Isn't this a world turned upside down?
Artists are squeezed out by commercialism, good scripts are ruined by bad actors, the mafia holds the power of law enforcement, and Xiao Chen sticks to his artistic outlook. In the film, the sound of bullets over Broadway from time to time always reminds me of Lexington's gunfire, but the two represent completely opposite meanings.
Melancholy, ambiguity, vendetta, talent, interest, glory, and filth are all gathered in this sacred and sinful hall. It has buried as many dreams as its desires, and it has missed as many sighs as it has embraced glory—this It is Broadway, a paradise where desire and glory coexist, and a hell where compromise and dreams are in peace.
Desire puts an emperor's new clothes on the whole city
Wulun uses his usual irony to expose the illusion of the world, like the boy who pierced the emperor’s new clothes and actually has nothing: Desire puts an emperor’s new clothes on the world, and everyone is accustomed to taking paralysis as bravery. , Compromise as a necessity, persistence as recklessness, and art as a plaything. No one wants to pierce the hazy veil of desire. They believe that this is the real world—a kingdom turned upside down.
David is a playwright who is genuinely talented. He thinks he has a genius, just because he was born at an untimely time. He vowed to get the strongest drama cast and full self-dominance for the play that protects his life, but in the end he lost to investors, or the values of ordinary people. In the value of money supremacy, will the purity of dreams and the persistence of art still be so important in the eyes of ordinary people? The difference between ordinary people and artists is that you can tolerate a fly hovering in the room and ignore it, but he can't.
But Cheech is such a person, he must be the most charming mafia bodyguard in the world. David discovered his creative genius and began to doubt himself constantly. The film story's original step-by-step interpretation has come to an extreme end, if there is no new plot to detonate, then it will also be mediocre. And cheech is the most unexpected but reasonable detonator of this story. The addition of cheech's plot brought a fatal turn for the movie. Not only for the drama, the existence of cheech is precisely the most resounding in this story. Irony-a mafia is actually defending art! But an artist is tolerating others ruining his script. I think David should now be able to understand the real reason why his first two plays were destroyed. From this point of view, even he himself did not defend the art, but made helpless concessions in the name of humanity.
Anyone who can be called an artist has similar hobbies and obsessions, because only artists are obsessed with those strange value choices, and they all have a heart that cannot be tolerated.
Guilt is a cliché of the petty bourgeoisie, and artists can create their own ethics.
"Oh, that's enough. David, if it's not your opinion, then whose opinion can it be?"
"That's God's point of view..."
What can happen even if it's an honest affair? From ancient times to the present, except for those who are extremely poor and unable to eat, most of the artists have gotten into a peach blossom debt, and they have a reputation: that is the muse God bestowed on them. Genius teenagers like mozart, and even perverted geniuses like Hitler, from a certain obstinate perspective, they are all artists, and create their own ethics. Even though it is absurd and tyrannical, it is still popular in a certain era. For example, Cheech, even though he killed his boss' mistress, I think all the audience will applaud this scene. Not for humanity, only for art.
I can't accept that I love you so mediocre
The affair between Halen and David started with art and ended with art. Halen is not David's muse, because David is not a true artist. For Eleen, please forgive me, I just can't accept that I love you so mediocrely. For an artist, the most fear is that you do not understand the value of his work, and the most fear is that you understand the value of his work. In the eyes of all mediocre people, I am willing to be an artist who has no talent but enjoys admiration. Because in this world, art will always be a species that only the elite of a few people are qualified to play.
When I was an artist, like all artists who had no wives but had a fixed lover, I refused to accept a stable life and a fixed job. So David never married Eleen, and when reality kept hitting David, he finally admitted with difficulty: I am not an artist, but I love you.
Finally, I would like to borrow a sentence from Salieri's confession in "mozart" as an end.
"All mediocrities-living and future mediocrities, I forgive you all. Amen."
During the college years, film critics practice hand homework, banned second transfer ban, thank you.
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