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（崔維斯）：

我曾經認識這樣的人……這樣兩個人。他們互相愛著對方。那女孩很年輕，我猜大概也就十七八歲。那男子要大很多。他是那種隨性狂野的人，而她則很漂亮。他們倆人在一起做了許多荒唐事，她喜歡那樣，即便是像去雜貨店這樣的小事也會充滿樂趣。他們總是為那些傻事大笑，他喜歡令她歡笑。

他們倆什麼都不關心，因為他們想做的只是彼此待在一起，他們形影不離。

他愛她勝過一切，他無法忍受白天工作期間與她分離……

於是他辭了職，只為了在家陪她。不久，他不得不去找另外一份工作，因為錢花光了。可是後來他又辭了職。但是沒過多久，那女孩便開始擔憂了……

 

（珍）：
為了什麼?



 

（崔維斯）：

我想是錢吧。錢不夠用了，不知如何支付下一筆支出。

 

（珍）：
是的。 我了解那種感覺。



 

（崔維斯）：

於是他開始覺得內心不安，心理上受著折磨。

 

（珍）：什麼意思?



 

（崔維斯）：

他心知必須工作供養他，但卻仍然無法忍受與她的分離。

 

（珍）：我明白了。

 

（崔維斯）：

最後他還是離開她去工作了。他變得瘋狂多疑。

 

（珍）：
比如說?



 

（崔維斯）：

他開始胡思亂想。他想像她勾引其他男人。他放下工作回家，罵她白天與其他人在一起廝混，他衝她大喊大叫甚至砸碎了活動拖車裡的一切……

 

（珍）：活動房車?

  

（崔維斯）：

對……他們住在一輛活動拖車房裡。

而後，他開始酗酒。他很晚回家為了試她。看她是否會嫉妒。他希望她嫉妒，可她並沒有。她只是擔心他，但這更令他發瘋。因為他認為如果她不嫉妒的話，就意味著她並不真的關心他，嫉妒是她對他愛的標誌。

就這樣，一天晚上……一天晚上，她告訴他她懷孕了，已經三，四個月了，而他卻根本沒察覺到。於是，突然間一切都改變了，他不再酗酒還找了份工作。他毫不懷疑她是愛他的，因為她懷了他的孩子。他要竭盡所能為她建立一個家。


但意想不到的事卻發生了，一開始他並未注意她的變化。從孩子誕生的那一天起，她開始對周圍的一切表現出煩躁，每件事都令她發瘋，甚至孩子對她來說都是種威脅。他努力在每件事情上遷就她，給她買她喜歡的東西，每週都帶她外出用一次餐，但好像什麼都不能令她滿足。他花了兩年的時間努力使他們恢復到最初的樣子，但最後他發現那是徒勞的，於是他又開始酗酒，但這次真的無可救藥了。

一天夜裡，他喝醉了很晚才回家，她既不擔心也不嫉妒，只是憤怒。她指責他使她生孩子是為了拴住她的自由，她告訴他她夢到逃跑，她夢想的一切就是：逃離。
她夢見自己夜晚沿著高速公路奔跑，穿過田野，越過河床，一直跑。
可每當她以為自己已經逃掉時，他就會出現，用各種方式攔住她，不停的出現不停地阻攔。當她告訴他這些夢時，他相信那些是真的，他想必須阻止她，否則她真的會永遠離開他。

   

（崔維斯）：

於是他在她的腳腕上繫了個鈴鐺，這樣當她晚上下床時他就會知道。但她設法解開了那個鈴鐺，還在裡邊塞了襪子，然後悄悄溜下床消失在夜幕裡。一天夜裡，塞在鈴鐺裡的襪子掉了出來，他發現了她正逃向公路，便一把將她抓住拖回了拖車房，用皮帶把她綁在了爐子上，然後撇下她又回到了床上。他躺在那兒聽見她不斷地尖叫，他還聽見孩子的尖叫，奇怪的是他卻什麼也感覺不到，他想做的只是睡覺。頭一次，他希望遠遠離開那兒，消失在沒人認識他的茫茫曠野里。沒有語言和街道，他夢想著那個甚至連名字都沒有的地方。

 

（崔維斯）：

當他醒來時，已置身火海，火苗點著了他的被單。他衝過火焰奔向他深愛的兩個親人……但他們已經不見了。他的胳膊燒著了，他衝到外面，滾倒在泥地上，然後他跑開了，再也沒有看一眼那火，只顧跑，直跑到日出時分。他再也跑不動了。當太陽落以後，他又開始跑。就這樣一直跑了五天，直到完全沒了人的模樣……



   

（Travis）：
　　I knew these people ...
　　These two people.They were in love with each other.The girl was ...very young, about seventeen
　　or eighteen, I guess.And the guy was ...quite a bit older.He was kind of ragged in, wild.She was very beautiful, you know.Yeah.And together they turned
　　everything into a kind of an adventure,and she liked that.Just an ordinary trip
　　down the grocery store was ...
　　full of adventure.
　　They were always laughing at stupid things.
　　He liked to make her laugh.
　　And ...
　　they didn't much care for anything else,
　　Because all they wanted to do was
　　be with each other.
　　They were always together.
　　And he, he loved her more than
　　he ever felt possible.
　　He couldn't stand
　　being away from her,
　　uh ... during the day when he went to work.
　　So, he quit.
　　Just to be home with her.
　　Then he got another job
　　when the money ran out,
　　then he quit again.
　　But pretty soon, she started to worry.
　　
（Jane）:
　　About what?
　　
　　Travis：
　　Money, I guess.
　　Not having enough.
　　Not knowing
　　when the next check was coming in.
　　
（Jane）:
　　Yep.
　　I know that feeling.
　　
（Travis）：
　　So he started to get kind of ...
　　torn inside.
　　
（Jane）:
　　How do you mean?
　　
（Travis）：
　　Well he knew he had to work
　　to support her,
　　but he couldn't stand
　　being away from her, either.
　　
（Jane）:
　　I see.
　　
（Travis）：
　　And the more he was away from her,
　　the crazier he got.
　　Except now,
　　he got really crazy.
　　He started imagining
　　all kinds of things.
　　
（Jane）:
　　Like what?
　　

（Travis）：
　　He started thinking that
　　she was seeing other men on the sly.
　　He'd come home from work
　　and accuse her of
　　spending the day
　　with somebody else.
　　He'd yell at her,
　　break things in the trailer.
　　
（Jane）:
　　The trailer?


　　
（Travis）：
　　Yes.
　　They lived in a trailer home.
　　Anyway, he started to drink
　　real bad.
　　And he'd stay out late
　　to test her.
　　To see if she'd get jealous.
　　He wanted her to get jealous,
　　but she didn't.
　　She just worried about him,
　　but that got him even madder.
　　Because ...
　　he thought if she never got jealous of him,
　　she didn't really care about him.
　　Jealousy was a sign
　　of her love for him.
　　And then one night,
　　one night, she told him
　　she was pregnant.
　　She was about three
　　or fourth month pregnant,
　　and he didn't even know.
　　And then suddenly everything changed.
　　He stopped drinking,
　　he got a steady job.
　　He was convinced
　　that she love him now,
　　because she was carrying his child.
　　And he was going to dedicated
　　himself to making a home for her.
　　But funny thing started to happen.
　　He didn't even notice at first.
　　She started to change.
　　On the day the baby was born,
　　she began to get irritated with everything around her.
　　She got mad at everything.
　　Even the baby
　　seemed to be an injustice to her.
　　He kept trying
　　to make everything all right for her.
　　Buy her things.
　　Take her out to dinner
　　once a week.
　　But nothing seemed
　　to satisfy her.
　　For two years,
　　He struggled to put them back together like
　　they were when they first met.
　　Finally, he knew
　　that it was never gonna work out.
　　So, he hit the bottle again.
　　But this time,
　　it got mean.


（Travis）：　
　　This time when he came home late at night,
　　she wasn't worried about him,
　　or jealous,
　　she was just enraged.
　　She accused him of holding her captive,
　　by making her have a baby.
　　She told him
　　that she dreamed about escaping.
　　That was all she dreamed about:
　　escape.
　　She saw herself at night,
　　running naked down a highway.
　　Running across fields,
　　running down river beds,
　　always running.
　　And always, just as she was about to get away,
　　he'd be there.
　　He would stop her somehow.
　　He would just appeare and stop her.
　　And when she told him these dreams,
　　he believed them.
　　He knew she had to be stopped,
　　or she'd leave him forever.
　　So he tied a cowbell to her ankle,
　　so he could hear it at night
　　if she tried to get out bed.
　　But she learned how to muffle
　　the bell by stucking a sock into it
　　and inched her away out bed
　　and into the night.
　　He caught her one night,
　　when the sock fell out
　　and he heard her trying to
　　run out to the highway.
　　He caught her, dragged her back to the trailer and tied her to the stove
　　with his belt.
　　He just left her there,
　　he went back to bed
　　and lay there and listening to her scream.
　　And he listened to his son scream.
　　He was surprised at himself because
　　he didn't feel anything anymore.
　　All he wanted to do was sleep.
　　And for the first time,
　　he wished he were far away.
　　Lost in a deep, vast country
　　where nobody knew him.
　　Somewhere without language
　　or streets.
　　And he dreamed about this place
　　without knowing its name.
　　
　　And when he woke up,
　　he was on fire.
　　There were blue flames
　　burning the sheets of his bed.
　　He ran through the flames
　　towards the only two people he loved.
　　But they were gone.
　　His arms were burning.
　　And he threw himself outside,
　　and rolled on the wet ground.
　　Then he ran.
　　He never looked back at the fire.
　　He just ran.
　　He ran until the sun came up,
　　ten he couldn't run any further.
　　And when the sun went down,
　　he ran again.
　　For five days
　　he ran like this ...
　　until every sign of man ...
　　had disappeared……

從發出之日至今已經有8年了，此翻譯文字此前有很多錯別字，期間很多朋友表示對他們理解電影幫助很大 ，特此校正。 2017年2月17日 ·