本文非评论，纯粹是导评和原著小说后的一些心得汇总,持续更新：
原作者对主演Tom Courtenay的评论：
I think Tom Courtenay has that lean, hungry, aware look which Colin Smith have in order to come around, not winning the race.
电影开始时的Alec McCowen和Tom Courtenay的心理测试戏为即兴表演。
Michael Redgrave 的女儿和导演为夫妻
Tom Courtenay 和他所扮演的 Colin Smith虽然同样出生工人阶级，但人生的选择可谓完全相反；Tom Courtenay 也主要被电影的浪漫层面而非政治层面吸引
Tony Richardson 对 实景拍摄 的评论
“ I hate studios. I no longer want to shoot even the interiors in a studio. I would rather work in limited conditions which the locations imposed upon you. For the sort of realistic films I want to make, by improvising one's way out of the impossibilities of real conditions, you get something on the screen that is more true, somehow, than something contrived on a set .
Once inside a studio, you start taking walls out, you start thinking: wouldn't it be fun if we track from here to there, pan around there, and you know, do a lot of fancy stuff. One is getting, in fact, less of the human reality."
电影名字叫 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner， runner这个词被翻译成奔跑者当然没错，但其实它还有另一个意思：赛马
而原著小说里其实把这个双关意图表达的相当明显，比如主人公一直以赛马自比，实际上认为自己是感化院管理者的玩物，在校际比赛中为管理者像赛马一样赢得荣誉：
【And now the governor talks to me when he comes on his rounds, almost as he'd talk to his prize race horse, if he had one.】
“院长巡视时会跟我讲话，就像他和他的好马说话一样，如果他有的话。”
还有"They give us a bit of blue ribbon and a cup for a prize after we've shagged ourselves out running or jumping,like race horses, only we don't get so well looked-after as race horses,that's the only thing."
“他们在我们像赛马一般筋疲力尽之后给一点奖赏和奖杯，只是我们没有像赛马被样照顾得那么好”
【And I'll lose that race, because I'm not a race horse at all, and I'll let him know it when I'm about to get out】
“我会输掉比赛，因为我绝不是赛马，而且我离开感化院的时候会让他（院长）知道这一点”
这样的内容还有很多，而感化院无疑可看作体制的象征，所以赛马这一比喻对于原著小说要讲的内容的来说还是很适合的。
另外奔跑还有和体制对抗赛跑这层意思，这个在电影里的社区追逐戏里也有体现，但在小说里更明确，比如在赛跑结束后，小说快结束时：“It's about time to stop; though don't think I'm not still running,because I am, one way or another.”
可是这些意思没能在电影里很好的表达出来，所以奔跑本身在电影里简直只是一个抒情工具（当然相关影像还是拍的很好），换成其他运动也可以了。
导演称A Taste of Honey (1961) 和 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)，是他拍的最愉快的两部电影。
摄影师认为 Taste of Honey (1961) 和 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)的出众之处并不在于描述工人阶级生活，而是在于它们对工人阶级生活有一种诗意的视角，原话就是"It is not at all a strictly realistic view, it is very much a romantic view, and that is what attract me to them."
关于主角为什么不跑的问题，原著有大段的心理描写：
【The pot-bellied pop-eyed bastard gets pleased at this: "Good show. I know you'll get us that cup," he says.
And I swear under my breath: "Like boggery, I will." No, I won't get them that cup, even though the stupid tash-twitching bastard has all his hopes in me. Because what does his barmy hope mean? I ask myself. Trot-trot-trot, slap-slap-slap, over the stream and into the wood where it's almost dark and frosty-dew twigs sting my legs. It don't mean a bloody thing to me, only to him, and it means as much to him as it would mean to me if I picked up the racing paper and put my bet on a hoss I didn't know, had never seen, and didn't care a sod if I ever did see. That's what it means to him. And I'll lose that race, because I'm not a race horse at all, and I'll let him know it when I'm about to get out--if I don't sling my hook even before the race. By Christ I will. I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me. Admitted, we're both cunning, but I'm more cunning and I'll win in the end even if I die in gaol at eighty-two, because I'll have more fun and fire out of my life than he'll ever get out of his. He's read a thousand books I suppose, and for all I know he might even have written a few, but I know for a dead cert, as sure as I'm sitting here, that what I'm scribbling down is worth a million to what he could ever scribble down. I don't care what anybody says, but that's the truth and can't be denied. I know when he talks to me and I look into his army mug that I'm alive and he's dead. He's as dead as a doornail. If he ran ten yards he'd drop dead. If he got ten yards into what goes on in my guts he'd drop dead as well--with surprise. At the moment it's dead blokes like him as have the whip-hand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it'll always be like that, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am--always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam--than have the whip-hand over somebody else and be dead from the toe nails up. Maybe as soon as you get the whip-hand over somebody you do go dead. By God, to say that last sentence has needed a few hundred miles of long-distance running. I could no more have said that at first than I could have took a million-pound note from my back pocket. But it's true, you know, now I think of it again, and has always been true, and always will be true, and I'm surer of it every time I see the governor open that door and say Goodmorning lads.】
我理解是主角不想像赛马那样，为别人的利益服务，要活出更自由的人生，即使可能付出更大的代价。
影片最后奔跑完成后主角的笑容并非剧本事先的安排，而是纯属意外。
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