h***y
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The opening ceremony was a bit of a grab-bag, wasn’t it? I thought some of
it was great, some was rather bad and quite a lot of it will mystify the
foreign TV viewers (95% of the audience) who it was supposed to dazzle.
Things I liked: Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic cauldron, a brilliantly
imaginative reworking of the old flame. The Queen allegedly parachuting from
a helicopter. The Mr Bean turn in the Chariots of Fire sequence – nicely
self-mocking and also very translatable. The forging and coming together of
the Olympic rings.
Some of the rest was bitty and disjointed; the sub-mobile-phone advert style
of the digital section was particularly weak. It was more political than I
expected. Voldemort loomed over the NHS. Tonight marked perhaps its final
transformation from a healthcare system into a religion. Dancers made up the
CND symbol. The Royal Family looked bored, but the new Right-On Royal
Family – Doreen Lawrence and Shami Chakrabarti – got to carry the Olympic
flag.
The NHS segment in particular underlined how surprisingly parochial this
ceremony was. The idea of the Health Service as a beacon for the world is,
bluntly, a national self-delusion. Most other Western European countries
have better state healthcare systems – and healthier people – than we do.
Does the average Chinese person even know what the letters stand for?
But I suppose the whole Olympics is in a broader sense parochial. Three
weeks ago, I was in Libya witnessing that country’s first free election in
sixty years: an end, or at least a beginning of the end, to decades of
madness and tyranny which killed tens of thousands and blighted the lives of
millions. To borrow the words of tonight’s over-excited TV commentators,
that really was an inspirational and historic moment. Tonight, by contrast,
was just a show. | h***y
发帖数: 4936 | 2 这种狭窄的视野和格调，的确是全世界观众的一大吐槽点，也是很多英国人在twitter
上说feel ashamed to be a brit的重要原因. | i*********8
发帖数: 728 | 3 开幕式当然只是个show了，难道奥运会只是个开幕式？不是说利比亚选举不重要，可是
你非的说奥林匹克精神只是更广泛的狭隘，是不是奥运会也要宣传民主普世，不是民主
普世的东西都要低一等？我看这个作者的内心才是真正的狭隘 | k**0
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