After the opening weekend, ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is a significant failure for everyone involved: actress, studio, and the Japanese anime genre. It’s not just a financial, but an artistic and imaginative failure.

　　《攻壳机动队》在周末上映后，对所有相关人员而言，不论是演员、电影公司，还是日本动漫题材，这都是一次明显的失败。这不仅是一次财务上的失败，也是一次艺术和创新上的失败。

　　A Little About ‘Ghost in the Shell’

　　《攻壳机动队》简介

　　“Ghost in the Shell” is a Japanese story from the 1990s about a woman who lives in a robotic body and does police work. She does not believe her her soul, suffices to make her human, and struggles with the existential question concerning her humanity and whether life is worth living in a near-future where everything is being taken over by technology.

　　《攻壳机动队》源于90年代的日本，讲述了生活在一个机器人身体中的女子从事警察工作的故事。她不相信她的灵魂有能力把她变成人类，并且一直纠结于她的人性存在问题，以及在一切都由技术掌控的不久的未来生活，那样的人生是否值得。

　　Another Entry In the Super-Soldier-Girl Genre

　　另一篇超级女战士题材

　　It’s the second wide-release movie headed by Scarlett Johansson after the 2014 action movie “Lucy,” in which she played a pretty girl who inexplicably develops superhuman powers and badly beats or kills every man on-screen while trying to find out the secret of her humanity-surpassing powers. That movie was a shocking success and women were half the movie’s American audience.

　　在2014年上映的动作电影《超体》之后，这是斯嘉丽·约翰逊主演的第二部公映的(同类题材的)电影。在《超体》那部电影中，她饰演了一个莫名其妙地拥有了超能力的漂亮女孩，她在银幕上愤怒地狠揍或杀掉每一个男人，同时试图找出使她的人性超越力量的秘诀。那部电影特别成功，而且女性就占美国观影群众的一半。

　　Well, whatever its worldwide audience turns out to be, in America 'Ghost in the Shell' has failed to get women to see it, or much of anyone else.

　　好吧，无论世界各地观影的群众会如何，但在美国，《攻壳机动队》这部电影未能吸引女性或者大部分其他观众前去观看。

　　This Plot Is Nothing New

　　情节毫无新意

　　You walk into the theater, and after the first scene you know the plot. The scriptwriters had no interest in concealing who the bad guy is or making this person human. But it still takes two hours to wrap it all up! This is not an original story, so you have to ask yourself, what would Hollywood add to a foreign story to Americanize it?

　　你走进影院，看到第一个场景之后，你就知道这部电影的情节了。编剧没什么兴趣去隐藏坏人或是把这个人变成人类，但这部电影还是用了两个小时来讲述一切!这不是一个原创的故事，所以你得问问自己，好莱坞会在一个外国故事中添点什么来使其美国化?

　　The Real Story Inside ‘Ghost in the Shell’

　　《攻壳机动队》的真实内幕

　　The all-American suggestion concerns feminism. As with feminism, we see trouble here: On the one hand, the heroine is supposed to play a strong woman who acts decisively by her own counsel; On the other, the only reason she’s on screen is because people like to stare at her body.

　　代表全美国的建议就涉及到了女权主义。说到女权主义，我们就看到了问题所在：一方面女主理应是一名强大的女子，她自主决策、行为果断;而另一方面，她在银幕上的唯一原因是因为人们喜欢盯着她的身体看。

　　To Explore the Chaos Technocrats Unleash, Try Elsewhere

　　要探索技术统治论者引起的混乱，去别处试试吧

　　For all its failures, “Ghost in the Shell” aims to be humanistic. But it is trying to say it’s good to be human, even a machine-human, at least if democracy can keep some control over technologicaloligarchy. It says so explicitly. But it cannot show any of that. It can only give you tech-generated action, conspiracy theories, and a moralistic speech from a feminist-plausible heroine.

　　虽然在各方面都不太成功，但《攻壳机动队》是以人性研究为目标的。然而，电影却在试着讲述至少在民主能控制技术的寡头统治的时候，成为人类，甚至是一个机器人类是有好处的。电影表达的十分明确，但却一点都没展现出来，只是向你展示了技术创造的动作场面、阴谋论以及一个貌似有理且主张女权主义的女主的道德主义演讲。

　　The Update Eliminates the Core Existential Questions

　　电影的改编忽略了核心存在问题

　　The core of the original was the protagonist, who has to prove to herself that she can live in her body, that she is still human. When she courts death, it is important to her that life is nevertheless a choice, if it is to be really human.

　　原著的核心是主角必须证明自己：她能生活在自己的身体里，她依然是人类。当她自寻死路的时候，对她而言，如果要成为真正的人类，生命仍然是一种选择。

　　However, in the American version, either the existential importance of the life choice is lost on the writers or they wanted to evacuate seriousness from the story.

　　然而，在美国人的版本里，要么是作者忘记了关于生命选择存在的重要性，要么就是他们想从原版故事的严肃性中脱离出来。

（编辑：何莹莹）