"Loving Vincent · The Mystery of the Starry Sky Loving Vincent" , a love letter to Vincent William Van Gogh, one hundred and twenty-seven years after he left us, although it is a bit late, it is still coming.
The first time I had an intuitive interest in the film began with the following passage.
Relying on 800 letters between Van Gogh himself and his younger brother, 125 artists used 120 Van Gogh paintings as templates, and spent six years creating 65,000 oil paintings together. The frequency of Zhong's 12 oil paintings, "painted" such a work that refreshed the definition of animation.
There is no doubt that this passage aroused great interest in himself.
If you have some knowledge of Van Gogh's works, you will know that this extraordinary Genius has a very different sensitivity to color than ordinary people. If his works in the Netherlands are still typical Flemish paintings, then after he traveled all over the world and finally lived in France, the entire creative style has gradually undergone earth-shaking changes. The control of color, and the kind of genius-level imagination that posterity can't explain, and had to use "only mental illness can create such and such" as an excuse, combined with the brush in hand, showed everyone a real and magical, A colorful, bizarre world.
If the work of such a "color master" is reproduced on the big screen with 21st century film technology and used to tell the last years of his life journey, there really is a sense of destiny that is destined by God. . It's not 3D, it's not green screen, it's solidly drawn, then performed, and finally released. It's been a hundred years in this world, and the moment in the film is only one day. It should be regarded as the greatest gift for this genius who died young. Respect it.
The plot of the film itself is not complicated. It is slightly different from traditional biopics, but adopts a third-party perspective, focusing on the main line of Van Gogh's suicide and death, which is still a mystery to this day, although there will never be a moment when the mystery is revealed. Borrowing a letter that could no longer be sent, I interviewed everyone the painter came into contact with during his lifetime, from doctors, hotel receptionists, paint suppliers, to A, B, C, Ding, who met by chance on the roadside. The purpose of the director may not be to reveal who the real murderer is, but to restore to the greatest extent how this epoch-making genius painter spent the last period of his life.
The ninety-five-minute film is fast-paced, the plot is smooth, with just the right music, and the biggest selling point - those things that seem to flow slowly on the screen all the time, bright and dim as the plot progresses, unpredictable good The color makes the entire viewing process an unparalleled visual feast. Even at the end of the film, when the lights came on, it seemed that he was still immersed in it and could not wake up for a long time.
After watching the movie, the most impressive thing is the following sentence:
Everyone has a fire in their hearts, but people passing by see only smoke.
As we all know, as a world-renowned art master, Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime, so it can be said that almost all of his life was spent in poverty. Compared with the sky-high prices of Van Gogh's works at auction today, is there a particularly different sense of irony?
I just collected some information, but it is more convincing to speak with numbers.
TOP1. "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" (1890), $82.5 million
TOP2. "Self-Portrait Without Beard" (Portrait de l'artiste sansbarbe, 1889), $71.5 million
TOP3. "Self-portrait with bandaged ear" (1889), $71.5 million
TOP4. "Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies" (1890), $61.765 million
TOP5. "Portrait of Joseph Roulin", $58 million
TOP6. A Wheatfield with Cypresses (1889), $57 million
TOP7. "Irises" (Irises, 1889), $53.9 million
TOP8. Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat (1890), $47.5 million
TOP9. "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers" (1888), $39.7 million
TOP10. "The Starry Night" (1889), this work has never entered the auction market, but if it does come, it should be an astronomical number
For the general public, our first impression is often like this, Van Gogh? It's that weirdo who cut off his ear and gave it to a prostitute! And when I saw this work for the first time at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, I remembered that the whole person was stunned. The specially designed lighting angle made the whole picture full of textured colors. , the small shiny particles seem to be deliberately piled together, but the smooth lines make the whole picture shrouded in a soft veil. It turns out that Van Gogh's works are like this, so he was really wrong before!
In the film, through the mouth of the little brother who sent the letter from thousands of miles, the embarrassment and hardship of the painter in the last days of his life, and the kind of loneliness that no one can understand, rely on, and trust, probably this kind of loneliness. It will always be soaked in the bone marrow, cold into the heart, right? However, if you look back at his works, the splendid, bright, dazzling pictures that are touched by an angel will make people feel that everyone should live on a different planet.
Some people say he's a neurotic psychopath, some people think he's a timid coward, some people say he's a pitiful wretch, even if there are a few people who think this rundown painter from the north is interesting, a good person, and a standout. Giving kindness and compassion in a condescending position.
No one knows what he's doing, no one understands what a great revolution his work is, let alone anyone who really understands or tries to understand Vincent Willem van Gogh what kind of person.
And to this day, how many people really know Van Gogh?
Or trying to understand Van Gogh?
As a "weird person" who has tried many careers but basically can't do it, he finally realized when he was 27 years old that he came to this world to do one thing, to paint, and to keep painting.
From actually picking up a paintbrush and choosing painting as a lifelong career, to leaving his family at the age of 37, in just ten years, he created 864 oil paintings, 1037 sketches, and 150 not well-known but at the same level as his oil paintings. Comparable watercolor paintings, of which he is best known for his self-portrait and sunflower themes. Now we actually don't fully know what he has experienced in the past ten years, so that he exhausted his life like a moth to a flame, and all his strength was used on the brush.
Maybe Van Gogh was happy.
Because he can do his best to do what he loves the most, even if it costs his life for it.
As for whether the world understands him or not, perhaps in his opinion, it is not that important anymore.
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