奇跡の海

『奇跡の海』(原題：Breaking the Waves)  は1996年に制作された映画。 手持ちカメラ撮影やチャプターごとに物語が進んでいくなど、この手の手法になじみが全くなかったので違和感がありましたが、主演の エミリー・ワトソンの怪演が際立っていました。
主人公のベス（エミリー・ワトソン）の夫が下半身不随になり寝たきりになったしまうと、彼に生きる希望を見出させる唯一の方法が、ほかの男たちとの性的な関係をもちその話を夫にすることでした。夫との愛のためなら何でもするべスはほかの男と関係することで次第に精神が壊れていくようにみえます。しかしこれは第３者からの視点であって実はべスは最後までいたって夫への愛という純粋な心を持ち続けます。

この映画は内容のみならず、性について考えさせられました。
性的に奔放なことや世の中をにぎわしている不倫において第３者の立場から白か黒で判断するのはとても楽です。一方一歩踏み込んで、当事者の視点に立ち寄ると深層心理において多数の性的関係を代替行為として行っている人もいるということです。例えば、幼少期の愛情不足や性的虐待の記憶からの逃避として多数の性的関係を代替行為として行うことです。今回の映画のケースは予想外でしたが。いままで世界中そしてこの日本でも性的に緩い方々は男女問わずさんざん見てきましたが、実はこの映画の主人公のように人一倍純粋な方々もいたのではないかと考えさせられます。そのような方々とも今まで関係を今まで切ってきたことに対して自責の念にかられております。今更ですが...

 

今回は考えさせられました。このように考えさせられる映画はシンドラーのリスト以来かもというぐらい久しぶりです。その点においても観る価値のある映画だと思います。

英語においては舞台はスコットランドでしたが、強烈なスコットランドアクセントは皆無でしかも２時間３０分以上の長さの割にはセリフが圧倒的に少ないので、舞台はスコットランドのくせに！？わかりやすい部類に入ると思います。

以下感心したフレーズをデータベースに入れましたのでここでもご紹介します。

Will you rise and address the question? (奇跡の海)

 

My predecessor admitted you a few years ago. (奇跡の海)

 

Mother can't have me admitted. Not now that I'm married. (奇跡の海)

 

Break out the bottles! (奇跡の海)

 

Your generosity knows no bounds. (奇跡の海)

 

You have the strength your life in God has bestowed upon you. (奇跡の海)

 

She was happy when we got married. She blossomed. Didn't she? (奇跡の海)

 

You cripple! (奇跡の海)

 

For your sins, you are consigned to hell. (奇跡の海)

 

Not one of you has the right to consign Bess to hell. (奇跡の海)

 

Maybe showing what you feel isn't the done thing from where you come from. (奇跡の海)

 

We're going to put a drain in this afternoon. 管を通す It'll be much easier to get through to him. Don't worry. It's a very minor operation. (奇跡の海)

 

The authority to detain her under the provisions of the mental health act. (奇跡の海)

 

He kisses my breasts. And he enters me. (sex) (奇跡の海)

 

We turn into different people when we get close to the edge? (奇跡の海)

 

He's up to his eyeballs in drugs. (奇跡の海)

 

I undo your fly and I touch you. I'm touching your prick. (奇跡の海)

 

Are you sleeping with other men to feed his sick fantasies? (奇跡の海)

 

The blood pressure. We have a fibrillation. (奇跡の海)

 

It grieves my heart. (奇跡の海)

 

She's not right in the head. (奇跡の海)

 

Your grandfather can no longer hold his hand over you with the elders. 長老会議ではお前を見放すわ。(奇跡の海)

 

The kirk session has decided this day that henceforth, you shall no longer have access to this kirk. (奇跡の海)

 

Your husband suffered very serious injuries. Life shouldn't always be preserved at any cost. (奇跡の海)

 

Well, things will pick up once he gets home again. (奇跡の海)

 

I put your rose in a vase. It perked up a bit. (奇跡の海)

 

Your prayers have been answered. (奇跡の海)

 

Don't let him gain too much power over you. (奇跡の海)

 

To me, he seems more like a dirty old man who wants to play the peeping Tom. (奇跡の海)

 

In obsessive fashion to an exaggerated perverse form of sexuality. (奇跡の海)

 

Their man's away at sea or on the oil rigs. (奇跡の海)

 

You want a little snort? 少し飲む(奇跡の海)

 

surf's up

Surfs up means let's go hit the waves to go surfing

Oh, surf's up! (奇跡の海)

 

You certainly needed some shut-eye. (奇跡の海)

 

shroomsマジックマッシュルーム。

shroomie:  Best friend, buddy, or roommate that you do shrooms with. You can use this term to call your friends even if you don't do shrooms, or do shrooms with them. In other words, you can just be good friends with them and not do shrooms, or just not do shrooms with them, or you can. It goes either way. Alternatively, "shroomie" can just mean good friend.

Supp, shroomie?

Hey, hey, girlies! We found some shroomies! (奇跡の海)

 

What sexual fantasy are you going to give him to slobber over this time? (奇跡の海)

 

I know that you have done that not so as to be well-thought-of here on earth but out of your love for God in heaven. (奇跡の海)

 

You know I giveth and I taketh away. (奇跡の海)

 

Lord, we are unworthy of the least of all thy mercies. (奇跡の海)

 

I had to test you. (奇跡の海)

 

Your love for Jan has been put to the test. (奇跡の海)

 

He's forcing you to get screwed by every Tom, Dick, and Harry. (奇跡の海)

 

I think that everything there is to say about Bess McNeill has been said already. (奇跡の海)

 

I've known strong men and women wither away after being cast out. (奇跡の海)