(Just because it's the final assignment, I have turned over the film before and after it many times.) "My Heart is Wild" is a 1990 film directed by David Lynch and starring Nicholas Cage and Laura Dunn. This is a film adapted from Barry Gifford’s novel of the same name, "My Heart is Wild". It is said that the original is only five pages, but the film has been expanded to two hours. The only remaining is the dialogue in the book. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival in 1990. At the same time, "My Heart is Wild" also won the French Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, which is the most internationally prestigious film. It is said that "My Heart is Wild" was previewed. Three hundred and fifty spectators left the audience. After the film was released, the market reaction was not good. Critics and audiences had mixed reviews for David Lynch’s film. After a series of controversial films such as Twin Peaks (1990), "My Heart is Wild" once again disrupted the contemporary film scene. There are many comments that this movie does not want Lynch’s work and does not have the surprises that the previous works have brought to everyone, but in fact, the "Linch Doctrine" is as clear as this movie. 1. Sacred Love Shortly after the production of the movie "My Heart is Wild", a reporter asked Lynch what inspired him to create this story. Lynch’s answer was clear. He said that he was almost completely affected by Saylor and Luo. Attracted by the passionate love between pulls. He thinks this is a perfect fit, but looking through a large number of online film reviews, it is not difficult to find that not many people think that the love between them is very passionate, and even think that the two are just showing erotic clips. This part will analyze the love between the two develop. (1) The first scene of the love film breaking through the shackles introduces the relationship between the protagonists, a mother Marietta with a strong desire for control, a 20-year-old daughter Lola who is full of desires, and a free personality who defends her own personality. The grumpy young man Seiler. Marietta used money to control Li Meng and asked him to destroy his daughter's love, so that she could control her daughter's life again. But the result failed, and the killer was killed by Thaler. Seiler entered the prison because of the murder. The day he left the prison, he called Lola. Marietta prevented him from contacting his daughter again. Lola heard the call standing in the corridor and confronting her mother. The clothes of the mother and daughter are black and white. The mother is standing downstairs and the daughter is standing upstairs. Lola’s foreground is a fence and the background is a closed window, which reflects that Lola’s state is imprisoned. And Laura is trying her best to resist her mother's restrictions on her.
Lola brought a snakeskin dress to receive Seiler who was released from prison. Seiler said that this jacket represented my belief in individuality and freedom. Laura said that I had heard it 999 times. Then they drove on the road together, starting the real road romance part of the film, starting the process of breaking the shackles. (2) Sex and conversation. Their sex scenes were mainly in the first half of the film. There were a total of four times, all of which gradually narrowed the distance between them and developed into passionate love. The first sex happened after Lola received Seiler who was released from prison. The red color covered the sex scene. After the two were happy, Seiler lit a cigarette. The two were in two spaces, Seiler was lying on the bed, and Lola was standing in the toilet, boasting Seiler’s skills in her mouth, and the conversation between the two was not correct. Lola deceived Seiler and said My mother didn't know when she was raped, she created a masked Lola to Seller through the mirror explanation, an image of an innocent injured woman who needs to be protected. At this time, the two are still in the stage of pursuing sex.
The second sex took place after Seiler sang "MY LOVE" to Lola. The red and yellow were overlaid on the clips of sex. The difference between the joyful and the first show was that the match scene was lighted up. A cigarette, the two talked in harmony on the bed, Seiler told Laura about her painful memories, and for her mother's memories, Laura said that she would stand by his side, no matter how hard it was. The composition at this time is also very interesting. Women are no longer just objects of joy. There is a kind of equal utopian love that is emerging at this time.
The third sex was after they came to New Orleans, and the two began to enjoy the freedom at this time when they entered the city. The conversation between the two people was not the pain of the previous two, but the pure sex topic and food, food. Sexuality has also returned to a life full of freedom and individuality. The two who escaped the control of their mothers first felt complete freedom and joy. But matches showing dangerous red and potential scars still participate in this segment. The fourth sex is after showing that the mother has completely entered a state of madness and the killer has really started to act. Through a conversation about their sexual experience, the two quickly became involved in another sexual encounter. At this time, they did not know that the danger was approaching. The love without shackles and control made them truly enter the state of love. Therefore, rainbow-like colors appear in the color shots covering sex. This is the film deliberately intertextualizing "The Wizard of Oz", which will be analyzed later. The rainbow-colored change that appears here reflects the real interaction between the two of them not only physically but also spiritually.
So after this sex, the two did not light a cigarette, but lighted a candlestick, looking for a real life and a better future, Seiler promised that he would never do anything wrong. This is both. After Lola confessed that she would always be with him, it was Seiler's confession. During this period, there was a picture of Marietta smearing her face with lipstick. Later, Lola told a strange story about her cousin. His cousin was longing for Christmas every day and was afraid of the black gloves that she pulled out. , And finally he disappeared. This story tells the audience: if a person is too immersed in his own world, he will be isolated from the outside world, unable to feel the existence of happiness, and will eventually disappear in the world. This is a story in Lola's peculiar world, but it also implies a reflection of her own mother's desire for transitional control, which is a kind of allegorical display.
The love between the two is shown through these four passages. What hides behind is the unknown past. Under the chase of Marietta, the world is full of bad things to find love in this world. (2) The role of the road "My Heart is Wild" when searching on the Internet, someone defined it as a road romance movie, so the combination of the title shows that this is not a stable road movie genre, but I borrowed this model, but it is undeniable that the highway still played a big role in the movie. Because 30 minutes into the film, when the owner disclosed that he would violate the parole regulations when he was going to the sunny California, everyone turned on the road mode. The first road was when Saylor decided to take Lola to leave, and the first fetter to escape was the parole regulations. The two happily ended the first road segment in the music. The second road was refueling at a gas station. The sign in the background said "Don't smoke" but the two people still smoked. Then the two went on the road. The scene of driving in the evening well illustrates the two people on this road. The purpose is to escape from this dark and murderous society, to find the joy in music, to find a kind of sacred love, not like Marietta, or the deformed world of love shown by other characters, or even a kind of expression. Thoughts of playing with women. But this is also the last time Seiler and Lola live in harmony in this film. They are on their way to Texas. Lola wants to find music to listen to. She found the scene before and enjoyed the music in the car. But All they found were torture, disease, and murder. The two stopped the car, finally found music, and then hugged each other in hope, guarding their love on this deserted highway. The third road scene appeared at night, and the first time I drove at night. In this scene, Seiler confessed that he knew her father and saw the house burn down outside the house. Soon afterwards, they discovered a car accident. A young woman was still surviving. The girl was afraid of being under the control of her mother. She felt that her mother would kill her if she could not find anything to return, and finally lost consciousness and vomited blood to death. This incident had a great impact on Laura, as if it was a reflection of her own. If she didn't escape from her mother's control, the final outcome would be the same. She would be under her mother's control when she died.
The road model here is a salvation theme that is different from road movies such as "Robbers" or "The End of the Road". Instead, it is a space for escaping and uncovering reality. This is a challenge to the classic type. This is a manifestation of "Lynchism". Understanding Lynch’s movies is not about looking for the setting of duality. The theory of "love" in "My Heart is Wild" is not about comparing the greatness of free love with the dark and chaotic world. In fact, the most important thing is It is the world that was reborn after the fragmentation reflected in the second half of the film. This kind of love is not only debauchery, nor simple hedonism, it is a force that breaks the shackles. 2. The collapse of reality and illusion After Seller and Lola entered Tuna Town, the two officially entered the dangers arranged by Marietta. The "yellow brick road" that Laura thought was not a road to home, but a dangerous road. The environment of the hotel has become different from the previous hotel. The color is mainly dark, and the setting of the blinds is a kind of imitation of film noir. The red outside the window even hints at a dangerous approach.
In this part, Laura and Seiler also completed their betrayal of their love vows. Because of the intervention of the killer Bobby, Lola violated her confession that she wanted to follow Seiler together, because Bobby rudely caused her. Libido. Bobby also made Seiler break his previous vow that he would never do anything against his heart. Because of the appearance of Bobby, both of them have something to hide from each other. The most basic rule of love is loyalty. Both of them also have a separate mirror lens to show their reflection and positioning.
When the two returned to bed again, it was different from the joy in the first half of the movie. Lola and Seiler were imprisoned in a space that smelled of lies and nausea and vomiting. There was no more matches burning. This It also means that their love is dying. Laura and Seiler slept back to back. Laura's anxiety about the child in her belly and her doubts about this yellow brick road put an infinite passion of life into a limited life to think about, such a fragment We can't help but remind us of the plot of Dorothy being imprisoned in a castle by a witch in "The Wizard of Oz", using an hourglass to calculate life. 3. Lynch’s intertextuality and spoofs Lynch’s films often have some marks that often appear, such as dreams, fantasy, stage performances, murder, vomiting, etc. These marks often appear in Lynch’s movies, but because of this , Some of Lynch’s films will be regarded as naive imitations, such as "The Wizard of Oz", which appears a lot in "My Heart is Wild". Lynch’s intertextuality is different from the usual directing techniques. The intertextuality between "My Heart is Wild" and "The Wizard of Oz" is not a reference, tribute, memory, etc. "My Heart is Wild" is challenging the original order of "The Wizard of Oz" and establishing a new concept, which is a challenge to the film mode in the intertextuality. Just like the road film mode of this film analyzed before, it is also a kind of challenge to the genre. Like Dorothy, Laura hopes to find her real home or true love along the yellow masonry road. On this road, he was chased by his mother. Her mother is like an evil witch, not only trying to control the country where he lives, but also wanting to take her puppy. Through her control of the detectives Johnny, Santos, and Bobby appearing in the film, Marietta enjoys the joy of a crystal ball and flying broom similar to a female snail. Just like the witch in "The Wizard of Oz" has been tracking Dorothy, the green of the witch's face corresponds exactly to the face painted by her mother with lipstick. An excessive desire for control made her deceive all the people around her to gain her own world. The mother finally disappeared in the same way as the witch, and it also evaporated because of the splashing water. This is not a friendly reference to "The Wizard of Oz". The citation itself is a ridiculous event. From another perspective, it is a manifestation of "Lynchism", a manifestation of a satirical concept, and a hypocrisy for Hollywood. The entertainment is satire, an irony of the optimism in old movies. In fact, there are many similarities between Lynch’s movie and "The Wizard of Oz". In "Mulholland", Diane recalled that when he had a dinner at the director's house, many of the people who appeared in it actually appeared in her dreams. Now, Diane felt a sense of fear in the interweaving of memories and dreams. Such a story is like Dorothy's fear when she comes back from her dream and sees three familiar figures around her. This is a re-examination of the Hollywood dream. There is also a large number of signs in this film is "Elvis". Saylor's style is different from Lola's return of Dorothy, and Marietta is the return of witches. This Elvis' shape is full of rebellion. When the hairstyle is similar, the personality is similar, and the song that he sings is also the song of Elvis, Seiler becomes a clown-like character. When these pop cultures hit the combination together, how absurd the story is presented. When Elvis and Dorothy fell in love, the son's name was also called pace (harmony). Such a combination is a kind of weird that belongs to Lynch's style.
In the final part of the film, Seiler walks on an empty street. This inhuman space makes people feel that he has also entered a dream, a world that does not exist. The group of people who beat him is his psychological self, because he is out again. The prisoner lacked the courage he had back then, so inferiority and regret caused him to be beaten in a dream. In the end, the witch in "The Wizard of Oz" came out to save him, and asked him to follow his beliefs and not to refuse love. Finally, Seiler She ran to Laura and sang Elvis' song. Such a setting damages the seriousness and inner connotation of this love. In "My Heart is Wild", Lynch not only mixes many images that belong to popular culture, but also spoofs many of his own films. For example, the perverted violence during murder, and the dropping of the head also appeared in "Rubber Head". For example, the plot of constant vomiting appeared in Lynch's debut novels "Six Patients" and "Rubber Head", about the stage There are also performances in "The Elephant Man", the weird cheek girl who has been performing on the stage in "Rubber Head", and the one-man opera in the later work "Muholland Road", which is shown in "My Heart Is Wild". In ", there is not only an abstract staged scene embracing the protagonist, but also a woman raising her hand to surrender, and a black female singer singing alone. This repeated use of his typical Lynch-style "weird" proves that Lynch, rather than telling a good story, prefers to create a "Linqi-style" movie, rather than to really pass it. Mix to create new trendy movies.
In this artistic feature full of postmodernism, it is a postmodern technique similar to "Everything About My Mother", a non-dramatic, loose and even collaged narrative structure combined with a surreal technique, showing It is a post-modern landscape, which of course includes the Lynch’s anti-type, Freud or Lacan, post-structuralism and so on that are often mentioned. 4. The embarrassing and mixed reputation "My Heart is Wild" This is a movie that does not really have an inner world. Because of the existence of spoofs, the external sense of pileup is greater than the description of the emotions of the characters. After watching the movie, everyone said that they could not feel the love between the protagonists because there are too many external factors that affect the relationship. In an interview, Lynch said that his film pays more attention to ideas and images than plots and characters in order to resist Hollywood, so this film is actually a manifestation of his ironic concept. Laura and Seiler’s love is not so romantic or not as easy to gain the audience’s favor as Hollywood movies. The final surreal approach of the film seems to convey that true love is impossible. Only the talents in the movie have it. love. When this kind of escape from the narrative of the movie itself becomes a “movie of the movie”, it is very picky for the market and the audience, so it will not get the box office at the same time as the Palme d’Or. So "My Heart is Wild" can be defined as a masterpiece or a piece of rubbish, leaving the audience at a loss. This is the failure of the film, but it is also the success of Lynch. References [1] Eric Wilson. "The Strange World of David Lynch" [M]. Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd., 2015.10.1
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