The film seems to be very serious and profound. But after watching the movie, who can think of a beautiful childhood? Who can think of blue sky and white clouds? What do you get in your heart, is it more love for life and the world, or gratitude and comfort in your heart?
Absolutely not.
The first thing we feel is a trace of spiritual depression, even unwarranted disgust.
If someone says that after watching this movie, I feel refreshed and drunk, then that person is probably going to see a psychiatrist.
1. The first definition I gave this film - wrapped in the cloak of incest essence of artistry
movie exciting, this is no doubt exciting but not necessarily artistic. It's like what happened at the University of Virginia. If you're there, it's exciting, but it's a bloody crime.
If you want to tell a story of revenge, is it necessary to play up that father-daughter passion drama?
At the end of the film, everyone will be surprised to find that they inadvertently witnessed a naked incest scene.
When Li Youzhen finally walked into the elevator, the film actually played a recording of a father-daughter sex scene, for fear that the audience would forget the scene.
At the end of the film, we will be surprised to find that the father and daughter used a little hypnotism to deceive themselves, and they just walked together. This is actually changing the soup without changing the medicine, just to rectify the name of incest.
In addition, we can review the entire film story frame, and we will find that we are just like what Li Zhenyou said: It seems that we are trying to find out why we were detained, but in fact we need to find out why we were released.
Therefore, the biggest suspense in the film is not the reason for Wu Daxiu's revenge, but the conspiracy of forced incest by the hero and heroine.
Judging from the music and the atmosphere of the scene, the emotional scenes of the father and daughter are more tender and gentle, full of comfort and praise. This is what everyone will feel.
The same is true for the final ending.
I can’t help but ask, in the name of survival, it’s wrong to make mistakes. So, can any beast father who has a relationship with his daughter be able to live with his daughter from now on?
In the film, Wu Daxiu never thought of his wife. The screenwriters did not give this character normal interpersonal feelings and social psychology at all. If we clean up the clues of the entire film, we will find that this character was actually born for only three things, the most important of which is incest (the other two are revenge and violence).
All in all, the screenwriter is like a magician performing magic, no matter how fancy moves and arrangements, the last thing he wants to show you is what he wants you to see.
The screenwriter changed a magic trick. Under the cloud cover, what he sold was incest soup.
2. Continue with a vulgar manifestations of postmodernism
begins with a brief description, postmodernism stressed that anti-tradition, preached beyond human reason and morality, emphasizing the subjective preferences in all aspects of human life, faith and deny authoritative definition.
This trend of literary and artistic thought will inevitably lead to the ambiguity of values, and social ideals, moral concepts, meaning of life, etc. will become weakened. The final result is the imbalance of cultural ecology and the vulgarization of social mass cultural literacy. (Quoted from Baidu Knowing) It
should be emphasized here that not all postmodernist art techniques are undesirable. Many lifeless traditional arts require fresh blood. However, it is undeniable that more and more vulgar art is infiltrating our literary and artistic works. Because they are dressed in the cloak of art, it is easy for people to identify good and bad.
In the movie "Old Boy", some of the scenes are either difficult to adapt to or incomprehensible. In fact, it’s not that you don’t understand or don’t understand, but because ordinary cultural people are often not confident enough in front of art works.
Please pay attention to the following scenes: Wu Daxiu is swallowing an octopus, and the octopus's whiskers are still moving outside his mouth; Li Youzhen is bathing in the building, walking out naked, not avoiding people to watch; Wu Daxiu pulling teeth on the prison guard and threading the back of his hand. .....
These shots are bound to make you feel uncomfortable, but if you want to find meaning in these strange shots, you are in vain. In fact, these shots are just to challenge the audience's aesthetic habits, the purpose is to make you feel unaccustomed, so in front of those who lack confidence in the audience, the "artistic effect" is produced. In fact, when we think about it, these shots are exactly the same as the "performance art" on the street, but they are just postmodernist tricks for sensationalism.
Postmodernism is different from modernism. Make a small comparison.
In Kafka's modernist novel The Metamorphosis, we can analyze that the protagonist turns into a beetle, which is an extreme expression of the alienation of human beings in capitalist society. In other words, it shows that people have become slaves of production and profitability in capital society. Chaplin's "The Gilded Age" has a similar theme.
But in "Old Boy", the daughter saw a shot of a huge ant in the subway. According to the photo, she was lonely, but in fact, it was still just challenging the audience's aesthetic habits. There was no other meaning besides this. At all.
In addition, some seemingly humorous and profound scenes in the film are actually meaningless. For example, handing a dentist's business card, sent a severed hand, a man who committed suicide with a dog, etc., these are all sensational tricks. Of course, this kind of absurd approach has a broad market in the West.
All in all, not all rectangular papers with great men painted and marked with the word 100 are renminbi. So in the same way, not all works that seem to be full of artistic flavor are real art, and not all seemingly mysterious pictures have the so-called life connotation.
Those who want to preach that these lenses have profound connotations, I can assure you that you will not find any valuable gains if you spend your entire life. Because it makes no sense in itself.
3 Irrational revenge and punishment.
This is one of the judgments made by the US authorities on the movie ("Old Boy") that may affect the personality of the murderer after the tragedy at the University of Virginia. Irrational punishment, this sentence is very incisive. Wasn't the U.S. tragedy the final result of such irrational behavior?
In the film, Li Zhenyou's irrational revenge against Wu Daxiu is fundamentally divorced from society and from the actual moral and legal system.
From the beginning of Wu Daxiu's strength to his final self-cutting tongue, he consciously abused the audience's inner endurance and aesthetic habits.
The film has no real social background at all, and there is no sufficient basis for reality.
We see nothing but incest and revenge.
It is worth mentioning that Wu Daxiu fell on her knees and cut her tongue to pray for forgiveness. This scene is destructive to the audience with fragile mental defenses. The choreographer knew that the audience followed Wu Daxiu's emotional logic. Therefore, these seemingly kind directors, let us follow the strong Wu Daxiu step by step to the moment of success in defeating destiny. The audience is looking forward to the downfall of the enemy and the victory of the protagonist. At this moment, the hideous Li Youzhen used the last cruel move, and Wu Daxiu changed his appearance and made extreme self-abuse and self-contempt. As a result, the audience's hearts were instantly shocked and abused.
In addition, violence and cruelty are another major feature of this film. In addition to numerous shootings, suicides, and axe killings, there are also more cruel scenes such as forcibly pulling teeth, cutting tongues, and breaking hands. Such a film, I really don’t know what benefits it can bring to the human mind!
The film producer certainly does not acknowledge the influence of "Old Boy" on the tragedy in Virginia. However, no one would say that "A Beautiful Life" and "Forrest Gump" would let college students go to shoot and kill people.
At this point in writing, I feel sad and sorrowful. I hope those who read my essay can understand my intentions in writing.
4. "Old Boy" there is reason this movie
This is a winning and was reportedly moved some good insiders and a lot of viewers.
Since this kind of movie appears, there is a reason for its existence.
Different people have different needs. Take an example in life: For
example, most people, especially girls, don't like to watch horror movies with ghosts. They are instinctively scared. But quite a few people like to watch horror movies because they need another kind of excitement. Through such stimulation, to relieve mental tension and depression, this is instead a kind of pleasure.
Some people who are mature and under great pressure at work may need such extreme films that violate human relationships and distorted aesthetics to relax them mentally.
To use the simplest analogy, some people who are over-stressed get pleasure through masochistic sex.
At the same time, such films have a fairly broad cultural foundation in the Western world. The first is modern western philosophy, especially Freud's sexual determinism and Sartre's existentialism and absurdity. These theories have appeared in many movies. Of course, these contents originally belonged to the category of modernism, but they are the philosophical foundation of postmodernism after all.
I have seen some European films like "Old Boy", which are relatively dark and distorted stories.
Some are stories that show that young people suddenly broke out in their ordinary lives and began to kill, and some tell stories about the perverted stories of homosexuals who seem to be gentle with their partners but actually torture and kill. And such a kind of film can actually get awards in Europe.
Therefore, it should not be surprising that "Old Boy" won an award in Europe.
European film festivals are increasingly adding marginal content. Many incest, sex, pervert, and personality-distorted films have gained a reputation in European film festivals in recent years. After all, Oscar still maintains a purer film aesthetic.
Here is a quote from a friend in Baidu Zhili:
The denial of truth and progress in postmodernism will lead to relativism, skepticism, and nihilism (nothing is true or false, good or evil, beautiful and ugly, bright and The difference between darkness, progress and backwardness does not require value judgment, but only one kind of existence). As China is currently facing a spiritual crisis and moral anomie, this kind of deconstructionism will lead to serious social consequences. In the evil wave of value inversion of being ashamed of the gentleman and proud of the ruffian, certain extreme postmodernist claims have played a role in fueling the flames.
So I think that for us Chinese, spare no effort to create superb works of art is what is most needed. What we need is real art, neither a political megaphone, nor a commercial hype, nor a fake art.
We need those literary works that come from life, undergo superb artistic processing, and are full of touching artistic charm. This is the direction our culture should strive for.
Movies are just made by people. Different people in different societies make different movies and pursue different goals. Movie awards can't represent anything.
The above is the entire analysis of this movie.
As always, discussions are welcome.
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