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機器人是否能夠成為人類的理想伴侶？談Ich bin dein Mensch《我是你的完美男友》原作短篇小說與文學改編電影的不同見解
Could Robots be the Ideal Partners for Humans? Different Insights from the Original Short Story and the Film Adaptation of Ich bin dein Mensch
摘要
機器人是否能夠成為人類的理想伴侶？由德國女導演Maria Schrader自編自導的德語文學改編電影Ich bin dein Mensch《我是你的完美男友》以女性視角呈現，敘述中年單身女性Alma與專門為她量身訂做的「理想伴侶」類人型機器人Tom之間的「愛情」故事，探討了這個問題的許多面向，電影結局更提供了任由觀眾解讀與想像的空間，為這個問題的答案留下帶有希望與樂觀的餘韻。本片於2021年上映之後即大獲好評，榮獲德國電影獎（Deutscher Filmpreis 2021）最佳影片、最佳導演、最佳劇本、最佳女主角等四項大獎。然而有趣的是，在德國女作家Emma Braslavsky於2019年出版的同名原作短篇小說中，Alma和機器人Tom卻有著與電影版截然不同、充滿毀滅性的黑暗結局，故事中對於「機器人是否能夠成為人類的理想伴侶？」這個問題所著墨的面向也與電影版迥異，相當耐人尋味。因此本文將梳理、比較Ich bin dein Mensch《我是你的完美男友》原作短篇小說與文學改編電影對於這個問題所探討的不同面向，分析兩者展示的不同見解，進而探究導演Maria Schrader如何天馬行空地自由發揮，將原作的悲劇故事改編成這部悲喜劇的電影，以有別於一般文學改編電影、非常特殊的改編方式，使這部電影成為不計其數的文學改編電影中獨樹一格的成功範例。
並列摘要
Could robots be the ideal partners for humans? Written and directed by German director Maria Schrader, the film adaptation of Ich bin dein Mensch tells the love story between the middle-aged single woman Alma and the humanoid robot Tom, the ideal partner tailor-made for her, from the female point of view. The movie explores many aspects of this issue, and the ending also provides room for the audience to interpret and imagine, leaving a hopeful and optimistic aftertaste for the answer to this question. The film was released in 2021 to great acclaim and became winner of four German Film Awards (Deutscher Filmpreis 2021), including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress. However, the interesting thing is: the original short story of Ich bin dein Mensch, written by German author Emma Braslavsky and published in 2019, presents a very different and devastatingly dark ending for Alma and her robot Tom from the movie version. In order to answer the question, whether robots could be the ideal partners for humans, the story also presents many different thought provoking aspects. Therefore, this paper will compare different insights from the original short story and the film adaptation of Ich bin dein Mensch and explore how director Maria Schrader took the freedom to adapt the original tragic story into this tragic-comic film. By using a very special way of adapting a film that is different from ordinary literary adaptations, she makes the movie a unique and successful example among the countless literary film adaptations.