When Terekki and Stella were walking by the Seine, a homeless man said, "Hey, can you give the artist a piece of bread.
This scene is the director's slap in the face of the art of "above". This is The director’s best comment on art.
Similarly, the last two scenes where Terekki jumped down from upstairs was even more shocking. The scene contained a surrealistic nightmare, and the entire space became The stage for spectators has become a stage for human indifference, cruelty, selfishness and hypocrisy. Watching the death of others and gloating for misfortune is the dark side of human psychology. This is Polanski’s question of human beings: when our kind faces misfortune and hopelessness At the time, why most people just watched?!
This is a Jewish child who crawled out of the concentration camp’s indifference to human beings and has a thorough understanding of the nature of "watchers." The individual’s warning is that their destiny will be the same as that of Terekki, and they will fall victim to the indifference of the spectators.
This is Polanski’s more connotative film and a modernistic psychological metaphor. It is the isolation and alienation of people. It heralds the final outcome of the indifference and helplessness between people in modern society and their unwillingness to be assimilated.
As a Jewish director, he can experience the suspicion and suspicion between races. Alienation, so his role is to borrow from the Poles, a marginal person unable to intervene in the mainstream society, hiding the propositions of race and xenophobia, this feeling is a real feeling of a stranger, and it is a society that must face it directly. The problem.
The whole building is a kind of system. As an individual, you must obey the "rules of the game" and dissolve yourself, whether you want to or not, this is the "holy rule." However, when an individual raises objections, he is bound to become the target of everyone. Blind obedience and convergence are the only choices that society gives us. When Terekki refused to sign the expulsion letter, he was doomed. The society and system need blindness and deafness and obedience to the people. All resistance and resistance come at a price. Sometimes life is needed as the sacrifice of the times. This is the choice of the individual "Tao" and a reflection of the self's social pressure.
What's interesting is that the opening subtitle of the film "THE TENANT" and the black window form a cross. The eyes in the window are staring coldly but in a kind of isolation.
The whole film, whether it is the landlord, the woman at the door, the policeman, the owner of the restaurant, or the weird residents, is a symbol of indifference and isolation. It is a force that attempts to force him to compromise with society. This force is to make People are suffocated and desperate. The beginning of Terekki’s transfiguration in the film is not so much a mirror language that metaphors that he will have the same fate as Simone, but rather the beginning of his loss of his identity, a kind of self-improvement. Forgetting and burying.
The film seems to tell people that if you want to live comfortably, you must take the initiative and be arrogant. This is the inspiration from Terekki's scene in the house of a male colleague who likes to play music very loudly. But people, not everyone can take the initiative to attack now, character determines fate.
The film has strong psychological hints, such as the pictograms in the toilet, and the Pharaoh's postcards have deepened the mysticism. When he stared at the window opposite the bathroom, his own appearance appeared unexpectedly. This kind of fear was enough to strike a person's firm belief, and it was enough to make a life crazy and mentally broken. Human nightmares come from childhood memories and fear of the unknown, Polanski’s fear and anxiety, from the Jewish status and memories of concentration camps, which makes him instinctively distrust and despair of his kind. This isolation of cold emotions is not only in "Strange Tenants", others such as "Immoral Judgment", "Magic Infant", and "The Pianist" all have coldness and despair towards people. At the riverside, Terekki hits a child inexplicably. What the director wants to tell us is that human nature has cruel nature. The same Bruce Lee's film that appeared in the film is also a hint of this cruel nature.
Anxiety is a psychological symptom after being abandoned by the mainstream society. It is the beginning of self-fear and isolation.
The whole film did not give people a glimmer of hope, but the music of the whole film was gloomy, weird and utterly cold. There are countless times in the film that Terekki is looking at the camera outside the window, which corresponds to that there is always a pair of indifferent eyes near the window. This is a kind of mistrust of prying eyes and mutual.
The weirdness of "Strange Tenants" comes from people's hearts, from our uncertainty and instability around us, and from our fortification and fortification of people.
The ending of the film, that shout, is a total outburst of panic and doubts about human nature.
We confirm the existence of ourselves because of the correspondence of others, but because of the eyes of others, how much we can keep and survive will always be confused and established contradictions. Just as we can't budget for tomorrow, we can't measure others.
People are always a possibility, always waiting to happen.
OSAMA KAVKALU at the Jackdaw Abode in Pudong, Shanghai on a summer night.
Saturday, July 12, 2003 20:12
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