The film cuts an incision from a substitute teacher, and through his tight or loose connections with a series of people, explores how people carry traumas and get along with confusing lives, and how to transcend the gap between people and emotional reconciliation, Have a good and pleasant connection with self, family, and society.
Tony Kaye, who has directed "The X-Files of America", pays close attention to social issues in the United States, and screenwriter Carl Lund is also quite ambitious, taking the education and family as the framework of human nature and the future, embedded with some broken social realities .
Tony Kaye is a director who strives to make the image real, which is reflected in "Transcendence" as a calm and even bland narrative, calm but full of sharp angles. The lens is clean and focused, and the picture is simple and textured, showing the temperament of an independent film.
In terms of actors, Adrien Brody once won the Oscar for "The Pianist". I have to say that his appearance has helped a lot in conveying that kind of forbearance and helplessness to the audience, this frowning man. Sammy Gale's brown hair and "good natural reflexes" (in the director's words) make Erica easy to move, and she stands in fishnet stockings in front of the red wall with a forceful innocence and blindness.
Regarding the male protagonist Henry's incestuous life experience, the director explained very secretly, but if you think about it, you can better explain how Henry's mother's death gave him the gift of emotional communication and his breath of death. And the influence of his grandfather's illness and death on Henry in the future.
Everyone in the film is three-dimensional. Strong, excellent, disrespected, the headmistress lying on the ground with tears and legs curled up to give notice is a person, and Charlier, a wise, well-educated, playboy-watching flick, is a people. Nobody is on paper. These send a strong message: We all have our own problems, "We all take them home at night and take them out during the day. We can all feel helpless and realize we're sailing alone, Wandering mood, "
Everyone is like us, but each of us is alone.
Faced with Meredith trying to turn to himself, Henry said: "We are all the same, we all feel the pain, there are messy parts of life, life itself is quite confusing, I understand, I don't have the answer, but I know If you write it down, everything will be alright." And Henry is empty, burying his past, isolating himself from his real, "hurtful emotions". , In Meredith's sense, it is a faceless man facing an empty classroom. Such a man has no confidence when he says "everything will be fine", such a man, because he cannot establish a long-term relationship with people Not even being able to give Meredith a hug was indirectly the last straw that broke Meredith.
Meredith painted the eyes of the characters in the cult photography she shot white, and in such a hidden and piercing way, she released the sad feeling of being in the crowd but being forgotten, neglected and isolated. Finally, she said, "Suicide is a long-term solution to someone. Some temporary problems. How much do you know about this. My name is Meredith. I want to kill myself."
Then she died in the sun. Died in front of a pile of smiling cakes she made. Died in front of Henry who had just given her a notebook and said maybe she knew how to use it better.
It's a very desperate expression, especially since this scene takes place only seven minutes before the end of the film.
The film still had a 50-second happy moment before the end. Henry goes to visit Erica, and they embrace in the tenderness of the backlight, a family reconciliation and return.
And the ending still caught me off guard. Along with the depressing atmosphere created by Edgar Allan Poe's novels, along with the closure, sparseness, desolation, and decay of schools that are deliberately highlighted, the film sits with Henry in a messy classroom, facing a pile of messes, talking about self-existence. Collapse and aphasia of the soul.
The director may want to use this to express a kind of powerlessness in the general environment, a weak and morbid state of redemption. Helplessness is a reality, and the limitation of life is an absolute.
As the cat boy said "I feel trapped. like the cat".
Yes, it's the kind of movie that makes you want to smoke a cigarette after watching it. So I think it is inappropriate to translate Detachment as detachment. Detachment is more of a positive word in our dictionary, which means redemption, which means transcending pain to reach a higher state, and it represents a state of result. ; And the film expresses a kind of separation, the separation of the body and mind, and the separation of the self and the surrounding. Everyone feels the pain of separation and is looking for a way out. They are all thinking about how hard one needs to work to get rid of the sea of suffering. This is a process state.
Some would say that Meredith and Grandpa were detached from death.
Such detachment is really an unbearable lightness of life.
Living is concrete, and we have no right to give it up casually. Also, there are many things that can be done and are worth doing, after all. In order to talk literature to children and convince them that someone is willing to share something meaningful with them, Henry strives, "How can you imagine what all things look like if they are in
front of you?"
In this age of material explosions within our reach, we have forgotten the more wonderful perception and understanding that comes from imagination. Forget what kind of clouds a world with eyes closed can graze, forget that there is a universe in the body, mind, heart and heart to help us understand the world better instead of relying on external standards, we are always widening our bloodshot Eyes, drooling with desire, consume themselves beyond recognition while consuming substances.
When I read "1984", I only thought that DOUBLETHINK was ridiculous and horrible, and Henry saw the DOUBLETHINK (double thought - means knowingly believing lies, even if you know they are false) in our lives today," I want to be beautiful and happy, I need plastic surgery, and in order to be beautiful, I have to stay in shape, or be famous, and dress fashionably." "You young people, right now, they're told that women are bitches and are Exclusion, beating, bullying, shame, this is a 24-hour uninterrupted MLM-style mental slaughter, so that the rest of our lives are controlled by this misconception, it is very strong, blinding our eyes, until we die. , in order to protect our brains and stop this stupid idea from seeping into our thought process, we have to learn to read, to activate our imagination, to cultivate it, to improve our self-awareness, our belief system. We all need Such techniques are used to resist, to preserve, our pure spiritual world."
Reading and writing must be a kind of healing. It allows you to sink in and feel, yet think at a distance. The process of reading allows you to experience ecstasy, and the process of writing allows you to experience integration. This is the way we can fight the powerlessness of life.
The man clutching the barbed wire, his body in pain, his face with sadness, his hands in despair, Henry approached him, asked him "you alright", and told him "Yeah, I see you here". He said, "God, I seem to have established a connection with this world again, thank you." After leaving, the iron net in his heart believed that it had begun to withdraw.
Humans are quite spiritual creatures. From the moment they strip their wombs, they need to overcome the loneliness and fear that the world has endowed him with. Therefore, it is understandable that when the man realizes that he has established a connection with the world again, his momentary panic and fear are inseparable. Endlessly grateful.
One must have a sense of existence. The sense of existence cannot be the only physical Present in the world that remains after So detached from myself, as described by Camus, hovering with a sense of accusation.
Fromm's true and comprehensive answer to the question of human existence is the realization of unity among people in love. Mature love enables one to overcome loneliness and isolation, but at the same time enables one to remain faithful to oneself, to maintain one's integrity and who he is.
Love, flesh-and-blood love is the eternal way to overcome isolation and achieve a sense of existence.
Gentle and clean waiting for everything to get better. Preserve yourself by reading and writing. Relentless development to overcome trauma, infinite approach to the integrity of the personality. Connect with your surroundings with mature love, suck and cut away, accept your limitations, and seek a deep understanding and forgiveness of yourself.
in a real detachment. Gently hug and kiss the world.
"If you want to see life thoroughly, you must face life truthfully and understand the essence of life. When you finally understand life, you can truly love life and then be willing to let it go." (Wolf)
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