| "The Interrupters" tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, "The Interrupters" captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. |
电影《阻断者》讲述了三位暴力阻断者的故事，令人称奇而又不乏感动——他们都曾有暴力前科，如今正致力于保护芝加哥社区免受暴力伤害。影片出自著名导演史蒂夫•詹姆斯和畅销作家亚历克斯•克罗威兹之手，非常深入地探索了作为城市顽疾而存在的暴力问题。该片由卡坦昆电影公司出品，拍摄历时一年，镜头对准特定历史时期下的芝加哥——当时，芝加哥已然成为美国城市暴力的象征，暴力事件频频发生，备受瞩目。其中最恶劣的一起事件中，一位名叫迪瑞恩•阿尔伯特的芝加哥高中生惨遭毒打致死，整个过程还被录制了下来。 |
| The film's main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire. Founded by an epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin, who believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar, they go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. One of the cornerstones of the organization is the "Violence Interrupters" program, created by Tio Hardiman, who heads the program. The Interrupters — who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories — intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence. |
影片的三个主人公为一家名叫“停火”的新型组织工作。该组织的创立者加里•斯卢特金是一位流行病学家，他认为暴力的传播与传染病的传播如出一辙，因此阻止暴力就如同治疗疾病一般，组织成员需要追踪那些受暴力影响最严重的人群，从源头上制止暴力传播。作为该组织的基础项目之一，“暴力阻断者”计划由蒂奥•哈迪曼创建并领导。这些阻断者个人都曾有前科，因此在街头能取得信任，他们会介入冲突，从而阻止其演变成暴力事件。 |
| In "The Interrupters", Ameena Matthews, whose father is Jeff Fort, one of the city's most notorious gang leaders, was herself a drug ring enforcer. But having children and finding solace in her Muslim faith pulled her off the streets and grounded her. In the wake of Derrion Albert's death, Ameena becomes a close confidante to his mother, and helps her through her grieving. Ameena, who is known among her colleagues for her fearlessness, befriends a feisty teenaged girl who reminds her of herself at that age. The film follows that friendship over the course of many months, as Ameena tries to nudge the troubled girl in the right direction. |
电影《阻断者》中，艾米娜•马修斯自己就曾是某贩毒集团成员，她的父亲杰夫•佛特是芝加哥最臭名昭著的黑帮老大之一。但是，自从有了孩子并从穆斯林信仰中寻得慰藉后，艾米娜远离了打闹的街头，最终回归家庭生活。迪瑞恩•阿尔伯特惨死的事件发生之后，艾米娜成为他母亲的知心密友，并帮助这位母亲走出内心的伤痛。同事眼中的艾米娜对任何事情都无畏无惧。她与一个十几岁的女孩交上了朋友，这个孩子脾气暴躁，时常让她想起那个年纪的自己。她们一路走来的这几个月中，艾米娜试图引导这个问题少女走上正路，两人之间的友情便也成了电影的一条主线。 |
| Cobe Williams, scarred by his father's murder, was in and out of prison, until he had had enough. His family – particularly a young son – helped him find his footing. Cobe disarms others with his humor and his general good nature. His most challenging moment comes when he has to confront a man so bent on revenge that Cobe has to pat him down to make sure he's put away his gun. Like Ameena, he gets deeply involved in the lives of those he encounters, including a teenaged boy just out of prison and a young man from his old neighborhood who's squatting in a foreclosed home. |
因为父亲遭人谋杀，科比•威廉姆斯在心灵上受到很大创伤。他是拘留所的常客，直到某一天他发现自己真的过够了这样的生活。他的家庭，特别是年幼的儿子，帮助他找回了生活的根基。科比风趣幽默，本性善良，这为他赢得了大家的好感。最富挑战的时刻到了！一天，他遇到一个一心只想着报仇的男人，科比不得不对他搜身检查以确保他没有带枪。跟艾米娜一样，科比也深入到别人的生活，其中有刚出狱的小伙子，也有曾经的街坊邻居——那个年轻的男子擅自占住一所被取消抵押赎回权的房子。 |
| Eddie Bocanegra is haunted by a murder he committed when he was seventeen. His CeaseFire work is a part of his repentance for what he did. Eddie is most deeply disturbed by the aftereffects of the violence on children, and so he spends much of his time working with younger kids in an effort to both keep them off the streets and to get support to those who need it – including a 16-year-old girl whose brother died in her arms. Soulful and empathic, Eddie, who learned to paint in prison, teaches art to children, trying to warn them of the debilitating trauma experienced by those touched by the violence. |
埃迪•博卡内格拉17岁的时候杀过人，因此一直备受困扰。他为“停火”组织服务，部分原因是为了对自己曾经的所作所为表示忏悔。埃迪深知青少年经历的暴力会带来怎样的伤害，因此他很多时间都与小孩子待在一起，尽力让他们远离那些犯罪的环境，同时向需要帮助的孩子提供帮助——这其中就包括一个16岁的女孩，她的兄弟曾死在她的怀里。埃迪在狱中学过绘画，如今，他将心比心，开始真诚地教孩子们画画，并尝试着以好言相劝，让他们知道那些经历过暴力伤害的人受到的心灵创伤是巨大的。 |
| "The Interrupters" follows Ameena, Cobe and Eddie as they go about their work, and while doing so reveals their own inspired journeys of hope and redemption. The film attempts to make sense of what CeaseFire's Tio Hardiman calls, simply, "the madness". |
《阻断者》通过记录艾米娜、科比和埃迪三个人的工作点滴，展现了他们满怀希望和憧憬的赎罪之旅。就此，影片尝试着对“停火”组织负责人蒂奥•哈迪曼所谓的“疯狂”做出阐释。
（China.org.cn Wendy 译）
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