This is a rather satirical movie by Woody Allen. The sense of absurdity comes from several places: the silly lover can be an actor, the gangster threatens the art trade with death. Helen and the public are very fond of the male protagonist's revised play, and regard him as a genius, but they do not know that behind it is a killer with no culture at the bottom. The boyfriend's girlfriend, Allen, is open and honest about having an affair with his friends, as well as the so-called theory. In the end, the conversation between the four of the male lead standing downstairs was utterly absurd.
This absurdity is a serious and natural anti-moral favor. It seems reasonable, but it always makes people feel that something is wrong.
In addition, there are several important areas in the film that are worth discussing.
1. Art and life
This theme runs through the entire play and is the most prominent first clue. In the café at the beginning of the film, his friend Fred raised a question: Are you saving Shakespeare's last complete set, or saving a stranger? He takes it for granted that it is art, because art is life.
This is the first position, Fred who regards art as life, but it is worth noting that this is not a positive compliment. This position is satirized by the antithesis of the whole play, "Qiqi", and is torn apart by the fornication at the end of the film. Belittle, and take the final choice of the male protagonist to return as a formal victory. Fred and others call themselves genius artists, but in reality they are extremely mediocre, but they regard their career as a failure and not being recognized as an expression of "real art", because they deliberately write poorly and do not go with the commercial market. .
The second position lies in the male protagonist. At the beginning of the movie, he was also an "artist" who pursued art, mixed in theaters and cafes, and suffered from commercial compromises, and was so obsessed with famous actors and actresses. However, the turning point was the emergence of Qiqi. When he discovered that Qiqi was the real genius and he was just a mediocre person, his identity as an "artist" had begun to crack. When in the billiards hall questioning Qiqi killing someone, he confronted the real "art is life". Life is greater than art. This is the male lead's answer. In the end, he personally experienced the death of Qiqi, escaped from the successful Vanity Fair, and said to Allen, "I am not an artist." This is his break with his identity as an "artist" and the awakening of his true self.
The third position is Qiqi, and the biggest sense of absurdity in the play also comes from him. Gang killer, without culture, seems to be completely incompatible with art. However, Woody Allen gave him "true genius and artist", which also shows the director's vision of the so-called "artist" of Fred. The questioning and irony. In my opinion, the art in the director's mind comes from the bloody and cruel real life, not from a fantasist who pretends to be artistic and pretentious. For him, art is reality, not hypocrisy. The refutation of fantasy and hypocrisy is also reflected in the description of the first version of the script, "not tepid and piling up rhetoric" and "you are not writing human words." Woody Allen's attitude towards art is clear. In the end, Qiqi not only killed the silly Baijun for his script, but also sacrificed his life, which is also the practice of art greater than life.
Therefore, these three positions are very clear. It is the transformation of the male protagonist to criticize many Fred-like fake artists in real life, and the latter (not in reality, fictional ideals) expresses Woody. The art in Allen's heart. But because of the ironic background of the gangster, Woody Allen's consistent self-doubt has also been revealed. He has been wondering whether his "art" is true, whether he is arrogant, whether he is stuck in self-extricability? This fictional ideal is Wu Di Allen left his own question.
2. Art and Love
This theme was also thrown out in the cafe at the beginning of the movie: Do you love the artist (part of), or do you love this person?
The protagonist and Allen are obviously the latter. When he finally asked this question, Allen resolutely replied that I would love men who are not artists, but I will never love artists who are not men enough.
Well, the other pair is the actor and actress Helen. They are obviously the former. Helen is a typical person who lives in her own drama. Her gestures are very dramatic, she is obsessed with charity and love is not obtained (moral satisfaction, now may be called a green tea bitch), enjoys the obsession of the male protagonist, and is extremely obsessed with The drama plot is reproduced in reality, such as having sex in a small party room. Never let the male protagonist say a word, "Don't talk", this is the artist's persistence in immersing herself in her own dreams, and not letting others destroy her development of her own drama. What's interesting is that before Qiqi died, he also said, "Don't talk." But in my opinion, this sentence is full of Woody Allen's irony. Not speaking means understanding, not speaking, and maintaining the mystery and mystery of art. But with this layer of mystery, the true face of art has become artificial and false. People only need to not speak, and it seems to be stained with a few scents of art.
The male protagonist’s love for Helen is one of his performances at the stage when he considers himself an "artist", allowing him to follow the flow of his mind and succumb to hormonal attraction. This is the official moral pretext of the so-called artist. As Fred said, " Guilt is a cliché of petty bourgeoisie, artists create ethics themselves." This is exactly the "fake artist" that Woody Allen criticized, chasing artists who are anti-fetters and anti-moral, sometimes just to satisfy their own selfish desires.
High-sounding art is a fig leaf for naked desire.
We can find that the director's thinking and rebellion against "art" have always existed, which is also vividly reflected in "Deconstructing Love Madness". He has been questioning and reflecting on his identity as a middle-class intellectual, and he is afraid of being immersed and displaced in his own fantasies.
The four-person talk at the end of the film is one of the most exciting scenes. When love is interrupted by the discussion of "sex", it directly reveals Woody Allen's thinking. The artist is driven by "sex" but calls it "artistic pursuit".
The questions raised at the beginning of the film are also the director's own thinking. It is not only artists who chase art, but also audiences. The audiences A, B and C who are immersed in their drama are constantly searching for their supporting roles to contribute to their "art". They need "art" to meet the needs of the protagonist of their drama plot. Just like Helen. Therefore, they will not only fall in love with the "art" part of the artist, but also chase their own "art" from ordinary people. At this time, art was equated with the "satisfaction of the protagonist of the drama". Obviously this is also the false "love art" that Woody Allen denied.
So, if you fall in love with the "artist" part of this person, then you are actually loving yourself and satisfying your own needs. This is the illusion that the director wants to remind and point out. Just like people will always feel lost after knowing the true behavior and character of their crush. After all, what you fall in love with is just the "him" in your fantasy.
If from the discussion of "art and life", the director satirized the "fake artist", then from the "art and love", the director satirized the "art of false love".
Three, art and business
This topic should actually seem to be the most important topic. However, it has only become a reality that is difficult to erase and answer in the background. It is difficult to discuss because the answer is too obvious.
Art is difficult to compete with commerce. You have to accept the power of capital and endure a silly white jerking teeth and claws making noise on the stage.
The result of endurance is success.
The unbearable result is to go home and get married.
This is the director's answer, but it depends on how people choose.
To sum up, the three-view thieves in this movie are right, so why did the filming of "The End of the Match" later. How disappointed the director is in society. .
Finally, like Woody Allen! ! !
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