It's brilliant, it's perfect, and I have to say that movies rarely give me that feeling again. I have seen many film reviews of the Great God from the perspective of the protagonist's prototype paintings and the analysis from the perspective of the history of art development. I believe that I will go into more detail. For a person who does not understand art, it is just a slap in the face and asking for trouble. But this film is a feature film, an art film, not a documentary, so I believe that as a person without artistic skills, I can try to appreciate it. In this case, then I choose to try to do some thinking from other angles.
Movies with art as the theme have always been a knot in my heart. The reason why I call it the knot is because of my love for art itself and my worry about what happens to artists. Artists are the creators of art, and naturally they are also the protagonists of art films. However, my heart really does not agree with the various behaviors of some artists. Their casualness, affection, indifference to family and all kinds of vices are what I hate very much. But the male protagonist of this movie just perfectly avoids these "weaknesses" that I think, and can be said to be the perfect artist image in my mind.
Art is undoubtedly beautiful, and artists are also beautiful when they create art (the part where the male protagonist is creating and exploring modern art in West Germany can't be any cooler), but when the artist creates art When this kind of passion is injected into a bland life, and when sensibility is allowed to spread uncontrollably in a life that should be treated rationally, I really can’t say it is beautiful, because irreparable damage often happens at this time. And this is precisely where the contradiction lies. It is difficult to become an artist without passion and sensibility, but an artist is not good at life.
However, in this movie, the two achieve an amazing unity, which is why I can't hide my love for the male lead. The heroine fell in love with the heroine because of art, and fell in love in an enviable way of literature and art. Under the heavy obstruction of the Nazi father-in-law, their love was as good as ever. When they were poor, the two could still support each other in the dimly lit hut, instead of complaining about each other. The accusation, even when they knew that the wife almost lost the ability to bear children because of her father's contempt for her "genes", the two could still be calm and "unanimous to the outside world" is really too commendable. But as an artist, the male protagonist did not lose his creative ability because of these. Whether it's the amazing talent of the hour, or the socialist murals in East Germany, or the modern art that was quickly picked up after fleeing to West Germany, not to mention the "unowned work" that finally became famous, it all reflects The protagonist's amazing artistic talent. Therefore, the male protagonist is really perfect, so perfect that it makes me a little jealous.
I once saw this sentence: "The lucky person is healed by childhood all his life, but the unfortunate person spends his whole life to heal his childhood." Since from this perspective, I am a lucky person, so I will also Inadvertently ignore the role of childhood in people, but in later days, after seeing what happened to those unfortunate people, I rediscovered the importance of childhood. When the male protagonist who had a happy childhood climbed down from the tree and ran across the wheat field, I knew that his heart was very sunny. The sunshine he showed as an adult was the strength he drew from the joys of childhood. It is really lucky to meet someone who is really kind to you besides your parents when you were a child, and this person who cares about the male protagonist happens to be the enlightener of the career that the male protagonist has been engaged in all his life. too happy. Auntie, that angel-like woman, took him to see the art exhibition in order to inspire the male protagonist's artistic thinking, and more importantly, she created a perfect image in the male protagonist's heart, giving the male protagonist the thickness of his childhood memories, allowing the male protagonist When returning to reality later, childhood memories can be used as the most real and best memories and displayed on the canvas in a new way. And what comes from the heart is often the most empathetic. That pair of "Mother and Son", under the male protagonist's real and somewhat vague creative techniques, allows everyone who sees the painting to be brought into their own incomparably beautiful and vaguely vague memories, which is the real It became "a masterpiece".
The male protagonist escaped from East Germany to West Germany, in pursuit of truth by analyzing "self". In this film, there is another person who also fled from East Germany to West Germany, but on the contrary, he is losing his "self", and that person is his father-in-law. The so-called benevolence of a doctor, in this film, has created an image of a doctor who has no humanity at all, which is really embarrassing. From the very first Nazi party meeting, I felt that the father-in-law at this time was still human. He was puzzled by the almost crazy instructions of his superiors, and his heart was shaken when he was questioned by the male protagonist and the aunt, all of which reflected that the father-in-law was in the bottom of my heart. of conscience. But after being carried away by the "glory" of being a member of the Nazi party, he sank deeper and deeper into the bottomless pit of depravity. After seeing the heinous behavior he did to his daughter after visiting East Germany, I couldn't help feeling a little sad when I was angry. When a person has lost the reverence he should have for life due to programmed killing, it is too easy to point the gun at his loved ones. I don't think my father-in-law didn't regret it, he was just too proud to admit it. When he had aborted his daughter, he had completely become a program to remove the so-called "inferior genes", and it was the Nazi identity that had become a burden that transformed him into what he is today, and his "self", It has long since vanished. The most impressive sentence in this movie is his "entrustment" to his son-in-law: "If you want to have a harmonious family, you can only do your best, and better is not enough." A good obstetrician and gynecologist, he can be said to have both sides, but it is the conceit brought by this reputation that prevents him from examining his heart, which has long been dried up because of the loss of self. Yes, without a clear self-awareness, without the most basic human concern, the so-called success is just to deceive oneself to fill the void in the heart, and it is destined to be futile.
Evil has been with us since the beginning of human beings and never goes away. Another aspect of this film that caught my eye was its attitude towards evil. The male protagonist's attitude towards evil can be said to be almost cowardly. In the face of his father-in-law who caused infinite suffering to him, and the Nazis behind him, the male protagonist did nothing, and even faced him respectfully as a junior. And in the final press conference, the male protagonist also gave up the opportunity to criticize the Nazis. I believe that the director is still exaggerating a bit here, but what he means is very clear: give up endless revenge against evil. For his father-in-law's murder and mockery of himself, the male protagonist did not stop at patience, but silently transformed it into the driving force to continue to explore the essence of "self", but responded with the kindness of creating more paintings for the world . Yes, no revenge. We exist in the world, and it is even right that we experience suffering. There are only two sources of suffering: oneself and the outside world. When it comes to external factors, in addition to uncontrollable disasters, it is the "evil" of others. Why people often advocate revenge is because no one wants to blame themselves, and the uncontrollable factors are really hard to figure out, so the "evil" of others has become the most suitable outlet for "liberating" suffering. People gradually accepted the idea of "reconciling with themselves" and "accepting the injustice in life", but the practice of "forgiving others" has not come, presumably because the thoughts and actions of revenge on others have come too easily. some more. Many people scoff at the saying that "good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil", but I don't really accept it. A lot of the time, neither will happen, and I don't expect it to happen. But please think about it, will the suffering caused by the "evil" of others really disappear because of your revenge? I don't think so, and maybe all we can really do is turn suffering into strength and try to reconcile it.
Finally, let’s briefly talk about the love in the movie. Mutual support and mutual support in poverty is simply too precious. And integrating art into life is so beautiful. Paula Bell is simply synonymous with classical beauty, I hope she will have more excellent works.
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