提名奥斯卡却遭禁映——巴基斯坦电影《生命之圆》

With Oscar nominations just a day away, Pakistan is hoping its picture gets one of the slots for best foreign film.

奥斯卡奖提名在即，巴基斯坦希望他们的一部影片入围其中的最佳外语片奖。

But it's a film that most Pakistanis aren't able to see.

然而，这部电影大部分的巴基斯坦人都看不到。

The 2-hour, 15-minute long movie is called Zindagi Tamasha, or "Circus of Life."

这部片长两小时，15分钟的电影名字叫做《生命之圆》。

Set in the hazy old quarter of the Pakistani city of Lahore, prostitutes, devout families, drug dealers and men hustling a living live side-by-side.

故事背景设定在巴基斯坦拉合尔的老城区里，在这里妓女，毒贩，信教的家庭和其他的男子拥挤着住在一起。

It is the fictional story of a devout, middle-aged real estate agent and performer, Rahat Khwaja, whose life capsizes after a guest at a wedding films him sensually swaying to an old Pakistani song, "Zindagi Tamasha" (the film is named after the song) as he sings it for the audience.

这是一则虚拟的故事，讲述了一个信教的中年房地产经销商兼演员，拉哈特·卡瓦加，在朋友的婚礼上，他忘情的演唱一首巴基斯坦老歌曲《生命之圆》，这一幕被拍了下来，然后他的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。

The video goes viral and Khwaja, who is respected in his crowded quarter for his singing of devotional Islamic poems, is suddenly viewed by his community as vulgar.

这段视频走红网络，卡瓦加本来是做这一份受人尊敬的在当地社区唱伊斯兰宗教诗歌的工作，如今则受到了人们的排挤。

Religious events where he once starred as an esteemed singer are now off limits – he is literally pushed out of one event by other performers who are enraged by his wedding performance.

曾经受人尊敬的工作已经离他远去——因为在婚礼上的表现，他如今受到同行的排挤。

He finds his face plastered across tawdry memes on the internet.

如今网络上到处都是用他的脸做成的讽刺表情包。

Children who once loved him for the sweets he handed out in their crowded alley call him a pig and a pimp.

曾经因为在小巷里收到赠送的糖果而喜欢他的孩子们，如今你管他叫“臭猪，下流客”。

A cleric threatens to accuse him of blasphemy – which can be a deadly accusation in Pakistan.

一名牧师威胁着要控告他叛教——这在巴基斯坦是重罪。

Worse, his beloved daughter turns against him.

雪上加霜的是，他心爱的女儿也开始与他为敌。

The film was banned in Pakistan after an extremist religious group watched the trailer and became enraged at its portrayal of the cleric in the movie.

一些极端宗教团体观看了这部影片的预告片之后，对片中牧师的形象感到非常愤怒，因此这部电影遭到了禁演。

Not only does he loosely hurl accusations of blasphemy against the protagonist, the cleric is painted as a sneering, arrogant man who turns a blind eye to child sex abuse in his seminary, even as he leads the charge to shame the protagonist.

他不仅草率的控告主人公叛教，而且刻画成了一个满脸嘲讽，傲慢的人，对他的研讨会上的猥亵儿童行为视而不见，哪怕在他控告男主人公期间也是如此。

And the group rallied against the director.

该宗教团体对导演进行了集会。

"Who are you to talk against scholars?" demanded Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the then-leader of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan at a rally last February against the movie, which gathered thousands of angry, chanting protesters.

“你有什么资格讽刺学者权威？”卡迪姆·胡赛因·瑞兹维说道，他是去年二月，针对该电影的一次集会的领导者，这次机会聚集了上千名愤怒的唱诗班的抗议者。

"The prophet did not delegate the faith to you!" he said, referring to the film's director, Sarmad Khoosat.

“先知没有给你这样的权利。”他对该影片的导演萨麦徳·库萨特说。

So just like the protagonist of Zindagi Tamasha, Khoosat faced a whirlwind of hatred.

所以跟这部影片的主人公一样，导演库萨特陷入了负面舆论的漩涡中。

One committee member, Hamza Bangash, told us that Zindagi Tamasha was selected in November because it "really kind of upends a lot of hypocrisy within our society," he says. "It does so with humor and it's so gentle."

影片委员会的一名成员哈马扎·班加什对我们说，《生命之圆》这部电影11月就入选了，“因为它确实揭露我们社会中的一些伪善，而且是一种幽默而温和的方式。”

But Bangash says he doesn't expect the nomination to change anything — in fact he calls Zindagi Tamasha "a cautionary tale, because it tells you you can pour your heart and soul into a film," he says, "and you might face death threats at the end of that."

不过班加什说道就算入围了也改变不了什么——世界上他认为，《生命之圆》像一则讽刺故事，它告诉你，你可以把自己的心灵和灵魂投入到一部电影当中，然而最后你可能会面临死亡威胁。

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