《疯人院》深度剧情透析（完整版）－－【ICHI 翻译学习系列 01】

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Warning: The following document contains countless spoilers for the PC game Sanitarium; if you have not finished the game, than you risk having major events or plot twists ruined for you.

注意：以下文章含有很多对PC游戏《疯人院》的剧情透露，如果你尚未打通此游戏，那阅读此文将会破坏你对游戏的主要事件和剧情悬念的良好感觉。

This guide will contain no hints, as it is intended to examine and speculate over the story of Sanitarium. I am making this document in order to organize a deliberately jumbled and somewhat confusing plot. The game is ripe with subtext and symbolism; so many of my observations will be inaccurate or reading too much into an unintentional coincidence. It’ll still be fun though.

本篇透析不包含任何攻略提示，而是为了研究讨论《疯人院》的故事剧情。笔者写此文的目的，在于把游戏中刻意营造得纷繁杂乱、令玩家有点摸不着头绪的剧情组织起来。这个游戏本身就把潜台词和象征手法运用得非常娴熟流畅，而笔者在此的很多观点都不一定准确，甚至是由于过度深究而造成误解游戏的原意。不过，写这种分析仍很有乐趣。

Plot Summary:
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This is pieced together summary of the ‘real world’ flashback cut scenes that play at key moments.

以下概要，是把游戏中那些在关键时刻快速闪过、反映“现实世界”的过场动画拼合而成。

Max is a perfectly ordinary medical researcher who was driven into the medical career from guilt of his sister Sarah dying of some unknown disease. In a pursuit to stop similar tragedies, Max sets out to find a cure for DNAV, a mysterious disease effective only in newborns. His research takes him and his wife to the Middle-American Aztec; where Max is convinced that he will somehow find a cure based on the fact that a tribe of ancient Aztec villagers somehow survived a plague without the use of medical treatment. Max becomes frustrated, as despite spending a good deal of time investigating, he has found no evidence of a cure. He hears that his old colleague, Doctor Morgan is hard at work at Mercy corporations to invent the Hope drug, which promises to cure the DNAV that is slaughtering the newborns. Max, seeing his current work as a failure, decides that perhaps he should return home and help his old colleague who is close to an actual cure rather than arrogantly search for a cure himself.

麦克斯（Max）是一个很普通的医学研究员。其妹莎拉（Sarah）在年幼时死于一种不知名的疾病，此事令他感到深深的内疚遗憾，从而驱使他走上医学研究道路。麦克斯一心想尽力阻止类似惨剧的发生，于是他开始寻求能治愈一种仅危害新生婴儿的神秘疾病DNAV的方法。他的研究把他和妻子带到中美洲的阿兹特克遗迹，他深信自己能在那里找到疗法，因为据史实说：在古代阿兹特克的一个村庄，有一支部落曾在未接受过医学治疗的情况下，以某种方式逃过了一场大瘟疫。但是，麦克斯的希望落空了，他虽然投入了大量时间精力去钻研，却仍然找不到任何有疗效的证据。而此时，他得知他的大学同学摩根（Morgen）博士正在仁济（Mercy）（注1）医药公司致力于开发一种新药：圣心天后（Hope）（注2），而这种新药承诺可以治愈夺去大量婴儿生命的DNAV。麦克斯眼见自己的当前的工作毫无进展，于是决定回美国协助他那位即将成功找到治疗方法的老同学，而不是仅靠自己漫无目的去瞎碰。

Max returns home and begins working with Morgan; unfortunately, many of the test subjects who were treated with the Hope drug die off. Research continues, and Max spends a vast amount of time away from home trying his best to unearth what is wrong. His wife, unhappy with being alone while Max is consumed with his work, often reminds him of her discontent. Max is adamant that he must unearth a cure however.

麦克斯回到美国，开始与摩根共事。但可惜的是，许多用于测试“圣心天后”药效的试验者都死了。研究继续进行着，麦克斯很长时间没有回家，费尽心机寻找究竟什么地方出了错误。他的妻子对他太专注于工作而冷落了自己颇感不满，经常提醒他回家，然而麦克斯却坚持一定要找到治疗方法为止。

At some point, Max is running simulations on his computer for the Hope drug, and watches it fail before his eyes once again. Inspiration then strikes him, and noticing a small photo from his research trip in the Aztec jungle, he has a revelation and realizes that the answer to curing DNAV has been in front of him all along, in the photograph alone apparently.

有一次，马克思正在电脑上对“圣心天后”进行构效模拟，而见到的只是又一次失败。突然，他的脑中闪过一丝灵光，他留意到一张自己在阿兹特克森林研究时拍下的小照片，并从中得到了启示：原来能治愈DNAV的答案一直就摆在他面前――显然，就在这张照片之中！

He quickly runs a simulation, and is ecstatic to see it work. He quickly pours all his authority in the company towards researching this cure, but Morgan cuts his funding. At a meeting, Morgan explains that Max was becoming too distracted by a vague promise of a cure when they should instead focus on the Hope drug to perfect it. Max becomes enraged, accusing Morgan of simply looking for profits and prestige rather than curing the disease. Max threatens to leave the company, but then Morgan reminds Max that his sister Sarah did not die of DNAV, and he was taking this far too personally. Morgan concedes to try and give Max some funding for his research, and the meeting ends uneasily.

麦克斯马上又运行了一个构效模拟，终于成功了！他大喜过望，立即把自己在公司的所有资金和职权转投入对这种疗法的研究中。谁知道，摩根竟然停止向他拨款。在一次会议上，摩根解释说：麦克斯不应该太过于分心，对一个疗效尚未明确的新疗法许下太大承诺；他们此时更应该做的，是专注去完善“圣心天后”的药效。麦克斯被激怒了，他斥责摩根只是为了追名逐利，根本不是为了治病救人。一气之下，麦克斯扬言要离开公司，但摩根提醒他说其妹莎拉并非死于DNAV，他对此投入过多的私人情绪了。最后，摩根作出了让步，勉强答应向麦克斯的研究提供一些资金，会议不欢而散。

Morgan cuts the brake cables on Max’s car, in an attempt to keep him from stealing away the aforementioned wealth and prestige from him with his cure. Morgan possibly does this not for that alone, but also to use the Hope drug as a means to show his cruel and belittling father that he is not a failure.

摩根切断了麦克斯的车子的刹车线，企图不让他利用新疗法把上述所谓的“名利”抢走。摩根这样做很可能不仅仅为了这个原因，而且也为了利用“圣心天后”这种药，向他暴戾而目中无人的父亲证明他自己不是一个失败者。

Max drives home, talking to his wife on a cell phone as he barrels down the rain slick road, and is unable to slow down. His car careens off the side of a mountain highway and Max is nearly killed in the accident.

麦克斯用手机打了个电话给妻子之后就开车回家。车子在雨中沿山路飞驰直下，却无法刹车，最后终于在一个转弯位连人带车翻了下山，麦克斯也几乎在车祸中丧命。（这段就是游戏的开场动画）

What exactly happens next is up for debate. Max is trapped inside of the Asylum.

接下来的事就是我们要讨论的：麦斯醒来之后发现自己被困在一个疯人院里头。

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This theory goes that the entire playable game is a delusion in its entirety. Despite the Asylum chapters of the game, this too is part of the hallucination brought on by his head trauma. This is evidenced during The Gauntlet when Max says ‘I see the connection now! None of this is real!’

这种理论认为：整个游戏完完全全就是一个大幻觉。包括有“疯人院”出现的几个章节在内，也都是因为主角头部受重伤而产生出来的幻觉。在最后的“交叉点”（The Gauntlet）（注3）这一章，麦克斯说：“我明白其中的关系了！这一切都不是真的！”，可以证实这一点。

This would explain a number of things, mainly why Morgan is suddenly a psychiatrist at an asylum rather than a medical doctor and how Max wound up at a hospital rather than still being in the asylum. Simply put, none of that really happened.

这就可以解释一些事情了：主要是为何摩根在开始时忽然变成一个疯人院的精神病医师，而不是医学博士；而麦斯最后却又为何因伤重躺在医院，而不是继续留在疯人院。简单说来，就是因为那些事情根本没有发生过。

The only thing that really inhibits this theory is the horribly graphic turn Morgan takes during The Laboratory portion of the game. He is seen as this inhuman monster that is slaughtering people in order to conquer insanity. He is using disturbing looking cloned children in order to study and harvest the ‘insane flesh’.

唯一一个用此理论解释不清的地方，就是在游戏的“实验室”（The Laboratory）这一章，出现在摩根身上的一个可怕的剧情转折：他变成一个毫无人性的屠夫，为了征服精神病而残杀了大量的人，还利用令人恶心的克隆小孩来研究和提取所谓“精神病肉”。

This is mirrored in Grimwall’s chapter, wherein Gromna performs similar atrocities. It is possible that this all represents Max’s disdain at Morgan for not helping him with his cure, or it may have just been the game designer’s way of building up momentum against Morgan as an antagonist. Either way, it feels like a loose tagent. If you beat the game assuming there was more to Morgan’s plans than simply lining his pockets, than you will probably walk away from the game feel it isn’t properly over.

这个情节在外星人英雄格林沃尔（Grimwall）这一章也有映射，其中的叛徒格隆拿（Gromna）就干着类似的暴行。这部分情节大概都反映了麦克斯对摩根不支持他的新疗法的一种鄙视心态，又或者是游戏设计师为了把摩根刻画成反派人物，故意构筑起玩家对他的反感情绪的一种手法。但无论哪种情况，都让人觉得这段情节不太能自圆其说。如果你在打通这个游戏以后，由此猜想摩根的计划不只是为了填满自己的钱包，而还有更多的秘密，那也许你也会感觉游戏并没有真正完结。

Another thing to consider are the ominous warnings Max receives about being stuck in this place. Perhaps this is divine guidance; it is difficult to tell. The climax, wherin Morgan injects your IV with the mysterious green liquid, we repeatedly see a ‘viral’ representation of Morgan who is trying to keep you restrained in your own mind, but the actual drug hasn’t actually entered your body yet. All of these things combined cast some doubt on this theory, although it can all be chocked up to hallucination and mental exaggeration. Speculation brings us to the second plot theory, however.

另一个值得思考的部分，就是麦克斯听到的关于他被困于这个地方的预兆。或许这只是一种神示，很难说得清楚。在游戏高潮部分，当摩根要把一种神秘绿色药液注入你的静脉时，我们会反复看见一个“病毒”形态的摩根，他一直企图把你封锁于自己的精神世界中，然而，那种药液实际上却并没有进入你的体内。所有这些情节，都令人对这个理论产生不少疑问，尽管可以把它们一概都归结于“幻觉”和“意识夸大”的表现。不过，以上的思考却把我们带进第二个剧情理论。

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This is an altered theory that is far less coherent; but it was the impression I got the first time through the game. The Laboratory level plays a much larger part here; in that Morgan’s studies of hunting and capturing insanity is factual. Whether or not the asylum is real is arguable, but the prime thing here is that Max has been injected with a strange green liquid that looks as if it has been harvested from the test tube babies. It is my suggestion that this is a ‘Insanity Serum,’ with which one could infect a perfectly normal individual and make them insane.

另外的这个理论远没有连贯性，但它却是笔者第一次打通游戏后产生的首个感想。其中“实验室”这章在这里就起到更大的作用：摩根对如何寻找和提取“精神病源”的研究是真实的。尽管“疯人院”是否真的存在仍然有待商榷，但首先要肯定的，是麦克斯的确被注入了一种奇怪的绿色液体，这种液体看起来就是从那些试管中的克隆婴儿身上提取出来的。笔者认为这是一种所谓“精神病血浆”，使用它能够感染一个完全正常的个体，使之精神错乱。

During the climax, Morgan injects Max’s IV with this substance. It might as well be poison; considering it kills you if it reaches your arm, but looks remarkably similar to the injection you received before turning into Grimwall.

在高潮部分，摩根就企图把这种物质注入麦克斯的静脉中。当然也有可能是一种毒药，大概在流入你的手臂后就会让你丧命，不过，这种绿色液体，和你在变成外星英雄格林沃尔之前被注射的那种看起来是非常相似的。

If the Asylum were real, than Morgan could have ideally injected him with the serum and planted him in the looney bin to keep him from spreading information about his cure. It is unlikely that Morgan somehow managed to become a head doctor at an asylum just to perform this, however. Unless of course Mercy corporations has their own asylum; but that would just be delving into excuses that have no foundation. This theory is possible, but seems horribly unlikely.

如果“疯人院”是真实存在的，那么在理论上，摩根就应该会给麦克斯注射了那种血浆，然后把他关在疯人院里，不让他把那种新疗法公开。然而，如果说是因为摩根为了能够这样做，就以某种方法，从一个医学博士转变成一个疯人院的主管医师，那也不太可能。除非，仁济医药公司本身就有一个附属的疯人院，但这种说法在游戏中也没找到任何根据。总之，这种理论有可能，但又非常不可靠。

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翻译注解：

注1：Mercy，原意“怜悯”，讽刺摩根的公司是假意的“怜悯”，其实求名利而已，音译的话无法体现这种意思，故借内地著名的“仁济”医院名称，“济”与“cy”音近，并无故意歪曲诽谤之一。

注2：Hope，原意“希望”，也是讽刺该种药所谓“希望”其实是希望求名逐利。考虑到西药的中文译名有音译和意译，但名称要醒目，有商业味道，因此暂译“圣心天后”。“圣心”乃暗喻脱离混乱的精神枷锁，保持心智清醒；“天后”原指希神赫拉（Hera），这里借代游戏中的天使石像，并且取“后”与“Hope”同音。

注3：gauntlet，有“挑战”、“金属手套”、“交叉火力”之意，考虑到游戏中最后一关是一个精神世界与现实世界的交接点，并且主角在不同精神世界的几个角色（妹妹、外星英雄、阿兹特克武士）都在此交叉出现，因此译作“交叉点”。