The first half of the film was almost entirely inspired by the Hannibal series
Including four films "Silence of the Lambs", "Red Dragon", "Hannibal" and "Young Hannibal"
And three American TV series "Hannibal Season 1", "Hannibal Season 2" and "Hannibal Season 3"
First of all, in terms of character setting, it is a Hannibal-style character - a high-IQ psychopathic sadist (very word for word)
Jack is quite the architect and has drawn some architectural sketches and one of Hannibal's pleasures is to draw the buildings in his memories
William Blake is the author of the painting "The Great Red Dragon" in Hannibal's "Red Dragon" series.
And the process of killing the woman he was interested in, cutting the phone line, grabbing the key, and screaming loudly, accurately restored the "Hannibal Season 2" in which the "Tooth Fairy" pretended to kill his beloved blind woman. process.
When I watched "Silence of the Lambs" a few years ago, I was puzzled by the parable of the lamb, until I heard this song one day
It was only discovered that the lamb has such a layer of religious connotation
The Lamb mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible refers to Jesus Christ.
The verse is as follows:
Revelation 5:6 And I saw a Lamb standing among the throne and the four living creatures and the elders, as if slain, with seven horns and seven eyes, the seven spirits of God, sent into the whole world.
Revelation 5:12 And cried with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and power, and honor, and glory, and praise.
Revelation 5:13 And I heard that in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and in all things that were created, they said, Blessed, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him who sits upon the throne. Lamb forever and ever.
Revelation 6:1 When I saw the Lamb open the first of the seven seals, I heard one of the four living creatures, with a voice like thunder, saying, Come. (Bergman has a movie called "The Seventh Seal")
As for the cut of the breast, at the end of Hannibal's novel, Starling gives Hannibal a breast to eat, and a huge love fills the void...
For the breast-cutting Jack's words, the lines from "Hannibal" are directly applied:
Originally a sentence from the dark nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty":
All the king's horse And all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again "This house was made by me" Jack directly quoted the nursery rhyme but changed the name "The king and his soldiers can't spell simple anymore"
And "Hannibal" Riabel changed it a little, saying "it seems that the king and all the soldiers can still put the eggshells together"
Exactly the same!
Of course, this is also Von Trier's personal interest. In his other films, there are scenes of castration, circumcision, childbirth and other mutilation of reproductive organs, so this is also his interest.
In "Hannibal Season 1", it is said that after the killing, every part must be used to the best of its ability and cannot be wasted. This is called respect.
Talking a lot about grape brewing continues the way the old scholar used the metaphor of fishing in the filming of "Female Addict".
Von Trier is very good at finding connections in seemingly unrelated things, such as linking grape making and killing, fishing and lure.
As for using crutches to attract others' sympathy and help, and then kidnapping him into his van, it's exactly the same as Buffalo Bill's method in the movie "Silence of the Lambs".
As for hunting, it is often a metaphor for murder. The first serial killer in the American TV series "Hannibal Season 1" is a hunter who is good at shooting deer.
While watching this episode, I thought I was watching Hannibal!
In addition, the actor who plays Hannibal, the protagonist of the American drama "Hannibal", is the actor of the film "Hunting"!
In the fourth episode of Hannibal's first season, the serial killer chose the "happy family" as his victims, and his murder sequence was also: children first, then older children, and mothers last.
One of Hannibal's hobbies is forcing others to eat his own flesh
This scene is very similar
In "Hannibal Season 3", it was Hannibal who copied this Botticelli at the museum and was targeted by the police
After he murdered a woman, he made a body like Botticelli's "Spring"
As for this, it's almost the same
In the third season, the final art is to use his killed, frozen, hundreds of corpses, put them into a "art", and be proud of his art.
Hannibal's theory of murder, crime and punishment, God and faith, is much better than Jack in the film. And his hobby is to elevate murder to art
Psychopaths are all narcissists who love to read about themselves. - "Hannibal"
Some parts, I think he did even better than the American drama "Hannibal"
like the final hell scene
Although a tribute to Delacroix's famous painting, it is a bit redundant to be honest, and he did not provide any updated insights on death.
I would rather believe that death is nothing than that heaven and hell exist. Come on, heaven and hell are outdated, existentialism is more popular since Nietzsche's "God is dead"
Aren't we exactly what God does in his own image?
The same meaning is expressed in "I Made This Place", but the artistic handling is really not as good as "Hannibal"
In "This Room Was Made by Me", it conveys the repression of religion on human nature, and points out that sin is a part of human beings, while "Hannibal" goes a step further and directly analyzes the mental state of modern people, and points out Madness in human society to balance the need for civilization:
In "I Made This Room" I see a pure evil-minded psychopath, but in "Hannibal" it is elevated, Hannibal becomes the spiritual teacher of mankind. As if his art was to wake up the world.
I think it takes the understanding of people a step further. Scientific research tends to follow a peculiar to general approach. It is easy to find out that a person is sick, if he kills, then he is sick. So how can we see the sickness and madness of the whole human being? How can the killing of human beings be discovered in daily life?
Polanski has a movie called "Killing", which is about killing in everyday life. I think Polanski has done a better job than Von Trier in this regard. He can see the ugliness of people in daily life, more human, more delicate, and more popular.
Feng Trier was obviously more morbid, and he himself said that he had fallen into morbid madness and delusions.
But why didn't "Hannibal" premiere at Cannes?
One of the reasons is that it is too long
The more important reason is that Hollywood is hard to get on the "Hall of Elegance"
In this film, Von Trier does the best part, beyond the part of "Hannibal", in addition to his unique personal style, the most important thing is realism. Cannes will never award science fiction.
The value of worship is in my opinion the best part
He did it, and found the evil of human nature in the subtle life, that is-worship
The seven deadly sins in the Bible are not worshipped, nor is the Buddhist sin (greed, hatred, and ignorance)
But human beings do commit crimes, because worship
And worship can be seen everywhere in life, such as the star effect, the praise of someone.
Worship of God is considered "the highest good" in the Bible, in which von Trier cites Goethe as an example
Because I watched some German movies recently, and I thought about group psychology such as "The Rabble" and "The Fanatic"
Worship, the relationship between faith and evil is of particular interest
If you look closely, you will find that the epitome of faith is everywhere in life, such as goals, dreams, worship, love, devotion, praise...
Even art exists because of faith and evil.
"The human spirit contains divinity, and the artist finds this divinity. The beauty of works of art is the beauty of divinity. As a universal value, the existence of divinity in the world requires artists and works of art to present it. , which is also the highest state of the existence of artists and works of art." - Hegel, "Aesthetics"
Replace all "divineness" in this passage with "faith" and "worship" and try reading it again?
"Man is always approaching the highest purpose, and that highest purpose is God. This is the source of beauty."
- Hegel's "Aesthetics"
The last experiment of shooting a row of people with bullets originated from the German Nazi massacre of the Jews, in order to save bullets, the Jews were shot in a row and shot one at a time.
There is this scene in "Schindler's List"
In this film, Jack did not successfully carry out this experiment. I think the director has his intention, which is a metaphor for the revocation of the massacre.
Note: The selected shooting targets are not only white people, but also black people and yellow people. The choice is undoubtedly expressive: carnage can happen to any race.
As for the hell trip at the end, it's pretty boring.
Seeking the sounds of hell refers to this experiment:
The bottomless pit at the end is very similar to the hole in this net map
It's really nothing new, isn't it?
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