In inequality, God is there, and whose people are we.
In 1962, Polanski became famous with his debut novel "The Knife in the Water". With an unfathomable proposition, he showed the darkness and evil in the depths of human nature to people. The film does not make a moral judgment on anyone. Polanski gives the yardstick to the audience, because everyone's experience and worldview determine their way of dealing with the world.
The film’s story is simple. A couple and a hitchhiker and their experiences on vacation on the lake tell about the responsibilities and moral issues between encounters and marriages. As long as they are alive, the next moment is an unexpected possibility.
The film begins with a couple Christina and Andrei driving on an outing, and the sad jazz music ghostly follows them on their journey. The shadowy reflections of the tree branches on the car windows and the blurred human faces are added. A weird atmosphere. This passage has similarities with "Butterfly Dream", and reference is an inevitable mode of growth. They don't speak much, but they are on the road together, and the people's gaps are unobstructed. They may have their own concerns, who are expressionless!
The road is as long as life is, and the collection of every moment is our answer to the world.
A young man who hitchhiked is destined to change the structure of the story. On the way, they talked, expressing boredom of life. Perhaps boredom and boredom are the port of everything!
They are on a boat, and the boat is carrying stories in the distance. What kind of "changing wind and clouds" will there be on the seemingly peaceful lake. The sea of clouds is silent, and the waves are silent.
The scenery on the lake is picturesque, the boat is slowly moving into the distance, the beautiful Christina lies quietly on the boat and enjoys the sun, the shirtless Andrei is meditating, the young and handsome young people are looking at the distance and the three of them are doomed It is an emotional drama.
The emergence of the college student's pocket knife is obvious. As a symbol of violence, this knife paved the way for the subsequent dramatic conflict. It also smeared a dark color to the quiet and beautiful lakes and mountains.
They are of different classes. The director uses the details of controlling the sails to illustrate the difference. The sails are always in the hands of the middle class, and the poor college students obviously cannot control the overall situation. At the same time, this setting has actually completed the ultimate story. . The right to speak is determined by class.
Pulling in the reeds, the young man wanted to leave, but Christina's irritating words made him change his mind.
A man always has an instinct to hunt for beauty in his heart. This instinct is a product of desire that makes a man's orientation towards things shifted and may reverse the future. The parties often don't know anything before the end.
Slimming became an attention-grabbing struggle, and the conversation between the saxophone and the piano reflected the restlessness of the men. In the soothing music, the camera turned to Christina at the helm. The director used a few shots to illustrate their status. Too many jokes in human stories originate from women. This is the tragic nature of desire creatures.
The bored Christina's eyes are always consciously or unconsciously looking at the strong and handsome young people. Perhaps talents are a kind of fun on the lake with only the color of water. There was no wind and the boat was stuck in the lake. The young man tried to change this suffocating waiting with oars, but the boat was spinning in place, and the young man was passive, because the "helmsman" would not be him! The furious young man threw the oar into the lake. Andrei asked him to retrieve it. The young man who could not swim froze. In the end, it was Christina who rescued him. This also illustrates the young man’s disadvantages ( Can't swim), metaphors abound in Polanski's imagery world. Philosophy and belief in ideas control the context and rhythm of the film.
Playing with a knife shows that young people want to control the heart of life, but the fledgling can only fight in vain. On the dangerous journey of life, he can only be at the mercy of the gods, and in the end he is scarred.
The boat is unconquerable for young people, because he does not belong to it.
Sometimes the point of view in the film is the subjective perspective of young people. Christina's plump body swayed in the field of vision, swaying the growing heart for a moment.
Sailing is a manifestation of conquering nature, and it is also the best embodiment of men's desire to conquer. Who doesn't want to hold life in their own hands.
When the heavy rain came, they moored the boat into the reeds, hiding in the cabin, and the young man caught a glimpse of it. Christina's nakedness, something began to swell in the young man's heart.
In the cabin, the three of them were playing tricks. What they won or lost (women's high heels, men's belts) led to some hints and teases, and the jackknife had been playing with a throwing knife in Andrei's hands. , This kind of composition basically determines the direction of the ending, which is the director's cleverness.
At dawn after the rain, the lazy Christina and the young man were chatting on the deck. Andrei, who woke up, wondered about something. He silently put away the young man's pocket knife and went to the deck. However, all he saw was that they were repairing things. The boat continued to sail. The young man discovered the loss of the jackknife and tried to ask Andrea to retrieve it, but he was provocatively thrown into the lake by Andrey. The young man was anxious. The battle, but unfortunately fell into the lake.
Christina asked Andrey to find the young man, but Andrey threw all the young people's remains into the lake in order to destroy the evidence. Kristina and Andrei had a violent quarrel. During the quarrel, Polanski brought us close to the essence of middle-class marriage. This critical spirit is a characteristic of Polanski. He is always appropriate. Let you understand the secrets of human nature.
Fearing legal punishment, Andrei once again went down to the lake to look for the young man. The young man took the opportunity to slip on the yacht. After a brief period of hypocrisy, his sensuality broke through the cage of rationality. Lips and lips were glued together, and the swing of the sails heralded It is the joy of Yunyu, the lake still continues its formation, and there is always an end to human will. The young man has gone ashore, he has his own future.
The wives of the middle class are also destined to return to the embrace of the middle class, and cheating is the nature of a certain class of them. Engels pointed out this point sharply more than a hundred years ago.
Everything has happened, everything has ended, and the returning ship returned to her lair. Andrei didn't know that the young man was not dead. Likewise, he would not believe his wife's cheating.
After the rain, the road back home was still long, and Andrei hesitated under a 5km road sign at a police station at the intersection. The wife's narrative and his subjective judgment are misplaced. Road, waiting for his choice.
At this moment, when he started the car again, where did he lead his fate? In the gloom of jazz, the movie ended just right, leaving doubts and propositions.
In the dead of night,
many of Polanski’s films , which let us answer the propositions of morality and commitment, are in a narrow and limited space. This kind of constriction puts everyone in an extreme position and makes human nature deviate from it. Slowly oozing out from under the mask of oneself, let people return to their original form, let people return to their original form under oppression.
Finally, I pointed out a typographical error by Mr. Wang Yunman on P381 of the first edition of the "World Film Appreciation Dictionary" "Fujian Education Press 1991 Edition". In the cabin in the rain, they played "game sticks" instead of cards, which may be the memory of the husband. Make a mistake. Therefore, I took it all in one stroke.
[Note] Venice Film Festival 1962 won the FIPRESCI Award, and the Golden Lion Award nominated
OSAMA KAVKALU at Midnight at Pudong Jackdaw’s Abode
on Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 0:15.
Postscript: This afternoon was delayed by boring arguments for a long time. I think, let the words speak!
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