Doubt (2008)

豆瓣译作《虐童疑云》的电影。

感觉上，台湾和香港的译名也不好。但又不知道应该怎样译才恰如其分。

影片关于Flynn神父的人品也没有最后确切的结论。据说拍摄前导演也没有告知女演员们神父到底有没有做坏事。

整个电影把那种疑神疑鬼的气氛渲染得十足。

但因为是歌剧改编，并没有曲折的故事情节，不像《换子疑云》那样惊悚。

本片全靠台词和大段对白在撑戏。喜欢梅姨演技的可以一饱眼福。饰演Miller太太的维奥拉-戴维斯仅出场几分钟，即获得奥奖最佳女配提名，也值得一看。

神父的两场布道，写得十分精彩。

一、有关Doubt

Be seated.

What do you do when you’re not sure? That’s the topic of my sermon today.

Last year, when President Kennedy was assassinated, who among us did not experience the most profound disorientation? Despair?

Which way? What now?

What do I say to my kids? What do I tell myself? It was a time of people sitting together, bound together by a common feeling of hopelessness.

But think of that! Your BOND with your fellow being was your Despair. It was a public experience. It was awful, but we were in it together.

How much worse is it then for the lone man, the lone woman, stricken by a private calamity?

‘No one knows I’m sick.’

‘No one knows I’ve lost my last real friend.’

Imagine the isolation. Now you see the world as through a window. On one side of the glass: happy, untroubled people, and on the other side: you.

I want to tell you a story.

A cargo ship sank one night. It caught fire and went down. And only this one sailor survived. He found a lifeboat, rigged a sail...and being of a nautical discipline...turned his eyes to the Heavens and read the stars. He set a course for his home, and exhausted, fell asleep.

Clouds rolled in. And for the next twenty nights, he could no longer see the stars. He thought he was on course, but there was no way to be certain.

And as the days rolled on, and the sailor wasted away, he began to have doubts.

He just keeps on going. I mean - - Ow.

Had he set his course right? Was he still going on towards his home?

Or was he horribly lost... and doomed to a terrible death? No way to know. The message of the constellations - - had he imagined it because of his desperate circumstance? Or had he seen truth once...

and now had to hold on to it without further reassurance?

There are those of you in church today who know exactly the crisis of faith I describe. And I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. When you are lost, you are not alone.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Amen. Please rise.

二、关于流言

A woman was gossiping with a friend about a man she hardly knew-- I know none of you have ever done this -- that night she had a dream. A great hand appeared over her and pointed down at her.

She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt.

The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O’Rourke, and she told him the whole thing. “Is gossiping a sin?” she asked the old man. “Was that the hand of God Almighty pointing a finger at me? "

“Should I be asking your absolution? Father, tell me, have I done something wrong?”

“Yes!” Father O’Rourke answered her.

“Yes, you ignorant, badly broughtup female! You have borne false witness against your neighbor, you have played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed!”

So the woman said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness.

“Not so fast!” says O’Rourke. “I want you to go home, take a pillow up on your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me!”

So the woman went home, took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to the roof, and stabbed the pillow.

Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed.

“Did you gut the pillow with the knife?” he says.

”Yes, Father.”

“And what was the result?”

“Feathers,” she said.

“Feathers?” he repeated.

“Feathers everywhere, Father!”

“Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out on the wind!”

“Well,” she said, “it can’t be done. I don’t know where they went. The wind took them all over.”

”And that,” said Father O’Rourke, “is gossip!”

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen.