For its sheer beauty, its mesmeric compositional sense and pure balletic poise, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s distinctive and slow-moving wuxia tale The Assassin demands attention.
侯孝賢獨(dú)具一格的慢動作武俠電影《刺客聶隱娘》畫面唯美，組合鏡頭如夢如幻，演員動作如翩翩飛舞，值得一看。

易詞解詞（BY 摩西）

sheer adj. 絕對的；透明的；峻峭的；純粹的，adv. 完全；陡峭地。不止看起來像，這個單詞確實(shí)和share等有關(guān)，其本意是to cut。于是，share那就是砍下一塊來分給別人，shear就是剪刀和修剪，plowshare是劃開地面的犁，shareholder是持有一部分的股東，short是被切割了所以短小，shrub是要被砍下來燒火做飯的，sheer則是砍掉了多余的東西，所以純粹了。寶馬的廣告語:Sheer driving pleasure.純粹的駕駛樂趣。

genre n. 類型；種類；體裁；樣式；流派；風(fēng)俗畫。這個單詞與genus n. 類，種；[生物] 屬的區(qū)別是：genre指文藝形式的種類，比如小說里的言情、紀(jì)實(shí)和武俠等，電影的科幻、動畫和警匪等，繪畫的抽象、野獸和寫實(shí)等，或者音樂里的饒舌、搖滾和布魯斯等。genus指的是生物學(xué)分類上的種屬。二者的詞根都是gen-，表出生，出生時身份的不同，基本都在說這個。

There is no doubt that The Assassin – Hou’s first feature for eight years – is a movie of great intelligence and aesthetic refinement; there is majesty and mystery in this film, particularly in the visually remarkable final minutes, when its enigmatic power begins a kind of final ascent.?
作為侯孝賢暌違八年的新作，《刺客聶隱娘》無疑是一部集智慧與美感于一身的精品之作——場面恢宏，謎團(tuán)重重，尤其表現(xiàn)在電影的結(jié)尾：一股神秘的力量掀起了最后的高潮，給予觀眾震撼的視覺沖擊。

Hou is concerned to do something new with the wuxia genre, to take it to the next level in his own language, and I think he is more successful here than Wong Kar-wai was with his The Grandmaster. He has brought to the wuxia material his own uncompromising seriousness, and welded this seriousness to the form’s mythic resonance.
侯孝賢想對武俠做一個全新的詮釋，用自己的方式把武俠提升到一個更高的層次，在這方面我覺得他做得比王家衛(wèi)的《一代宗師》更出色。他把不落俗套的嚴(yán)肅帶到了武俠題材中，并使這種嚴(yán)肅與武俠電影的表現(xiàn)形式產(chǎn)生了神秘的共鳴。

It is based on the tale of Nie Yinniang or The Assassin, from the era of the Tang dynasty: in 809, a young girl played by Shu Qi is kidnapped and trained to be an assassin. But over a decade later, she is sent away by her master after failing to complete a killing and told to return to her hometown where she has a new target: a military governor who is her cousin and first love, played by Chang Chen, and so must choose between her family, her heart and her assassin’s creed.
這部電影取材自唐代刺客聶隱娘的故事：公元809年，一個年輕女子（舒淇飾）被強(qiáng)行帶走訓(xùn)練成刺客。十多年后，她因?yàn)闆]有完成暗殺任務(wù)而被遣返回鄉(xiāng)，在那兒她有了新的刺殺目標(biāo)：一個藩鎮(zhèn)節(jié)度使（張震飾），同時也是她的表兄兼初戀。她必須要在家人、內(nèi)心和刺客的信條之間做出抉擇。

The Assassin is beautifully shot by Hou’s regular cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, and staged with flair. There are scenes of conventional action and martial arts confrontation which seem to have their own particular power, as if the combatants are flashing out from a delicate painting; but otherwise Hou sees the assassin’s life in a more occult or metaphysical sense.
《刺客聶隱娘》風(fēng)格獨(dú)特、美輪美奐的畫面是由與侯孝賢長期合作的攝影師李屏賓拍攝的。電影里有傳統(tǒng)的打斗和武功的較量，這些場面都具有特殊的魔力，讓刀光劍影也似乎躍于精美的畫幅之上。而侯孝賢對刺客的生活作了更多形而上的思考。

The movie is a distillation of the assassin’s life of watchfulness, survival and fear.
這部電影是對草木皆兵、艱難求生的刺客生活的升華。

At other times, it has a dreamlike quality: a floating hallucination. The Assassin baffles, but more often it quietly captivates and astonishes.
電影的其他部分還有一個美妙的地方，就是會讓你產(chǎn)生飄忽的幻覺。《刺客聶隱娘》不易看懂，但它能無聲無息地俘獲你的內(nèi)心，令你如醍醐灌頂。