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This is a British nursery rhyme "This is the house that jack built", each sentence is superimposed with new words, and so on. This child-friendly, innocent language game, in the hands of Lars von Trier, has become a killing game.
"This house is made by me"
The house that jack built
The original name in English comes directly from the nursery rhyme, and the story is also very simple: Jack built a house .
What Feng Tier loves most is destroying fairy tales, and this time it is not true either. The film is arguably the most controversial work of the year, and it has long been heard by more than 100 audiences to scare away more than 100 audiences when it was screened in Cannes. It is said that because the content is too sensitive and the plot is too abnormal, the audience can't bear to look directly at it.
In 2011, Lars von Trier's inappropriate remarks at the Cannes conference of "Melancholia" was expelled by the Film Festival Council. This is also the return of Lars von Trier after being banned by Cannes for 7 years, and he still swears to disdain the heroes without shocking words. If it is not for political reasons, this extraordinary work should have a place in the main competition unit.
If I say that he is a terrorist in the video world, Tsun Chang Lun Ji is completely shattered. The disgusting plot in the film is roughly the cruelty of murder. Even the children will not be spared, let alone playing with corpses. Animal protectionists must be right. The plot of cutting off the hind limbs of the duck is full of anger, and the details are easily harmonized, so I won't repeat it.
Although the film has been controversial, the content it covers is too rich. Some people call it an art essay, with elements of history, painting, video, mythology, literature, philosophy, etc., blending into a very flavorful "PPT" movie, which is a deep excavation of the inner world of a serial killer.
Both the artistic level and the psychological level are of great value, and the deep fear can be imagined from the situation of escaping from the audience "screaming".
It can be said to be a masterpiece of von Trier, which continues all the characteristics of his earlier works. The most obvious is the chapter-by-chapter story structure and the dialogue between the protagonist and other characters as narration.
Today we maintain a neutral attitude, not talking about whether it is a good work, but an annual summary of it, and with its PPT sub-chapter features, we will talk about how much art knowledge Feng Tier has quoted and "saluted" in the movie. Point .
The first incident
01
Title
At the beginning of the article, I explained this British folk nursery rhyme. Feng Tier used this song in his debut feature film. The protagonist of the film still uses the name of JACK. Including the first incident, the murder weapon jack is also called JACK in English.
02
Glenn Gould Image
Glenn Gould is Canada's greatest pianist, but he has a quirky nature. Someone commented on his playing style, "in a trance state, possessed by many good and evil spirits" , he himself even said, "I hate the audience and I think they are evil forces . "
03
Dead woman
"Tribute" Juan Gris's "Why Not Torture Terrorisrs" is quite alike, which connects death and art.
04
Architectural design videos and paintings
In the film, an architectural design video is used to discuss the stability of a church building with a pointed arch structure.
The cover image of "The Book of Urizen" is also "The Book of Light Final Volume". It is a mythical figure made up by British poet and artist William Brooke, representing traditional ideas, law, and reason. He sometimes takes on the work of an architect and is associated with the protagonist Jack.
05
Gauguin paintings
Second incident
06
"Fame"
The soundtrack of JACK's car dragging the corpse is "Fame" by David Bowie. One of the words is: " Fame, what you like is in the limo" .
07
JACK flop
"Tribute" Bob Dylan's "subterranean homesick blues" MV.
08
Naughty director
When Jack was practicing ordinary emotions, there was a picture of Von Trier and the famous American serial killer Iceman.
09
Lamb and tiger
"Lamb" and "Tiger" are a collection of poems by William Blake. He was the first important romantic poet in the UK, and he was also a illustrator, sculptor, chessman, writer and painter. Before his death, he decided to complete the illustrations of Dante's "Divine Comedy" but not completed.
Von Trier added images of lambs and tigers, and quoted several of William Blake's "Divine Comedy" illustrations and paintings.
10
Dark light
The darkest spot on the film negatives Jack discovered is the brightest light in reality. The so-called true evil quality of light is darkness. It also depicts the killing machine and psychology with an animated image that resembles "Flash".
Third incident
11
Family image
This incident was about the family, so Von Trier added several old family records.
12
Drive hunting
The nature of human hunting behavior can be analyzed from paintings and videos. Von Trier used the most sensitive topic of hunting family to criticize human hunting.
13
Iceman
Richard Kuklowski, also known as the "Iceman", was the most well-known gangster serial killer in the United States in the 20th century. He used various cruel methods to kill more than 200 people in 38 years.
The fourth incident
14
"Divine Comedy" Illustration
The context of "The Divine Comedy" gradually became clear later, and the illustrations drawn by William Blake for "The Divine Comedy" were also included in PPT.
15
The noble rot
Three fermentation methods for wine making, frost, dehydration and noble rot. There are three ways of noble rot, and "decomposition" is the key to elevating grape winemaking to a work of art.
Jack connects this process with the refrigeration of corpses, which is what he calls art.
16
The art of love
Virgil refuted the series of paintings that Jack cited as saying that there would be no art without love.
17
"Relic Value Theory"
After investigating the ruins of ancient Greece and Rome, the German Nazi architect Albert Speer put forward the theory of ruins value.
This theory claims that the building will always collapse, but the ruins after the collapse will have a unique charm. But under the premise that it will collapse, the building also needs to be designed better and more grandiose.
The "Germania" plan is Hitler's urban reconstruction plan to rebuild the German capital Berlin into the world capital. Albert Speer assumes the heavy responsibility as the chief architect.
18
Worship value
The image of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower are quoted in the film
Stuka dive bomber, the most dangerous combat tool in the world. Von Trier compared the fear caused by its alarm with the trumpets blown by the Israelis when they attacked Jericho in the Bible: The Israelis blew for 6 days and 6 nights, and finally captured Jericho on the seventh day.
The people who "made" Stuka were called idols and artists by von Trier. In reality, these people are all dictators. Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, etc.
19
Cruel image under the Goethe tree
There are advantages and disadvantages in the world. Under the Goethe tree of Buchenwald concentration camp, Goethe created many books, but in the same way, there will be mass killings and racial culling incidents. The film quoted images and videos of multiple massacres.
20
Narcissism
Feng Tier quoted several of his own works in the film, just like a dialogue with an "idol", and also like a year-end summary of himself.
Fifth incident
twenty one
Virgil
Jack had been narrating in dialogue with Virgil before. At this time, Virgil materialized. I don't know if it was Von Trier's deliberate arrangement. Bruno Ganz, who played him, played Hitler in "Destruction of the Empire".
Virgil's role as Dante's guide in "The Divine Comedy" also indicates that Jack is the actualization of Dante.
Epilogue: Retreat
twenty two
Katabasis
According to the "Greek Expedition to Persia", the Greek mercenaries who followed Cyrus, the Persian king, retreated to the sea after the defeat, known in history as "great defeat and retreat." The Greek word means "falling downward", which indirectly implies Jack's fate.
twenty three
Dante's "The Divine Comedy"
"The Divine Comedy" is a long poem written by the famous Italian poet Dante Aligheri. It is also the core and context of the entire movie. It seems that Feng Tier succeeded William Brooke to complete the illustration task of "The Divine Comedy" and painted a horrifying journey to hell in the form of images.
Handheld photography in the film, documentary lens
In the film, through the unrecoverable crowd
From the "man-made" house opened the door to hell, to Dante in a red robe following Virgil, crossing the path of amniotic fluid that is a metaphor for a woman's vagina, crossing the Styx to reach the bottom of Purgatory.
Cross the river
Eugène Delacroix's "Dante's Boat" 1822 is reproduced in the film
twenty four
Door of hell
In reality, people have been searching for the location of hell, collecting painful sounds and finding the center of the earth with the same frequency.
Video of an unknown research institute exploring hell in the film
The real Russian hell's gate-Mikola is an ultra-deep borehole with a depth of 12,262 meters. It is said that researchers often hear constant wailing and screaming during the drilling process.
Hell in the film
25
"Hit the Road Jack"
Jack, who escapes into nothingness, is the result of the bad guys, but Von Trier’s powerful sense of humor is released in the ending song:
Hit the road Jack and don't you come Back no more no more no more no More .
The song "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles uses a brisk jazz blues to draw a successful conclusion to the film, and the two and a half hours of the movie is even somewhat unfinished.
Of course there are still several unsolved mysteries.
Elysium?
The depiction of Elysium in the film is Jack’s favorite childhood "breath of the meadow". The farmer uses a sickle to mow the grass neatly and uniformly. I always feel like I have seen this scene, but I don't know where it ends.
Lamb image?
The source of the animation that appears in the image of the lamb is unknown.
Text image?
The source of a "text" video at the beginning of the fourth incident is unknown.
If you happen to know, I hope you can give some answers or insights, or the knowledge points are deviated, you can also comment and correct, thank you again.
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