Joe: Hey Blow, I hear that Philosophy Talk is giving out it's Second Annual Dionysus Awards. That's such a cool award. My favorite of the year. I'm psyched.

Blow: You do seem extraordinarily psyched, Joe. But what's the big deal? There are dozens of movie awards show every year.

乔:好吧，布罗，狄俄尼索斯奖可能还没有达到奥斯卡的高度，但是，他们可能会产生一些影响。看看今年好莱坞制作的一系列哲学上有趣的电影就知道了——就在一年之前，“哲学演讲”(Philosophy Talk)颁发了第一届酒神奖(Dionysus Awards)。中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播今年好莱坞从哲学的角度推出了一些非常有趣的电影:《第九区》、《严肃的男人》、《在云端》、《阿凡达》等等。这些都是好电影，也是富有哲理的电影。就像《梦幻之地》里的那句台词:“如果你建好了，他们就会来!”

乔:我的游戏。Why don’t you start us out by telling me what the difference is between just an ordinarily compelling movie and a movie that’sphilosophicallycompelling.

Blow: The first thing a philosophically compelling movie should be is a good movie. I suppose that I can imagine a movie that was philosophically rich, but just not very good as a movie. But those aren’t the kinds of movies that Philosophy Talk seeks to honor with Dionysus Awards.

Joe: And I take it that they also aren’t particularly interested in honoring movies that though they are perfectly fine, even great, examples of film making don’t have much philosophical content. An example from last year was Slum Dog Millionaire. I remember John and Ken both loving that movie, but saying that it did not deserve a Dionysus Award.

吹:但是要小心。一部电影值得从哲学的角度去看和分析，即使电影制作人并没有真正想要表达他或她自己的哲学观点。就像生活本身一样，这些电影，在它们最好的时候，会让我们面对一些情境、人物和事件，让我们深刻地思考爱的本质、背叛的道德、希望、恐惧、野心等等。一部电影之所以能在哲学上引人注目，仅仅是因为它迫使我们努力思考人生。

Joe: I totally agree with you there, but there's also a different way in which a movie can be philosophically compelling. The filmmaker him or herself can have a philosophical agenda and can be using the film as sort of a vehicle for working through that agenda. We might distinguish movies as meat for philosophical thought and movies as vehicles for philosophical thought -- usually as vehicles for either the director or the screenwriter. Many movies make good meat for philosophical thought. Fewer are real vehicles for philosophical thought. Really good fiction movies often serve as vehicles for philosophical thought. have this character. A filmmaker wants to make a philosophical point about freedom or about the nature of the self and they present us with a elaborately constructed alternative universes explicitly designed to get us to think in a certain way.

Blow: Of course, these aren't mutually exclusive categories. Some movies are both meat for philosophy and vehicles by which the director or screenwriter pursues her/his own philosophical ideas. Take a film like the Reader -- one of last year’s Dionysus Award Winners. It did both the things we’re talking about. It presented us with a both emotionally compelling and philosophically picture of human life. But I it also served as a sort of vehicle for the filmmaker to make certain philosophical points about moral luck and moral responsibility.

Joe: Among this year’s crop of potential Dionysus Award nominees, we find a mixture of all these ways for a movie to be philosophically compelling – from compelling stories of men at war, to imaginatively constructed alternative universes, to extended and deep reflection philosophical reflections about the meaning of life. It’s all there.

Blow: We'll let's get on with it. Let's tune in to Philosophy Talk's Live broadcast Sunday Morning at 10 AM PST, onKALW 91.7in San Francisco. If you're not near a radio, you can still join in via the internet of via thePublic Radio Playeron your iPhone.