When we said this mysterious and mysterious word, we didn't understand its meaning at all. However, this is also the whole meaning of "Jemei". It is plainly presented to people, and it is always searching for the answer to the question that has puzzled mankind for millions of years, the core of all sculptures, architecture, paintings, behaviors and all kinds of art.
It seems that everyone is trying to interpret the film from Fellini. What does this show? It seems to only mean that people have not even read Fellini, let alone "Beauty". I don’t know if "A Beautiful City" is a good movie, but I am sure that it is definitely an interesting movie. Facing it, some people didn't understand it at all, but some claimed to understand it. Some people hate it because they don't understand it, some people like it because they don't understand it; some people claim that they understand it but don't understand it, and those who really understand it can only be silent. Such silence is not because the feeling after watching the movie is beyond vocabulary and is indescribable, but because the arguments and cold eyes on "Beauty" are obviously meaningless.
I still remember someone said that in "The Beautiful City", "the hero is like a post-industrial troubadour, romantic, cynic, introspective, and world-weary, wandering around the palaces, gardens, and parties of the Roman city day and night. , I wasted time, showing a series of exaggerated, morbid and nihilistic ukiyo-e paintings, and finally led to the epiphany of life as a dream, prosperous as a passing smoke, and asceticism-style negation." These statements seem to be right and wrong; they seem so magnificent to everyone. Can't write it, and it seems that anyone can write it. The strange thing is that, in my opinion, these sentences are even more "exaggerated and pathologically nihilistic" than the male protagonist, because they are so eloquent that nothing is said.
In fact, I firmly believe that when we first throw away these meaningless adjectives for the film, and then relentlessly remove the inheritance and tribute to Fellini in "Best Beauty", and finally lose any reference and context. When examining this work nakedly with the harshest eyes, it is enough to be a separate chapter, and it is enough to transcend everything. In the final analysis, if the plot is an important indicator for understanding "Beauty", then I also have to say that its structure can't be simpler.
Excluding the psychedelic layers of photography and music, the film is actually an obvious three-stage structure: one is to show Jeppe's gorgeous life; the other is to uncover the secrets of corruption under the gorgeous life. After thinking about it carefully, most people's understanding of "Supreme Beauty" stays at the first two stages. This seems not wrong; however, without the last part, the weight of the film will be reduced a lot, and the overall direction will have a huge deviation.
Maybe we also need to think about it a little bit. Why did a film called "extremely beautiful" end up in a "corrupted life"? If we try to understand it as irony, then questions will appear one after another: the most important of which is, can the two words "corrosion" and "beauty" form a pair of contrasting relationships? It doesn't seem to work well. And such obvious logical loopholes actually exist, becoming a Pavlovian conditioned reflex, as if any display of "excessive beauty", its purpose is naturally to lead to a critique of beauty. This is by no means the intent of "Absolutely Beautiful". Such an interpretation is obviously absurdly ignoring the most important part of the film, and after careful calculation, it turns out to be as much as ten minutes.
Those who seem to be watching a movie with their eyes open, what does the appearance of a nun really mean? If we simply interpret the nun as "religion" or "belief," then what is the connection between the religious symbols that appear in sacred chants and "absolute beauty"?
The nun made her debut for the first time in the worship of her. This appearance is not called "sacred", but rather called "horror"; because, in a film that shows naked men and women looking for pleasure from the beginning to the end, and the statues of full body, there is actually a cover. Yan Yanshishi, a nun who is over a hundred years old, toothless, dull-eyed, and even seems to have an IQ problem. If she takes off her clothes, she can't even tell her gender. Next, the nun who accepted the pilgrimage actually dangled her legs on the stool and shook off her shoes. Everyone exclaimed, they must be thinking, isn't this funny? Is this really a nun? This terrifying and innocent nun, plus an assistant with no long hair and wicked eyebrows, is really the object of the Pope’s commendation? Shouldn’t those incomparably holy nuns who can be treated by the Pope and forgiven by God be as moving as angels, without decay when they die?
No one understands what is going on. For a moment, we were as deeply surprised as the people in the game at this untimely horror and comical, until Jeep walked to the balcony, stirred the coffee in his cup, and looked up-the afterglow of the setting sun. Down, the balcony was actually full of migratory birds that were almost dreamy. Next, the nun let out a sigh of relief, and all the birds rose into the sky.
At this time, Jeep finally understood what "beauty" is. It is a hidden power. When you think that those dying and dying things have gradually lost their beauty, it is you who really lose their beauty. Physical desire, visual impact, wild and violent music...Those things that can make people crazy can really make people intoxicated, but they can't make people feel at ease, can't make people feel, and they can't make people satisfied-because True beauty does not exist on the surface; it is hopeless and unattainable, and it is always in an unattainable position. Although it is impossible to reach, people yearn for it.
This is the reason why the nun climbed up the steps and Jeep appeared in parallel with her lover under the lighthouse. Forty years before and after, Jeep never wrote a novel, because in these forty years, there has been no one thing, a person can be more bright and beautiful than that night. Although in the dark, Jepp can no longer even move his feet, but the passion and lovers at that time are undoubtedly the beauty of Jepp’s life. This "beauty" has made a romantic and affectionate book. novel. Forty years later, the deeper power in life allowed Jeep to find the precious beauty that had been lost for a long time, the real beauty that seemed unpretentious, without passion and sexy at all, and this beauty, also Will make another greater and more wonderful novel. It will inject the decay and emptiness of Rome, and the gardens and castles with only empty shells, into the beauty that has never disappeared for thousands of years but is nowhere to be found.
Under this kind of analysis, the almost dazzling and juggling photography and music that cannot be more beautiful and holy can have its true meaning, because any other form cannot afford this profound and grand proposition, and cannot show prosperity. There is a huge tension between decay, survival and destruction, hope and disappointment, life and death. In such a film, all kinds of satire only appear as a kind of intermediary-pure criticism and exposure are obviously of no value, even if Jeep makes the so-called "artist" who is grabbing the head show his original form, and how to make himself contrived. The old things of his friends have surfaced, and how to show all the false feelings at the funeral can not really make them disappear, just like those fake connoisseurs in the real world who open their mouths to "Fellini" and "cynics". Sorrentino must give his way to salvation, interpret his optimism in unusually bright colors, and interpret his philosophical understanding of "extremely beautiful" that transcends time and space.
This is reminiscent of another segment in the film. The adults cruelly asked the children to paint, the children howled desperately and slammed the paint on the canvas. When we all sighed for the child's misery and did not hold any hope for the huge canvas, the child wiped out the starry sky with bare hands.
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