Tilda Swinton, the British actress who spoke at the Venice Film Festival, said that “it is inevitable that gender-neutral awards will become the standard across the film industry and at award shows.”
She praised the decision made by the Berlin Film Festival, another important international festival, to award gender-neutral prizes, and predicted that other award ceremonies will follow suit.
Swinton said that that the idea of categorizing people by characteristics seems more and more outdated. “It’s just such a waste of life.”
The Venice Film Festival has long been criticized for the lack of female directors in its in-competition films. It has included more female directors this year.
友善讓你懂 │ 解說
英國傳奇女星蒂妲.史雲頓,代表作包括《美麗佳人歐蘭朵》、《全面反擊》、《凱文怎麼了》等,近期更在漫威的「奇異博士」中飾演古一大師。中性的氣質讓她在電影圈獨樹一格,也常飾演中性或性別模糊的角色。她在今年的威尼斯影展中,榮獲終身成就獎,並在影展內的演講中,贊同柏林影展取消男女演員分別獎項的決定。
柏林影展近期決議在演員類別取消男女的分界,史雲頓認為這是必然的決定,且世界各大獎項都應該、也將會起而效尤。對她來說,把人類分類,包括性別、種族、積極等,都是很過時的觀念,更是浪費人生的行徑。
其實,威尼斯影展一直為人詬病不夠具有性別意識。入選的電影只有極少數是由女性執導,但今年狀況好一點,大約4成競賽片為女性導演(去年甚至不到一成。)
輕鬆帶著走 │學習
gender-neutral就是性別中立,意思不是負面的「不男不女」,而是不以傳統二元對立的框架,去分類個人。Neutral就是「中立」,當你說你的態度很neutral,代表你沒有偏頗、不帶評價。同樣的,性別中立也就是不特別偏向男性或女性,而是自由遊走兩個性別,或同時具有兩個性別的特質。
近期常受到討論的「無性別廁所」,英文就可以說是gender neutral restroom,意思就是這間廁所不受到性別的規範。也可以說是all-gender restroom,或是unisex restroom。
Unisex這個字,也有不分性別的意思,例如一件衣服若是unisex,代表男女皆可穿;若一間髮廊是unisex,表示男女頭髮都可以做。
本篇其他相關單字,介紹如下: