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如果讓你搭乘直升飛機繞城觀看一圈，你能記下所有建築物並把它們畫出來嗎？當然不可能啦！人的大腦怎麼可能在這麼短的時間內記住這麼多信息！即使是每天經過的街道，我們也不一定能記住其中的細節。但來自英國的斯蒂芬·威爾特希爾卻擁有這種非凡的能力。這位英國畫家從小患有自閉症，卻具有驚人的記憶力。在一個陌生的城市，他隻要轉一圈，就可以像電腦一樣把街景建築全都儲存在腦中，再用畫筆還原出來。自2005年以來，斯蒂芬·威爾特希爾畫過東京、羅馬、香港、紐約、迪拜、倫敦等城市。下麵就讓我們一起見證這一奇跡的誕生吧。
Stephen Wiltshire， from London， is a star among savants. His nickname is “The Living Camera.” Stephen is autistic. He lives in a world of his own. Communication is difficult for him. He didn’t speak his first words，“pencil” and “paper，” until he was five. Yet when he was 11， he drew a perfect aerial view of London after only one helicopter ride. Even the number of windows in all the major buildings in his drawing was correct.
For this film， we’re testing “The Living Camera” in Rome. Stephen has never seen “the Eternal City” from above before. After only a 45-minute helicopter flight， we’ll ask him to draw a five and a half yard panoramic picture of the historic city centre without having a second glance at it. Stephen has three days. In these three days， Stephen will have to keep thousands of details in his head： the innumerable cupolas， the tiny winding streets， all the balconies and windows of the endless array of houses， and each and every column and window arch of Rome’s major sites， from the Pantheon to St. Peter’s to the Coliseum.
Stephen has never trained for this feat of magic； the miracle simply happened when he first started to draw. Yet none of us would have bet that Stephen would be able to draw Rome just from memory. Five and a half yards of paper can look scarily empty.The amazing thing， Stephen starts the drawing as we would， with the Church of St. Peter’s. But he doesn’t do any sketches nor roughing out of the space for the drawing. It’s as if the panorama already existed within his head with all the proportions， all the roads， all the details. A little miracle.