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本来已经把《少年派》放开了。
——因为这个电影里面,符号满布,包罗了蜥蜴时代到人类的将来,具体密集庞大:解读比剧本更长几倍。
不过,今天发现,Simsum原来是Tsimtsum.
这个字,大概可以把整套电影总结(咳咳........还可以连得上总结两字)
Tsimtsum 是希伯来语,在一个犹太网站,神父 (Rabbi Tzvi Freeman) 解释了这个概念。
由于是宗教文字,经历5千年的宗教演变,含义复杂多样、抽象,正好用作概括整个漂流过程,作者杨马特尔厉害:
——Tsimtsumis a way of being present in your absence.
存在,但心不在焉。
(中年派在湖边讲故事时的心不在焉;父亲决定移民时,少年派根本没有听; 船上母亲要他吃晚餐时,少年派的眼望远方;父亲喂动物时,派并无参与)
存在,不过实际上缺席
(中年派所在结局时说的:上帝好像不存在没有照看我,但其实还是看着我)
——字面的意思是:把整个宇宙或能量缩小、浓缩到一个地球 可以管理、可以接受 的空间,放进地球。
于是,有些部分缩小后,肉眼难以发觉、难以明白,但还是存在的。
(电影把整个地球,放进日本货船。当然,船难后,再进一步:缩进了救生船)
——He hides His light from us, so that we can make our own choices.
造物者把光隐藏,让地球人在自己的世界,自由的摸索自己的前路(choice)
(少年派在救生船上,无任何指示下,探索自己的生存方法)
也可以附会为:存在但心不在焉,是Tsimtsum号沉没的原因???
附录部分网页原文:
If you were to create a world, the first thing you would need to master is tsimtsum. Tsimtsum is a way of being present in your absence. Get that one down, along with creating something out of nothing, and everything else is a piece of cake.
Tsimtsum literally means “reduction.” For a Kabbalist, a tsimtsum is a reduction of the divine energy that creates worlds—something like the transformers that reduce the voltage of the electric current leaving the turbine generators, until it’s weak enough for a standard light bulb to handle. So too, the divine energy needs to be stepped down so that the created worlds can handle it.
Tsimtsum is also like turning down the amplification on quality stereo speakers: If they are good speakers, none of the signal is lost, just that much of it becomes inaudible to our ears. So too, the more tsimtsum applied, the less the resulting world will be aware of the divine energy which is creating and sustaining it. Distortion and corruption of the light can also occur—but that’s for another essay.
Kabbalists describe innumerable such tsimtsums (tsimtsumim is the actual plural form) that generate innumerable worlds. Our world is the final stop, since at this point the degree of tsimtsum is so extreme that the divine energy is almost imperceptible. As a result, our world contains created beings that feel they are here just because they are here, no further questions asked. One tsimtsum more, and nothing at all could exist. Existence requires some sort of connection to the initial source of everything—meaning, to the Creator.
There’s another type of tsimtsum, described by the master Kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria, known as “the Ari.” It is the primal tsimtsum, and it is unique from all other tsimtsumim.
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Tsimtsum, then, is the way G‑d makes space for us to have our own world. He hides His light from us, so that we can make our own choices. But He remains immanently present within that hiddenness. In a way, He is yet more present in His absence than in His presence.
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