这部影片被形容为一部“三个乐章的交响乐”，片中集合了几位有着不同国家、种族背景的角色。影片的故事发生在一艘地中海豪华邮轮上，游轮行经六处著名的欧洲神话故事遗址，其中包括埃及、巴勒斯坦、希腊、敖德萨、那不勒斯、巴塞罗那。来自世界各地不同文化背景、说着不同语言的乘客在这里相遇。主要角色包括一位来自莫斯科警察局的探长，一名出身背景不详、由孙女陪同的老战犯，一名上了年纪的法国警察，一位巴勒斯坦大使，一位前联合国女官员，一名间谍，以及法国哲学家阿兰·巴丢和美国“朋克教母”帕蒂·史密斯。

这部影片被形容为一部“三个乐章的交响乐”，片中集合了几位有着不同国家、种族背景的角色。影片的故事发生在一艘地中海豪华邮轮上，游轮行经六处著名的欧洲神话故事遗址，其中包括埃及、巴勒斯坦、希腊、敖德萨、那不勒斯、巴塞罗那。来自世界各地不同文化背景、说着不同语言的乘客在这里相遇。主要角色包括一位来自莫斯科警察局的探长，一名出身背景不详、由孙女陪同的老战犯，一名上了年纪的法国警察，一位巴勒斯坦大使，一位前联合国女官员，一名间谍，以及法国哲学家阿兰·巴丢和美国“朋克教母”帕蒂·史密斯。

五十年前的乌托邦幻梦，本是加以尖锐讽刺，今天回首却尽成唏嘘。原籍智利的大师级导演拉乌卢易兹，当年在左翼总统上台后，拍片批评新政府的理想主义不切实际，岂料军事政变走向独裁，作品未及完成，他本人亦流亡海外。在他辞世多年后，视频终于寻获，经抢救修复，由其遗孀兼创作伙伴完成剪接，令此作重现人间。糅合纪实与虚构，在历史洪流里保持清醒，在激昂呐喊中洞察困境。由两组故事交错而成，工人接管工厂，知识份子空言革命，结局预示终成泡影。

五十年前的乌托邦幻梦，本是加以尖锐讽刺，今天回首却尽成唏嘘。原籍智利的大师级导演拉乌卢易兹，当年在左翼总统上台后，拍片批评新政府的理想主义不切实际，岂料军事政变走向独裁，作品未及完成，他本人亦流亡海外。在他辞世多年后，视频终于寻获，经抢救修复，由其遗孀兼创作伙伴完成剪接，令此作重现人间。糅合纪实与虚构，在历史洪流里保持清醒，在激昂呐喊中洞察困境。由两组故事交错而成，工人接管工厂，知识份子空言革命，结局预示终成泡影。

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For nearly two decades, John Gianvito has been carving out a unique space in American cinema with passion projects of expansive shape and political ambition, including The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, a documentary-fiction inquiry into the human toll of the Gulf War, and Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, a becalmed yet radical Howard Zinn–inspired reflection on American progressivism. In his new film, Gianvito meditates on a particular moment in early 20th-century history: when Helen Keller began speaking out passionately on behalf of progressive causes. Beginning in 1913, when, at age 32, Keller gave her first public talk before a general audience, Her Socialist Smile is constructed of onscreen text taken from Keller’s speeches, impressionistic images of nature, and newly recorded voiceover by poet Carolyn Forché. The film is a rousing reminder that Keller’s undaunted activism for labor rights, pacifism, and women’s suffrage was philosophically inseparable from her battles for the rights of the disabled.

For nearly two decades, John Gianvito has been carving out a unique space in American cinema with passion projects of expansive shape and political ambition, including The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, a documentary-fiction inquiry into the human toll of the Gulf War, and Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, a becalmed yet radical Howard Zinn–inspired reflection on American progressivism. In his new film, Gianvito meditates on a particular moment in early 20th-century history: when Helen Keller began speaking out passionately on behalf of progressive causes. Beginning in 1913, when, at age 32, Keller gave her first public talk before a general audience, Her Socialist Smile is constructed of onscreen text taken from Keller’s speeches, impressionistic images of nature, and newly recorded voiceover by poet Carolyn Forché. The film is a rousing reminder that Keller’s undaunted activism for labor rights, pacifism, and women’s suffrage was philosophically inseparable from her battles for the rights of the disabled.

纪录片每期主题各不相同，以语言的韵味、语言和方言的形成、普通话的演进、语言的传承、语言背后的情感、各异的沟通方式及对语言的保护为主题，宏观又不失细节地梳理出中国话传承的脉络，让每一句中国话都有迹可循，也让不同主题都能在片中得到深入浅出的拆解和阐释。以广阔的视角和具象化的表达，勾勒出跨越时空的语言图景，展示中国话的波澜壮阔与意义深远，弘扬语言之美。

纪录片《中国话》，由几十位语言学家和数百位普通人一起，携手完成了一次特别的讲述，宏观又不失细节地梳理出中国话传承的脉络，透过一个个普通中国人和他们鲜活的人生故事，娓娓讲述着中国话如何链接古今文化、拥抱青春表达、焕发时代活力。以广阔的视角和具象化的表达，勾勒出跨越时空的语言图景，展示中国话的波澜壮阔与意义深远，弘扬语言之美，传递出“千言万语，生生不息”的价值理念。