Your poor Norwegian.

你可憐的挪威畫家

I keep thinking he was real.

我一直覺得他是真人

He was real.

他是真人啊

You said you made him up.

你說他是你編出來的

No， just the end.

不，我只編了結局

Nils and Nora were real.

尼爾斯跟諾拉是真人

And Nils survived for a time at Buchenwald.

尼爾斯在布亨瓦德集中營

By painting the German officers.

靠畫德國軍官活了一陣子

For a time. -For a time.

一陣子 -一陣子

In medieval painting， the fly represented sin.

在中世紀的畫裡，蒼蠅象徵罪惡

So if an artist added a fly to a portrait， for instance.

如果畫家在肖像畫中加上蒼蠅

It meant that that person was damned.

代表那個人會下地獄

I suppose you can see where this is headed.

你應該知道我接下來要說的

Nils painted flies on the Germans. -He did.

尼爾斯幫德國人畫了蒼蠅 -對

Unfortunately， his camp commandant.

很不幸地，他的集中營指揮官

Was something of an amateur art historian.

算是業餘的藝術史學家

And he took exception.

他非常生氣

And Nils was gutted like a deer.

尼爾斯因此被大卸八塊

Left out in the yard for the flies… to feast on. -Stop.

放在院子餵蒼蠅… -別說了

You asked.

是你先問的

What about Nora?

那諾拉呢？

Nora spent her postwar years in Paris.

諾拉戰後在巴黎生活

Drinking too much and painting some.

成天喝酒畫畫

Badly， I'm afraid.

但她畫得不好

She just wasted away， basically.

於是抑鬱而終

That was Nora's painting you showed us， wasn't it?

你給我們看的是諾拉的畫吧？

Why didn't you say so?

你怎麼不說？

Because my story's much more poignant.

因為我的故事更淒美

Nils starving and everything.

尼爾斯絕食之類的…

Yeah，but it not true.

但那不是真的

Does that matter? -Of course it matters.

有差嗎？ -當然有差

That's what art's about， isn't it?

藝術不就是這麼回事？

The truth.

真相

No.

不是

I mean, pumpkin， if it's just about telling the truth.

親愛的，如果重點是說出真相

Anybody could do it.

那誰都能做到

My job is to separate the good lies from the bad ones.

我的工作是分辨謊言的好壞

And how do you do that?

怎麼做？

Well, is your name really Berenice?

你的名字真的是貝倫妮絲嗎？

Why would I make that up?

我幹嘛騙人？

That's not a yes.

你沒說是

It's not a no either.

我也沒說不是