主演:Joe Exotic / Carole Baskin / Rick Kirkham / John ..
导演:Rebecca Chaiklin / Eric Goode
更新:2023-03-28 14:13
简介:在比小说还奇怪的老虎主人世界里,有各种古怪和另类的人物,但..
在比小说还奇怪的老虎主人世界里,有各种古怪和另类的人物,但几乎没有人能比乔·野生更引人注目。他是一个留着胭脂鱼发型、持枪的一夫多妻主义者和西部乡村歌手,管理着俄克拉荷马州的一个路边动物园。魅力超凡但误入歧途的乔和一群令人难以置信的人物(包括毒枭、骗子和邪教领袖)都对老虎以及这种危险动物所获得的地位和关注有着莫大的热情。但卡罗·巴斯金(老虎保护区的动物维权人士和所有者)威胁要关闭他们的动物园时,事情变得可怕起来,他们的争斗最终让乔·野因一场雇凶杀人的阴谋而被捕,并揭露了一个扭曲黑暗的故事,而比老虎更危险的只有老虎的主人。Tiger King is Overrated-双语剧评
Popular Culture Happy Hour这个播客节目的三位主持人对Tiger King发表了相当有意思的评论,在这里给大家分享,并附上我自己(翻得很随意)的译文。此播客没有文本,英文部分是我用耳朵听+手打的,省去了少量信息。节目地址:Tiger King And What's Making Us Happy
Glen: I’m gonna be a stick-in-the-mudhere. I’m gonna bea humorless prig.Not for nothing, I don’t understand these people. Everybody on the show keeps making the same assertion over and over again, which is “everybody wants to pet a baby tiger” What? No! that’s not a thing! I never found Joe Exoticinteresting or compelling, and I will shut up now ,but I’ll just close by saying just for Carole Baskin, the show does her so dirty!Let’s talk about that.
Steven: I shared some of Glen’s misgivings. As a piece of entertainment, I found it engrossing. Where the showfalls down for me as a viewing experience is I tend to like to find somebodyto latch on, to somebodyto root for,somebodyto feel for. And other than Saff, I didn’t really find anybody particularly rootable as a human being. The biggest issue for me probably is in presenting repellent behavior as quirk.I found that very frustrating over time. But I also understand how this show slid off the rails a little bit as a piece of story telling. These people are weirdos. It’s very easy for a show like this to follow these wackadoodle storylines that keep popping up, and then you loose sight of this larger story about animal cruelty and cult-like atmosphere at these zoos.
Linda: I didn’t think it was made very well. I didn’t think it was structured very well. For stories like this you have to have a kind of coherent direction but then each episode also has to have an internal structure to it. I don’t think it succeeds at that level.It has a real genderedickinessto it in terms of like woman as buzzkilland woman as black widow. There is a weird kind of completely evidence-free assertion made that she had some involvement in the disappearance of her first husband. I don’t think there’s a shred of evidence that’s presented to support that, but they spend a whole episode on it and it feels like an effort to rebalance the story.For a lot of people, Joe Exotichas emerged as some kind of appealingly quirky character. I don’t find him that way at all. I think that’s how he wants to be perceived. I find him to be rather loathsome because of the animal cruelty things that he essentially admits to in terms of how he handled the tigers that he had. There are a lot of allegations that he was abusive to the staff that worked at thisG.W. Zoo. I just didn’t buy into this kind of image of him as a wackyentertaining figure.
Glen: His loathing of Carole is not built, it’s not shaped; it’s just asserted over and over again. It dosen’t go anywhere. So what we end up doing is watching him fire off theory after theory and he eats up all that airtime, so that his theories get added of this kind of emotional weight that they probably shouln't have. It’s frustrating.
Steven:The show does put its thumb on the scalein some really frustrating ways. The tendency to having interview where the person says what they’re there to say, and then the camera holds on there kind of unblinking face for like an extra bit or two. When they do that, it tends to be presented as like there’s somethingweird or off or stagedabout or dishonest about what this person has just said…this is a very subtle thing but it felt very dishonest everytime they did it. You're interviewing Carole, she says somethingand then you're almost frozen on her blink expression and it's like she’s doing that for the benefit ofthe filmmakers. It’s been turned on her to make her look like more of a werido. That kind of thing, I found really really frustrating.
Linda: One thing just from a filmmaking perspective that I think this desperately needed was someone who seemed like a realibale narrator. They certainly treat Carole as an unreliable narrator. Joe is presented very much as an unreliable narrator, just about everyone is. Very often in a story like this you’ll get a journalist, an investigator, an attorney, somebodywho gives you a sense of what’s the center of like this, what is the truthful center of this story.And that character can help keep you crowned within the story and it’s one of the things that helps assemble things with some kind of through linesso that you don’t feel like that you’re just wandering from incident to incident.It’s heavily classed in a way that I think is..you know..some of the pointing and giggling at Joefeels classed because he is somebodywho according to his own telling of his story, was very poor. But there’s also somethingvery classed in the way that they try to present Caroleas a culturally elite,like maybe she is more snobby. And if you read about her story, her story is not that, really. But I think they’re trying to set up a class conflict between these two people that dosen't feel like it’s genuine.
Glen:There’s also a weird delight that this show takes in his queerness that I don’t think it’s earned. It seems to me as if the show feels likeit’s discovered the concept of trade-straight guys doing gay stuff for goods and/or services. It gets a lot of the queer stuff wrong. Misgenders, Saff and it dosen't even raise the issue of gender fluidity at all.
Steven: There’s something compulsively watchable about this show. I blazedthrough 5 hours really quickly. It’s a digestableshow but I think that formlessness is part of the issue like I think that the attention of the filmmakers seemed to wander in the way that the attention of the audience member might wander-like, where you’re kind of just seeing this weirdo, and it’s like “what, her husband disappeared? What’s that?”, and then the story’s kind of like “OK, well, there’s an episode where her husband disappears.” It’s sort of following instead of leading if that makes sense.