Classical Performance Art——A Brief Comment on "Seven Deadly Sins"

Hubert 2021-10-13 13:05:48

When Nietzsche exclaimed: "God is dead", our classical life was sentenced to end. Modern city life is infinitely narrowing the distance between the world. People are not getting closer because of this. Instead, alienation and indifference replace it. Even the only remaining love with classical feelings has overthrown naked carnal desires. On the ground, all the long and romantic things have become short and broken. This is the sin capital of our lives.

Inspired by the

so-called seven deadly sins of modern society , here have been labeled as modern, stripped of all the sins themselves, followed by the naked modern sequelae, as the film said, "people regard indifference as a virtue", this is a typical example The sequelae of modernization, everyone is walking on their own roads to manage their lives. Being busy makes them lose their sense of society and surroundings. That’s why there are a few understatement cases in the film: Robbers tried to grab some change and a piece of money. It pierces a person’s eyes by the surface; when a woman is assaulted, it is useless to call for help, but to call for fire. This is undoubtedly the cruelest violence. It is this kind of violence that makes people abandon love and choose short-lived lust; abandon morality and choose dirty greed; abandon friendliness and choose indifferent pride; abandon health and choose Sudden gluttony and laziness; abandon understanding and appreciation and choose anger and jealousy. Since then, the seven deadly sins have been put on a modern coat, and the murderer has found a reason to be superior.

As the murderer said, "This is a work used to warn the world", just like the murderer chose to commit the crime. Each piece is properly arranged and full of metaphors. This fits the classicism that runs counter to this modern world. His feelings, he used food to hold the overeating fat man to death, he used the bed to trap the lazy addict to death, and the greedy lawyer was punished to death with fairness. He has a modern tool-a gun, which could have killed them in one shot, but he did not allow the shortness of modernization to replace his classicism. He used the classics that everyone has basically lost to teach the vicious modernity. We I have to say that his inspiration comes from modern times, as it says in the film: "We are facing daily life."

Finishing in the dark with darkness.

From the beginning of the Samousy’s unwillingness to take over the case, the entire case revealed its darkness. Its fear does not come from its cruelty, but from the torture of the heart, so in the process of detecting the case, Somerse is in a position of introspection. He hates this society and this city even more; and Mir is different. He is a fledgling agent. His desire is to solve big cases, so this modern desire makes He became a prey, which also became a dark part of the case.

Another extreme portrayal of urban darkness, I think, may be the weather. I don’t know what their weather is like. However, the rain in the film always reveals anxiety and fear. People under the rain and night are also in a hurry. In the moving forward, everything seems to exist but isolated from the world; there is also the murderer’s house, whose dark tones are more than rainy, and the sense of depression and space limitation is more intense, so for the characters in their hearts The shaping is also slightly reflected here. The entire completion process of his "work" is recorded in this dark room and realized in this gloomy city, so we have to say once again, in fact, he was also victimized. Just like his final trial of himself, he is also a victim of modernization and an infected person.

Flaws are hidden in love.

People who have seen the film think that the murderer committed a super-perfect murder and think that this is a perfect awakening performance art, but the flaws are enough to destroy everything. In fact, it seems like the above said. As a result, as a murderer in modern life, he is also a victim, so it is impossible to describe the "work" more accurately. It was originally a serious injury to modernity with classical, but it also persecuted classical itself. That is the love between Mir and his wife.

Different from sensual and false marriages, the love between Mill and his wife is a bright and classical symbol in this film, just as the wife and Summer Sai joked; "When I saw him, I knew I was going to marry this person." This It is to abandon the pure feelings that have the so-called elements of marriage, just as Satsuma lamented, this is a rare feeling in this rhythm of life and living space. However, in the scene where Mill and his wife embraced, the shadow that hung over them suggested a tragic ending. The murderer chopped off the head of this sincere love with his so-called jealous blade. It seemed that the murder ended perfectly, but this Layer destruction made this "work" only exist in the behavior itself, and completely lost its inner meaning. Therefore, they all failed. Mir and Samosa gave in under the guidance of the killer, and the killer was martyred under the guidance of the "god". In fact, they have not escaped the curse of modernization.

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  • Lambert 2022-03-22 09:01:03

    I didn't think it was so classic. First, because there is no cultural background to read the Bible and believe in Christ, and second, as the most popular film review said, it showed some terrible things, but did not give answers. It doesn't make much sense.

  • Hyman 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    The disc of fabulous David Fincher's "Seven Deadly Sins" has been sitting at home for a long time and I haven't taken it out to see it, but I finally watched it. Although this film is a Hollywood commercial film, it has a deep interpretation of religion and belief in its depth. Gluttouy, Greed, Greed, Sloth, Laziness, Lust, Lust, Pride, Pride, Envy, jealousy, Warth, Anger

Se7en quotes

  • David Mills: Hold on, John, I seem to remember us knocking on your door.

    John Doe: Oh, that's right, and I seem to remember breaking your face.

  • Somerset: [Reading from a piece of paper left by the killer] One pound of flesh, no more no less. No cartilage, no bone but only flesh. "Merchant of Venice."

    Mills: Didn't see it.