穹顶之下 第一季

因为穹顶之下有小说原版，一向等待剧情无能的我，跑去看了原版，但是好长嗄。所以偷懒去wikipedia看了小说概括。看完一时兴起，把它翻译了出来。这种行为很不好。纠结了一下，还是决定放上来，给其他等待无能的童鞋观看。这么做原因如下，这是原版概括，来自于wikipedia,不但无法保证准确性，而且搬上电视，剧本也做了大量的修改。剧情肯定会有很多不一样的地方。这篇翻译，某种程度上只是提供了未来剧情开展的大致方向。希望不会毁了观赏乐趣所在。

下面贴上wikipedia上的原文，以作spoiler alert。同时欢迎大家比对指正。

Synopsis：
At 11:44 AM on Saturday October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evident by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign[3][4]), the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The immediate appearance of the barrier causes a number of injuries and fatalities, and traps former Army Captain Dale "Barbie" Barbara—who is trying to leave Chester's Mill because of a local dispute—inside the town.
Police Chief Howard "Duke" Perkins is soon killed when his pacemaker explodes after getting too close to the barrier. This removes the last significant opposition to James "Big Jim" Rennie, used car salesman and the town's Second Selectman. Big Jim exerts significant influence within Chester's Mill, and seizes the opportunity to use the barrier as part of a power play to take over the town.
Big Jim appoints one of his cronies, the incompetent Peter Randolph, as the new Police Chief. He also begins expanding the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police with questionable candidates, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his friends. Junior has frequent migraines caused by an as-yet undiscovered brain tumor which has also begun affecting his mental state; unbeknownst to Big Jim, Junior was in the process of beating and strangling a girl to death when the barrier appeared, and has killed another girl by the time Rennie places him on the police force.
Elsewhere in Chester's Mill, Julia Shumway, the editor of the local newspaper, is phoned by Colonel James O. Cox, who has her carry a message to Barbie to contact him. When he does, Cox requests that Barbie act as the government's liaison in an effort to bring down the Dome, as it has come to be known. Because of Barbie's talents as a former bomb factory hunter, Cox gives him the task of locating the dome's power source, which is believed to be inside the Dome. Cox is also able to foresee the small town political ramifications of such a situation. By virtue of a Presidential order, Barbie is reinstated in the U.S. military and promoted to full Colonel. Barbie is also presented with a decree granting him authority over the township. However, smalltown politics being what they are, this action is not well received by Big Jim and his misguided band of renegade police officers.
As Big Jim covertly encourages and orchestrates unease and panic among the town to build up his grab for power, Barbie, Julia and a number of other townspeople attempt to stop things from spiraling out of control. After crossing Rennie's path on several occasions, Barbie is framed and arrested for four murders. He is accused of killing Reverend Lester Coggins, who laundered money for Rennie's large-scale methamphetamine operation, and Duke's widow Brenda Perkins, who were both murdered by Big Jim, as well as the two girls Junior killed. While Barbie is in jail, other residents track the source of the Dome to an abandoned farm, and the device is strongly indicated to be extraterrestrial in origin. The restrictions issued by Rennie become more severe and the police force grows more abusive, galvanizing the town and eventually leading some residents to break Barbie out of jail, killing Junior seconds before he can murder Barbie.
The semi-organized resistance flees to the abandoned farm, where multiple people touch the strange object and experience visions. They not only conclude that the device was put in place by extraterrestrial "leatherheads" (so named for their appearance), but that specifically they are juveniles who have set up the Dome as a cruel form of entertainment, a sort of ant farm used to capture sentient beings and allow their captors to view everything that happens inside.
On an organized "Visitors Day"—when people outside the Dome can meet at its edge with people within—Big Jim sends Randolph and a detachment of police to take back control of his former meth operation from Phil "Chef" Bushey, who is stopping Rennie from covering up the operation as well as hoarding the more than four hundred tanks of propane stored there (Chef wants it all, explaining, "I need it to cook"). Big Jim underestimates Chef's capacity for self-defense and meth-induced paranoia; he, as well as the now-ostracized head selectman Andy Sanders (whom Chef has introduced to meth use) defend themselves and the meth lab with assault rifles. Many are killed in the ensuing gunfight and Chef, who is mortally wounded, detonates a plastic explosive device he has placed in the meth production facility. The ensuing explosion, combined with the propane and meth-making chemicals, unleashes a toxic firestorm large enough to incinerate most of the town.
More than a thousand of the town's residents are quickly incinerated on national television, leaving alive only the twenty-six survivors at the abandoned barn, an orphaned farm boy hiding in a potato cellar, and Big Jim and his informal aide-de-camp, Carter Thibodeau, in the town's fallout shelter. Big Jim and Thibodeau eventually turn on each other over the stores of food and water (and Big Jim's worry that Thibodeau may act as a witness against him if they survive); Big Jim stabs and disembowels Thibodeau, only to die several hours later when hallucinations of the dead send him fleeing into the now-toxic environment outside. The survivors at the barn begin to slowly asphyxiate, despite efforts by the Army to force clean air through the walls of the Dome.
Barbie and Julia go to the control device to beg their captors to release them. Julia is able to make contact with a single female leatherhead, no longer accompanied by her friends and thus not caught up in their peer pressure. After repeatedly expressing that they are real sentient beings with real "little lives", and by sharing a painful childhood incident with the adolescent alien, Julia convinces the leatherhead to have pity on them. The Dome raises up slowly and vanishes, allowing the toxic air to dissipate and finally freeing the town of Chester's Mill.

       在2012年之后的某一年的十月二十一号早晨 （书中清楚地提到了某辆车的保险杠前一张已经退色的奥巴马2012再选广告宣传贴纸），11点44分，一个在缅因州叫做Chester’s Mill的小镇，忽然被一个不知道从哪里来的可怕的隐形半渗透膜状的屏障给罩了起来，断绝了和外界的一切联系。这个突然出现的屏障导致了一系列的伤亡事件，同时困住了前陆军上尉Dale Barbara ( Barbie)，他本来因为本地的一个争执事件而正准备离开这个镇。
　　
　　警齤察局长Howard Perkins (Duke) 很快的因为接触到了屏障，而使他体内的心脏起搏器爆炸而死亡。他是市政委员 James Rennie (Big Jim)在镇上的最大阻力。Big Jim 在Chester’s Mill 有很大的影响力，而且把这次的与世隔绝当作一个可以接管整个镇的机会。


    Big Jim 指派了一个和他有裙带关系，但没什么能力的 Peter Randolph 来当新的警齤察局长。同时，他还开始扩编警齤察队伍，这些靠不住的人中包括了他的儿子Junior Rennie， 和他的朋友们。Junior 常常受到头疼的困扰，只是那时候他还不知道这其实是脑瘤引起的。同时脑瘤还影响了他的精神状态。他不仅在屏障出现的时候就开始殴打并勒死一个女孩，之后杀了另一个女孩。Big Jim对此情况一无所知，还在那之后让Junior加入了警齤察的队伍。
　　
　　在镇上的另外一边，本地报纸的编辑 Julia Shumway, 接到了来自陆军上校James O.Cox的通讯，他要Julia告诉Barbie与他联系。当Barbie 和上校联系上后，他要求Barbie充当政府的联络员，以便可以一起努力把这个现在被称作穹顶的屏障给消除。因为Barbie以前是寻找炸齤弹工厂的探侦员 （a former Bomb Factory Hunter）, 所以陆军上校Cox给了他在镇上寻找形成穹顶能量来源的任务。上校同时还预见到了这样的突发事件会给小镇带来的政治风波。凭借总统的指派，Barbie恢复了在军队的任职，并且还被提拔成了上校。Barbie还得到了关于准许他有不受小镇权限限制的法令公文。然而这项决定却遭到了Big Jim和他的那些被误导的随扈的阻挠。

   一边Big Jim在偷偷地鼓动和精心策划，利用居民们的不安和慌乱来达到他夺权的目的。而另一边，Barbie, Julia 和其他的一些镇上的居民在尝试阻止事情急剧的失去控制。在几次阻挠了Big Jim的事情之后， Barbie被栽赃诬陷了四起谋杀案，关了起来。他被控告谋杀了帮Big Jim的大型安非他命组织洗钱的牧师Lester Coggins, 原警齤察局长Duke的老婆Brenda Perkins(这两个人其实都是Big Jim杀害的)，还有两个被他儿子Junior杀害的女孩子。当Barbie在监狱的时候，镇上的一些居民追踪到了穹顶的源头在一座废弃的农场。农场里的装置强有力的指明穹顶的源头是来自于地球以外的。Big Jim对镇上居民的管制越来越苛刻，警齤察们滥用职权，这些都促使镇上的一些居民愤而起来帮助Barbie越狱，并且就在Junior谋杀Barbie的时候，救下了Barbie,杀死了Junior。
　　
　　这个半组织抵抗者团体逃到了废弃的农场。农场的很多人都触摸了那个奇怪的装置，并且感受到了幻影。他们不仅得出这个装置是被外星人给放在这儿的结论，并且这些外星“皮革头”（leatherheads）（这个外号从他们的外貌而来）还是一些年轻人，他们把穹顶的设置当成某种残酷的娱乐，就像是一个玻璃观察罩，捕捉有感知的生物以便捕捉者观察这之内发生的一切事物。

    在一个“探访日”，也就是穹顶外面的人可以和穹顶内的人在边缘见面的时候，Big Jim 派遣Randolph和一只警齤察小分队从Phil Bushey (Chef) 的手中重新夺回他对安非他命工厂的控制权。Chef之前阻止Big Jim 对安非他命工厂的掩饰，以及在那儿囤积了超过400罐的丙烷的事情。Big Jim 低估了Chef自卫的能力，以及他由安非他命所引起的妄想症。Chef和现在已经被驱逐的前首席市政委员Andy Sanders (他也在Chef的引导下使用安非他命)，一起用步齤枪来防卫他们自己和安非他命工厂。随之而来的枪战造成了很多人员的伤亡，在Chef也受了致命伤之后，他引爆了放在安非他命制作厂房的塑胶炸齤弹装置。结合了丙烷和制作安非他命时所用的化学物质，这场巨大的释放毒气的爆炸几乎把整个镇变成了一个火葬场。

   上千个镇上的居民很快地被烧毁殆尽的画面在国家电视台播放着，只留下了在废弃农场里的26个幸存者，一个藏在土豆窖里的农场孤儿，和躲在镇上的防辐射尘避难所里的Big Jim 和他的副官 Carter Thibodeau。 他们最终因为食物和水而开始攻击对方（而且Big Jim担心Carter在他们幸存后会变成指认他罪行的证人）。他刺死了Carter，并且肢解了他的尸体。但几个小时之后，Big Jim就被Carter的幻象引出了避难所，接触到了有毒大气后，也死了。而尽管穹顶外的军人千方百计的想要往里输入新鲜空气，在农场幸存的人们还是慢慢地被有毒气体窒息。
　　
　　Barbie和Julia 来到控制装置前祈求外星观察者能够放过他们。Julia与其中的一位女性“皮革头”联系上。这位外星人没有同龄人在左右，也就免于受到来自他们的压力。Julia重复地表达了他们是一群真实的有感觉的生物，并且也只有小小的一段生命时间。在与这位年少的女外星人分享了一次Julia童年惨痛的经历之后，她启发了这位外星人的慈悲之心。穹顶慢慢的升高并且消失，有毒气体驱散，而Chester’s Mill也最终得到了解放。

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感想：

1.Dale感觉不像是概括中中所呈现的那么黑白分明，至少现在他涉及一项真正的命案，虽然到底是怎么回事还没有表明。
2.Angie不像书中所呈现的那么无关紧要，将会发生在她身上什么事情，很值得期待。
3.还有女副警长感觉也会在接下来的剧情推动上起到至关重要的作用。按照概括来看，她基本上要在狼堆里生存。

暂时就先这样。拍砖头的童鞋轻一点。我退下了。

ps.对翻译组的人们致以崇高的敬意，这么一小篇东西，翻译完还挺耗费心神。他们常年干这个，真不容易啊！

     看到7集真佩服自己有这样的耐性，那个帅哥变态怎么会因为一个那么丑的女的就变态了呢？！还有，那个女的怎么就那么蠢，她难道不知道不要激怒行凶者吗？真心想看她被那两父子奸杀！！最后居然还狗血般的把她放了！整个剧情那叫一个乱啊！刚开始出现这个透明罩难道就没有人想到囤积货品吗？在中国出个非典盐都能卖到500块一包，他们还能淡定的在酒吧喝酒，真是很佩服，看来他们是完全信任他们的政府啊！！
     还有，为什么在用导弹轰炸后没有反映，军方会不派一个人来视察轰炸后的效果呢？还有为什么没有各国科学家蜂拥而来争相想办法解决这个问题呢？还有为什么外面的人和部队不想办法控制里面混乱的局势呢？哪怕做个led大牌子不断和内部居民沟通啊～～出现这样的情况肯定会考虑内部居民该如何生存，至少媒体记着也会每天24小时拍摄内部居民的“大逃杀”的精彩画面啊！还有，里面块没有药品了，外面也不想办法教里面的居民如何生产自救，难道就看着一个镇的居民自相残杀吗？？那美国老百姓的税不都白交了吗！！！
     太多太多说不通的地方，可能本人不适合看这种没有逻辑的剧集吧！

       最后一集完的时候我有点不敢相信，这样就完了。你大爷，还要再等一年看第二季。追剧很辛苦啊！
       Stephen King，多产小说家，目前只读过他的《肖申克的救赎》，根本他的小说改编的电影或电视剧看过《肖申克的救赎》、《绿里奇迹》和《穹顶之下》，还有Michael jackson的音乐短片《Ghosts》。打算看《伴我同行》。
       玄幻一直都不是我的菜，这剧让我追下去的一个非常重要的理由就是：世界末日不是一瞬间，而是有一个缓慢的过程。有过程就好玩儿了，拿一把刀架在你脖子上，让你相信等会儿我肯定会杀了你，在杀你之前，我想看看你有什么想说的和想做的。我一直都对世界末日这样的事件很感兴趣，来一次颠覆，会催生出很多新的、有趣的东西。比如剧中的穹顶落下之后，你不得不开始去相信那你些你以前不可能会相信的东西，以前所养成的科学观、思维逻辑都不得不作出非常大的改变，从而影响你的行为。

       也许是所求太多，这剧目前我没看到太多我想看到的东西。其实这样看不好，最好是以一颗平常的心去欣赏一件作品，可能会有意想不到的收获。

       BIG JIM走上这条路是顺理成章的，只是他选择了一条捷径，谁不想走捷径呢？铲除障碍最有效率的方法就是直接干掉对方，当然，收益越大风险也就越大，BIG JIM因为这样留下了太多后患。他选择这样的方式也有些无奈，因为穹顶落下来之前他就已经种下了很多因，后面的果也就顺理成章了。
       所以，在BIG JIM身上，我没看到太多新鲜玩意儿。

       芭比的身份到最后也还没有完全明朗。他干的事情几乎都没有物质或权力上的意图，只是单纯的个人喜恶。目前对他还没什么感觉。

       JUNIOR这个角色有很强的可塑性，后面还可以有多种变化。刚开始对他稍有些厌恶感，后面慢慢消失了。期待他下一季可以让我小小的震撼一下。

       还有几个青春少年，一直围着迷你穹顶转，转你妹啊！可不可以不要这样，每一集结束都是几个人一起去摸一下迷你穹顶，好像你们在剧中就只有这个功能了！描述太单一，不够丰满。

       除了第一集穹顶落下时有些小小的震撼，结尾画面很美，中间就一直没有这种感觉。

自从电视上对该剧的大力宣传开始，笔者一直怀着期盼的心情，等待着一见其真容。打着科幻悬疑和斯皮尔伯格的招牌，确实吸引了我脆弱的小心脏。开播那天守在电视前，刚看了十几分钟就发现不对了，这罩罩，这小镇，你确定这不是辛普森的真人版？？
好吧不论如何，第一集的悬疑戏份十足，加上美剧一贯的不接着看就憋死的风格，此剧还在可接受范围之内。可是一星期之后的第二集，让我的智商面临了一次不小的挑战...不仅剧情毫无进展，各路正反派又无所不用其极地秀着下线。本集结束时笔者终于再也忍不住，冲进了维基，想了解下原著的精髓，或者找找和辛普森的血缘关系。看了简介方才恍然大悟，这导演和演员真是冤啊，这种剧本简直是剧组的期末考卷啊，能pass就是奇迹啊！

废话说了一大堆，我想不少朋友都是冲着剧透来的，我在这里只说下原著的梗概（英文基础好的朋友可以直接看后附的原文），不排除剧集会在剧情上做出改动，不过从前两集的状况来看，希望渺茫啊。

首先这个罩罩从哪来的，对，你没有猜错，那是外星人啊外星人，而且是一群青春期叛逆的外星人，至于为什么要弄一个罩子把小镇罩起来，我想大家都知道那种透明蚂蚁窝吧，没错，就是因为好玩...外星少年们觉得好玩...

至于罩子对剧情有什么影响，非常不幸，没了..那就是个罩子，其他剧情完全只是发生在罩子里的，关于所谓人性的故事，故事大概是这样的，议员在发现罩子之后，就想夺取小镇的的控制权，在他控制下的部分人们开始反抗，最终战胜邪恶。。至于那丙烷，是议员用来做毒品的（meth，应该是冰毒之类的），是的，这就是小镇所谓的秘密。最后的最后，那个毒品工厂爆炸了。。放出了许多有毒气体 毒死了大部分人，之后在女主角，就是那个记者的说服下，外星人少年们同情了他们，把小蚂蚁们都放了。。。。这就是全部的狗血剧情，悬疑？科幻？各位看官智者见智吧。。

后附百科的原文 供大家参考
At 11:44 AM on Saturday October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evident by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign[3][4]), the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is abruptly and gruesomely separated from the outside world by an invisible, semipermeable barrier of unknown origin. The immediate appearance of the barrier causes a number of injuries and fatalities, and traps former Army Captain Dale "Barbie" Barbara—who is trying to leave Chester's Mill because of a local dispute—inside the town.
Police Chief Howard "Duke" Perkins is soon killed when his pacemaker explodes after getting too close to the barrier. This removes the last significant opposition to James "Big Jim" Rennie, used car salesman and the town's Second Selectman. Big Jim exerts significant influence within Chester's Mill, and seizes the opportunity to use the barrier as part of a power play to take over the town.
Big Jim appoints one of his cronies, the incompetent Peter Randolph, as the new Police Chief. He also begins expanding the ranks of the Chester's Mill Police with questionable candidates, including his son, Junior Rennie, and his friends. Junior has frequent migraines caused by an as-yet undiscovered brain tumor which has also begun affecting his mental state; unbeknownst to Big Jim, Junior was in the process of beating and strangling a girl to death when the barrier appeared, and has killed another girl by the time Rennie places him on the police force.
Elsewhere in Chester's Mill, Julia Shumway, the editor of the local newspaper, is phoned by Colonel James O. Cox, who has her carry a message to Barbie to contact him. When he does, Cox requests that Barbie act as the government's liaison in an effort to bring down the Dome, as it has come to be known. Because of Barbie's talents as a former bomb factory hunter, Cox gives him the task of locating the dome's power source, which is believed to be inside the Dome. Cox is also able to foresee the small town political ramifications of such a situation. By virtue of a Presidential order, Barbie is reinstated in the U.S. military and promoted to full Colonel. Barbie is also presented with a decree granting him authority over the township. However, smalltown politics being what they are, this action is not well received by Big Jim and his misguided band of renegade police officers.
As Big Jim covertly encourages and orchestrates unease and panic among the town to build up his grab for power, Barbie, Julia and a number of other townspeople attempt to stop things from spiraling out of control. After crossing Rennie's path on several occasions, Barbie is framed and arrested for four murders. He is accused of killing Reverend Lester Coggins, who laundered money for Rennie's large-scale methamphetamine operation, and Duke's widow Brenda Perkins, who were both murdered by Big Jim, as well as the two girls Junior killed. While Barbie is in jail, other residents track the source of the Dome to an abandoned farm, and the device is strongly indicated to be extraterrestrial in origin. The restrictions issued by Rennie become more severe and the police force grows more abusive, galvanizing the town and eventually leading some residents to break Barbie out of jail, killing Junior seconds before he can murder Barbie.
The semi-organized resistance flees to the abandoned farm, where multiple people touch the strange object and experience visions. They not only conclude that the device was put in place by extraterrestrial "leatherheads" (so named for their appearance), but that specifically they are juveniles who have set up the Dome as a cruel form of entertainment, a sort of ant farm used to capture sentient beings and allow their captors to view everything that happens inside.
On an organized "Visitors Day"—when people outside the Dome can meet at its edge with people within—Big Jim sends Randolph and a detachment of police to take back control of his former meth operation from Phil "Chef" Bushey, who is stopping Rennie from covering up the operation as well as hoarding the more than four hundred tanks of propane stored there (Chef wants it all, explaining, "I need it to cook"). Big Jim underestimates Chef's capacity for self-defense and meth-induced paranoia; he, as well as the now-ostracized head selectman Andy Sanders (whom Chef has introduced to meth use) defend themselves and the meth lab with assault rifles. Many are killed in the ensuing gunfight and Chef, who is mortally wounded, detonates a plastic explosive device he has placed in the meth production facility. The ensuing explosion, combined with the propane and meth-making chemicals, unleashes a toxic firestorm large enough to incinerate most of the town.
More than a thousand of the town's residents are quickly incinerated on national television, leaving alive only the twenty-six survivors at the abandoned barn, an orphaned farm boy hiding in a potato cellar, and Big Jim and his informal aide-de-camp, Carter Thibodeau, in the town's fallout shelter. Big Jim and Thibodeau eventually turn on each other over the stores of food and water (and Big Jim's worry that Thibodeau may act as a witness against him if they survive); Big Jim stabs and disembowels Thibodeau, only to die several hours later when hallucinations of the dead send him fleeing into the now-toxic environment outside. The survivors at the barn begin to slowly asphyxiate, despite efforts by the Army to force clean air through the walls of the Dome.
Barbie and Julia go to the control device to beg their captors to release them. Julia is able to make contact with a single female leatherhead, no longer accompanied by her friends and thus not caught up in their peer pressure. After repeatedly expressing that they are real sentient beings with real "little lives", and by sharing a painful childhood incident with the adolescent alien, Julia convinces the leatherhead to have pity on them. The Dome raises up slowly and vanishes, allowing the toxic air to dissipate and finally freeing the town of Chester's Mill.

所谓完整的世界观，指的是看待问题的全局性观点，是构建虚构的东西时设想到一切会受虚构影响的事情。

说白了，一个大罩子罩在了镇子上，镇子上必然每个人都会受影响，都会因为这个罩子而产生各种各样的变化。而不是只有几个主角产生点斗争，寻找点原因，每个人都应该有变化。

但是这剧里面，除了主角以外，没有普通人，普通人只在剧情需要的时候被召唤来抢个超市，看个黑拳，集体斗殴一下，面无表情的围观一下，然后就挥之即去，其他情况下，这些人就根本不存在。他们平时怎么生活，怎么面对这穹顶，没有表现。本来这样普通人面对这种匪夷所思的情况，做如何的表现，是多么有戏剧看点的事情，可是此剧居然几乎没涉及。

任何一个稍微显眼点的配角，都注定了要死的命运。Linda在医院巧遇老师，说了几句话，她的老师死掉了；Ollie老爷子得瑟了一下，然后死了；Maxin出现招摇了一阵子，死了，还捎上了老妈和一个打手；所以每次哪个配角稍微显眼些，我就知道她要完蛋了。

而且那些主角，似乎也都是石头里头冒出来的感觉。他们和镇子上的其他人没有什么牵连。按说，除了Barbie以外，其他人都是镇子上的老居民，总得有些好邻居好基友之类的，但是没有。Big Jammie只有那被他搞死的一个一个人；Julia除了那个生孩子时候害死了Norrie她妈的邻居以外，就再也不认识其他人了，而且她那个邻居生了孩子之后就彻底消失了。Joe的好基友小伙伴也是被需要的时候才被召唤出现。而且他家貌似也没有爸比和妈咪。而穹顶之外的世界，更是召唤兽一般的特性。

对比一下小说，小说我刚开始看，没看多少。
小说开头，是斯蒂芬金过去用过的一种写法

某天，发生了某件大事。
A是个什么样的人，他一直是怎样生活的，那天，他干了什么什么，然后他死了。
B是个什么样的人，他那天怎么怎么了，然后他死了。
C是个怎样的人，他那天如往常一般干了啥啥啥，从没有想过那是他最后一次做这些事情。
D是个什么样的人，他那天干什么了，他没有留意到那天发生了什么事。
E是个什么样的人，他那天怎么怎么了，他死的那一刻在干什么想什么。
金一共写差不多十组人。这部分占了全书的差不多十分之一。

这种写法，他早在《末日逼近》的时候就用过，《死光》的开头也有点类似，只是《死光》里大家不是死了，而是被召唤去打怪了。

金这样写，非常详细地展现出了事情发生的变化，给普通人带来的影响，把气氛和情绪都调动了出来。而且，我个人以为，金这样不计篇幅地写这一部分，其实想表达的是一种对世事无常的无奈，每个人都在日复一日地过着自己的生活，然后就一下子都结束了，谁都没有想到这样的结果，任你接受也好，不接受也好，上一秒，妻子还在自家的后院摘菜，下一秒，穹顶落下，切断了她的手臂，丈夫抱着妻子，看着妻子失血至死。这样的意外，这样的痛苦，其实，生活中很多，也许是一场车祸，也许是不小心摔了一跤，也许只是因为恍惚了一下。这种具有普遍意义的痛苦，才是最容易打动人心的东西。

后面的情节，我还没看，但我相信，小说后面会写到更多的普通人。

一个平静的小镇，百姓自治，相安无事。有一天，忽然从天而降一圆形的罩子，就像一堵无形的幕墙，将小镇彻底与外面的世界隔绝。外面的人进不来，里面的人出不去。不仅是水、电、粮食、油气都被切断，甚至所有基本的信息通讯工具都无法与外界联系。这种情况下，小镇会怎么样？小镇居民的生活会怎么样？显然是个很有意思的话题。当然，更有价值的思考是随着时间的推移，整个小镇固有的社会生态是否将不复存在？在灾难和困境面前，人心与人性将发生什么改变？或者说，极端的条件是否会逼出人心里一直被隐藏的最黑暗的一面？
这不是我的凭空臆想，而是恐怖大师斯蒂芬金最新推出的美剧《Under TheDome》（《苍穹之下》）里所讲述的故事。至于故事所隐喻的是什么，可以自由联想。

一开始看到那堵无形幕墙的时候，我曾经以为编剧是要贩卖罗尔斯的“无知之幕”(Veil of ignorance)，以“无知”为条件来设置完全“平等”的选择处境，从而达到“正义”。但是看了一会儿就明白了，故事的设计和罗尔斯的正义论没关系，甚至是反着来的。每个角色从娘胎里就带着自己在身份、阶层和性格方面的差异，他们延续着这些差异被置入封闭的空间里，然后被外面的同类所遗弃，更像高级的外星文明观察人类的实验品，或者说是一群小白鼠。

仅从第一季来说，这个故事和“乌托邦”也没啥关系。表面上看，所有人都是美国精神的信奉者，但是当自然资源日趋稀缺，各种矛盾日益加剧，人的私欲开始膨胀，心怀不轨之徒对权力和物资展开了强烈的争夺；于是社会秩序面临解体，原本薄弱的司法体系也溃不成军。更有意思的是，几乎所有人都在私权与公义之间摇摆，结果是所谓的“民主”却打开了前往“专制”的通道。在这个穹顶之下，最强大的是那种庞大而神秘的“超自然”力量，“它”用自己不可捉摸的意志控制着成年人社会的发展进程；但能够影响“它”的则是小镇上的一群孩子，而从社会家庭等角度看，孩子们又处于最弱势的位置，似乎又给故事里带来了某种微妙的平衡。

该剧的男一号是美剧《泛美航空》里的英俊机长Mike Vogel，女一号则是电影《暮色》里的妖艳反派Rachelle Lefevre。说实话，前者过去一脸的奶油，忽然演个粗犷的汉子，让人很不适应；后者则已经胖到有肥温级别的熟妇范儿。第一季看了十二集，已经出现了美剧的通病：一是穿帮镜头越来越多，二是不断的需要冒出新人来推进剧情。更大的问题是，无论正反派人物在抵达神一样的完美峰值之后，都开始不断犯低级弱智的错误。

或许，该剧最大的价值就在于设计了一个困境实验，能够在政治和社会学上有所启示；缺点则是，它不该是部絮絮叨叨、无穷无尽的美剧，而应该是拍成一部问题和矛盾更集中的电影。