I've been reading the Greek art history section recently, so I'm curious about the guy who took Greece to its highest mountain and then fell so hard that it fell apart.
1. Movies
This is an excellent biographical film. Generally speaking, it is not easy to make a biographical film. Some of them are afraid of "historical facts" and social pressure, which makes the whole film pale and even inferior to a documentary. Here, "Mei Lanfang" directed by Kai Ge is nominated. It is full of too many director's personal conjectures and becomes "My ideal XXX". And these Oliver Stones handled it well. Based on history, but for some masked historical facts, the veil is removed directly, not to avoid making mistakes and ambiguity, those veils that are torn off are also the director's attitude, such as the death of Philip II, Ya's love The mother complex, the love of Acher, the death of Alexander. . . When waiting for the plot, the director may use symbols or myths, which seems to leave room, but in fact, the attitude is very clear. I like this kind of simplicity. If you don’t know what you are shooting, the audience will probably be more dizzy.
One of the episodes that moved me was the battle of Alexander's attack on India where he encountered elephant cavalry in the jungle. From the moment Alexander, despite everyone's dissuasion, rode his beloved horse to the leader's elephant, he explained 100% why he was an invincible hero who faced fear and sacrificed his life for honor. The leader's javelin pierced through his chest and shot the legendary beloved horse with him. I was moved by this angle. He and it lived and died together. He fell, and the world turned crimson. When death came, what would the great hero who conquered the world and the invincible Alexander the Great think? His hideous enemy, his enraged soldier, his fallen horse, and the man he would have been his Achilles. What is he most concerned about? What is the most precious thing to him? What is his last peace of mind? As a bystander, I was brought into the plot that Stone set for me. From Alexander's perspective, there are thousands of lives in my life, joy or sorrow, but when the last few seconds are reached, who will be free to review their own life, when the shadow of death When I finally enveloped Alexander completely, I saw his pride, as if to say to Heffey, look, I've finally become Achilles. Of course, this time Death only took his horse.
The other thing I liked was Stone's handling of the hero's ending. Since Heffey's death, Heffey has been dying, not because he resented the murderer, but because he didn't know how he would live without him? He couldn't let go of his heart, so he couldn't close his eyes. After all, they couldn't escape the oracle of Homer's epic. The movie did not show the crazy and cruel acts that Yabiyuk did after his death. He slaughtered the city, but have you ever thought that among the people he massacred, there may be many people who want to be with them forever? (The ethnography is really terrible, or it's much better to live in modern times) Ya's real death begins with a glass of poisonous wine, here Fei used a rather romantic metaphor, Ya saw her mother's reflection in the wine, And then drank it, there is a lot of meaning that the world can't keep it. He also began to become weak, just like Heffey's illness. He received adoration from thousands of people on his sickbed, but he had no one to let him fall in love with. Knowing that the empire would be divided up, and his achievements would be destroyed, Alexander was still undecided. For any heir, Fei Tong asked him to tell the prelude to the decades-long melee of "letting the strongest man", and it also made me fully realize that maybe he did not want to open up the territory and rule the world, at least in the final stage of his life. He is just a warrior who wants to see the end of the world and then fight back from the other half.
2. Alexander
It is too easy to say that ancient superheroes are comparable to today's superheroes, or just like the modern society must have no all-rounders like Da Vinci, the most important thing for ancient superheroes is courage. If he stands out from a group of people, he also stands out from the people of a country. Coupled with the centralized system, perhaps all he has to do is to be better than other kings, then he has the possibility of becoming a hegemon. Of course, if you want to add "Great Emperor" to your name, then what you have to do is to be better than yourself. I once dreamed of conquering the world, but I really only wanted to conquer the world. I didn’t ask for its money or its name, and I didn’t make long-term political plans. I just moved forward and moved forward. This is what attracted me to Alexander. It is also what attracts me to Greek mythology and Greek civilization. It is not that they simply have no conspiracy, but the light of idealism exuding from them. Life can be less realistic, and it is not so easy to navigate in the mud all the time. He can be wings made of wax. To vibrate high to the sun.
3. Rah
This was the first time I really felt the meaning of platonic love. It does not mean that only the same sex can have it, because of the constraints of the social environment at that time, it is more feasible to have the same educational background. what is love? I've been feeling thinking and comprehending. Ahh's emotion, I think, can be called "love". I was moved by Heffey's words that he could hide under his light. Alexander the Great, who is now rooted in Western history, has been passed down through the ages, but what we see in Alexander is not only Alexander, but the Alexander jointly managed by Acher. Without Heffy, Alexander would never be Alexander the Great. Love is independent of each other, but love makes human life merge with each other in the form of soul.
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This movie made me re-examine love, desire, maybe I will believe in Buddhism after middle age
Next target "Iliad" ✌️
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