surely you remember your father.
我似乎記得一個輪廓 I seem to remember a figure,
可能是我兄長 也可能是我父親 Perhaps an older brother, a social father, maybe.
無所謂了 Well, no matter.
我都幾乎不記得我父親了 I can scarcely remember mine.
你會不會覺得那是… Do you feel a vacancy
你生命中的一段空白，約翰 In your life about that, john,
你希望能用… Something you wish could be filled
一張臉、一個聲音 一個影像來填補它？ By a face, a voice, an image?
現在不會了 Not at this late date.
一定會有某個人…也許很多人… There must be someone…Probably many…
是你所珍惜的 That you valued intensely.
所摯愛的 Loved.
你看到他們老去和死亡 You saw them age and die-
朋友，同事，或者妻子 A friend, a colleague, a wife.
你肯定有過妻子和孩子吧？ Certainly you've had wives and children?
我會離開 I'd move on.
我必須離開 I had to move on.
他是歷史上重婚次數最多的人了 Making him history's biggest bigamist.
你是否有過這種想法 Have you ever in your life thought
"死去的應該是我"？ "It should have been me"?
也許吧 Maybe.
嗯 阿特告訴過我 Yeah, art has told me
你早期的一些同伴 That some of your early fellows
害怕你偷走了他們的生命 Feared you were stealing their lives.
你有沒有想過這也許是真的？ Have you thought that perhaps you were?
也許你就是如此！ Perhaps you are!
總有這樣的傳說 There have always been legends of such a thing,
一種不完全是人類的生物 A creature not quite human
吸的不是人血，而是別人的生命力？ Taking not the blood, but the life force itself?
天哪 威爾 my god, will.
也許是無意識的 Unconsciously, perhaps,
但卻經由某種生理的或是心理的機能 By some biological or psychic mechanism
我們只能這樣猜測 That we can only guess at.
我並不是說你故意這麼做 I'm not saying you would do such a thing deliberately.
我也不是說你知道如何… I'm not saying that you would even know how to...
你不知道吧？ Would you?
但這樣公平嗎？ But would such a thing be fair?
那麼現在你相信我了？ So you believe me now?
我只是在分析你說過的話 I'm only exploring what you have said.
我信不信又有什麼意義 Whether i believe it or not is of no importance.
我們會死去… We will die...
而你會活著 You will live.
你會參加我的葬禮嗎，約翰？ Will you come to my funeral, john?
嘿 威爾… hey, will...
你扯太遠了 You've gone too far.
約翰並沒有要求成為現在這樣 John didn't ask to be what he is.
而我們也沒有要求聽他講這些 And we did not ask to hear about it.
但如果這些都是真的 But if it were true,
我們之中就沒有人會覺得嫉妒… Is there one among us who would not feel envy,
甚至有一點恨他嗎？ Even perhaps a touch of hatred?
你自己告訴我們的 約翰 You told us of yourself, john.
你能想像我們的感受嗎？ Can you imagine how we feel?
這我從沒想過 I never thought of that.
既然你可能不會死 Since you may not die,
而我們都難逃一死… While we most assuredly will...
這肯定是有原因的吧？ There must be a reason for that, no?
也許你是這方面的專家 Perhaps you are an expert.
我弄完了，奧德曼先生，祝你好運 Uh, that's it, mr. Oldman. Have a good one.
謝謝你 你也一樣 Thank you. You too.
或者你是吸血鬼嗎，約翰？ Or are you a vampire, john?
甚至自己也茫然不知 Even an unknowing one.
你是否會神采奕奕地高高站在… Do you stand alive and tall
自己堆建的墳前？ In a graveyard that you helped to fill?
這太過份了 that's going too far.
你厭倦，也許孤寂，因為你的心 Bored, perhaps lonely, because your heart
無法留存住珍愛的事物 Cannot keep its treasures.
這就是你的所作所為？ Is that what you're doing?
你是否過著不正當的生活？ Have you led a wrongful life?
這樣的話，也許… Well, then, perhaps...
你的死期到了 It is time to die.
等等 Wait a minute, now.
聽著 我不知道約翰在幹什麼 Look, i don't know what john is doing,
但我一點也不喜歡你的舉動 But i sure as hell don't like what you're doing.
把槍給我，否則我會扭斷你手臂 Give me that gun or i'm gonna break your goddamn arm.
你口氣真像足球教練，丹 You sound like our football coach, dan.
你認為如何，約翰？ What do you think, john?
給你手臂來一槍？ A shot to the arm?
也許我們可以看到傷口癒合 Perhaps we could watch it heal.
或者給你腦袋來一槍 A bullet in the head-
到底會發生什麼情況？ What exactly will happen?
我還要去修改論文 I have papers to correct.
儘管我不喜歡這工作 As much as i dislike that job,
但總比這個好多了 It'll be preferable to this.
這裡就留給你們了 I leave you with it.
天哪 Jesus christ.
這到底是怎麼回事？ What the hell was that all about?
他從哪裡弄來的槍？ Where'd he get a gun?
他把你的命捏在手裡 約翰 He had you on the ropes, john.
你真有那麼機敏嗎？ Are you really so damn smart?
威爾不是這樣的 It's not like will.
瑪麗昨天去世了 Mary passed away yesterday.
誰？ Who?
他老婆 His wife.
她得了胰腺癌 She had, uh, pancreatic cancer.
威爾！ Will!
我不知道瑪麗的事 I didn't know about mary.
我很難過 我能理解你多麼受到打擊 I'm sorry. I can see how this might have hit you.
請容許我自己如此幼稚 Please, permit me to be infantile by myself.
威爾 拜託 Will, please.
你到底想幹嘛 阿特？ What the hell were you thinking, art?
少來了 總得做點什麼吧 Oh, come on. Something had to be done.
我同意 I have to say i agree.
他是我們的朋友 And he's our friend.
不管到底發生了什麼事 Whatever else on earth is going on,
他始終是我們的朋友！ He's our friend!
你肯定嗎？ You sure about that?
你為什麼對他這麼刻薄？ Why are you being so hard on him?
我最喜歡的一個人消失不見了 One of my favorite people has disappeared.
你35歲會得老年癡呆症嗎？ Can you get alzheimer's at 35?
也許我想嘗試喚醒他 Maybe i'm trying to wake him up.
也許我太傷心 已欲哭無淚 Maybe i'm too sad to cry.
我對自己的言論傷害到了他 What i said about myself hurt him.
他很熟練地反擊了… He struck back expertly-
關於竊取生命力的說法？ That stuff about stealing life forces?
我一直想知道其中的緣由 I've always wondered about the reasons.
我們還要消磨一下午的時間，對吧？ Well, we still have an afternoon to kill, right?
猜謎遊戲？ Charades?
不，約翰？ No. John?
我有個謎題，剛好給你猜 I have a charade, and it is just for you.
珊蒂，過來
珊蒂 快點 Sandy, come here.
好吧，這個謎題是出給你的 Okay, this one's for you.
準備好了嗎？ Ready?
我的第一次婚禮？ My first wedding?
猜對了 There you go.
猜對了！ There you go!
很好，我打賭我們之中至少有一個人 Very good, and i bet at least one of us
是你的直系後代 Is your direct descendent.
而我一張聖誕卡都沒寄過 And i didn't even send a christmas card.
聖誕卡？寄生日卡怎麼樣？ Christmas card? What about a birthday card?
別想讓我點蠟燭… And don't even get me started on the candles...
吹蠟燭… With the blowing and the
吹了許多年 For years with the blowing.
好吧 我試過了 Yeah, all right. I tried.
你們儘管說我未開化好了 Well, uh, call me underdeveloped,
但我還想聽下去 But i'd like to hear more.
我也是 Me too.
說下去 More.
你得發誓這不是什麼荒誕無稽的… You double-Damn swear this isn't some cockamamie
科幻故事或是… Science fiction story or...
你存心在誘惑我們？ You're pulling on us?
下一個問題 Next question.
你…你…你明白… You-You-You realize
這是邀請… This is an invitation
人類成為長生不老的方法 To men in white suits with happy pills.
想想看吧… think about it-
一種能讓人活上… A mechanism allowing survival
幾千年的身體構造？ For thousands of years?
地球的空間會被消耗得更快 Run out of room even faster.
於是我們必須殖民到火星上去 Then we'd have to go to mars as a colony
因為人口不斷膨脹，不得不如此 As we expanded, as we'd have to.
我喜歡這念頭 I'd like that.
在另一顆星球上 On a planet of another star.
我羨慕你 I envy you.
你有養過恐龍當寵物嗎？ Did you have a pet dinosaur?
牠們存在的年代稍微在我之前 They were a little bit before my time.
至少有些事物比你早 At least something is.
毫無疑問，約翰 你可以提出一千個細節 No doubt you could give us a thousand details, john,
來證實你的故事 Corroborating your story,
從瑪德琳娜到佛陀，再到現在 From the magdalene to the buddha to now.
即使我說了一萬件 Ten thousand,
你都可以說是課本裡的內容 And you could stay out of the books.
喔，越來越冷了 Oh, it's getting chilly.
過來這裡，坐我旁邊 Here, come over here. Join me.
這又引發了一個有趣的問題，約翰 That, uh, raises an interesting question, john.
是否還有其他人跟你一樣 Could there be others like you
能夠像你一樣逃脫衰老的過程？ Who escaped the aging process as you have?
表現出生物學上的 Representing something terrific
我們尚一無所知的特徵 We don't even know about biology.
我們一直在學習 We're learning all the time.
對 但他怎麼會知道？ Yeah, but how would he know?
他不會戴著身份證章 說著"雅巴達巴度" He doesn't wear an i. D. Badge saying "yabba dabba doo. "
十七世紀時有一個人 There was a man in the 1600s.
1292年你在哪裡？ Where were you in 1292 a. D.?
一年前的今天你在哪裡？ Where were you a year ago on this date?
反正在十七世紀，我遇見了一個人 Anyway, it was the 1600s, and i met a man,
我有種直覺，他… And i had a hunch that he was...
跟我一樣，於是我告訴了他 Like me, so i told him.
啊 看吧，你說過這是第一次 Ah. See, you said this was a first.
我忘記了 I forgot.
故事裡的漏洞，約翰？ A crack in your story, john?
年紀大了，腦筋有點糊塗 A touch of senility.
反正，他承認了 Anyway, he said yes,
但他來自另一個時間，另一個地方 But from another time, another place.
我們暢談了兩天 We talked for two days.
雖然都非常有信服力 It was all pretty convincing,
但我們還是無法肯定 But we couldn't be sure.
我們彼此證實了對方所說的 We each confirmed what the other said,
但我們又如何得知這種證實 But how do we know if the confirmation
是否真實可信，或只是一種附和？ Was genuine or an echo?
我知道我所言不假 I knew i was kosher,
但我想 "也許他在玩弄我" But i thought, "maybe he's playing a game on me. "
一個無所不知的學者 You know, a scholar of all we spoke about.
他說他也保留同樣的想法 He said he was inclined with the same reservation.
這就有意思了 Now, that's interesting.
就像我們永遠無法肯定 Just as we can never be sure,
即使我們想要… Even if we wanted to...
我是說，即使我們肯定 I mean, if we were sure,
你也不能肯定我們是否肯定 You couldn't be sure of that.
我們分道揚鑣，答應保持聯繫 We parted, agreeing to keep in touch-
當然，我們沒有這麼做 Of course, we didn't-
兩百年後，我想我看到他了 And 200 years later i thought i saw him
在布魯塞爾的一個火車站 In a train station in brussels.
消失在人群之中 Lost him in the crowd.
喔 可惜 Oh, what a shame.
我…我是說，如果這是真的 I...I mean, if it were true.
好吧，我有個問題 Okay, here's one for you.
你閒暇時間都做些什麼？ What do you do in your spare time?
每五十年左右 Every 50 years or so,
當我想要遠離塵囂 When i wanna get away from the rush,
我會去新幾內亞的一個原始部落 I go down to a primitive tribe in new guinea
在那裡，我被敬仰為不朽之神 Where i'm worshipped as an immortal god,
他們為我建立了巨大的雕像 And they have a huge statue of me.
那是個很大的部落 It's a big party.
是的，我拍了很多照片 Yeah, i've got a lot of pictures of it,
但是我已經打包了，不好意思 But i've already packed them up. I'm sorry.
我不會嘲弄未洗澡的穴居人的 I won't make the obvious nasty crack about more unwashed cavemen.
事實上，曾經很盛行洗澡 Actually, bathing was the style
直到中世紀，當教會告訴我們 Until the middle ages when the church told us
洗去上帝所賜的塵埃是種罪過 It was sinful to wash away god's dirt,
所以到了十月 So people were sewn
人們被縫進內衣褲裡面 Into their underwear in october
到了四月才一躍而出 And they popped out in april.
你說你的存在是個偶然 You said you just happened.
這點我不相信 I don't believe that.
如果你的故事是真的 If your story's true,
上帝怎麼會允許你存在？ Why did god allow you to happen?
這個觀點非常有意思 That makes an interesting point.
你信教嗎，約翰？ Are you religious, john?
我不信仰任何已知宗教，我不信 I don't follow a known religion. No.
從來沒有？ Ever.
很久以前，我信過 Long time ago i did,
跟大多數人一樣 Like most people.
有些人只是無法克服 Some just never get over it.
你相信上帝嗎？ Do you believe in god?
正如拉普拉斯所說的 As laplace said,
"我不需要那個假設" "I have no need of that hypothesis. "
但他也許就在旁邊 He may be around, though.
他無處不在，只是我們看不見他 He's everywhere. We just can't see him.
吱 如果我只能做到這樣好 Pfft. If this was the best i could do,
我也會躲起來 I'd be hiding, too.
那麼創世之說… And creation...
已經存在 我不能肯定世界是被創造出來的 sure it was created.
那是怎麼產生的？ what then?
也許這只是不斷累積的結果 各種場域相互影響 Maybe it's just accumulated, fields affecting fields.
那麼場域能量的源頭是什麼？ What about the source of the field energies?
這難道不意味著原動力的存在？ Wouldn't that imply a prime mover?
我會好奇原動力從何而來 I'd wonder about the source of the prime mover,
即使無限追溯，但對我沒任何意義 Infinite regress, but that doesn't imply anything to me.
最終會回歸神秘 Back to the mystery.
這是個很古老的問題 It's a very old question,
但除了訴諸宗教，沒有別的答案 But there's no answer except in religious terms.
如果你有信仰，就得到了答案 If you have faith, it's answered.
你曾遇見過宗教史中的任何人嗎？ Did you ever meet any person from our religious history?
聖經人物？ A biblical figure?
某種意義上 In a way.
誰？ Who?
我們該跳過這個話題 We should skip this one.
不，不行，不能跳過，說吧 No, no, no skipping. Come on.
下一個問題 Next question.
不行，說吧！ No, come on!
說吧，全說出來！ Come on, spit it out!
天哪！你是他們其中的一個！ Good lord! You were one of them!
我沒料到你們會問到這個 This is going in a direction that i...I didn't expect.
我希望不…我們…今晚就到此為止 I hoped it wouldn't We... call it a night.
說嘛！你是宗教史中的某一位？ Come on! You were someone in religious history?
是的 Yes.
《聖經》裡的？ In the bible?
是的 Yes.
我們知道的某個人？ Someone we know?
我們怎麼會不知道聖經裡的人？ How could we not know someone in the bible?
我是說某個重要的人 I mean somebody important.
你們可能認為自己知道他 You may think you know him,
但大部份都是神話 But it's mostly myth.
整部《聖經》就是神話和寓言 The entire bible is mostly myth and allegory
也許有些以歷史事件為基礎 With maybe some basis in historical events.
你是那段歷史的一部分？ You were part of that history?
是的 Yes.
摩西 Moses.
摩西的原型 來自敘利亞神話中的麥西斯 Moses was based on misis, a syrian myth,
還有些更早的說法 And there are earlier versions...
在水面上漂浮 All found floating on water,
杖化成了蛇 The staff that changed to a snake,
海水被劈開，於是追隨者… Waters that were parted so followers
能夠通往自由 Could be led to freedom
甚至得到… And even receive laws
石板或木板上的戒律 On stone or wooden tablets.
十二使徒之一 One of the apostles.
他們並非真正的使徒 They weren't really apostles.
他們並未真正進行傳道 They didn't do any real teaching.
漁民彼得對捕魚知之甚少 Peter the fisherman learned a little more about fishing.
你怎麼知道的？ How do you know that?
神話的覆蓋面太廣了… The mythical overlay is so enormous...
而且不正確 And not good.
事實往往是很簡單的 The truth is so, so simple.
不到一百個字的《新約》你們準備好了嗎？ The new testament in 100 words or less: you ready?
我不想聽了 I don't think i wanna hear this.
哈利 送我回家好嗎？ Harry, will you take me home?
不，現在不行，我想聽 No, not right now. I do want to hear this.
坐下，伊迪絲 你表現得像是你相信他 Sit down, edith. You act like you believe him.
這是褻瀆上帝 It's sacrilege.
這怎麼會褻瀆上帝？ How can it be sacrilege?
他什麼都還沒說呢 He hasn't said anything yet.
新的《新約》就是對上帝的褻瀆 The new new testament is sacrilege.
有許多新的《新約》 There are a dozen new new testaments,
從希伯來文到希臘文到拉丁文 再到丁道爾譯成英文 From hebrew to greek to latin to tyndale,
一直到詹姆斯一世的欽定本 All the way to king james,
所有的修訂者 All revisionist,
都說他們所述為事實 And all called revealed truth.
我說的是一百字以內的新《新約》 I mean a new new testament in 100 words.
我可以給你十個字的十誡 I can give you the ten commandments in ten words:
不，不，不，不 Don't. Don't, don't, don't,
不，不，不，不，不，不 Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
不 don't.
十誡只是對更古老的律法 進行了時代的更新 The commandments are just modern updates of more ancient laws.
漢摩拉比法典 Hammurabi's code.
沒錯，它們並非首創的，對嗎？ That's right, they weren't the first, right?
伊迪絲，我是讀著《舊約》長大的 Edith, i was raised on the torah...
我妻子則是讀《可蘭經》 My wife, on the koran.
我大兒子是無神論者 My oldest son is an atheist.
我小兒子是科學論派 My youngest is a scientologist.
我女兒研究印度教 My daughter is studying hinduism.
我能想像 我客廳裡都能展開宗教大戰了 I imagine that there is room there for a holy war in my living room,
但我們彼此包容，相安無事 But we practice live and let live.
你為什麼就不能坐下 Why don't you sit down.
你喜歡哪個版本的《聖經》？ What is your preferred version of the bible?
當然是詹姆斯一世的 The king james, of course.
它是最現代的 由多位偉大學者通力完成 It's the most modern, the work of great scholars.
現代的是不錯 Modern is good.
好吧，約翰，說說你的簡易版吧 All right, john, hit us with the short form.
遇見佛陀的人，喜歡他所聽到的 Guy met the buddha, liked what he heard,
苦思冥想了一段時日 Thought about it for a while-
大概五百年吧，之後回歸故里 Say 500 years, while he returned
回到了地中海 To the mediterranean,
成為了伊特魯里亞人 Became an etruscan.
潛入羅馬帝國 Seeped into the roman empire.
他不喜歡當時的古羅馬 He didn't like what they became-
如同一架巨大的殺戮機器 A giant killing machine.
他起身前往近東，心裡想著 He went to the near east thinking,
"何不以現代形式傳播佛陀的教義" "Why not pass the buddha's teachings on in a modern form. "
所以他就嘗試了 So he tried.
一個反對者對抗羅馬？ One dissident against rome?
羅馬贏了 Rome won.
其餘的都是歷史了 The rest is history.
算是吧，只是摻雜了很多神話 Well, sort of. Lot of fairy tales mixed in.
我就知道 I knew it.
他說他就是基督 He's saying he was christ.
喔，不 這只是獎章 Oh, no. That's the medal
人們因為耶穌實現預言而強加給他的 They pinned on jesus to fulfill prophecy.
被釘十字架 The crucifixion.
他從西藏和印度學會了 He blocked the pain as he had learned to do
如何阻滯痛苦 In tibet and india.
他也學會了如何減緩身體機能 He also learned to slow his body processes
減到無法被他人察覺的程度 Down to the point where they were undetectable.
人們以為他死了 They thought he was dead.
因此他的信徒們 So his followers pulled him
將他從十字架上抬下來 安葬在山洞 From the cross, placed him in a cave...
他根據所學 恢復了正常的生命狀態 His body normalized as he had trained it to...
他本來打算悄無聲息地離開 He attempted to go away undetected,
但一些虔誠信徒在周圍守望著 But some devotees were standing watch.
他想要解釋 Tried to explain.
他們卻欣喜若狂 They were ecstatic.
就這樣，我復活了 Thus, i was resurrected,
然後我去了中歐 And i ascended to central europe
盡可能離開得遠遠的 To get away as far as possible.
你完全是口是心非，約翰 You don't mean a word of this, john.
我的天哪，你為什麼這麼做？ My god, why are you doing this?
讓我看你的手腕 Let me see your wrists.
我不會結疤 I don't scar.
此外，他們只把我綁了起來… Besides, they tied me...
但釘子和鮮血使得宗教藝術更為迷人 But nails and blood make better religious art.
所有關於耶穌的推測 all the speculations about jesus.
有說是黑人的 有說是亞洲人的 He was black, he was asian,
還有說 他是金色鬍鬚的藍眼亞利安人 He was a blue-Eyed aryan with a golden beard
一頭維達·沙宣設計的髮型 And hair straight out of vidal sassoon's,
還有說他是仁慈的外星人根本就不存在之類的 He was a benevolent alien, he never existed at all.
現在他是個穴居人了 Now he's a caveman.
基督的形象來源是克里希納 The christ figure goes all the way back to krishna-
當然還有海克力斯 Hercules, of course.
海克力斯？ hercules?
由處女阿爾克墨涅所生 Born of a virgin, alcmene.
而其父是天神宙斯 A god for a father, zeus.
獨生子 The only begotten.
救世主…希臘文中的"Soter" The savior...The greek? Soter.
他是個好牧人、和平之君 The good shepherd, the prince of peace,
帶來了溫和勸說和超凡智慧 Bringing gentle persuasion and divine wisdom.
他死後 在奧林匹斯山加入其父的行列 He died, joined his father on olympus
比橄欖園的出現還要早一千年 A thousand years before gethsemane.
你怎能把異教神話跟真正的福音相提並論？ How can you compare pagan mythology to the true word?
我得說，的確很接近 Pretty damn closely, i'd say.
早期的基督教領袖 The early christian leaders,
都將希伯來文原稿棄置一旁 They threw away hebrew manuscripts
而到處借用異教徒的資源 And borrowed from pagan sources all over the place.
你有沒有意識到… Do you realize how...
你有多麼不在乎我的感受？ Inconsiderately you're treating my feelings?
大概就跟我們不在乎約翰的感受一樣 About as inconsiderately as we're treating john's.
他都不相信自己所說的話！ Well, he doesn't believe what he's saying!
你相信《聖經》裡的一切嗎 伊迪絲？ do you believe literally everything in the bible, edith?
是的！ Yes!
在你開口前 Before you say it,
我知道《聖經》經歷過許多變動 I know it's undergone a lot of changes,
但是上帝通過凡人的嘴 But god has spoken through man
將他的言語說得更加清楚 To make his word clearer.
他不能第一次就做到嗎？ He couldn't get it right the first time?
我們並不完美！他得努力讓我們去理解 We're imperfect! He had to work to make us understand.
他不能第一次就讓我們理解嗎 伊迪絲？ He couldn't get us right the first time, edith?
單獨來說，耶穌所教授的哲學 taken alone, the philosophical teachings of jesus
是帶著希伯來口音的佛學 Are buddhism with a hebrew accent-
仁慈、寬容、情誼和愛 Kindness, tolerance, brotherhood, love,
殘酷的現實主義者承認 A ruthless realism acknowledging
生命即是它此地此時的狀態 That life is as it is here on earth, here and now.
上帝的國度，意味著美德 The kingdom of god, meaning goodness,
就在此地，它應在之處 Is right here, where it should be.
"我即是我將成為的" "I am what i am becoming. "
這就是佛陀悟出的道理 That's what the buddha brought in.
這也是我教授的內容 And that's what i taught.
但一條會說話的蛇誘惑婦人吃下蘋果 But a talking snake make a lady eat an apple,
而使我們永劫不復 So we're screwed.
天堂和地獄被沿街叫賣 Heaven and hell were peddled
於是教士可以利用誘惑和恐懼來統治 So priests could rule through seduction and terror,
拯救我們從未迷失過的靈魂 Save our souls that we never lost in the first place.
我指出一條澄明的途徑… I threw a clean pass...
他們最終還是誤入歧途 They ran it out of the ballpark.
這是褻瀆 This is blasphemy.
太可怕了！你還曾經是誰？ It's horrible! Who else were you?
所羅門、貓王、開膛手傑克？ Solomon, elvis, jack the ripper?
人們說，如果佛陀和耶穌知道 It's been said that buddha and jesus
後人以他們的名義所做的事 Would laugh or cry if they'd known
會啼笑皆非的 What was done in their name.
如果真的有造物主 and if there is a creator,
他可能也會有同樣的感覺 He'd probably feel the same way.
我見過各種儀式、典禮、行列 I see ceremony, ritual, processions,
跪拜、悲歎、吟詠 Genuflecting, moaning, intoning,
崇拜餅和酒 Venerating cookies and wine,
而我想… And i think...
這並不是我的本意 It's not what i had in mind.
都是梵蒂岡教廷的一派胡言 But that's vatican flapdoodle.
根本就與上帝無關 It doesn't have a thing to do with god.
如你所說，約翰，到處的宗教信仰… As you said, john, everywhere, religions...
從昇華生命到洗淨作為罪愆的歡樂 From exalting life to purging joy as a sin.
羅馬將《聖經》演繹成一齣大歌劇 Rome does it as grand opera.
一條簡單通往美德的途徑需要… A simple path to goodness needs
一張超自然的公路圖 A supernatural roadmap.
超自然… Supernatural...
真是個愚蠢的字眼，我是說… A stupid word, i mean...
事物的發生都遵循自然規律 Anything that happens, happens within nature,
不管我們相不相信 Whether we believe in it or not.
比如一萬四千歲的穴居人 Like a 14,000 Year Old caveman.
我…我…我開了一會兒車 I...I...I drove for a while,
靜靜地坐了一會兒 And then i sat for a while.
我感到非常慚愧 I'm so ashamed.
而且我很冷 and i'm freezing.
進來吧 Well, come inside.
當然我還是不相信你 I still don't believe you, of course.
你需要幫助 You need help.
人人都需要幫助 Everybody needs help.
是的，有些人需要更多的幫助 Yes, well, some more than others.
從佛陀到十字架 From the buddha to the cross,
我一直想像它們完全是虛構的 I have always imagined both as entirely mythic-
但我想要聽更多的內容 But i would like to hear more.
我能在沙發上躺一會兒嗎？ May i lie on the couch for a moment?
我不再像以前那麼年輕了 I'm not as young as i used to be.
那麼 你是耶穌 So, you were jesus.
好吧 無論好壞，也許總得有人當耶穌吧 Well, perhaps somebody had to be, for better or for worse.
反正這裡也沒有陪審團 The jury is still out.
你何時開始相信自己是耶穌的？ When did you begin to believe you were jesus?
你何時開始相信自己是精神病學家的？ When did you begin to believe you were a psychiatrist?
在我從哈佛醫學院畢業以後 Since i graduated harvard medical school
完成實習訓練，我就有這種感覺了 And finished my residency, i've had that feeling.
有時候我也夢想過 Oh, i sometimes dream about it.
你一直都遵循這個信念嗎？ Have you acted upon this belief?
我曾開過一陣子私人診所 I had a private practice for a while,
然後就去教書了 And then i taught.
沒什麼不尋常的… Nothing unusual...
直到有一天，我遇見一個穴居人 Oh, until one day, i met a caveman
以為自己是耶穌 Who thought he was jesus.
你發現這不尋常嗎？ Do you find that unusual?
極不尋常，我拿自己的名譽打賭 Very. I would stake my reputation
他跟我一樣神志正常 He as sane as i am,
那麼他怎麼會一直堅信這樣的故事呢？ So why does he persist in such a story?
一定有原因的 There must be a reason, though.
除非這些全是我想像出來的？ Unless i imagined it all?
有可能嗎？ Is that possible?
我認為你跟他一樣神志正常 I think you're as sane as he is.
喔，天哪，我… Oh, god, i...
不 no.
你是否覺得崇拜自己比較明智 Did you ever find it prudent to worship yourself
而不是被當成異教徒？ Rather than be thought a heretic?
這樣就又不同了 That would be something.
在其他時代，基督教也被認為是異教 Other times, christianity was considered heresy.
我只得假裝有其他信仰 I had to pretend other faiths.
耶穌對於那些難以相信他的人 And what does jesus have to say to those present
他應該說些什麼？ Who find it difficult to believe in him?
相信他所教導的 Believe in what he tried to teach,
沒有冗長的廢話 Without rigmarole.
教義不是要帶給人們虔誠 Piety is not what the lessons bring to people.
這是人們帶給教義的錯誤 It's the mistake they bring to the lessons.
好吧 天已經要黑了 Well, it's getting to be night.
我還要搬東西 I still have stuff to carry
然後要長途開車 And a long drive.
我來幫忙 I'll help.
約翰，你心裡是否有個目的地？ john, do you have a destination in mind?
沒關係 Never mind.
我不會問 I won't ask.
謝謝你 thank you.
任何有精神問題的人都能想像出 Anyone mentally ill can imagine
奇特荒謬的背景，甚至貫穿其一生 A fantastic background Even an entire life-
並對此堅信不移 And sincerely believe it.
認為自己是拿破崙的人 The man who thinks he is napoleon
就會堅信 Does believe it.
而他的真實身份會退居於… His true identity has taken a backseat
他的錯覺和這種需求之後 To his delusion and the need for it.
如果約翰是這種情況 If that's the case with john,
他就有嚴重的精神錯亂了 There is a grave disorder.
故事組織得精采絕倫 Organized brilliantly.
一切都對答如流 He's got an answer for everything.
這也許牽涉到他的整個童年 It might involve rejection of his father,
父親形象的抗拒 Of his entire early past,
用幻想代替現實 Replaced by this fantasy.
他說他不記得他的父親 He says he can't remember his father.
究竟為什麼呢？ Precisely why?
你說過他神志正常 You said he was sane.
我說了？ Did i?
你認為我們的穴居人 Do you think that perhaps our caveman
會不會有很深的毒癮？ Has a monkey on his back?
吸毒？ Drugs?
不，不，不，不 No, no, no, no.
我做過很多戒毒所的諮詢工作 I've done a lot of consulting work with narcotics.
我見過神遊太虛、吸毒成癮的人 I've seen people tripping, strung out-
不管約翰到底怎麼了 他都不是這樣 Whatever's up with john, it isn't that.
我注意過類似徵兆，但是沒發現 I've looked for signs-None.
穴居人真的會說話嗎？ Could cavemen really talk?
我們認為語言 We think that language came into existence
早在六萬年前就存在了 60,000 years ago.
石器時代的文化結構 The structure of stone age culture
就證明了人們有 Is evidence of the ability to communicate-
口頭交流的能力 Verbally.
喔，閉嘴 Oh, shut up.
如果我是，也許會比較容易 Maybe it'd be easier if i were.
瘋了嗎？ Crazy?
不 No.
真是引人入勝，對吧？ That is fascinating, isn't it,
在西方傳授佛教思想的勇敢嘗試 A brave attempt to teach buddhism in the west.
難怪他會失敗 It's no wonder he failed.
我們還沒做好思想準備 We're not ready for it.
你說得好像你相信他似的 you're talking as if you believed him.
這是有可能的，不是嗎？ Well, it is possible, isn't it?
我是說，任何事都有可能 I mean, anything is possible.
聽著，我們有兩個簡單的選擇 Look, we have two simple choices.
我們可以為此氣憤 We can get all bent out of shape
也可以理智對待，或者挑戰邏輯 Intellectualizing or bench...Pressing logic,
或者我們可以簡單地放鬆和享受它 Or we can simply relax and enjoy it.
我可以批判的角度傾聽 I can listen critically,
但我不必作任何結論 But i don't have to make up my mind about anything.
但你覺得自己可以嗎？ But you think you do?
很遺憾，目前沒有研究史前史的權威 Well, unfortunately, there's no authorities on prehistory,
所以這方面無法推翻他 So we couldn't stop him there.
有《聖經》的專家啊
做夢吧 dream on.
對，耶穌還消失了許多年 Yeah, thus the lost years of jesus.
他並不存在，直到約翰說出來 He didn't exist until john put on a hat.
我不相信天使、基督降生和東方之星 I don't believe in angels and the nativity and the star in the east,
但耶穌的童年故事確實存在 But there are stories about the childhood of jesus.
歷史不允許出現真空 History hates a vacuum.
即興創作，有一些是很真誠的 Improvisation, some of it very sincere,
填補了空白 Fills the gaps.
杜撰這麼久遠之前的事 It would have been easy
應該非常容易 To falsify a past back then-
寥寥數語，就會輕信時間會完成剩餘的部分 A few words, credulity Time would do the rest.
現在你說得好像你相信他似的 Now you're talking as if you believed him.
看看身邊廣為流傳的神話 well, look at the popular myths surrounding
甘迺迪被刺殺，在短短幾年內… The kennedy assassination in a few short years-
就有陰謀論、黑手黨、中情局… You had, uh, conspiracy, mafia, cia...
這是永遠都不會消失的奧秘 That's a mystique that'll never go away.
一個死去的領導者和上帝 通常都只有咫尺之遙 It's always been a small step from a fallen leader to a god.
我不認為會有人將甘迺迪奉為神明 I don't think anybody will deify kennedy.
我們沒有那麼單純 We're more sophisticated than that.
是嗎？ we are?
是的 We are.
你終於實現了… well, you're finally fulfilling
一個關於千禧年的預言，約翰 One prophecy about the millennium, john.
什麼預言？ what's that?
你又再次回到人間 Here you are again.
你喜歡火，約翰 You like the fire, john.
每個我住過的地方都有壁爐 Everywhere i've lived, i've had a fireplace.
我猜是童年期的固定現象吧 Childhood fixation, i guess.
讓我感到安全 Helps me to feel secure.
外面到處是兇猛的野獸 There are predators out there.
有一樣東西我沒有打包… One thing i didn't pack...
我覺得可能會需要它 I thought i might need it.
放《春之祭》不是更合適嗎？ Wouldn't sacre du printemps be more appropriate?
什麼？ What?
你讓… You've got...
四個學者都完全困惑了，我的朋友 Four men of science completely baffled, my friend.
我們不知道如何去理解你 We...We don't know what to make of you.
你們知道伏爾泰是第一個提出 Did you know voltaire was the first to suggest
宇宙是由大爆炸產生的嗎？ That the universe was created by a gigantic explosion?
我相信保羅會同意這點 I think paul would agree.
而歌德是第一個提出 And then goethe was the first to suggest
螺旋狀的星雲是旋繞著群星的物質 That spiral nebulae were swirling masses of stars.
我們現在則稱之為銀河系 We now call them galaxies.
有趣的是，新的科學概念 It's kind of funny how often new concepts of science
往往最先藉由藝術形式假設出來 Find their first tentative forms of expression in the arts.
所以貝多芬也研究物理嗎？ So did beethoven do physics on the side?
他大部分時間都躺在地板上 He spent most of his time lying on the floor
對著跑不掉的鋼琴 In front of his legless piano
旁邊撒滿了橘子皮和蘋果核 Surrounded by orange peels and apple cores.
而此刻我們坐在這裡，傾聽貝多芬 Now we're on the floor listening to beethoven.
完滿的循環 Full circle.
你是否… Did you have, um...
有過宗教信仰 Any religious beliefs,
或者認真考慮過？ Or did you give it much thought?
人若不思考，就無法產生信仰 You can't get there with thought.
你有信仰？ You have faith?
我信仰很多東西 In a lot of things.
你相信人類有未來嗎？ Do you have faith in the future of the race?
我見過物種的出現和消失 I've seen species come and go.
取決於他們和環境的平衡 Depends on their balance with the environment.
我們已經把環境弄得一塌糊塗 We've made a mess of it.
仍然還有時間 There's still time,
如果我們使用得當 If we use it well.
兩千年來，基督教都是 Christianity has been a worldwide belief
世界性的信仰 For 2,000 years.
埃及人崇拜伊希斯有多久？ How long did the egyptians worship isis
或者蘇美人崇拜伊斯塔？ Or the sumerians ishtar?
在印度，聖牛可以作為靈魂的化身 In india, sacred cows wandered freely
自由地閒逛 As reincarnated souls.
一千年之後，牠們會被燒烤 In a thousand years, they'll be barbecued
牠們的靈魂會進入松鼠體內 And their souls will be in squirrels.
你不是耶穌！ You weren't jesus!
喔，伊迪絲 Oh, edith.
如果下雨… if, it rains...
不會的 it won't.
你怎麼知道？ How do you know that?
因為我沒聞到 I don't smell it.
你是不是… Were you...
我猜…一個巫醫？ I guess... a medicine man?
我曾經做過幾次巫醫 I was a shaman a few times.
為了吃得好些，揭露過一些真相 I revealed some truths to eat a little better.
你認為這就是宗教的本質… You think that's all religion is about...
販賣希望和生存？ Selling hope and survival?
《舊約》販賣恐懼和罪行 The old testament sells fear and guilt.
《新約》則販賣良好的道德準則 The new testament is a good code of ethics,
詩人和哲學家借用我的嘴傳頌至今 Put into my mouth by poets and philosophers
這比我本人聰明多了 That are much smarter than i am.
教義從未被實施過 The message is never practiced.
是神話建造了教堂 Fairy tales build churches.
那麼"耶穌"這個名字呢？ What about the name "jesus"?
也是你憑空捏造的？ Did you pull that out of a hat?
我自稱約翰 I called myself john.
我常常這麼稱呼自己 I almost always do.
當我復活的故事四處流傳 As tales of the resurrection spread,
人們把我的名字和希伯來文的“約坎南”混淆了 The name was confused with the hebrew "yochanan,"
它的意思是“上帝是仁慈的” Meaning "god is gracious. "
我在地球上的存在被視為 My stay on earth was seen
不朽的神聖明證 As divine proof of immortality.
這導致了"神是救贖"之說 That led to "god is salvation"
或是希伯來文的"約書亞" Or hebrew "yahshua,"
在翻譯中，就變成了我的固有名字 Which in translation became my proper name,
變成後期希臘文中的“Iesous” Changing to late greek, "iesous,"
再變成後期拉丁文中的“Iesus” Then to late latin, "iesus,"
最後變成 中古拉丁文中的“耶穌”(Jesus) And finally medieval latin, "jesus,"
我很驚訝地看著這一切發生 And it was a wonder to watch it all happen.
那麼你沒有自稱是上帝的兒子？ Then you didn't claim to be the son of god?
始於講堂，終於教堂 Began as a schoolhouse and ended as a temple.
我說我有一個比我更偉大的主人 I said i had a master that was greater than myself.
我從未說過他是我的父親 I never said he was my father.
我想傳授我所學到的東西 I wanted to teach what i learned.
我從未自稱是猶太人的王 I never claimed to be king of the jews,
我從未在水面行走，從未起死回生 I never walked on water, i never raised the dead.
除了塵世凡人美德的見解之外 I never spoke of divine except in the sense
我從未說過什麼聖言 Of human goodness on earth.
沒有來自東方的智者去膜拜馬槽 No wise men came from the east to worship at a manger.
我的確做過一些治療 I did do a little healing
用我所學到的一些東方藥理 With some eastern medicine i'd learned.
就這樣 That's it.
三個智者一開始是關於… The three wise men began as a myth
佛陀誕生的神話 About the birth of the buddha.
約翰，我本該在家裡親吻老婆 John, i should be home, uh, kissing my wife.
我們卻都在這裡，陷入你的故事… We're all here, trapped by your story...
期待著一次…革命？我不知道 Hoping for a... revolution? I don't know.
你有沒有… Are there any, uh...
更多啟示要說給我們聽？ More revelations for us?
一如往昔 It's just like old times.
你不是耶穌 You weren't jesus.
引用登山寶訓吧 Quote the sermon on the mount.
哪一版的？ Which one?
達秘版，詹姆斯一世版還是新美國標準版？ Darby, king james, new american standard?
你全都知道？ Do you know them all?
沒人瞭解耶穌，甚至包括我 No one knows the one, not even me.
我… I...
有一天，我確實在山上傳道 I did some teaching on a hill one day.
留下來的人並不多 Not that many people stayed.
但是你… But you...
聖經上的耶穌說 Biblical jesus said,
"你們認為我是誰？" "Who do you think i am?"
他給了他們一個選擇 He gave them a choice.
我給你們一個選擇 I'm giving you one.
你是嗎？ Were you?
如果我說不是，你們能否確定？ If i said no, could you ever be sure?
關掉 Turn that off.
拜託 Please.
這太過份了 This has gone far enough.
實在太離譜了 It's gone much too far.
這些人都很苦惱 These people are very upset.
我不相信你瘋了 I don't believe you're mad,
但你所說的都不是真的 But what you're saying is not true.
那就只剩下一種解釋 That leaves only one explanation.
是時候了，你必須承認 The time has come when you must admit
這只是個惡作劇… This is a hoax...
一個謊言 A lie.
這難道不是真的，約翰？ Isn't that true, john?
如果你現在不結束…如果你… If you don't drop this now- If you can-
我會非常確信 I'll be convinced
你需要大量的治療 That you need a great deal of attention.
我可以強制你入院接受觀察 I can have you committed for observation.
你知道的 You know that.
現在我請你… I ask you now-
我要求… I demand it...
你告訴這些人真相 That you tell these people the truth.
讓他們解脫 Give them closure.
是時候了，約翰 It's time, john.
拜託 Please.
劇情到此為止，大家都離開吧 End of the line. Everybody off.
什麼？！ What?!
這是個故事 It was a story.
完全只是個故事 It was all a story.
我的天哪！ Good god!
另一個神話？ Another fairy tale?
全都是？可是… All of it? But what...
以上天的名義… What in the name of heaven...
約翰，你使我們懷疑你心智是否健全 John, you had us wondering whether you were sane or not,
而這只是個故事！ And it's just a story!
你從哪裡冒出來一個這麼不成熟和愚蠢的主意？ Where'd you come off with such a half-Baked, asinine idea?
至少你們該慶幸我不是瘋子 At least you're relieved i'm not a nut.
我寧願你是！ I'd prefer you were!
是你們給了我這個主意 You gave me the idea.
你們所有人 All of you.
你說什麼？ Come again?
伊迪絲看到我那副梵谷的贗品 Edith saw my fake van gogh.
你本來可以告訴我的 You could have just told me.
你還說我都不會變老 You commented that i never age.
你給了我有關早期人類的書 You gave me the book on early man.
丹，你發現了雕刻刀石器 Dan, you spotted the burin
你還說"如果石頭會說話" And you said, "if stones could speak."
我就知道 I knew it.
我有了這個想法，就說給你們聽 I got the notion, i ran it past you
想看你們的反應，我卻玩過火了 To check your reactions, and i took it too far.
過火了？ Too far?
看我的反應？ Check my reaction.
你問我是否是宗教史中的人物 You asked if i was a figure from religious history,
是否還有別人像我一樣 If there were others like me,
我能否創造未來的身份 If i'd created future identities.
我們圍繞五月柱，追著自己的尾巴團團轉 We were chasing our tails around the maypole,
享受神秘之旅，邏輯的延伸 Enjoying the mystery, the analytical stretch.
你在玩我的遊戲！ You were playing my game!
而我玩你的 I was playing yours.
喔，老兄，你知道 你讓我們上當了 對嗎？ Oh, man, you know, you had us going, right?
你很厲害，老兄 You were good, man.
你知道中國盒子吧 You know those chinese boxes,
盒子裡面有一個盒子，盒子裡面又一個盒子… One inside the other inside the other inside the other...
我覺得自己好像在最裡面的盒子裡 I feel like i'm in the last box.
你這個狗… You son of a...
娘養的！ Bitch!
你怎麼能這樣對待我們？ How could you do this to us?
我還為你擔心 I was worried about you.
我知道，我好幾次都想要坦白 I know, i was tempted to cop out many times,
但我又忍不住想看看 But i couldn't resist seeing whether or not
你們能否反駁我的說法 You could refute what i was saying.
我有完美的聽眾 I had the perfect audience-
人類學家、考古學家 Anthropologist, archaeologist,
基督教的字義無謬論者… Christian literalist...
心理學家 A psychologist.
行了，我受夠了 Okay, i've had enough of this.
我要走了，你呢？ 我們走 I'm outta here. You wanna come? Let's go.
那麼，約翰 So, john.
你要寫這個故事嗎？ Are you gonna write the story?
如果我寫，我會寄一份給你 If i do, i'll send you copies.
我那份就免了，行嗎？ Don't bother with mine, okay?
你絕對可以保證 You are absolutely certifiable.
我不認識你！ I don't know you!
很高興再次見到你，奧德曼博士 It was nice seeing you again, dr. Oldman.
你的名字是個雙關語，對嗎？ Your name's a pun, isn't it?
老人？ Old man?
這也有助於你的故事嗎？ Did that help you with your story?
琳達！ linda!
再見 Bye.
阿特說對了一半 Well, art was half right.
哪一半？ Which half?
至少我不需要拋棄一半… Well, at least i don't have to throw away half
我所知道的生物學了 Of what i know about biology.
哪一半？ Which half?
真是個出色的構想 It's a beautiful idea,
如此豐富多彩，充滿可能性 So rich, so full of possibilities.
也許你該寫篇這樣的論文，博士 Perhaps you should write a paper on it, doctor.
也許我會 Maybe i will.
我會在精神病院接見你 I'll interview you in the rubber room
提問更多的細節 For further details.
你可能還是需要幫助，我的朋友 You may still need help, my friend.
屁啦 My ass.
我認為這聽起來很精彩 I thought it sounded pretty good.
他們相信你，是因為不得不信 They believe you because they have to.
但是我瞭解你 But the one thing that i know about you
你永遠不會利用別人 Is that you would never use people
或者濫用他們好意和智慧 Or abuse their goodwill and intelligence
像他們所以為的那樣 Like they think you've just done to them.
"心理101"？ Psych 101?
不，是女人，一對一 No, it's woman, one On One.
你撒起謊來還挺快的 真假難辨先生 So you're a pretty fast liar, mr. Ugg,
但我想知道，你的真名是什麼？ But i wanna know What's your real name?
信不信由你，聽起來都像是約翰 Believe it or not, the sound was always john.
你為什麼向格魯柏屈服？ Why'd you cave to gruber?
發生的已經足夠了 What happened was enough.
得…得打住了 Just...Just needed to stop.
我不應該期望這樣會有用處 I shouldn't have expected it to work.
一萬四千年的歲數 Fourteen thousand years old.
我打賭一定有過很多女人吧 I bet that's a lot of women.
我們要數嗎？ Are we counting?
也許 Maybe.
我帶伊迪絲回家 Well, i'm taking edith home.
珊蒂？ Sandy?
我要留下來 I'm gonna stay.
你是否為自己說過的話感到愧疚？ Are you sorry for some of those things you said?
我很抱歉說了那些話 I'm sorry i said them.
好吧 Well.
就像個好基督徒 Like a good christian,
我…喔，約翰 I... oh, john.
喔！好吧 Oh! Well.
你做了一件很可怕的事 You did a terrible thing,
但我們都很感激你沒事 But we're all so thankful you're all right.
甚至阿特也是 他只是討厭他無法理解的事情 Even art He just hates things he can't understand.
你是個虐待狂，約翰 You're a sadist, john,
但我得承認自己其樂無窮 But i admit i got a kick out of
圍繞你的五月柱追著自己的尾巴… Chasing my tail around your maypole...
即使這是我唯一的收穫 Even if that is all i caught.
祝你好運 Good luck to you.
祝你一切順利 Wish you the best.
謝謝 Thank you.
好了嗎？ Ready?
再見 later on.
好的，晚安 okay, good night.
我不知道，老兄 I don't know, man.
關於這事… Something about this...
關於你，約翰 Something about you, john.
我越想 The more i think about it,
就越覺得自己脫離了中國盒子 The more i'm no longer in that chinese box.
我感覺到…空間 I sense... space.
一種我們愉快地稱之為現實的維度 A kinda latitude of what we happily call reality,
其中每個人都不停地說… In which, as everybody keeps saying...
任何事都有可能 Anything's possible.
是的 Yes.
不，不，不，不 No, no. No, no.
不，別再說一個字了 No-No more words.
我要回家了 I'm gonna go home,
我要看《星艦迷航》 And i'm gonna watch star trek
來一劑心智健全的良藥 For a dose of sanity.
祝你好運，老兄 Good luck to you, man,
無論這會引導你走向何方 Wherever this may lead you.
有空寫信給我 You drop me a line sometime.
讓我知道你的近況 Let me know how you're making out.
我會的 I will.
那麼，約翰·奧德曼 So, john oldman.
你還用過其他什麼雙關名字？ What other pun names have you used?
很多 Lots.
約翰·佩利代表舊石器時代 John paley for john paleolithic,
約翰·薩維奇代表野人 John savage...
六十年前才真是讓人發瘋 Got really crazy about 60 years ago.
當時我在哈佛教書 When i was teaching at harvard,
我叫做約翰·湯瑪斯·帕提 I was john thomas partee.
約翰·T·帕提…波士頓茶會事件… John T. Partee...Boston tea party...
我懂了 I get it.
是的，我知道 Yeah, i know.
等等，等等，等等 Wait, wait, wait.
波士頓？ Boston?
六十年前？ 60 years ago?
約…約翰·帕提？ J...John partee?
你不會是教化學的吧！我才不信！ You did not teach chemistry! I do not believe you!
你母親名叫諾拉 Your mother's name was nola.
不...是的 No. Yeah.
不 No.
是的，諾拉 Yes, nola.
我母親！ my mother!
我拒絕接受！ I reject this!
我的…我的…我的小狗的名字 My...My...My dog's name.
我出生之前牠就在了 We had him before i was born.
嗚飛 Woofie.
嗚…嗚…嗚飛… Woof, woof, woofie...
格魯柏，她再婚了嗎？ Gruber. She remarried?
她說你拋棄了我們 She said you abandoned us.
對不起，我必須離開 Sorry, i had to move on.
你知道的，我留下的夠多了 You know that. I left enough.
我留下的夠多了 I left enough.
我很冷 I'm cold.
怕冷的威利，總是覺得冷 Chilly willy, always cold.
從來就忍受不了寒冷 Never could stand the cold.
等等，你…你留著鬍子 wait, you...You had a beard.
是的，你以前老是喜歡扯它 Yeah, you used to tug on it
看它是不是真的 To see if it was real.
啊！威爾！ Agh! Will!
天哪 God.
快打911！ 911, now!
醒醒，威爾 Come on, will.
威爾 Will.
醒醒，夥伴 Come on, buddy.
請跟我們保持聯繫，奧德曼博士 You'll stay in touch, dr. Oldman,
以防我們有任何問題 In case there are any questions.
我會回來參加葬禮 I'll be back for the funeral.
小姐 Miss.
你從未見過一個成年的孩子死去 You never saw a grown child die.
沒有 No.
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