I was surprised to find that Paul Sorrentino reproduced all the important philosophical propositions in "Being and Time" in "A Beautiful City". (Although there is no evidence for him to talk about this book)
Regarding the "existence" on the
huge rooftop dance floor, the Roman celebrities and nobles under the bizarre lights are doing their best to enjoy the extravagance, and the dancers who are enclosed in other small spaces in the distance are twisting their limbs. The banquet is like a canary in a cage, but who is watching whom?
"Existence" seems to be understood by everyone, but its meaning is hidden in the dark. Starting from Plato, Western philosophy has equated existence with all beings. We always think that our "existence" is independent of the environment. (Heidegger believes that this is an essential error made by Western philosophy. Therefore, in "Being and Time", the trajectory of Western metaphysics has been turned aside, returning to the starting point and re-exploring the connotation of "being".)
In Hai's "existence", the world is no longer a simple gathering of things, nor is it an object for us to observe directly. We always belong to the world, we exist in the world, and we are also us in the world.
The "self" that can be withdrawn from the environment is purely an imaginary thing and no longer exists. After the dwarf female editor-in-chief woke up, she stepped into the empty room where the dancer had left, creating a strange sense of dislocation. The space was open, devouring everyone in it.
People walk through the fog caused by this relationship between self and others, self and the world, and can't help but want to "sink".
Heidegger said that people perceive the world in "emotions, talks, and comprehension": the
performance artist who hits the wall with his head in the movie isolates himself as an island and actively blocks the way to perceive the world, so Jeep said it unceremoniously." God, ma'am, what is resonance in the end?"
Then in "curiosity, gossip, ambiguity", he obliterated his "authenticity" and "sinked" into this world (non-derogatory, helpless):
Jeep would turn his head and observe curiously when he passed by every stranger on the street. ..The mother of "Crazy Son" and the friends in Jeep's circle gossiping non-stop... looking at the new neighbor who appeared at the door of Jeep... the girlfriend who wanted to refuse and welcome the Jeep editor. .. Jeep's own insight and self-deception, etc.
Trying to eliminate the "sense of difference" and desperately blending into others, but being controlled by the "sense of difference", wanting to be different:
the leader mistress who published 11 novels and 1 party history proudly said "Rome is The only city in the world where Marxism exists... In Rome, you will not surpass others for a week, and you will be compared immediately. Rome is pure collectivism” and then proudly declared “I am different from you, I use literature to change world".
Of course, in the eyes of Jeep, who has only written a lyrical novel, this is just a kind of unawareness of her own "sinking".
Therefore, Jeep is destined to be a "disappointing" person, as he himself said, a sensitive person, as Heidegger said, a person who "worries about" in order to clarify the "selectivity" of existence. This sensitive man once wrote a beautiful novel, and then fell into the exhaustion of more than 40 years of inspiration. He wanted to write something better, but in confusion, what is better? -If everyone is sinking.
About "Death" and "Time"
Crazy Son" shouted: Turgenev said, "Reaper is watching you". The shadow of death is flowing everywhere in the film. At the beginning, the Japanese tourist suddenly died; the lengthened Lincoln almost hit the Jeep , Driving past, through the car window is a young face full of death; the funeral of the friends in the circle; the news of the death of the first love girlfriend came; after finding the nun Maria lying motionless in the room, Jeep inhaled. Take a sigh of relief. The
famous sermon by John Dunn says that no one is an island, everyone’s death hurts me, don’t ask for whom the death knell sounds. This is not lyrical, but Is the truth.
Heidegger believes that death is a sudden denial of real life. Only when people face death, will they stop worrying and worrying about the world, isolate themselves from the fall, and become a real existence. Moreover, according to his view, each of us has a potential to be realized (the little girl who paints).
Ramona, the stripper in the film. It was the one who got rid of the fear of death (knowing that he would die soon) and completely released the "authentic".
Jeep has always been attracted by children and found a short interview with director Paul. He explained that "in the emotional journey, for a period of time before adulthood, people feel that they are happy because they feel that their present and future are the same. However. When they finally realize that the future is the future, the present is the present. They will feel a subtle, deep-rooted unconscious pain." I guess at this moment, they also know the impermanence of life and death.
Jeep learned that death will come, but also understand the true meaning of existence, they live in fear of death, 65 years old, he kept saying, "I feel very sad. I'm old. I want to re-write a novel."
And He doesn't want to choose to leave Rome like his editor, because he knows that life is a train that can't reach anywhere, just like the game they play at a banquet. What he wanted to seek was a deeper, more beautiful and more usable answer.
He watched a photography exhibition. From birth, the photographer took a picture of himself every day without interruption. When an old Jeep saw the photographer’s past time like watching a long flowing river, just like Heidegger, Jeep had a certain kind of epiphany: man is time.
Somewhere in his body, he still remembers the best state when he was 18 years old, playing in the sea, avoiding the yacht, and looking at each other with his beloved. That is not the past, but a part of oneself. Something that can still be retrieved.
This also echoes what the nun Maria said later, "Do you know why I only eat vegetable roots? Because the roots are very important."
In the past, it was not a diary book that could be turned over. It was part of the oil painting of life. Even if it is covered by layers of "now".
About faith
"On the steep slope of an open valley in the Southern Black Forest, there is a ski hut at an altitude of 1,150 meters. The hut is only six meters wide and seven meters long. The low roof covers three rooms: a kitchen and living room, a bedroom and a study. The entire narrow valley floor and the opposite side are equally steep and on the hillside, sparsely dotted with farmhouses, grassland and pastures further up, extending to the forest, where the old cedar trees are dense and towering. Above all, it is bright and clean in summer. Sky. Two goshawks hovered in this brilliant clear sky, soothing and at ease. "
This is Heidegger's residence in his later years. Living there, he gradually moved away from metaphysics and wrote a lot of poems. As he said, at this point in life, he no longer "observes" the landscape, but only experiences its transformation day and night as the seasons change.
The old Heidegger also turned from philosophy to religion, but his gods are always in a kind of "transcendence" field from beginning to end, that is, a self-consciousness "If people do good, they won't get any happiness, they will only be hurt and trampled." , Then do people still need to do good?"
In "Lin Zhonglu", he once commented on the 20th century when "God is dead", "The absence of God means that there is no longer a God who can visibly and clearly gather people and things together To it, and because of this gathering, the history of the world and the stay of people in it are interlocked. But the absence of God foreshadows something worse. Not only the gods and gods escaped, but also the divine The brilliance has also been extinguished in the history of the world. "
There is no sense of sacredness, which in itself marks the decline of modern life. The sacredness is the real light that transcends the human world. This is by no means a purely religious discussion.
The religious expression in the film is exactly the same. The saint Mary, who was banned by the church, shows a kind of suffering, and a poetic brilliance that condenses all living things. When the storks gathered on the balcony of the jeep, Maria said, "Did you know, I know the Christian name of each of them".
At this point, it is hard not to think of Heidegger's phrase "Life is full of labor, but still dwells on the earth poetically."
The elderly Jeep cruising in the city of Rome also thoroughly understood the trick of life, and finally met with the first love representing "beautiful poetry". I found a good medicine in the journey of life full of nothingness.
The meaning of existence is to weave the wool carpet of life. There is no purpose, but to embrace the brilliance of poetry and try to increase the complexity of its patterns. Just like the man in the film who holds the keys to all the beautiful buildings in Rome, he is not the gatekeeper, but the reason why he can lead to all "good" is because "I am a trustworthy person."
So Jeep finally said: "Silence is emotion, love is also fear, beautiful light, wild and impermanent, those hardships, misery, and painful human nature are buried in the embarrassment of being born, and I can't say it. In fact, it is impossible to say. It's just vanity, I don't care about vanity, so this is the beginning of the novel, and it is just a trick in the end, yes, a trick." For
director Paulo Sorrentino, the important thing is not the city of Rome. It’s just that there is Napoleon in Rome, and Napoleon represents “there is only one step away from the sublime to the pathetic.”
In such a constantly moving noble and pathetic city, the director wanted to shoot, just like the lifelong believer of Holderlin. In fact, it is existence and time, a poetic brilliance.
The Great Beauty. This beautiful chapter is its self-certification.
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