1. Eugène Delacroix, The Barque Of Dante by Eugène Delacroix (1822)
At the end of the movie, Russ "KUSO" has some classic paintings by Eugène Delacroix. This painting is inspired by Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". In the painting, it is the ancient Roman poet Virgil who wears a laurel wreath, who guides Dante through hell. The paddling behind is Charon, who in Greek mythology is a ferryman crossing the Styx. The mysterious person in the movie who constantly talks with Jack is called Verge, which is similar to Virgil, and also has the color of "guidance" and "salvation", but this "salvation" fulfills Jack's pathological pursuit of evil.
2. The title of the epilogue "Katabasis"
Katabasis is taken from the ancient Greek word, meaning "falling downwards." Alluding to Jack failing to seek salvation and falling into hell forever.
3. Buchenwald Camp
The film mentions the Goethe Oak in Buchenwald. It is said that under this oak tree located in the middle of the concentration camp, Goethe created many masterpieces, including "Wandrers Nachtlied" (German: Wandrers Nachtlied). There are also scenes of Auschwitz concentration camp in the movie. For Jack, mass killing is an art, and art has nothing to do with love. This is Jack's original motive for killing.
4. The Value Of Icons
To be honest, Russ’ films always have a tendency to self-destruct, which has a lot to do with his pessimism in his bones. In the movie, beauty is insulated from love. Beauty comes from corruption (Decay), and all the creators of corruption are dictators in history. The camera quickly switches between the images of Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc. Icon means dictator, the root of beauty. The movie is full of similar pathological aesthetics.
5. Stuka Bomber
It is mentioned in the movie that when the Stuka bomber descends rapidly, the pilot will fall into a brief coma. Undoubtedly, Stuka, as the best dive bomber, played an important role in Germany's blitzkrieg in World War II, and its dive angle can reach the limit of 80°. In addition, Stuka's unique voice (Jericho's trumpet) is also frightening. Lars praised this cold-blooded killing machine by Jack and called the creator of Stuka an Icon.
6. William Blake, "Tiger" and "Lamb" ( Tyger by William Blake; The Lamb by William Blake)
Russ' theory of the will to power is vividly expressed in Blake's poems. Jack believes that people are always taught to suppress the "evil" in their hearts, but the evil needs to be expressed. It is the material of art and a natural nature.
7. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (Glenn Gould)
While depicting evil, Lars did not forget to add elements of classical music, which has been tried and tested in his predecessor, "The Antichrist" or "Melancholia". In this film, he deliberately interspersed clips of Glenn Gould playing Bach in Jack's killing scenes. This piece of performance comes from the 1959 documentary "Off The Record". In Spielberg's "Schindler's List", a similar operation can be found. The cruel slaughter and the intersection of Bach's classical music are chilling.
8. Bob Dyaln's documentary "Dont look back"
In the film, Jack's flop action is the same as Bob Dylan's action in the documentary "Don look back".
9. David Bowie
Whenever Jack drove his red Van to transport corpses, or the camera flashed back—a scene of young Jack playing hide-and-seek in the grass, Bowie’s "Fame" sounded strangely, funk’s style and constant attempts The focused handheld lens is a perfect match. There is a lyric: Fame, what you like is in the limo (Fame, what you like is in the limo), seems to be foreshadowing and paving the way for the final ending.
10.Quentin Tarantino
The film unfolds in a five-stage (5 accidents) structure. Our protagonist is keen to take pictures of corpses, KUSO corpses and so on after murder, which makes him feel happy to some extent and possess the pleasure of self-creation. These can be seen as an extension of Quentin's "ear-cutting" in "Falling Dog".
11. About Russ' previous work
Near the end of the film, Lars used a set of sharp and fast editing, placing many shots from the previous work, which is a big collection.
12. Cubism
There are a lot of paintings in the movie, let me just say the one that impressed me the most. In Jack’s first murder, he used a jack to violently beat the hostess of the broken down car. At this time, the classic painting "Why Not Torture Terrorisrs" by the Spanish painter Juan Gris overlapped with the hostess’s broken face. Together. In this way, violence and art are connected.
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13.Ray Charles
The ending song "Hit Road Jack" is from the soul music master Charles, and the title of the song is very simple to connect with our protagonist.
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