克里斯托弗·诺兰2015普林斯顿大学毕业演讲(7)
I feel that over the last couple decades,
我觉得在过去的几十年里，
I feel that over time we’ve started to view reality as the poor cousin to our dreams in a sense.
我觉得随着时间的推移，在某种意义上，我们已经开始把现实看作是我们梦想的可怜陪衬。
We’ve started to think of reality as this kind of grey pebble at the center of wonderful abstract thought that transcends it.
我们已经开始把现实认作美妙的抽象思维中的一种不起眼的石子，超越了其本身。
And I want to make the case to you that our dreams are virtual realities.
我想让你们知道，我们的梦想是虚拟的现实。
These abstractions that we enjoy and we surround ourselves with, they are subsets of reality.
这些我们喜欢的和我们周围的抽象，是现实的组成部分。
“Inception” had something to say about this,
《盗梦空间》对此有自己的佐证，
and I apologize to those of you haven’t seen it, because I’m about to spoil the ending of it for you.
我向那些没看过的人道歉，因为我要剧透了。
But at the end of the film, there’s a spinning top that’s spinning and if it falls or doesn’t fall is the key idea.
但在影片的结尾，有一个旋转的陀螺，一直在旋转，它是否会落下是一个关键的问题。
Is it a dream as a reality?
这是一个现实版的梦境吗？
And the way, the end of that film worked.
电影的结尾也是这样。
Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Cobb, he was off with his kids.
莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥饰演的角色科布，带着孩子离开了。
He was in his own subjective reality and didn’t really care anymore.
他处于自己的主观现实中，不再关心这一问题。
And that makes a statement that perhaps all levels of reality are equally valid.
这就说明了也许所有层面的现实都是同样合理的。
The camera moves over to the spinning top.
镜头移到旋转的陀螺的顶部。
And just before the spinning top appears to be wobbling, there’s a cut to black.
就在旋转的陀螺开始晃动之前，影片黑屏结束。
And I skip out of the back of the theater before people catch me.
在人们抓住我之前，我从剧院后面溜了出去。
And there’s a very very strong reaction from the audience. Usually a bit of a groan.
观众的反应非常强烈。大多是抱怨不已。
But the point is objectively it matters to the audience in absolute term,
但重点是，客观层面这对观众来说是绝对重要的，
even though what they’re watching is a fiction, is its own virtual reality.
即使他们看到的是虚构的，是虚拟的现实。
But the question of whether that’s a dream or whether it’s real
但问题是，结尾究竟是梦境还是现实，
is the one I’ve been asked the most about any of the films I’ve made.
是我拍过的电影中被问到最多次的问题。
It matters to people enormously, and that’s the point about reality.
它对人们非常重要，这就是现实的意义。
Reality matters, it won’t be transcended.
现实很重要，它不会被超越。