"Love doesn't know where to start, but it goes deep" - Tang Xianzu's "Peony Pavilion"
(one)
The great Polish director Kieslowski has completed about a dozen films so far, among which the "Red, White and Blue" trilogy, "The Two Lives of Flowers" and "The Ten Commandments" are the most famous, most of which are in Asking or discussing the same question: where is the other side of the individual spiritual world? Most of the first two films are about the ups and downs of love between middle-aged men and women, while the independent film "Love Short Film", which is extended from the sixth commandment in "Ten Commandments" - "Love Commandment", is a single story of a nineteen-year-old boy. Love Story---This may be the reason why I like it, it is suitable for me and can give me enough imagination and thinking.
Filmed in 1988, "Love Short Film" won several awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The plot of the film is very simple. Tommark, a nineteen-year-old boy, used binoculars to peep at Magda, a beautiful young woman living in the opposite apartment. He fell in love with her unknowingly, but was rejected and mocked after his confession. Tommark is innocent. The belief in love collapsed. At this time, he wanted to use suicide to show his loyalty to love, but the suicide failed. When he was discharged from the hospital, Magda actually began to fall in love with him. . . . . .
The whole film is unified in a piece of cool color, which is plain and complicated in the cold depression. This is the temperament of the hero in the film, and this is also the synaesthesia of secret love. A few years ago, I watched a "The Garden of Words" in class. It was about an indecent love affair. The most beautiful line in the film was "Vaguely thundering, cloudy weather", and the most beautiful scene was the light rain on a cloudy day. . Since then, the secret love I imagined is a plain cold color.
In the film, a large number of telephoto lenses and fixed camera positions tell us the story of a man’s secret love in a gentle and calm manner. The movement of the camera often has the rhythm of poetry, touching your heartstrings, letting it go, and plucking you again. The love and thought, hesitant to speak, gives people a strong sense of immersion and fantasy, as if they are in it. The young woman's just right sexy body, silent peeping, disturbed eyes, and real dialogue make us and the male protagonist appreciate the excitement, anxiety, and happiness of our crush. The passer-by in the white suit, like a god outside the world, seems to imply the impermanence of love.
(two)
This is a love story, and the "love" pursued by the protagonist may or may not exist. Tommark's love lies in "Magda", and Magda is so mysterious and charming, her past and her love are shadowy and unreachable. Love is like a beautiful lie to Tommark. Love gives him dreams and motivation, right? The so-called "secret love" is just a metaphor, a self-education of our own. In fact, the director also conveyed this message at the end of the film, "Magda found Tommark at the post office, Tommark looked at Magda indifferently and said, "I don't spy on you anymore"
Tommark's love, which was burned by Magda, allowed Magda to find her own burned love. Tommark sees the truth because of the destruction of his body and mind, while Magda is sad because of guilt and wants to find Tommark's love and walks into a maze.
Tommark and Magda have changed
In fact, this is a story about impermanence
In "Peony Pavilion", there was a second phrase, "the root of love is no debt", which means that the debt of love will not be over."
"Love" was originally simple, but unfortunately its essence is metaphysical. People cannot accept 100% love, but only impure love, which is love. The Buddha said, "The world of Saha is born out of emotion. If you want to be liberated, you must first let go of it. You see the color in the emptiness. From the color, the emotion is born. ? How easy is it to get out of "love"? For thousands of years, due to the driving force of "emotion", human beings have created rich and splendid civilization and art, and the thinking of seeking inner liberation has never stopped. Therefore, "qing" as a human being cannot be abandoned or attached to. Everyone owes "debt", but different individuals' hearts determine different lives. The story of love is the story of yourself and yourself.
This reminds us of the legendary story of "The Story of the Pillow": Lu Sheng, a scholar who farmed, met Taoist Lu Weng in an inn. While waiting for the innkeeper to cook "Millet Rice", Lu Weng gave Lu Sheng a magical Pillow, Lu Sheng fell asleep on the pillow. In the dream, Lu Sheng experienced joys and sorrows, good and bad, honor and disgrace, but when he woke up on the pillow, he found that the owner's rice was not cooked yet, and Lu Sheng felt melancholy for a long time. In the end, I followed the Taoist priests and went to practice Taoism.
Perseverance, gain, and then lose, and only when it is over can you break away and understand. Love may be a common motif in Eastern and Western cultures. In our well-known "Dream of Red Mansions", "the treasure jade reincarnated by the servant of Shenying has experienced love calamity, only to escape from this filthy sea of evil and love, and return to the pure land to which he belongs. The ups and downs of the sea, but also despair and sadness. Letting go, let go, this is a process of living towards death, just like Tommark suddenly let go of his love for Magda after committing suicide, this is a process of free will overcoming fate, In this plain and impermanent river, the light of human nature bursts out and gives us hope. Therefore, the process of "love" is the process of human beings approaching divinity.
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The process of falling in love is also the process of human beings moving towards sublimation. The male protagonist in the film matures in secret love. Magda's sexy and charming is the inducement that caused Tommark to peep at her and have a crush on her. Gradually, Tommark saw through the telescope that there was a lot of pain in Magda's eyes. These pains seemed to be soaked in unprovoked tears. Tomick further wanted to see her desires.
Magda came home at 8:30 almost every day. After entering the room, she took off her coat, wearing only a pair of panties and pajamas. Tomick could see her slender and sexy thighs and the throbbing breasts in the pajamas. Magda was doing all kinds of movements in the room, looking so excited, as if someone else was watching her. Magda was doing various movements in the room, looking very excited. Magda has many boyfriends, and those actions are actually done for her boyfriends. Boyfriend's lustful eyes arouse Magda's excitement, Tommark sees Magda's excitement in Magda's lover's eyes, and sometimes sees Magda's physical excitement arouses her boyfriend the excitement of desire.
Is this excitement inside her? --he thinks
The excitement of the two ends every time with physical pleasure
"What is love"? - he thought again
One day, Domick saw Magdav crying sadly on the kitchen table through the telescope, her whole body was shaking, and there was no boyfriend by her side.
This was the first time Tommark saw her crying, the first time he knew love through the eyes of someone whose soul was tormented. Tommark wanted to reach out through the telescope to save Magda, to sit with her, to accompany her cry.
The next day he decides to confess to her and it fails, but Magda decides to invite him over for coffee
In the coffee shop, Magda gave Tommark his hand and asked him to put his hand on hers. Tommark touched her hand lightly, feeling his body trembling, and was very excited.
Magda takes Tommark back to her room
She took off her coat, took off her pajamas, as Tommark saw in the telescope, Magda went into the bathroom and came out, squatted in front of Tommark and said that she had nothing under her, and when she longed for a man, under It will be wet, your hands are warm, put it in. Magda put Tommark's hand at the base of her thigh, Tommark's hand couldn't help but start to feel, and when she touched it, she trembled and twitched her lower body.
Orgasm? This is love, Magda said.
Tommark cried, ran home, committed suicide, went to rebirth
Orgasm, the sense of self-consciousness that makes Tommark desperate. The pleasure of orgasm is animalistic, love is divine, and he loves her, which is the embodiment of divinity, but Tommark is a human, so there will definitely be animal pleasure, and the reflected behavior is his ejaculation, which is borne by the animal body. A completely divine love will not work, so he is very painful, but he feels that his love is no longer faithful and pure, so he goes to sacrifice.
(Four)
Sex and love cannot be separated, and sex depends on life and death. Love is originally a simple and sincere thing, but it is not easy to understand this simplicity and sincerity. Are your body and soul ready? Will you go from hell to heaven like Tommark? Or from heaven to hell like Magda? In fact, heaven and hell are indistinguishable.
Perhaps, the pursuit of love is like the ordeal of Sisyphus who pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain again and again. Sisyphus is miserable because he is doing hopeless work, but he is happy because he is experiencing and comprehending infinite beauty. He is always in disaster, his landscape will never dry up, and his history will never end. How is this similar to "Buddha's Nirvana"? Someone asked, "What is the Tathagata?" The Buddha replied, "There is no place to come and nowhere to go. It is for the Tathagata." It turns out that love (compassion) is the greatest tragedy and the greatest comedy, so Camus called Sisyphus "" The hero of the absurd" as he leaves the top and goes deeper into the hidden abode of the gods, he is above his destiny, he is stronger than his boulder.
(five)
Kieslowski, I think, is an extremely good director, and he uses this kind of "faithful gaze to the individual's burden of the world to look deeply at broken love". Indifference implies waves, to tell the world that love has the power to give life, and it has the power to destroy life. The soothing and restrained under his lens, mixed with the dark brown claustrophobic atmosphere behind the filter, concocts a modern allegory about love, explaining his self-definition of unexplainable love in eighty-six minutes, "Love" Short Film is actually Kieslowski's own love short film.
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