The most memorable thing in the film is their inner self-denial process, the battle between reason and emotion.
Everyone experiences various self-affirmations and self-denials every day in their lives, but because everyone has different attitudes and different perceptions of self-denial, each person's experience is also completely different. Self-denial requires great courage, but sometimes it can also bring great benefits. Excellent self-denial is not only an ability, but also an art.
Let me first talk about the line of Barringer and his daughter in the film.
Ballinger was a music festival where he often mixed with Stravinsky. After Stravinsky's death, he became the one who inherited his mantle. He was the conductor of the Venice Symphony Orchestra and often came to Switzerland. This resort hotel is on holiday. Because Stravinsky once told him that intellectuals have no taste, in order to become Stravinsky, in order to be able to inherit all his genius and taste without omission, so, Barringer also vowed to be an irrational person. This conversation later appeared in Barringer’s dialogue with Hollywood actor Terry, but it was a portrayal of Barringer’s lifelong pursuit.
Therefore, in the meeting with the Queen’s envoy, Barringer was rudely flipping through Miss World’s news. He was using all kinds of seemingly irrational, unruly, and crazy artist-like behaviors to prove that he could He is Stravinsky's successor to make up for his lack of talent.
That's why, in the mouth of his daughter Lena, Barringer is a complete bastard. He never cared about his wife, never cared about children, no hugs, no kisses, and some just told them: be quiet, dad is composing music; be quiet Point, Dad is creating; Be quiet, Dad is talking on the phone with important people; Be quiet, Dad is meeting with Stravinsky. Stravinsky was able to achieve success in the war environment in Switzerland only by virtue of his talent and the simplest musical instruments. However, Barringer, who was less talented, had to dedicate his life's time and energy to be able to live in peace. In the age, it only won a place.
However, the first denial of his life came from his daughter Lena. Barringer said that he could understand the pain of his daughter’s boyfriend’s derailment, but his emotional daughter revealed all his life secrets: many derailments, his wife knew but Forbearance, he even tried same-sex sex (also a testament to his efforts to practice Stravinsky's advice).
Balinger is a person with the courage to deny himself. He accepted his daughter's denial and even soon said to her that I really can't understand you, and I can't pretend to understand, just like after asking the actor Terry that you actually read a book, He immediately admitted that he was a prejudiced old man.
Balinger’s self-denial courage also positively affected her daughter Lena. After being denied by her derailed boyfriend, she first believed that he accused her of not doing well in bed, but soon woke up in a nightmare and told herself and her father. Said that it was not the truth, it was just an excuse for her boyfriend, and soon chose to believe in feelings, and had a secret relationship with the mountaineering coach.
In the end, the death of old friend director Mick changed Barringer’s heart, especially when Barringer told Mick that emotions are sometimes overestimated, but Mick told Barringer before committing suicide, you said. Emotions are overestimated, but emotions are the only thing we have ever had, so we committed suicide after speaking.
After Mick fell from the building, Barringer sat still in a chair, unable to return to his senses for a long time, short of breath. On the one hand, Mick’s death shocked him, and the other reason was that Mick’s words made him feel guilty. He has never wanted to be what Stravinsky calls "a sane person with no taste", but in fact he has never been successful, and Mick is inherently irrational, doing things based on intuition and emotion, or in other words, Barringer’s understanding of Stravinsky’s words has always been biased. He thought that he could become a genius without regard to family, without emotion, and dedicated to music creation, but in fact, that is wrong. Art should be It is the expression of emotion, because emotion is the only thing that has ever existed.
So he went to look at the tomb of Stravinsky, probably thinking that he had understood it wrong before, so he changed his idea of refusing to be invited to conduct "Jane Song", even though he thought it was only a wife. Sung tunes.
And Lena thought that she knew her father, knew his various infidelities and secrets of life, that was to understand him, until she learned that her father had always kept the "Jane Song" for her mother and was so touched, did she know that she didn't fully understand him. In the end, Barringer went to the ward to visit his amnestic wife and said that the children might not understand our past experience. Lena's understanding of her parents was always incomplete and one-sided, and her previous views were constantly being denied.
Let's talk about the line of director Mick and his son.
They are fathers and sons of the same line. They are people who do things based on their feelings. So when Mick learned that Brenda was unable to star in his movie and that the film could not be made, he jumped directly from the building, and the son was also for a bed. A woman with a good kung fu left her childhood sweetheart Lena. Both father and son are emotional animals. They live in the world with intuition and emotion to create.
Therefore, although Mick can teach the young people on the screenwriting team around him through the telescope, those who go by are not to be admonished, but those who come can still be followed. But he himself is obsessed with the old feelings. He always wishful thinking that he had Brenda long ago, but in the end Terry told the truth. You may be a great director, but you are not a great actress. Shaper.
This may be why he chose to commit suicide in the end, because he opened his eyes on the hillside and saw all the actresses who had worked with him. They wore the costumes of the characters in the play, and then humbly asked him for advice. , What kind of pace, what kind of action, but he knows that he is not actually an actress shaper, and his success is largely due to these talented actresses, so he finally paid tribute to them. This is a process of his self-denial, but for an emotional person, this kind of self-denial is extremely painful, so after completing the self-denial, he chose to commit suicide.
Let's talk about actor Terry's line.
In order to think about a role, he came to the hotel, and then carefully observed all the people in the hotel. He was immersed in a feeling of incomprehension. He felt that the whole world only knew Mr. Q, the robot he played, and even watched that movie. Without his face, he felt that his abilities and talents were not fully recognized by society, so he always had a cynical vigor.
However, the first denial he encountered came from a Miss World who he regarded as a vase. She said that I was happy when I was elected Miss World, but when you became Mr. Q, were you happy?
I have achieved happily, but you have always felt wronged because of your famous work. These two emotions are really not the same level. The latter seems to be more failure and even absurd.
At the beginning, Terry thought that the reason for this was that Mr. Q became his label and symbol because of his reckless retreat. However, in the subsequent experiences, he gradually understood that it was not reckless, just like later. The little girl told him that no one was ready, and his fame was really accidental.
It's not that the world denies you, but you don't recognize yourself.
This is why he realized everything after he was dressed as Hitler, because he had not made a choice all the time. When he played Mr. Q, he wore armor and covered his face. He didn't know what choice to express, but when the armor was removed, When facing each audience, he must choose, expressing desire or expressing fear, but the most difficult. He couldn't play Hitler not because he didn't express fear, but because he didn't want to see fear, and he didn't want to see the audience fear because of seeing him. He was accustomed to being worshipped.
At that moment, he knew not only to express desire, but also he knew how naive he felt that the world had underestimated him because of Mr. Q.
Compared with the "voiced" clues of the characters above, there is still a "silent" clue in the film. Please understand that I also attributed Maradona to this silent clue, because he has very little dialogue, and besides, there is also a pair of silent clues. Old couples, massage girls, and young call girls.
Maradona asked the female assistant to massage him and kick tennis to his hematoma, while looking into the distance and saying, I see the future. I think this scene is the most meaningful place in the whole film, because when Mick teaches young people, older people should be powerless for the future, because there are too few, but here Maradona is still full of expectations. I imagined the future, and I could ride on the green field again. If Mick was pretending to be rational when teaching people, then Maradona’s expression here is true emotion, although his dream may not be realized at all. But that is the only meaning of his existence now.
Moreover, Maradona is a person who does not deny himself in the film. Even if he is on crutches, he still has to sign the fans, and in the hot spring pool, he has to show off that he is a left-handed person. In the end, his pride has caused him to become obese today. And decadence, or do people who have never denied themselves have faith in their hearts?
The massage girl, who has never had anything to say, can’t express in words, so she has been practicing the dance machine silently. The arrangement of such a quiet and speechless world in the director's film seems to be a mockery of the protagonist's various contradictory dialogue worlds. The existence of one world is a denial or reference to another world.
I even think that Brenda blurted out the sentence: Without these bad movies, life will continue. It may be a self-denial of the director of the film. Through the mouth of the protagonist, he uttered this problem that bothered him, and even He, his own work, and his own industry have all come to a complete denial. This self-denial courage is amazing, but at least you can see the depth of his thinking and honest heart. This candid self-denial runs through many characters in the film, Barringer, Mick, Lena, Terry, some people become more calm after the self-denial, some die, and some finally see their heart. However, there is one thing. Self-denial is best done when you are young, so as not to spend your whole life, get into the drama too deeply, and end up being unable to extricate yourself like Mick.
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