This year, Lars von Trier's "I Made This House" can be considered a read. Summarize as follows:
1: In this film, the director neither defended the murderer nor condemned the murderer... I personally think that many people are disappointed with the film because they feel the director's almost indifferent "artistic scalpel" - see Figure 3 in the painting " Dante and Virgil in Hell, the two I have circled: facing the killing and heaviness in the center of the picture (this composition is important, the seriousness of the bite of the soul is evident in the painting); and he The two are bystanders hiding in the dark corners of history, gushing endlessly in the movie.
2: The need for a serial killer to "build a house" actually alludes to the artist's psychology of always seeking self-breakthrough (of course, it is pointed out in the movie in an extreme and perverted form).
3: Interspersed with a large number of news, history and art historical materials, the murderer and Virgil (it is not difficult to see that the director gave the identity of the protagonist Dante) about human, art, and killing is a Faust (art, artist, Another contest between the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty itself) and Mephistopheles (the devil, the seducer).
4: Finally, in the deepest part of hell, Virgil warned (I think it was a disguised seduction) the murderer: "The other side of the broken bridge is the exit of hell, and no one has successfully stepped over it...". Consider the psychology of this narcissistic, arrogant, perverted murderer, driven by his "want to see it all" desire, and Virgil's "no one has ever made it," pressing on his ego . So he tried and fell into the abyss of hell.
5: Never equate a murderer's fall into the abyss of hell with a Christlike judgment, and interpret it as a "bad for evil" ending. Please don't underestimate the director's arrogance? Personally, I think that from the perspective of the director (the murderer), this meets the moral needs of the public, but for the murderer's setting (which can probably be seen as the director's "determination of inaction" for the ultimate destruction of human nature) , he (the murderer) must be satisfied.
6: Who wins?
This movie is suitable for people who need to think about human nature in the near future, students in art schools, those who do historical research, people related to movies, and those who are idle.
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