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Jack, a serial killer and obsessive-compulsive, would stay at crime scenes to repeatedly determine whether there was blood in every place. At the same time, he was a trained engineer, but his limited foresight hindered his efforts to build his own house. In a conversation with a mysterious stranger, he confesses to some of the worst murders he's ever committed (4 of which are detailed in this film): smashing an annoying woman seeking help when her car broke down; strangling a man who lived alone Old widows; hunting mothers and children on a picnic; breastfeeding women they're dating for the first time; lining up several men and trying how many heads can be shot with one bullet. In Jack's eyes, these victims are just works of art, and as police obstruction draws nearer, he's going to take a bigger risk to finish his ultimate artwork. (from Baidu)
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I don't know if I've watched a lot of American dramas, or if I naturally like this kind of bloody and exciting scenes, whether it's a war movie/gore movie, whether it's from "Chainsaw", "American Horror Story" or "Hannibal" ", under the influence of film and television works one after another, my taste is indomitable and turned into a female man who eats duck intestines and watches horror movies. But the reason this movie made me decide to take good notes is not the sensory stimulation from the "gore scenes", but the fact that the movie is like a "hodgepodge" (a patchwork of different elements/quotes), the way the film is made I haven't had much contact with it before, so I have an interest in studying/documenting the "small details".
● "Dante's Boat" - Irving Delacroix
On Jack's way to hell, Jack and his guide, Verge, cross the Styx together. The movie's picture is based on Eugène Delacroix's "Dante's Ark".
About "Dante's Boat": Eugène Delacroix's 1822 oil painting "Dante's Ark" (also translated "Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx") based on Dante's masterpiece "The Divine Comedy", In the picture, the poet Virgil, wearing a laurel wreath, is guiding his partner Dante through hell in a small boat. At the bow of the boat, a naked man wrapped in a long blue cloth swayed it. In the turbulent river, several of those who were sent to hell held onto the boat tightly. There was a woman among them, with drops of water glittering on her body. Up close, those splashes are actually yellow and white dots of red and green complementary colors. Such a refined technique and such a real effect cannot but amaze the viewers. Art historians believe that the tragic feeling of "Dante's Ferry" is a memory of Michelangelo and Rubens, and the stubborn personality of the painters it shows has established Delacroix in the French Romantic School. pioneer status in .
●Why does Jack always kill women? Or why did the director focus on shooting 4 scenes where women were murdered. The reason is that Jack hates women and thinks women are always stupid. (I hate Jack so much), but with a hint, you can see why Jack kills women.
The English translation of Jack also means "jack". In this film, the first murder is also with a jack. Perhaps it was the fierce words of that chattering, mentally retarded woman who made him hate women.
Or like in the film, the disabled jack broke again when the car was jacked up after being repaired, which seemed to imply Jack's "no lift", incompetent he was very inferior, just as verge later talked to him "Why do you always pick stupid?" Women kill because you think you're superior to them." Jack needs to show his majesty by killing women to gain self-identity and a sense of superiority.
In Jack's conversation with the woman who was in love with him, he learned another reason why Jack killed women. - "Why Men Are Always Wrong"
Jack is deeply resentful of why the identity of a man is inherently guilty, and hates the unequal responsibilities of men and women.
●Actually, Jack is not only a woman, but also a man. The reasons why he kills women may be the same as above, but what is the reason why he kills men, women and children indiscriminately? He believes that art has nothing to do with love, and he believes that his murder is art itself.
God created a lamb and a tiger, the lamb represents purity, and the tiger represents savagery. Both are perfect existences. However, the tiger needs the lamb as its food. Jack believes that this is the same as the essence of the artist.
He used the example of brewing sweet wine to preach again that "beauty is born from corruption". Dessert wines are usually made in three ways, frosting, dehydration in the sun, and fungal "noble rot". This fungus makes the grapes become very large, and the sweetness increases sharply. Jack also explained through these examples that it is the process of decomposition that makes the original fresh grapes artistic.
In the movie, the camera flashes "Stalin", "Hitler", "Mussolini" and other dictators. These dictators' careers are often accompanied by large-scale massacres, which Jack calls "luxury art";
I think verge is right to say something about him, the way he interprets art the way a demon interprets the bible. It is a kind of morbid aesthetics - an artistic pursuit that surpasses humanity (without humanity).
●Long shots and documentary shots make the audience feel more real, watching Jack's evil from the perspective of a bystander, deepening the psychological depression.
● Jack likes to take pictures after killing people. He thinks that the art of pictures is reflected in the negatives, and through the negatives, the magic of light - dark light can be seen. In the Great Retreat, Jack climbed the rock wall and dropped the final frame on the broken bridge connecting heaven and hell, which was also converted into a negative film. Does it mean that his ending also becomes part of the art he understands?
●The core idea of the whole film: Jack despises general morality
When was the boundary between heaven and hell determined? Verge said the bridge was fine before he came here. The implication is the arrival of Christianity, which defines heaven and hell.
From this, we have to think, we live in this world, who defines good and evil? How are good people and bad people different?
When we eat meat, we must not think that we are eating the carcasses of other animals. So, are meat-eating humans good or bad for the animal being eaten?
In other interpretations it has been argued that the final human house was built to defend the Nazis. I don’t think so, understanding does not mean support, understanding is a kind of empathy, such as the cognition of people with mental disorders, they will kill the person in front of them as a devil. This behavior is definitely wrong, but from the perspective of a mental patient, you can fully understand what kind of life a person who is full of ghosts and ghosts in his mind lives. Comprehensible (without expressing agreement). So I think the director didn't support Hitler, he just thought about it from a different angle.
●Why did the woman who had her breast cut not escape?
In this murder, the victim had a chance to escape, but her sensibility overcame her rationality, and she went back with the killer.
This bridge is very much like love.
Girl: What was your past like? tell me
boy: don't ask
Girl: I would love to know, please tell me
Boy: I killed 60 people
Girl: Huh? no kidding, that's impossible
Why ask if you want to know the answer, and you can't accept the answer outside your cognition? Since there was a chance to escape, and stupidly ran back, why?
This film has changed an example of extreme murder, but it is a bridge that will appear in the lives of ordinary people.
For example: I pressed him to find out the result of his date with someone else, but I couldn't accept it.
For example: I know he might kill someone, but I'm still in the same room with him.
Human nature is complex. Every day/everyone makes mistakes like this.
●Verge finally guided him to build a house with a human body. Is he leading him to accept the judgment of hell (but Jack is the anti-Christ), and since he was leading him to accept the judgment of hell, why should he guide him to create the ultimate art? I really don't understand.
● Glenn Gould (pianist in interludes)
Glenn Gould (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was a Canadian pianist. He is known worldwide for playing Johann Sebastian Bach. After 1964, it stopped public performance and turned to recording. He studied piano with his mother since childhood, and later studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Graduated at the age of twelve, becoming the youngest graduate in the school's history. At the age of fifteen, he made his debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 1955, he performed in the United States and became famous by playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations". He also composes and teaches at the University of Toronto. Among modern pianists, there is no such thing as Bach's entire concert repertoire. Its performance is breathtaking with its rigorous structure, colorful changes, and vivid handling. His repertoire is quite extensive, but his performance of Bach is the highest rated.
●Related: DOGMA 95 on Lars von Trier
Lars Von Trier is the initiator of "DOGMA 95", the DOGME film group, which proposed a series of filmmaking methods and principles, known as "The Vow of Chastity" or "Dogma" Declaration, or DOGME95.
The declaration stipulates: adhere to live shooting; sound and picture synchronization, no silent source music; must use a camcorder; must be a color film; no special lighting; prohibit the use of optical instruments and filters; principle, which also became the "Ten Commandments" of Till's film creation.
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