"Run,run,run....I wanna be a stranger.. run, run, run don' stop..." The movie "Laura Run" tells the story of red-haired girl Laura trying to raise 10 in 20 minutes The story of Wanmark's run all the way to save his boyfriend Manny - and obviously, this story is just a mask to construct the superficial form of the film, Tom Tykway's ambition is not limited to just showing Laura running in a montage-like way. The process and providing the audience with a seemingly good ending - at the end of the story, Manny successfully solved the crisis of 100,000 marks, holding his girlfriend relaxed, who also carried a bag of chips won from the casino in his hand. Rather than a complete story structure, he prefers to express some of the implicit propositions behind the plot. And this desire to express implicit propositions and the expression style of postmodern aesthetics combine to produce "infinity" and "philosophy" in interpretation.
Due to the choice of expression method, "Laura Run" is undoubtedly a successful model of postmodern avant-garde aesthetics. Structurally, the director uses collage skillfully—Laura’s three runs are framed on a plane, and during the run, Laura meets a woman pushing a stroller, a woman working in a bank , A second-hand dealer who sells stolen bicycles, everyone's present and future are inserted and spliced into Laura's running process. Every run of Laura connects her and passers-by's different life trends, which is really interesting. , which seems to tell the audience that even though the general process and plot of each run seem to be the same, the fate of the runners and the same passers-by they meet during each run has been changed, just like the ancient Greek philosophers. Heractelli said: "No one can step into the same river", and the fate of people is the same as that of rivers. As the river continues to flow, everything changes quietly. Today's river is no longer the same as yesterday's river. the same article. Philosophical implications are profoundly explained in postmodern texts.
The repetition of the same lines in the film is also a prominent feature of postmodern aesthetics, which can be seen in many postmodernist texts, such as Borges, Gefei and so on.
Apart from the structural and formal departure from other traditional texts, the most important point of postmodern aesthetics is the deconstruction of a "correct" kind of deconstruction that often leads to doubt and uncertainty. This, I think, is also the reason why the director prefers to present and express in such a way that is completely different from the traditional narrative film style. Often what we think is true is not necessarily "true", just like when talking about "human nature" We are not sure about this, but we have fallen into the trap of the so-called "authority" and have been choked by the truth. However, the postmodern approach can help us escape from the traditional narrative circle to a certain extent. Look at the problem from another angle, and then think about a kind of "essence", a kind of truth behind the truth. In this film, the director chooses to dissect what is called "loyalty". "Loyalty" is often associated with love in traditional texts, and the purpose of Laura's running is to save her lover Manny to a certain extent. Ironically, the love in the film is more or less circled" The Ring of Infidelity - Laura's mother flirts with a strange man on the phone, her father has an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the office, and it's ridiculous that her father's lover secretly betrays him and is pregnant with someone else's child , and the biggest irony is that Laura is not his own father. The traditional textual interpretation of the establishment of love symbolizes the white and noble "loyalty" quality, which is completely absent in this movie, as if it was the beginning of the movie. A whole deck of tarot cards has been knocked down, which seems to be regarded as a symbol, symbolizing the director's destruction of an "authority" interpretation and an "authority" identification. Behind such an interpretation, the audience is left with a difficult question: If love is no longer faithful, what is Laura running for?
On the surface, Laura's three runs are the result of her firm belief in saving her boyfriend Manny, but what the director wants to express is the relative doubt and uncertainty about a relationship: Laura's ex The results of the two runs were that Laura was shot and killed, and Manny was hit and killed by an ambulance. Immediately, a clip with a red background appeared in the film. In the clip, Laura and Manny discussed: "You love me. "Why are you sure that the right girl must be me?", and Manny also said to Laura: "If I die, what will you do? I know you will forget me, go find me a new boyfriend". In the before and after clips, the identities of Laura and Manny are constantly changing, from the questioner to the questioned, and when the two are both questioned, their emotional attitudes are surprisingly consistent, both are uncertain , at a loss, and when the two acted as questioners, they seemed to want to get an answer from each other, and they seemed to know it in their hearts. "It's your heart that told you this, right? Your heart said 'she is that girl'", and then she said, "Why must it be me? If you change to another girl, you will give the same answer." Obviously yes For lovers who are like glue, the scene of the dialogue is still on the bed, not somewhere else. This scene happens to be a symbol of a stable and intimate relationship in love, but the two parties who are obviously in a stable relationship are so concerned about their relationship with each other. Doubt and uncertainty is a completely negative state of mind, similar to nothingness, which reflects that what the director wants to express at this moment is no longer limited to love, but an orientation of uncertainty and doubt about the relationship between people. Or it can be said that this uncertain dialogue in love is used to reflect the three philosophical questions of our life: at the beginning of the film, the background voice says: "All the questions return to the same question: who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?", because of these uncertainties and doubts about some seemingly stable things, I have to run, not for a specific person, but to pursue these answers , so can't die easily, so Laura or Manny, struggling to say "No, I don't want to leave", the desire for answers to those questions supports the rebirth of Manny or Laura, so the story goes back to restart. Just like the little characters in the game who were defeated by the monsters regained their lives to complete the mission of defeating the monsters, Laura's three runs are not just an ordinary form under the disposal of postmodern aesthetics, it is endowed with a deeper level of The philosophical meaning of the life proposition that is constantly pursued.
Under such a treatment, the postmodern aesthetic form in "Laura Run" is perfectly integrated with the philosophical heritage of Germany's long history, so that it is no longer a simple "formal experiment" in a film, and its existence has a clear After the connotation, it can last forever and gain eternal life force in Laura's running over and over again.
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