First of all, to watch the movie "I Love Hobik", you must first learn a word called "potential comedy", which means that when you watch this movie, you may not laugh directly, but if you play it carefully, you will feel that it is very comedy. The effect is somewhere between drama and comedy. The so-called comedy, in Lu Xun's definition, is "comedy is to tear the worthless things in life for others to see". Playing this movie, you will find that his definition is better used here. This is the second impression this movie gives people, that is, it is absurd and obscure. To say that it burns the brain, it is not about winding the storyline like "Inception", but every segment of the film itself is full of esoteric philosophical discussions, the truth about the universe and the truth that appear at any time in the ordinary life. The art of poetry, or about existentialism, or about destruction, construction, and the discussion of the connection between things, has given this film a state of vagueness and mystery.
Watching this show, 99 out of about 100 people will feel headaches. Its transition between realism and surrealism, as well as too many discussions on philosophical significance, are extremely daunting. It is also interesting to take a step forward and turn it into a purely philosophical discussion, or take a step back and turn it into a mess of ordinary life, which is also more interesting, but the mashup of the two is really painful. At least I was still at a loss when I watched one-third of it, and I realized that the whole film would look like this when I saw it in one-half. In order to deepen the impression, I had to watch it again in a fast-forward format, and then continue. After reading it, there are still some problems that I don't understand. I put it aside for a while and then searched for relevant information before I understood what was going on. Still can't help yelling a few F**K.
However, this made me admire director David O. Russell. In recent years, his works have ranged from "Fighter" to "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds" to "American Hoax". The profound performance makes people admire his director skills. However, because in the above films, most of the critical consciousness he showed was concentrated in a small and subtle field, and it seemed that he lacked Spielberg’s universal vibe, so Russell had " The name "Feng Xiaogang in the United States" is to the effect that he can only play with cleverness, ingenuity but not grandeur. But after watching "I Love Habik", he knew that he did not lack a macro vision at all, and he was definitely not over playing with sketches. He doesn't lack the skill to make the theme of the movie profound. On the contrary, once Feng Xiaogang plays profoundly, he always shows his timidity. And Russell has risen all the way, showing no signs of subversion. In terms of director skills alone, he is completely worthy of an Oscar-winning figurine, but his works, such as "Fighter", "The Happiness Line Behind the Dark Clouds", and "American Hoax", are still due to lack of sufficient atmosphere. It made him suffer some losses. But the Coen brothers, who are also full of stubborn aura, have already won the little golden man, and I believe Russell will also have the day of turning over.
The movie "I Love Habik" revolved around the expansion of the Habik chain department store in a small town, triggering a chain reaction of locals, which triggered the relationship between ecology, urbanization, architecture and people, and A series of thoughts and discussions on existentialism, the expansion of the universe, and the meaning of life as mentioned above. Habik is a department store chain store founded in 1964 in the United States. Its sales network spans the entire country. While selling, this store also pays attention to social welfare undertakings such as community building, family relations, children’s education, environmental protection, etc. . Therefore, many people are open to Huckabee's mentality, and they like it. But there is always opposition. When Huckabee opened a new store in the small town in the film, an environmental protection organization called the "Empty Alliance" stood up and actively resisted the construction of the store. The purpose of this organization is to make the world as much as possible. Reserve the vacant land in the natural state, reject the intervention of industry, and reject the invasion of nature by urbanization. And the two core organizers of the "Air and Ground Alliance" Albert (Jason Schwartzman) and Brad (Jude Law) are in disagreement. They are fighting for power in the organization at the same time. , They also have their own problems. First, Albert suffered from a severe midlife crisis, constantly thinking about the situation in his life, thinking that he was getting more and more in his arms. Brad and his beautiful girlfriend Campbell (Naomi Watts) have serious differences in their lives. Then they both became customers of a private detective agency, which was run by the Jefferson and his wife (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), who enlightened and recorded the two separately. Personal life trajectory. Then Albert and the firefighter Tommy (Mark Wahlberg) became entangled again, and the contradiction grew. Albert and Brad's personal issues have also jumped to a larger topic, so whether it triggers a discussion about meaning.
There are more existential discussions in the film, and a small explanation is needed. The Latin existentia of the word existentialism means existence, existence, and existence. Existentialism philosophy discusses not the traditional philosophy of abstract consciousness, concept, and essence, but focuses on existence and life. But it does not refer to the actual existence of people, but the existence of the spirit. The mental consciousness of people, which is often low-conscious and pathological such as anxiety, despair, and fear, is opposed to social existence and personal reality. Get up and treat it as the only real existence.
For the specific discussion in the film, I will not describe it much, but just give two examples. One is Tommy as a firefighter. He has always considered himself a philosophical wise man. The most prominent point of view should be the over-exploitation of energy in developed countries and the harm to poor countries. This point of view is clearly expressed in that he The argument with Albert at the home where the Sudanese refugees were adopted. Originally, the adoptive family thought that they had done a good deed, but Tommy thought that the culprit of poverty and turmoil in those countries was the Western countries headed by the United States. This discussion analyzed the facts of the existence of American hegemony from a worldwide perspective. This makes the original Xiaoqing about adoption and love become another object for criticism.
Another example is Albert’s childhood diary. He wrote: I came back from school and my mother was in the kitchen with a strange lady. My mother asked me to go back to the room, I think I was in trouble. She closed the door and told me that Pray had been hit and killed by a car. Then she took me back to the woman in the kitchen, and she asked me to spell words to prove that I was literate. I said I was going to the bathroom, I climbed out the window, I walked along the street, I saw Barney playing beach ball, and he said I looked sad. I told him what happened to my cat, and he said it was a sad thing. After I cried, I tried to hide my sorrow, and some children were laughing at me. Barney told me that he cried when his dog died, and the kids were still laughing.
This passage is written in a childlike way, with a clear stream of consciousness. The text jumps quickly with the spread of consciousness, and even the plot has a certain incoherence in the narrative, but it is good It is also easy for people to read. The existence of this diary describes the fact that the death of a pet cat caused great sadness to the child's psychology, but his mother was talking with strange people at that time, not the child's psychology. trauma. It may seem like a small thing in the eyes of adults, but for children, it has an important impact, so that there is still a psychological shadow after adulthood.
How am I not myself? It is a line of Jude Law in the film. How can he become a transcendent existence without himself? This question fills the whole movie. I won't say more, if you want to think about it, you might as well take a look.
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