In Queens, New York, 1980, Jewish 12-year-old Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) befriends Johnny (Jaylin Webb), a troubled Black kid who opens Paul’s eyes to a wider world. As their friendship gets them both into trouble, Paul begins to see that the world isn’t quite what he thought it was.

1980年，在紐約皇后區(qū)，12歲的猶太人保羅·格拉夫(Banks Repeta飾)和一個麻煩的黑人孩子約翰尼(Jaylin Webb飾)成為了朋友，約翰尼讓保羅看到了更廣闊的世界。當(dāng)他們的友誼讓他們都陷入麻煩時，保羅開始看到世界并不完全是他想象的那樣。

“You just want me to be like you,” says 12-year-old Paul Graff () in?Armageddon Time, unenamoured with his posh new school uniform for the posh new school his parents are making him go to. “No,” says his father (Jeremy Strong), “I want you to be a whole lot better than me. That’s what I want.”

“你只是想讓我像你一樣，”12歲的保羅·格拉夫(Banks Repeta飾)在電影《世界末日》中說道，他對父母讓他去的豪華新學(xué)校的豪華新校服并不感興趣。“不，”他的父親(Jeremy Strong飾)說，“我希望你過得比我好得多，這就是我想要的?！?/p>

There’s a world of pain there, as there is throughout?Armageddon Time, a semi-autobiographical melting-pot that explores much of what made the young?James Gray?a man.

貫穿《世界末日》始終的，都是一個充滿了痛苦的世界，這是一部半自傳式的大熔爐，探討了是什么讓年輕的詹姆斯·格雷成為一個男人。

That line – “I want you to be a whole lot better than me” – which mixes a father’s protectiveness with a self-loathing inseparable from his Jewishness, is delivered with heartbreaking humanity from Strong, whose uniquely troubled eyes deliver desperation, insecurity, disappointment.

這句臺詞——“我希望你能過得比我好得多”——混合了父親的保護(hù)和與他的猶太身份不可分割的自我厭惡，Strong以一種令人心碎的人性表達(dá)出來，他那獨(dú)特的不安的眼睛流露出絕望、不安和失望。

（說起來，雖然安妮海瑟薇這么年以來片約不斷，還是忘不了最開始認(rèn)識她的那一部《公主日記》，這是很多人的童年印象吧？）

Many of Gray’s films are introspective, interior personal journeys –?Two Lovers,?The Lost City Of Z?and?Ad Astra?all feel disarmingly intimate. But here he has doubled down, taking a trip into his own childhood with a soulful drama that follows his young avatar, Paul, as he navigates adolescence within that white middle-class Jewish upbringing.

Grey的許多電影都是自省的、內(nèi)在的個人旅程——《兩個情人》、《迷失Z城》和《星際探索》都讓人感覺人物之間很親密。但在這部電影中，他十分努力地通過一部深情的戲劇，回到自己的童年，講述他的年輕化身Paul在白人中產(chǎn)階級猶太家庭的成長過程中度過青春期的故事。

那幾年，在那個人均美特斯邦威的時代

哪怕放在今天

你也必須要說一句

不！過！時！

我的書架上，甚至還有一本《穿普拉達(dá)女王》的原著

真是可怕

以前真是什么書想看

The Jewish kid befriends a Black kid, and it’s the best of times and the worst of times, as Paul is treated to a succession of wake-up calls, his eyes slowly opening to the reality of the social structure propped up around him.

猶太孩子和黑人孩子成為朋友，這是最好的時代，也是最壞的時代，Paul被一連串的現(xiàn)實(shí)鬧鈴叫醒，他的眼睛慢慢睜開，看到了支撐著他周圍的社會結(jié)構(gòu)的現(xiàn)實(shí)。

Politics are never far away: Paul’s left-leaning parents, gently aghast at the barely disguised bile coming out of Ronald Reagan’s mouth as he campaigns to be President, are not quite as enlightened as they’d like to think. Gray gets into the cracks, tackling morality, class warfare and racism, but never with too heavy a hand, as Paul begins to see things from different perspectives.

政治從未遠(yuǎn)離:Paul的左傾父母被羅納德·里根競選總統(tǒng)時幾乎不加掩飾的憤怒嚇到了，他們并不像他們想的那樣開明。Gray介入其中，處理道德、階級斗爭和種族主義等問題，但從不過于強(qiáng)硬，因?yàn)镻aul開始從不同的角度看問題。

So, it’s warm but not rose-tinted, sweet but not sentimental. At worst it feels slightly contrived towards its conclusion, with things dramatised a little bit more than they maybe needed to be. But still, it’s a means to an end, with the young Paul learning – the hard way – about hypocrisy, injustice and privilege. Never, though, at the expense of the film remaining a touching character study.

所以，它溫暖而不失美化舊時光，甜蜜而沒有很多愁善感。全片最大的缺點(diǎn)是，它給人感覺結(jié)尾有點(diǎn)做作，事情被戲劇化了一點(diǎn)，而不是他們可能需要的。但是，這仍然是達(dá)到目的的一種手段，年輕的Paul學(xué)會了——艱難的方式——虛偽，不公正和特權(quán)。然而，絕不要以犧牲電影中感人的人物研究為代價。

* rose-tinted=To?focus?on?the?positive?aspects?of?something,?often?something?that?was?actually?quite?negative. 讓消極的事情，看上去很積極。

Both a coming of age and an exploration of an era, this self-biographical reminiscence feels both regretful and hopeful – a filmmaker trying to make peace. It’s not sugar-coated, but it’s full of love.

這部自傳式的回憶錄既是一個時代的成長，也是對一個時代的探索，讓人感到遺憾和希望——一位試圖創(chuàng)造和平的電影人。它沒有被糖衣包裹著，但充滿了愛。