Of course, I also asked myself, after I finish writing, I can throw it into the recycle bin, but I don’t want to delete it, and writing from the beginning does not necessarily lead to the so-called "learning from the past." Perhaps what I cherish is those dull and narcissistic thoughts and touches. No matter whether the whispers are reasonable or not, since they are born and die, I am very nostalgic. It is better to carve a monument and make a memorial.
And my comment is especially for the movie "Harlow and Mude". I shrugged my shoulders and spread my hands to show that I was okay. This movie made me think incoherently and incoherently. At that moment, I was thinking that grotesque and humor are the fatal charms of this movie, but at this moment I feel that this movie always shows a serious face that calls for love and freedom. It is the vitality.
So, let me detain the readers here first with the points of love between young and old (18 years old and 79 years old). Then I will tell you that it is different. The key point is that it is different. Love is just a side dish. The real main course is to show the social silhouette of the United States from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. You will not be uninterested. , Because every aspect will be reflected in our real life—the current life.
Enter the topic about the movie "Harlow and Morder" here. I want to disrupt the order, following the thinking of Mude, who is waiting for the 80-year-old newborn, from death to love, and then to freedom. Recite the poems of dust returning to dust, soil returning to earth, fallen leaves returning to roots, lone trees returning to the forest; to find the free world sung by the poet and singer Cat Stevens——if you want to sing out ,sing out .and if you want to be free, be free. . . During the journey on the same road, meet a soul mate who has a life-and-death relationship, and walk forward together. Until you understand the true meaning of freedom and love with longer or shorter lives-throw away all the fetters and happy things outside the body, and let freedom fly with your body.
And such a sacred spiritual trek is the main theme of this movie. This belief runs through the film. Mude guarded it with 80 years of life, and waited for the believer called by the soul-Harlow. She borrowed "love" to tell Harlow: Harlow loves Mord and Morder also loves Harlow. Their only love in this life is not only the visible physical desire, but also the eternal and immortal spiritual life. To transcend the world of life and death, in this way, we must break the shackles of things and desires.
This expression couldn’t be more straightforward at the end of the film. Mu De threw away the coins with the "Declaration of Love", and she abandoned the physical object with the “representation of love”, because Harlow’s love will always exist in Mu De’s In my heart, it does not arise or die for the existence of a coin. To put it a bit further, this is where the infinite worries and sorrows of modern people derive. We engraved love on objects, so those loves are clearly marked. Naturally, gains and losses are no longer precious, but they are full of desire to possess. How to talk about happiness with lost resentment.
What to talk about, if you want to understand the truth, you have to explore the back of the times. To mention the filming era of this film, the 1960s and 1970s was a rather complicated period in American history. The political, economic and cultural conditions were in a state of panic, confusion, depression, and people opposed the Vietnam War, demanding social change and reducing environmental pollution. The cry of anti-urbanization, confusion of values, confusion and confusion among people, etc. As a pre-war director of Hal Ashby, his inner aspirations, or the desires of most of his contemporaries, are almost fully exposed in the story of "Harlow and Mude".
Both of his protagonists are shouldering the mission of existence he has given him. Morte, who is about to celebrate his 80th birthday, is an anti-war and anti-urbanization anarchist who lives alone and is helpless. Harlow is eighteen years old, a rich son, and he is a completely confused generation. He uses various methods of pretending to commit suicide to scare his mother in order to find a sense of being alive and dead. Therefore, the encounter between the two is very interesting. They are one positive and one negative, but they are all keen on the same "hobbies." Attend the funeral of a stranger and feel the breath of death. I like to watch workers use pile drivers to demolish buildings, so as to anaesthetize the misery of society from the destruction. Together, they put the small trees living in the steel and concrete in the city back into the big forest, seeking the freedom to return to the earth and nature. To tie the old and the young together with "love", it is better to say that they are the chosen messengers of the Statue of Liberty, like passing a baton, they are intertwined by love, from the young to the old will, continuing the spirit of freedom length.
Some people may say that the freedom of Morte is the freedom to "do whatever you want" of anarchism, but I don't think so. The freedom here should not be the freedom to enjoy in time. Maybe Mu De does not have the eloquence of a philosopher and makes her life philosophy a complete set of children, but in my opinion, she is a representative of wise ordinary people. Moreover, some people interpreted the film’s intention to satirize the mental state of being at ease with the status quo. Perhaps the film’s overly clean images gave the viewer a subtle hint, but given the general environment at the time, dissatisfaction and hesitation should be the main theme. When he lost confidence and hope in the government’s ability to change the ugly face of society, Mu De chose to lead by example to "confrontation" to make himself live a full and happy life and affect the courage of those around him to live. It cannot be denied that it belongs to Mu De. The spirit saved Harlow’s confusion, and Harlow was the representative of the teenagers and young people of that period, and they were the hope of the country.
Although it is my wishful thinking to give such a high evaluation to Mude, the film did mobilize a wealth of imagination in shaping her vivid and pleasant character, and gave her enough bright spots. The unruly and freedom revealed by her "crazy" driving has also become a tangible clue to the whole show. The curving scenes also correspond to the seemingly scattered and continuous scenes of director Hal Ashby. The cut screen highlights his unique editing skills, which was in the early 1970s, and now it seems to be impressive.
Returning to the style of the story, some people define it as a comedy, or perhaps call it a social satire more vividly. The sign of black humor is satire, which is also the heart-warming joke of the movie "Harlow and Mude". Obviously, when all orders and conventions are an eyesore, anti-conventional and anti-order can just create a very clever comic mood. It is anti-order that Mude steals cars at will, and Harlow uses hearses as a transport car, which is unconventional, but when we put such scenes in our minds, it can produce interesting and shocking effects. The so-called ordinary people are actually the material of black humor. Harlow’s uncle, the belligerent general who lost his left arm on the battlefield; the psychiatrist who exaggerated and wrote the book; the priest who overwhelmed the dead but had a discriminatory moral integrity. ; In the eyes of Mude and Harlow, they have become part of the scarred and diseased society.
Naturally, this is not absolute, it is somewhat like "others laugh at me too crazy, I laugh at others can't see through". In short, in terms of attribution, this is an expression that denounces the materialization of life values. Mude influences Harlow's search for self-emancipation, and the antidote to no longer being confused is to abandon all "things outside the body" and recognize one's own unique value. As Arthur Miller’s biographer Bigsby described Arthur Miller: “He understood that everything can pass away, and life is like walking on thin ice. We think the support under our feet is strong, but it may suddenly break. "If so, this is the sorrow that pines the hope of survival on material desires. And the reason why I quote Biggsby’s words is that I think that the displacement and prosperity that Mude has felt over the past 80 years may be what Arthur Miller felt. At the time, the genius playwright was also opposed to it. The Vietnam War despised the United States for not facing history and blindly pursuing economic development. In any case, the United States has gone forward, and it has gone very far. And such a hesitant state of mind, some people may also be able to experience it at this moment. History is a mirror, others are a mirror, these are not empty words.
There was a lot of nonsense that could not be said. Finally, explain my title "Late Soulmate". Let’s go back to love, emotionally speaking, I am very sad for Mu De and Harlow. I hope Mu De was born half a century later, or Harlow was born half a century earlier. They are veritable soul mates, which is enviable. . When two people love each other, age is indeed not a problem, but it is regrettable that they cannot stay together until they are old. Fortunately, we are eager to have a marriage of mutual affection and love, but many couples are united together, but there is also a final separation between labor and Yan. It is probably a wrong fate that blinds the eyes of the two people. In short, if you have a rare love, and your souls know each other and cherish each other, then sincerely congratulate you, this kind of love is the most beautiful in the world!
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