This article deals closely with the relation between the ability and state of being alive. It asks an elemental question: what does the word ‘life’ remind us of? While ‘life’ may generically be defined as the ability to do all that signifies the act of living, a more political way of defining ‘life’ would be to consider it as the medium of being alive as human or, an individual person’s existence. The generic definition of ‘life’ given above may suffer from reductionism if ‘ability’ is interpreted as a thing-in-itself, natural to mankind as an inherent, embedded process. This article, therefore, aims to analyze life by stepping out of this biological method of understanding and concentrates on the socio-economic and cultural nexus in which the ability to do is produced. It has chosen cinema as a medium of analysis because cinema does not dwell in a (cinematic) utopian space of its own, but it represents reality as much as it affects reality through the audio-visual experience of the audience.

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作为“表演”的能力：通过对肖申克的救赎和黑暗骑士的批判性研究分析“生活”的能力

这篇文章深入探讨了能力与生存状态之间的关系。它提出了一个基本问题：“生命”这个词让我们想起了什么？虽然“生命”通常可以被定义为做所有表示生活行为的能力，但定义“生命”的一种更具政治性的方式是将其视为人类或个体存在的媒介。如果“能力”被解释为自在之物，对人类来说是一种固有的、嵌入的过程，那么上面给出的“生命”的一般定义可能会受到简化论的影响。因此，本文旨在通过跳出这种生物学的理解方法来分析生活，并专注于产生做事能力的社会经济和文化关系。