Love is a non-existent name called "Lieutenant Kiri"

Mason 2022-01-09 08:01:32

Woody Allen's 1975 "Love and Death" is undoubtedly very suitable for the pessimist's Valentine's Day.

He threw himself into the Russo-French War of 1812, turning war and peace into a farce, whether it was a duel in the name of a lover, a cannon fodder on the battlefield, or a herring to death, the ending was the same. What's going on, after all, Allen met the Grim Reaper who played with Bergman as a child. "We will see you again," Grim Reaper in a white robe with a sickle said to him.

As a skeptic of religion and God, Woody Allen puts this questioning on his cowardly Russian soldier Boris with an exaggerated face. This nagging and mocking fellow is better than the erotic object he pursues. , Suojia who believes in God has a much higher moral bottom line. So, he embarked on a journey of martyrdom where he had no choice but to laugh wildly. He was trapped in a world of grievances and smuggling. Boris, who did not fire a single shot, unfortunately became a war hero in 1812, a lover of St. Petersburg, and Israel. Philosophy and physiology at the same time won the clumsy husband of the beautiful, and assassinated the sinner who obstructed the course of history by assassinating the fake Napoleon.

In the end, he was on death row and waited happily for God to appear, thinking that God had discussed with Napoleon and forgave him. As a result, Dayi stepped onto the execution ground with a smile on his face, and was picked up by the god of death agreed when he was a child.

The same questioner. In Bergman's view, God is a big spider ("The Heart of Glass"); in Woody Allen's view, God is objectively a liar who is in harmony with death, subjectively , But an innocent unlucky person who was misunderstood by language arts (the shadow of the apparition just told him that the sins in the world were forgiven, and it did not represent Napoleon).

As the soundtrack, Prokofiev’s "Lieutenant Kizhi" is also absurd. The story is about Nicholas I being angry with a non-existent "Lieutenant Kizhi", so the guards were forced to arrange exile and pardon. , Weddings and funerals. After all, the world is nothingness, with non-existent names called "Lieutenant Kizhi". Both Prokofiev and Woody Allen had insights.

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Love and Death quotes

  • Boris: You're a tyrant, and a dictator, and you start wars!

    Napoleon: Why is he reciting my credits?

  • Boris: [composing poetry] "I should have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas... " Too sentimental!

    [crumples up paper and throws it in the fire]