大肆宣传的史诗巨片《圆明园》昨天被我下了下来。刚才看了,原来是一部大型的记录片。看完以后,心情很不平静。整部电影用制作了大量的圆明园三维复原图,制作得很精美。然后再与现今保留下来的圆明园遗址做了对比,效果很强烈。同时整部电影是按照圆明园的建造、鼎盛和焚毁的时间顺序进行讲述的,当欣赏完圆明园鼎盛时期的美景以后,再看到英法联军火烧圆明园的时候,心里不由得产生了一种十分悲愤的感觉。
圆明园,中国人创造的伟大奇迹!这座恢弘的皇家园林见证了中国的兴盛与衰败,最终随着中国的衰败而化为了灰烬。留给我们后人的只有它那残败的身躯和无尽的想象。
我曾经去过两次圆明园,我很喜欢去大水法那个遗址,因为只有那里还保留着被焚烧的痕迹,还能够让人感受到惋惜。下面是雨果先生对圆明园的那段著名的描述:
In a corner of the world
there existed a man-made miracle —— the Winter Palace. Art has
two sources: one, an ideal, whence has come European art; two,
fancy, whence has issued Oriental art. The Winter Palace belongs in
the art of fancy. The Winter Palace, indeed, was the crystalisation
of all of the art that an almost superman race could have fancied.
The Winter Palace was a hugescale prototype of fancy if fancy can
have a prototype. If only you can imagine an ineffable
architectural structure, like a palace in the moon, a fairyland,
that is the Winter Palace. If you can imagine a treasure-island, a
pool of human perceptive power, expressed in the concrete form of
palaces and temples, that is the Winter Palace. It took two
generations of manpower to create the Winter Palace, which
subsequently went through improvement and perfection over several
centuries. For whom was the Winter Palace built, after all?
Eventually, for the people. Because as time passes by, all that the
people has made remains in the possession of mankind. Great
artists, poets, philosophers —— they all knew about the Winter
Palace. Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)once talked about it. Many
people at different times compared the Winter Palace to the
Parthenon, the Pyramids, the Arena, the Notre Dame. If they could
not see the Winter Palace with their own eyes, they could dream
about it —— as if in the gloaming they saw a breath-taking
masterpiece of art as they had never known before —— as if there
above the horizon of European civilization was towering the
silhouette of Asian civilization.
两个胜利者一起毁灭了圆明园!