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給低頭族的詩:震撼短片呼籲人們放下手機

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A viral video on the evils of social media has ironically taken the internet by storm, with it's sentimental story of a love that never happened thanks to one boy's infatuation with his phone.
一個“控訴” 社交網絡危害的視頻短片日前紅遍網絡,短片講述了一個關於愛情的傷感故事:一個沉迷手機的男孩,錯過了一段一生摯愛。

The video titled 'Look Up' features a spoken work poem by London writer-director Gary Turk who advises viewers to 'look up from your phone, shut down the display, take in your surroundings, make the most of today'.
在這個題爲《擡起頭》的短片中,英國作家兼導演的加里-特克建議看視頻的人們:“從手機上擡起頭,關掉屏幕,看看你的周圍,好好利用今天。”

'Look Up' was posted to YouTube on April 25, and just 10 days later already has over 14million views.
該視頻在4月25日上傳到YouTube上,短短10天之內就獲得了超過1400萬的點擊。

給低頭族的詩:震撼短片呼籲人們放下手機

The video starts off with Turk saying he has '422 friends, yet I'm lonely'. It continues to tell the story of a boy who meets a girl when he gets lost and asks for direction.
視頻的開頭我們聽到特克在說:“我有422個朋友,但是我很孤單。” 接着視頻講述了一個迷路的男孩在問路的時候認識了一個女孩的故事。

The two then become a couple, and the video shows them sharing romantic dinners, strolls through the countryside and laughs on the couch.
他們成了一對,視頻中可以看到他們倆共度浪漫晚餐,一起在鄉村漫步,窩在沙發上嬉鬧。

The couple buy a house, get married and have a baby girl, who we see grow up and leave the nest. Their daughter later comes back, having married and had a baby herself and the pround grandfather clutches his grandson.
他們買了房子,結婚瞭然後生了一個女孩,女兒漸漸長大,然後離開了家。後來女兒也回來了,結婚了也生了自己的孩子,這對祖父母身邊有孫輩的陪伴。

As his graying wife dies, she whispers about how 'she's happy she got stopped by that lost boy in the street'.
白髮蒼蒼的老太太告別人世時,在丈夫的耳邊輕聲說道“自己很開心當時在街上遇到了那個迷路的男孩。”

But here's the catch - it never happened. The film then goes back the moment the boy would have asked for directions, and his 'future wife' is seen passing by as he looks at his phone - likely posing his question to Google Maps instead.
但其實這一切都從未發生。短片回到當時男孩本來要問路的時刻,因爲男孩只看着手機,他“未來的妻子” 與他擦身而過。迷路的男孩可能是在用谷歌地圖找地點。

Because, as Turk explains, 'when you're too busy looking down, you don't see the chances you miss.'
特克解釋說:“因爲你永遠都在忙着低頭看手機,所以你看不到身邊錯過的機會。Look Up a poem by Gary Turk


I have 422 friends yet I am lonely
I speak to all of them everyday yet none of them really know me
The problem I have sits in the space in-between
Looking into their eyes or at a name on a screen
I took a step back and opened my eyes
I looked round and realised
This media we call social is anything but
when we open our computers and it’s our doors we shut
All this technology we have it’s just an illusion
Community, companionship, a sense of inclusion
When you step away from this device of delusion
You awaken to see a world of confusion
A world where we’re slaves to the technology we mastered
Where information gets sold by some rich, greedy bastard
A world of self-interest, self-image, self-promotion
Where we all share our best bits but leave out the emotion
We’re at our most happy with an experience we share
But is it the same if no one is there?
Be there for your friends and they’ll be there too
But no one will be if a group message will do
We edit and exaggerate, crave adulation
We pretend not to notice the social isolation
We put our words into order till our lives are glistening
We don’t even know if anyone is listening
Being alone isn’t the problem let me just emphasise
If you read a book, paint a picture, or do some exercise
You’re being productive and present not reserved and reclused
You’re being awake and attentive and putting your time to good use
So when you’re in public and you start to feel alone
Put your hands behind your head, step away from the phone
You don’t need to stare at your menu or at your contact list
Just talk to one another, learn to co-exist
I can’t stand to hear the silence of a busy commuter train
When no one wants to talk for the fear of looking insane
We’re becoming unsocial, it no longer satisfies
To engage with one another and look into someone’s eyes.
We’re surrounded by children who since they were born
Have watched us living like robots and think it’s the norm
It’s not very likely you’ll make world’s greatest Dad
If you can’t entertain a child without using an iPad
When I was a child I’d never be home
I’d be out with my friends, on our bikes we’d roam
I’d wear holes in my trainers and graze up my knees
Or build our own clubhouse high up in the trees
Now the park is so quiet it gives me a chill
See no children outside and the swings hanging still
There’s no skipping, no hopscotch, no church and no steeple
We’re a generation of idiots, smart phones and dumb people
So look up from your phone, shut down the display
Take in your surroundings, make the most of today
Just one real connection is all it can take
To show you the difference that being there can make
Be there in the moment as she gives you the look
That you remember forever as when love overtook
The time she first held your hand or first kissed your lips
The time you first disagreed but still loved her to bits
The time you don’t have to tell hundreds of what you’ve just done
Because you want to share this moment with just this one.
The time you sell your computer so you can buy a ring
For the girl of your dreams who is now the real thing
The time you want to start a family and the moment when
You first hold your little girl and get to fall in love again
The time she keeps you up at nights and all you want is rest
And the time you wipe away the tears as your baby flees the nest
The time your baby girl returns with a boy for you to hold
And the time he calls you Grandad and makes you feel real old
The time you take in all you’ve made when you’re giving life attention
And how you’re real glad you didn’t waste it by looking down at some invention
The time you hold your wife’s hand, sit down beside her bed.
You tell her that you love her, lay a kiss upon her head.
She then whispers to you quietly as her heart gives a final beat
That she’s lucky she got stopped by that lost boy in the street
But none of these times ever happened. You never had any of this
When you’re too busy looking down, you don’t see the chances you miss
So look up from your phones, shut down those displays
We have a finite existence, a set number of days
Don’t waste your life getting caught in the net
because when the end comes, nothing’s worse than regret
I am guilty too of being part of this machine
this digital world we are heard but not seen
where we type as we talk and read as we chat
where we spend hours together without making eye-contact
So don’t give in to a life where you follow the hype
Give people your love, don’t give them your “like”
Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined
Go out into the world, leave distractions behind
Look up from your phone, shut down the display
Stop watching this video, live life the real way.