2014年十大影片之选——时报金牌影评人推荐

4. The modern state provides Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan” with its controlling metaphor, and it is interesting to note that the particular state in question — Vladimir Putin’s Russia — is the one in whose belly Mr. Snowden now resides. Mr. Zvyagintsev depicts it as a cruel, beautiful and passionate place, and tells a simple, primally powerful story of marital distress, political corruption and heroic vodka consumption in gorgeous, almost hallucinatory wide-screen compositions.

4.现代国家是安德烈·萨金塞夫(Andrey Zvyagintsev)的《利维坦》(Leviathan)中充满控制性的隐喻，影片所谈的国家是弗拉迪米尔·普京(Vladimir Putin)治下的俄罗斯，有趣的是，斯诺登就藏匿在这里。萨金塞夫把它描绘为一个残酷、美丽而又热情的地方，讲述了一个关于不幸的婚姻、政治腐败与痛饮伏特加的故事，简洁而又有力，宽银幕构图几乎能让人产生幻觉。