The grid was so high from the beginning, I never expected it. Moreover, the plot is quite mysterious and suspenseful. When the details of the auction are emphasized and replayed by the director over and over again, making the audience feel that the way of opening is wrong, the post-modernism is purely deconstructed by the director, and I have seen Borges' "Crossing Paths" The feeling of "The Garden".
The story goes like this. For three hundred years, a hand of The Red Violin has been wandering in several countries, closely tied to the fate of several people. It seems that there is some kind of curse that makes people crazy about this piano.
The maker of the violin is an Italian musical instrument master (carlo Cecchi) in the seventeenth century. When his wife and children died, he couldn't suppress his sorrow, and smeared his lover's blood on the violin. Since then, the violin has been lost to The Republic of Austria. A little boy practicing piano was obsessed with this piano until he fell on the stage.
The wandering of the violin has never stopped, from the tomb raider, to the Gypsy, to the composer Popular Art who committed suicide, and then to a music teacher in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. During this period, whether the owner understands the true value of the violin or not, he cannot escape its magic. Finally, some experts learned the secret of the violin-its shell was stained with the blood and tears of a master three centuries ago.
"The Red Violin", created by the 17th century violin maker Nicholas, is a magic violin that is always cursed and sorrowful.Anyone who has a relationship with it seems to be affected by it. Bewitched, driven by it, eventually ended up with a tragic fate. The main line of the narrative of the movie "The Red Violin" is probably like this. Just like the five tarot cards drawn by Nicholas’s beloved wife who was looking for a fortune-telling before giving birth, each one represents an embarrassing story:
The first one, the moon, is reversed. Among the Tarot cards, the Moon is one of the few cards that have no explanation for both positive and negative. The upright moon represents "unease and premature death", while the inverted moon "eliminates anxiety and longevity." But in a way, the reversal moon is interpreted by card readers as "longevity and distant travel", but it also contains a tragic meaning. The violinist's beloved wife eventually died of dystocia, but her soul seemed to surround the violin forever.A journey began, and The Red Violin became a treacherous passer-by in many people's lives.
The second picture, the man hanging upside down, is inverted. The Hanged Man is in the upright position, which means "valuable sacrifice", while being in the inverse position is "worthless sacrifice". The one who fell down in front of The Red Violin was a talented teenager, Casper. He is still a child, but he can play Mozart ten times faster with this piano that an adult can hold. Caspar's Aegean is crazy, and he has to hold it even when he sleeps. He was too unwilling to be separated from the piano. In the end, when the duke who listened to him tried to buy the piano forcibly, Casper fell to the ground. In the audience hall, he stopped breathing. This used The Red Violin as a funerary and was put into Casper's coffin by kind priests. "In this way, he can be separated from his favorite music."
The third card, the devil, is in position. The righteous position of the devil, its sign is "temptation." The tomb robbed was taken from the coffin of a genius boy and fell into the hands of a gypsy artist. After several twists and turns, The Red Violin was finally discovered by the British genius violinist Popular Art. When I first saw The Red Violin, Popular Art rekindled his passion for violin. He looked for inspiration in women, and then used The Red Violin to play improvised music.for a time, public opinion praised him, and his career reached its peak. However, Popular Art's girlfriend regarded The Red Violin as a rival, and left after a shot of the violin. In the end, Popular Art, who lost his lover, committed suicide with a broken heart, and the violin was sold to China by a servant of Popular Art.
The fourth picture, trial, reversal. The right position of the trial implies "justice", while the inverse position represents the "unfair trial". Red China sweeps all monsters, ghosts and snakes. The beautiful Western music has become the target to be defeated, and even the people who play them will be implicated. The owner of The Red Violin in China is Red Guard Xiang Bei. She used her wit to save a music teacher who taught the violin in a controversy. After that, she took the risk and entrusted The Red Violin to the music teacher. "I am a party cadre, I don't deserve to own this piano, give it to you." Xiang Bei said to the music teacher before leaving hastily. When Xiang Bei was a child, her mother bought this violin for her. In the old photos, Xiang Bei's mother, a famous performer, has a graceful manner and a flowery smile.
The fifth card, Reaper, upright (translated as "courage" in the movie). The position of the god of death, although it has the meaning of "death". But behind this terrible sign, there is also a "new birth" Nirvana. After the death of the Chinese music teacher, The Red Violin was commissioned by the government and sent to the Montreal auction hall. Its appearance attracted the attention of the appraisal expert Morris. In the end, he finally discovered the secret behind this famous piano through modern science and technology.
The piano master Nicholas was distraught after his beloved wife died of dystocia. In order to commemorate his wife and this tragic love, Nicolas used his wife's hair to make paintbrushes and his wife's blood as paint. So The Red Violin was born. The body of the piano is stained with blood from the beloved wife, and the lines of the beloved wife’s hair are covered. It was originally The Red Violin, the best among the violinists to make. The music played is also like the sharp wailing of fate through the mouth of a woman. …In the lingering beauty and horror, The Red Violin has gained a new life, and the miss and nostalgia of the violinist for his wife has become eternal with the immortality of the music. The end of the film is like a grand party. The owners of all the tragedies experienced by the tragedy violin, as if they had dispatched his agent, gathered in the Montreal auction hall.Among them, there are priests who raised Caspar’s monastery; there are super fans of genius Popular Art; there are The boy next door who heard Xiang Bei play The Red Violin as a child-he has become a wealthy Chinese businessman. These people do not understand the true value of The Red Violin. Only Morris knows this unforgettable value. He came to the auction scene alone.In the end, who will The Red Violin belong to?
I often feel that although this violin seems to be haunted by a curse, it is still wonderful in itself. We can't deny that those who have had it, although their lives are short, still use it to play the most beautiful colorful movement of their lives. Casper loves music with it. Popular Art uses it to chase inspiration and passion. Xiang Bei used it to remember the little warmth and hope that remained in the extremely dark age. And the luthier himself, his love, as well as the body and soul of her wife, gained eternal life in this violin. Is this a scary and inexplicable story?
No, The Red Violin tells us that in a person's life, in the life of many people, in infinite variables.some things are worth pursuing for everyone.
