文明的轨迹粤语

从艺术的角度看西方文明的进程，闪烁着先生的真知灼见和翩翩风度，老爵士学富五车，谦逊有礼。讲解词有惊人的音乐感，内容极佳，配乐极好听，翻译水品相当高，（不亚于看一本西方艺术史的专著，还有富有社会责任感的解说。）陪伴了我一个多月啊，一集集认真地啃下来的。

Ep6结尾的哈姆雷特是点睛之笔，“Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd into clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”谁料过去的繁华，化作今朝的泥土！

50年过去了，现在看看最后一集的personal view令人感慨万千啊。最后有一个在二战废墟的大火里手握十字架的战士，竟有一种惊人的美感。还看到半个多世纪前的欧洲城市和乡村的田园牧歌的生活。全系列结束在60年代末曼哈顿的夕阳里，意味深长啊。喜欢的解说词太多，最后几集做笔记做到停不下来。Ep12中由贝多芬对自由的讴歌的一段剪辑：从1830年法国七月革命到1968年苏联的坦克开进布拉格，实在太令人感慨！

列举几段Ep13的：

“我认为我们应该记得我们是整体的一部分，此一整体就是自然，所有生物都是我们的兄弟姐妹。最重要的是，我相信某些人拥有了天赋才华，我也珍视让他们得以存在、发挥的社会。”

还有最末的叶芝的诗，令人思绪万千啊：“一切都破碎了/ 中心把持不住/ 无政府泛滥于世界/ 血红的潮水失控/ 无邪纯真不复存在/ 智者悲观/ 而愚人则满怀激荡热情”

最后，先生在表示自己保守派的立场后，说道，“I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole, I think that knowledge is preferrable than ignorance. And I'm sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of recent truimphs in science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years. And in consequence, we should still try to learn from history- history is ourselves.”令我十分感动。

另外，最具启发意义的话就是文明的自信了。“It is the lack of confidence ,more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destory ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effective as by bombs.”（全程手打听写，可能有出入，但真的很爱里面的每一句话。）

套用之前剧评中的话，很少再能看到一个历经沧桑的老头坐在树下跟你浅吟低唱一曲文明的赞歌了。

（截图太多，已做成word笔记，就不放了）

For millennia, art has been used to bring the human and divine together.

The story of religious art is about more than the most majestic and affecting visual images ever made, is about controversy and conflict, danger and risk.

When does the worship of an image, turn into dangerous idolatry? Where does divine glorification end worldly vanity begin? What actually counts as an image of God or of God’s word?

Treading these fast lines, I’ll even show how the defacement of religious art is fraught with its own problems and paradox, and I want to end with what we think of as the western civilization cradle to ask what it is now we worship and how far we still look with the eye of faith.