Inside the Palais, the hulking brutalist structure where the films are screened, this year’s lineup was filled with tales of ordinary people, or poor people, struggling with the fallout of the global issues that increasingly unite us – or confronting painful political conflicts that official histories had laid to rest. If in the past Cannes showcased films telling a hundred different kinds of stories, this year’s offerings made clear that in an increasingly flattened and wired world, there is really only one story – with a hundred different inflections.
而在展播影片的巨大野兽派风格大殿内，今年参赛电影的主题却清一色是关于普通人或穷人如何与那些日益将我们联结起来的世界性问题作斗争的故事——或者是如何与那些被官方历史所掩盖的惨痛政治冲突相抗争的。如果说过去的戛纳电影节所展示的电影包含上百种主题，那么，今年的参赛电影清晰地反映了这么一个现实，那就是在一个日益扁平化和联网化的世界里，故事的主题有且只有一个，只不过有一百种讲法罢了。