night mist in the ancient city is cold. Trying to reach out and grab into the void, only feels the arm is cold. Vera is tug of war with life, erasing the color that time can't fade, tears in my eyes, a faint desolation floats in front of me, or is it compassion, compassion for the unbroken life, or compassion for Villa Drake What happened? It's hard to tell whether this is sentimentality by nature or due to the awakening of human nature. At least a kind of loss and panic rises from the side, feeling the resoluteness of the audience's betrayal, and at the same time being awakened by the warmth of the surroundings.
Yaosi said: "Reading experience can liberate people from the inertia, prejudice and predicament of daily life." In fact, this liberation is more than words can bring us. Two weird works of the Venice Film Festival last year came to the world. "Ethanasia" and "abortion" are like a combination of punches for traditional and defenders; "diehards", like me, faint in front of a sharp, reluctant feeling like a soulmate. The French poet Baudelaire called readers "hypocritical readers" in the opening volume of "The Flower of Evil". I am willing to continue to bear this common name and read this work of British Mike Lee-"Villa Drake".
In the video of "Villa Drake", the reservedness and stubbornness of the British, as well as the faintly discernible sense of decay hidden in it, disgusted me; in the old corridors, there is a kind of mud in the moist air. Decay, this land of thinkers who have repeatedly appeared to influence the progress of mankind is exuding a gloomy coldness, floating in Vera's footsteps. From the city that has risen from the ruins after the war, it is hard to imagine that Vera, who is in it, has a newly renovated appearance, which is a kind of tolerance of "tuning gunners". She is kind to the disabled George and caring for the old mother in the hospital bed meticulously. She is industrious, contented, and meticulously manages the ordinary life. She also enjoys the happiness of family life. Little surprises and joys will satisfy such a woman. The old couple hugged each other in bed to dissipate the cold from each other and the cheering of the whole family when they learned that their daughter was about to marry were two outstanding scenes. Together, they inject warmth into the gloomy coldness. Like Wong Kar-wai, Mike Lee is also a director who does not need a script. In the first half of the film, he picks up the trivial pieces of life and seems to be sorting out London’s “shadows”, not only constructing Vera’s appreciation for life and enjoying life. The calm breath also shows the confrontation between the middle class and the bottom people, which is the confrontation between indifference and enthusiasm, material and spiritual.
The director's glimpse of life is not over, and the unknown side of Vera's life is gradually revealed. She skillfully uses her own way to "rescue" women in deep trouble. The abortion scenes she manipulates are shocking. Although the director did not arrange for us to watch how the trembling life wilts, and use blood to stimulate the expansion of our capillaries, it is positive. It's this kind of blanking that makes us respect life. This kind of cherishing ink hides the cruelty and pain behind it, and also saves power for the coming sadness. "Old Testament • Job" mentioned that "my lungs are made by you, and you have sheltered me in my mother's womb". While respecting life, it means that it also respects the life that starts from the fetus. bud. Britain’s ancient Victorian architecture and strict legal system together maintain tradition, ethics, and morality. It exudes magnetism on the ruins after the war. It attracts one pole but also repels the other. Abortion is the other pole. , Bears the notoriety of rebelliousness. Vera braved the world's great misfortune, and went upstream, but unavoidably "saved the consequences". Whether it is the sheriff sitting next to the case or the judge in the lobby, they all use cold and stubbornly to explain the phrase "the legal net is restored, but not leaking." Throwing sound-we try to listen to the breath of life, but we are getting deeper and deeper into the opposite abyss.
Regardless of whether you accommodate abortion or not, this proposition that is still controversial today still exhibits two sides. In the contradictory combination of abortion, the "right to life" and the "right to choose" are in fierce conflict. It is difficult for us to imagine an object containing such a tit-for-tat confrontation. If a common thing has long been scarred, but it has become more and more intense, the point is pointed at the fragility. Ethics. Ethics, a transcendental thing, has penetrated into our culture and is deeply ingrained, but in which era is it not a tool for those in power to maintain social order? Ancient Greece advocated love between the same sex, but now, it is hard to say that we will not return to the basics in a hundred years; cloning once again induces ethical dilemmas in the world today, but a hundred years later, whether the new hierarchy is also derived from this change, like "Gattaca"?
The composition of the film "Vila Drake" is very complicated, as if we are walking through the night of sparse stars and waning moon, immersed in walking alone, but also looking forward to the hustle and bustle of the morning sun. Mike Lee once said, "My task is to ask questions, not to make some simple and superficial conclusions." The film is not entangled with ethical and moral issues. In order to live a life full of human touch, it also constructs a kind of "metaphor that spreads everywhere." The atmosphere of the whole film is constructed as a kind of unkempt coldness. The cold atmosphere of London seems to have infected everything around it. The thick ink and light on this image form a sharp contrast with the warm and joyful Vera family. Vera’s experience involves the joys and sorrows of the family, and also draws the sympathy of the audience. We feel how tough and fragile a woman’s life is to deal with her own cultural imprisonment, this powerlessness at the end that faltering. The elders of the show stand out, and I have to say that it is the director's ingenious work. Of course, this kind of women’s powerlessness also has more subtle hints in the film. In the middle-class family where Vera worked, the daughter of the hostess was raped by her favorite man. Unfortunately, the possibility of abortion after pregnancy was everywhere, but it was blocked everywhere. Restriction: When she was young, Vera also had similar experiences that were difficult to erase. She selflessly helped those poor women who were committed to women's self-saving regardless of payment, but once again was dominated by the patriarchal society.
This double contradiction between the compassionate life and the compassionate life seems to belittle the conscience, but it induces a deeper discussion of the conscience: who planted the seeds but escaped in panic? Did he tremble the moment he fled? Who used to push away the heavy burden, and a little life flowed away from the lower abdomen? Is she getting liberated and also falling into trouble? Does she feel guilty of cutting open a living life? Or is she calm and cold-blooded, or is she in order to fulfill her long-cherished wish and complete the redemption? Who made the rules in Gaotang to punish behaviors that are not acceptable? Where is the compassion and compassion? Is it really intolerable? Who is overthrowing the long-term system again and again, and refreshing our values and ethics? Can the tool of judgment be changed with such ulterior motives?
...So, I dropped a heavy anchor and stayed for a while to be a "hypocritical reader".
05/03/30 13:22
View more about Vera Drake reviews
