Chasten

chasten







Y

切審

[chey-suhn] 



D



–verb (used with object) 

1. to inflict suffering upon for purposes 

of 

moral improvement; chastise. 



2. to restrain; subdue: Age has chastened his violent temper. 

3. to make chaste in style. 



chaste

貞潔的,純潔的,在性關係上嚴肅的





　

The stuff that works in "Funny Games" was always efficient. There is still a dazzling deflection of suspense, as a stray knife is glimpsed in closeup and thus prepared as a possible tool of revenge; we even see Ann eyeing it, and we find ourselves willing her to wield it, but Peter sees it, too, and [brushes] it away. 



Better that than the infamous scene in which one of the maleficents, after a gunshot, suddenly grabs a remote control and pauses the film that we ourselves are watching, as we might do with a video. He rewinds quickly, then stops and plays the scene again, with the gunshot removed and the plot thereby diverted; 



this is meat and drink to anyone writing a Ph.D. thesis entitled "Viewing and (Re)viewing: Discourses of Dread in Austro-American Cinema," but onscreen it’s curiously clunky and flat, and, when you consider the implications, it is Haneke who is shooting himself in the foot. 



clunky 

(鞋子) 沈重的, 鞋底厚重的



If this movie knows it’s merely a movie, and concedes as much, why should we honor its mayhem with any genuine fright? When Michael Pitt turns to the camera and asks, with a smile, "You really think it’s enough?," or "You want a proper ending, don’t you?," we don’t feel nearly as chastened or ashamed as Haneke would like. 



We feel patronized, which is one of the worst moods that can bese[t a]n audience. Would "Psycho" have been a more profound film if Norman Bates had turned off the shower halfway through, adjusted his dress, and said to us, "Don’t worry about the blood. It’s chocolate sauce"? 



That movie was, in its way, no less self-conscious than "Funny Games"—the murder of Marion Crane clearly brandished its own artistry, with Norman’s knife rivalled, chop for chop, by the editor’s cuts—yet it still maintained its duty to move and terrify. Aristotle would have been hiding under his seat.



brandish

揮舞,炫耀





Flagellant

The procession of [flagellants] chant the Dies Irae, a famous thirteenth century Latin [hymn] thought to be written by Thomas of Celano.

A group of flagellants [files] past, some carrying heavy crosses, others whipping themselves, doing [penance].

a flagellant [attack] on the opposition party. 

chastise

scourge

[Disease] and [famine] are scourges of humanity.  

gauntlet

Scarlotti used a necro-[lash] which could be electrically charged by his gauntlets

Strut