Wong Kar-wai's Spiritual World - Analysis of the Movie "Fallen Angels"
Wong Kar-Wai is a director with a very obvious personal style. The lines, soundtrack, colors, and the use of a large number of ultra-wide-angle lenses are unique among so many contemporary directors. Compared with major domestic directors, most of them focus on cultural feelings such as princes and generals, magnificent mountains and rivers, and historical changes when choosing themes, while Wong Kar-wai focuses on the rapid development of today's cities, born in this materialistic society. young people of the era. Freud's spiritual hierarchy theory holds that people's spiritual activities include desire, impulse, thinking, fantasy, judgment, emotion and so on. And the spiritual level expressed by Wong Kar-wai in Fallen Angels is often bizarre at the beginning of watching the protagonist's behavior, action, language, etc., but if you continue to delve deeper, you will find that many things are actually in your mind. Appears, but will never be manifested in actions and actions. This is the embodiment of the former meaning in the Freudian theory of human spirituality. Wong Kar-wai is good at capturing these fragmented emotions and transforming them into his own film ideas.
1. Takeshi Kaneshiro, the embodiment of the dual personality of day and night.
When talking about Takeshi Kaneshiro in "Fallen Angels", one often thinks of another work by Wong Kar-wai - "Chongqing Forest". The role of Takeshi Kaneshiro in these two films acts as a bridge between the two films. In "Chongqing Forest", because of breaking up with his girlfriend, Takeshi Kaneshiro buys a can of pineapples that expired on May 1 every day, and saves it until his 25th birthday. If she doesn't come back, this relationship will expire. In "Fallen Angels", Takeshi Kaneshiro decided not to speak because he ate an expired can of pineapple when he was 5 years old. Every night, he prys open other people's closed stores and starts a business in it. Many of the two films echo each other, so much so that many consider "Fallen Angels" to be a prequel to "Chongqing Forest". In the film "Fallen Angels," Takeshi Kaneshiro often does some unthinkable things, massages dead pigs, forces passersby's haircuts, and forces his family to eat ice cream for a night. These actions are manifestations of his subconscious staying at the age of five.
2. Jin Maoling, the emergence of fantasy personality
Jin Maoling, the most mentioned person in the whole film, but the person who never appeared. Angel No. 4 is very "realistic" (there is no name in the movie, just say she is very realistic) From the very beginning, she was scolding on the phone, and later took Takeshi Kaneshiro to various places to find Jin Maoling. At the end, the audience did not know Jin Maoling. Who is Ling? For the audience, it doesn't matter who Jin Maoling is, everyone only knows that she is a slut, she is "very realistic" and wants to marry her boyfriend. But following the rhythm of the protagonist's search for Jin Maoling in the film, she encountered various obstacles. She kept saying that she knew Jin Maoling when she turned into ashes, but she scolded every blond-haired woman on the street. Therefore, it can be speculated that Jin Maoling is the unconscious manifestation of the characters in the film. She was abandoned by her boyfriend and urgently needs a character to vent her emotions that she has nowhere to release. It is a substitute for the suppressed unconscious desires. What she needs is not to find Jin Maoling, but to enjoy the process.
3. The spiritual world of Wong Kar-wai
The stories in the film are incomplete, and Wong Kar-wai is best at transforming these fragmented narrative fragments into emotional expressions. When most directors are telling stories with movies, Wong Kar-wai prefers the expression of consciousness and exposes contemporary The emotional state of the youth under the stressful urban life strives to convey the spiritual awareness of the youth, the fuel of the city, from generation to generation.
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