上个周日也凑热闹去看了《钢铁侠3》，确实从头到尾都非常享受。看完回去之后再仔细品味，却也觉得《3》并未超过爆米花娱乐的级别，同时，我甚至还一味费解于剧中一个概念，现在和大家一起来分享。

　　I saw Iron Man 3 this past Sunday, and I enjoyed the film well enough. Shane Black injects some pretty hilarious moments into the franchise and the action beats were more impressive than those in the second film.

　　But this film does not rise above the level of popcorn entertainment, and I don’t get film critics who can overlook its myriad of issues. So in the grand tradition of needlessly nitpicking things to death, I’m sure you’ll find some of my issues with the film.

　　为什么Stark在剧中，还花了70%长的电影时间去尝试修复他的套装呢?是否是因为他在马里布的其它装备都被炸了，而他身上所穿的是他一套装备了，因此他只能利用这一套去打败电影里的反派角色Aldrich Killian和他的“战利品”?

　　Why does Tony Stark spend 70% of the movie trying to repair/power up his suit, when he has a remote controlled suit army at his disposal? – It’s a pretty stunning moment when Tony Stark barely makes it out of Malibu after his entire house destroyed by the putative terrorists. Tony Stark’s array of suits has been exploded, it seems. The haunting, silent opening shots from the film hammer home that idea. So Stark’s quest to repair and power up his final suit carries a lot of dramatic tension. This is his last suit! He’ll need it to defeat the villains in the film.

　　事实上，在电影快结束时，所有的紧张感都消失殆尽了，因为Stark能完全能自主召唤他的超级装备，这些装备甚至能从遥远的加州的马里布飞到田纳西，并解救被Aldrich Killian囚禁的Stark。这就好像知道Neo在《黑客帝国2》里能飞到任何地方一样。既然如此，亲爱的读者们，你们是否觉得之前的所有争斗都是毫无必要的呢?或者，在电影后半段，没有穿戴任何装备的Stark在一系列打斗中，几乎未能死里逃生，看起来毫无意义了?

　　All of that tension is totally lost when at the end of the film, Stark is able to call upon dozens upon dozens of Iron Men suits, all of them with high-powered AI that autonomously lay waste to the enemy. It’s like knowing Neo can fly away from any fight in The Matrix Reloaded. Once you have that knowledge, doesn’t every struggle seem kind of unnecessary? Or in this case, doesn’t the sagging middle section of the film, in which a suit-less Stark barely evades death on a number of occasions, seem kind of unnecessary?

　　也许Jean的这个疑问，就是《3》想和大家交流的吧：到底是战甲成就了他，还是他造就了这套战甲!

　　如果大家在对这一点有任何想法，欢迎大家在微博上与我进行交流讨论!