“零零后”的成長故事

Post-00s is a documentary about growing up. It covers almost every aspect of millennials’experiences on their path toward adolescence – their struggles with schoolwork, their relationship with peers, their confusion if a younger sibling is born into the family, and their growing desire to keep a distance from their parents.

《零零后》是一部關于成長的紀錄片，涵蓋了千禧一代們在通往青春期的路上幾乎會經(jīng)歷的方方面面——學業(yè)上的努力、和同齡人之間的關系、家里弟弟妹妹的出生給他們所帶來的困惑，以及他們想要和父母保持距離的強烈想法。

But this five-episode series, which aired on CCTV 9 from Aug 20, was different from any other TV program with a similar theme.

這部五集系列紀錄片已于8月20日在央視記錄頻道播出，但和其他類似主題的電視節(jié)目相當不同。

To start with, Post-00s was filmed over a period of 10 years, during which the show’s makers followed a group of kids in Beijing from when they were toddlersthrough to when they became teenagers. In other words, the show’s “characters” grow older for real, and their stories are all real.

首先，《零零后》的拍攝周期超過十年。該節(jié)目的制片人們從北京一群孩子們蹣跚學步時起便對他們進行了跟拍，直到他們都長成了青少年。換句話說，該節(jié)目中的“人物”在現(xiàn)實生活中逐漸成長，他們的故事也全部是真實的。

“Coming-of-age” stories, as they’re known, have a special appeal. They satisfy our curiosity of peeking at someone else’s life, and we become more and more attached to the characters as if we truly know them. And while we enjoy the authenticity of the stories because nothing is set in advance, we also can’t help but feel the cruelty of reality.? After all, there’s no re-writing of the script and there’s no turning back – this is real life.

這些被稱為“真實成長”的故事有種特別的魅力。它們滿足了我們圍觀他人生活的好奇心，我們也在人物角色身上投入了更多的感情，就像我們真的認識他們一樣。而當我們欣賞著沒有預設好的故事腳本所帶來的真實性時，我們也不可避免地感到了現(xiàn)實的殘酷。畢竟，故事中沒有重寫劇本或是回頭的可能——這就是真實的生活。

“No dramatic scenes were needed for this documentary,” Zhang Tongdao, the show’s director, told China Daily. “Every detail or line comes from their lives. What I did was capture them.”

“這部紀錄片不需要戲劇性的情景，”該節(jié)目的導演張同道在接受《中國日報》采訪時表示。“每個細節(jié)、每句話都來源于生活。我所做的就是捕捉它們而已。”

This realness can also be seen in Boyhood (《少年時代》), a 2014 film that won the Silver Bear award for best director at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. During a span of 12 years, the film follows the life of Mason Jr– played by US actor Ellar Coltrane – from when he was 6 to when he finished high school.

這樣的真實性也出現(xiàn)在了2014年的電影《少年時代》中。這部電影在第64屆柏林國際電影節(jié)上摘得了金熊獎的最佳導演獎。該片圍繞著主人公梅森(美國演員艾拉·科爾特蘭飾)長達12年的生活展開，記錄了他從6歲到高中畢業(yè)的故事。

One of Boyhood’s appeals comes from its “ordinariness”, according to Independent editor Geoffrey Macnab. “Mason Jrisn’t some child prodigy... He is a quietly spoken, fairly typical American boy, growing up in the Texas suburbs. He likes riding his bike and playing video games,” he wrote.

《獨立報》編輯喬弗利·麥克那布認為，《少年時代》的魅力之一在于它的“平凡”。“梅森并非什么神童……他寡言少語，成長于德克薩斯州的郊區(qū)，是個相當?shù)湫偷拿绹泻ⅲ?rdquo;他寫道。

While coming-of-age stories may look ordinary on the outside, they often allow us to look underneath the surface and see something extraordinary – the power of life itself.

盡管“真實成長”的故事表面上看或許平淡無奇，但它們也經(jīng)常讓我們透過表面看到了一些不平凡的東西——生活本身的力量。

As US writer Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.” And in the case of Post-00s, it’s also a really good documentary.

正如美國作家歐內(nèi)斯特·海明威所寫的那樣，“說實話，任何一個人的人生，都是一部小說。”而《零零后》也的確是部很棒的紀錄片。