Overall feeling: enjoyable, cool, exciting, excited, satisfied, slightly uncomfortable
Awareness of the limitations of gender:
When we are laughing at the ignorance of the murdered rich woman, the ignorance of the maid, and the rigidity of the female nurse, I still have faint worries and displeasure. Stereotypes of women have become part of the laugh (and still do), and it can be a little irritating. Of course, this also shows that the director has grasped the hearts of the people and knows what the humorous jokes are about. If we just laugh along without thinking, then unconsciously, what will be engraved in our minds will still be demeaning to women. Even for the heroine who was raised in the end, I really liked this reasonable and unexpected ending, which is still shocking and amazed after more than 60 years. But she couldn't escape a word of love, and she still revolved around men. Everything in the film was centered on men and had deep-rooted patriarchy. It is undeniable that the director is already advanced at that time. Through mocking the law, lawyers, and male protagonists, he has some questions about the idea of male power. It's not so much male power as it is a slap in the face to the arrogant and narcissistic person, to wake you up, what you see and think is not necessarily the truth, and always maintain a heart of doubt, especially for those who are too narcissistic. The smooth and so-called reasonable things, those that "have been like this since ancient times", "should be like this", "everyone is like this", and even "this kind of logical reasoning is seamless", we must not forget that the biggest variable of human beings is unfathomable. Respect the world with awe and humility.
Story goes to story, form goes to form
Everyone praised the story of the film, with a score of 9-10, as if everyone was sitting around a campfire again listening to a wonderful story in the form of a movie. Some people say that this film is more like a drama, with relatively single scenes, and discusses the issue of the film's expression: whether to work hard on the story, script, and performance like this film, or in the form, technique, and even spectacle. effort. Although these are two non-conflicting points, it seems that there are very few directors who can take both. In my impression, Kubrick is one. The pursuit of having both is not the goal. Doing any one of them to the extreme can be brilliant. Grasping the balance of the two is another kind of brilliant. If you want both but get nothing, you may be mostly mediocre. normality of film. Thinking of this is also like our life. Those who can achieve the ultimate are brilliant, and those who can achieve balance are also outstanding, and we, who are constantly wandering between the extreme and the balance with anxiety, are like never eating carrots. donkey. I imagine perfection, but everything is done evenly, I can't put it down, I can't cut it, and I can't do it.
ridicule of authority
The authority in the film is all teased, and the law is used as a tool to achieve an end; a lawyer like Churchill smokes, drinks, is fat, mean, and has high self-esteem. Ji was slapped soberly; the husband, who had exhausted his calculations, was judged after his true identity was revealed. These all express the ridicule of the system against authority and male power. But this kind of ridicule isn't measured enough, and it's easy to overlook, just as the everyday jokes about women are easy to ignore. If someone says that this is from a modern position, it is too harsh to criticize the limitations of the past, not to mention that it is a commercial film for the masses. But this is not a reason not to reflect, not see, and not to put forward, these bits and pieces should be seen, I just saw some content with my limitations, maybe it seems relatively Sensitive, but these contents should be allowed to be expressed and cannot be ignored for any reason.
Thinking about Inversion
There are so many reversals in the film, which can be regarded as a joke on an unthought of everyday life. Breaking the routine again and again by surprise, challenging the audience time and time again. By being teased, it caused me to reflect. If I still laughed, I underestimated its power. The fundamental purpose of reversal is to surprise, break conventional thinking, allow automated thinking to turn to more possibilities, and give yourself more opportunities and possibilities for the world.
Performance Skills and the Arts
When the performance is used as a means to achieve the goal, it is a kind of deception, the use and play of human emotions, and this kind of deception is the most unforgivable. And when the performance is just to show more phenomena, more emotions, it becomes an art. Purpose is the key, motivation is the key, empathy is the key. Performance is a tentative presentation of complex human hearts. A good actor always reminds me of psychological counseling. It is the work that is going on through life, feeling another life through life, expressing another life through life, and going through life. Influence touched another life. They are equal and respect each other. A bad actor, no matter how superb his skills are and the purpose is wrong, will always make people feel that something is wrong.
What else can we believe? What else can we believe? What else can we believe?
Believe that "there is no absolute", "there is no truth" and "it is not that simple", self-confidence is not arrogant, and belief is not superstitious. Trying hard to maintain the ability of independent thinking that sometimes goes astray, sometimes makes mistakes, sometimes seems ridiculous, and does not become angry because of opinions that are different from your own is an important practice.
——Da Yin's Electric Addiction · Stream of Consciousness After Viewing
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