watching this基斯耶洛夫Sharansky film. Reminds me of the name of an autobiographical novel by Tchaikovsky: "Symphony of Sadness". And this film made me once again obsessed with the theme of fate in Eastern European movies. It is cold and stoic, and it is a silent inner discussion and tension.
"'I tell you the truth, even when the heavens and the earth are abolished, not a single drawing of the law can be abolished, but it must be fulfilled."-"The Ten Commandments" are quoted from the "Bible", according to the "Bible·Exodus" According to the book, the Ten Commandments were given by Jehovah and ordered by Moses to promulgate and implement them. The main contents are: no other gods; no sculpting idols for yourself; don’t take the name of the Lord your God in vain; keep the Sabbath as a holy day; Honor your parents; don’t murder; don’t commit adultery; don’t steal; don’t give false testimony to frame people; don’t covet everything about others. For many years, the Ten Commandments of Moses have been regarded as the standard of life by hundreds of millions of people in the world and have become universal
There is an iron law of life." In this film, there is a silent man who always sits by the river, looking at the lit flame, as if peeping at something. In "Red, White, and Blue" there is also an old lady who throws rubbish constantly appearing before each life decision, as a coordinate that constantly measures the change of fate, from living to death. And this measurement is so cruel. The father of the little boy is calculating whether the freezing of the river can bear the weight of his son. This father who uses rational calculations to live his life never thought that the river would thaw in the impossible, and a life would suddenly come to an end here. The boy once asked what happened to his father's death. Perhaps just like the boy's computer program, a 1 can represent open, and a 0 can represent closed. This kind of binary conversion makes life so abrupt, without any process, just like the disaster in my second grade, which suddenly collapsed my childhood. In the film, when the little boy asked who God is again, his aunt hugged him tightly. She said that what you feel is love. But in the end it was God who robbed love from his father forever. At the end of the film, the father came to the church alone and overthrew the gods and pushed the power of internal violence to the point. My
father's computer turned on again mysteriously, and it said: I am ready...
Yes, I am ready . Long ago.
The second commandment-dilemma
The husband is about to die, but the wife is pregnant with a friend's child. The weight of life lingers. Entered the second state of life, in a dilemma.
The hospital is an indifferent place that makes survival and death insignificant. In fact, death is not mysterious or sorrowful, but because it is too scarce, too sudden, and unbearable. And if you often sit in the hospital and face the ins and outs of death, you will become numb. This numbness is not a moral unkindness, but a physical habit. In fact, at the last moment, the patient does not care whether he is alive or not, but only cares about liberation, whether it is death or something. If you have no other reason, existence has no meaning. The doctor has his own morality in this environment to guide his actions, as if it says that he has his own God. Yes, doctors' morality for life is different from ordinary people. Whether it is narrow or noble, this kind of personal darkness always exists in everyone's heart. This kind of voyeuristic desire dominates the drive of power. When you hand over yourself to the hospital, it is equivalent to handing over your life to others. The darkness always appears in this dominating time. Others and hell are manipulated by all chances and coincidences. I have read a novel, which is an online novel, because it is too bloody and dark to be published. In the novel, a person adds a pinhole camera to each tenant’s house. Everyone’s every move is exposed to him. He uses every creative coincidence to guide their actions and behaviors. From the tenant’s point of view, There does not exist such a person, but it is he who implicates them with each other, and he unknowingly guides a purpose, death, driven by this powerful desire to dominate. Morality has different standards in everyone's mind. Even right or wrong.
At the end of the film, the husband came alive mysteriously, and the wife, under the deceit of the doctor, thought that the husband would die, and did not destroy the friend’s child. The husband who woke up thought that the child in his wife’s belly was his own.. The film has no end. In the end.
In fact, everything is back to the beginning, everything is not over, just the beginning. Dilemma.
The third commandment - the night roaming
lies whether it is correct, a forever buried in the past is the beginning of implies an adult heart, and for emotional restraint and patience it means people are gradually maturing. Kisjelovsky continued his moral anxiety.
Eva's husband disappeared on Christmas Eve where, years ago, he found his lover, go looking for ....
基斯耶洛夫Chomsky always be slow in advancing the story, the feeling of being silent as if In the long winter night in the north, we are always trying to find warmth in the long dark night, living for granted, until we gradually get used to it and face it habitually. When all of this is at ease, we are gradually at a loss, and everything in the past At this time, he was rushing.
The search continues. Many years ago, they were found by Ava's husband when they had an affair. Since then, Ava's husband has never had sex with her again.
Finally, Ava told Janush that her husband had not disappeared at all, but had been separated from her a long time ago. She has been living alone for several years and has endured the erosion of loneliness. This year, she bet with herself that if Janush can spend Christmas Eve with her, she will continue to live. After speaking, she threw two poisons from her pocket and smashed them with her feet.
People are doomed to a lonely destiny, and what we choose, what we want, maybe this is the theme. The past is just a dream of the past. In fact, Janusz’s wife knows everything, but what matters is what we want, because it is fleeting.
When Janush returned home, he saw his wife curled up on the sofa sleeping, and the warmth came at that moment.
The fourth commandment-father and daughter infatuation.
We can't get rid of a certain habit, just as we can't get rid of the bondage given to us in the past, the kind of defects and struggles from childhood will accompany us throughout our lives.
There is such a prophecy in ancient Greek mythology: King Thebes’ newborn baby (that is, Oedipus) will one day kill his father and marry his mother. King Thebes was shocked by this prediction, and ordered the baby to be discarded on the mountain. But a shepherd found him and gave him to the king of a neighboring country as his son.
Oedipus didn't know who his true parents were. When he grew up, he did many heroic deeds and won Queen Iokaster as his wife. Later, when the country's plague became widespread, he learned that the traveler he killed many years ago was his father, and now he is sharing the bed with his own mother. King Oedipus was so embarrassed that he blinded his eyes, left Thebes, and wandered alone.
And this is the prototype of the Oedipus complex in psychology.
Anka’s mother passed away when she was five months old, and she lived with her father Mike since she was a child, until one day Mike went out. That was the letter she found out from her mother when she was 15 years old. The envelope was not taken out this time. She saw that it said: "If something happens to me, please give it to my daughter Anka".
And this letter will slowly flow out the secret backlogged in the heart of the father and daughter along with the secret of this letter. Anka said that he has been longing for Mike all the time, and he can only be happy if he is with him. Mike admitted that it was hard to see Anka with her boyfriend... and Anka told Mike that she was not Mike's daughter.
This kind of destiny has already existed in our childhood lack and affects our future lives. The interdependence between Anka and Mike is the Oedipus complex that they will not be able to break from now on. In fact, for us, the so-called The standard of love is actually the absence or continuation of this time, frankly speaking, no one can get rid of it.
Early the next morning, Anka was awakened by the door opening. She jumped up from the bed and found that Mike had gone. Anka shouted to Mike from the window, saying that the content of the letter was her own fiction, and that she had not opened the mother's suicide note at all. After returning home, they burned the letter, leaving only a corner: "Dear daughter, I want to tell you, Mike...". The rest were burned.
Nothing seems to happen... the fate continues.
No one knows what the result will be, and Kisjelovsky has never tried to give any results to his films. What he reveals is only a situation, and it is precisely the infatuation that contemporary people can never get rid of.
The Fifth Commandment-Killing Movies
"The law should not imitate nature, but improve it. Law is a human concept, used to regulate the relationship between individuals, nowadays we and our way of life are the result of the legal movement, whether we are To obey or violate it, human beings are free. His freedom is within the scope of not hindering the freedom of another person. Punishment is a kind of retaliation, especially when it is intended to harm the criminal rather than prevent crime. But now the law can bring It implies revenge. Is it really for the sake of innocent people? Are the legislators really innocent?"
For the first time, Kisjelovsky used three narrative clues in a short film, juxtaposing the three lines of lawyer, Jazzek, and taxi driver in the film. The young lawyer was making the final defense before graduation. Yazek fell into the pain of losing his sister Maria and sought a chance to kill, and the taxi driver did not like the game in the low-level fun. Finally the three clues met, and Yazek killed the taxi driver with difficulty, but it seemed that Yazek's anxiety had not been removed, and the young lawyer was defeated by Yazek's defense.
"For lawyers, the result is the most important thing, not the process." This is what I heard in a TV series about lawyers, and lawyers cannot get the answers they deserve with their conscience, because lawyers It has never been the incarnation of justice, but only the supporter of results. We are trying to find the right answer, but violence and violence cannot be improved or redeemed. It is only an end to a crime and the beginning of another crime.
When the lawyer visited the prison for the last time, Yazek calmly begged his descendants to the lawyer and talked about the memory of his dead sister Maria. Finally, when it was time to hang, Yazek finally said to the lawyer: "Sir, I don't want to go."
In today's society, we deprive one of our lives in exchange for a certain balance, and punish another for the death of one. This price has not improved our society, but has deepened the seeds of hatred. Just like the lawyer at the end of the film kept crying in the wilderness: I hate you, I hate you... And what is the real "justice"? And is there only one way to "prove the existence of'just' by the loss of a period of freedom"?
The law itself is a dualistic refutation.
The sixth commandment - love movies
peep peep owned down the sense of superiority, we believe that all of the top power is the power of God somewhere, we try to hold this power, the kind of insight unbreakable grasp, And when we are trapped in it, we find that we can only face the disillusionment of powerlessness and hope.
Domic works in a post office. He has a crush on Magda, who lives in the apartment opposite to his home. He forged remittances in order to see Magda. When he peered into Magda’s life, he found that even Magda There have been many men around, but she is still unhappy. Once, when he saw her lying on the table crying bitterly, he approached him as a temporary milk delivery worker and told him that he loved her. Magda took him home and put Domic’s hand on the base of his thigh. Tell him to touch it in and say, "This is love." Magda realized the harm she had done to Domic and wanted to recover it, but it was too late.
That night, Domic used a razor to cut the artery in his wrist in the bathroom. Duo Mike came out from the hospital, when Magda look for him, and when the smile, he just coldly said, "I'm not seeing you up."
基斯耶洛夫Chomsky in "Ji Siye In "Lofsky on Kisjelovsky" he said: "Love is very difficult for the boy and the woman afterwards, so we always look at their love through the suffering side. This kind of love is always some kind of pain, some kind of impossible connection."
We live in a net of indifference, even a moment of warmth can destroy you, and the only thing you can do is careful indifference. , And this is the path you must pass, others and hell, even if everyone has been warm. And this is the price.
The seventh commandment-
the absence of true and false motherhood loses the power of self-affirmation. Modern society needs a coordinate to support our own existence. Once the coordinate is lost, we will be like the dust in the sky. Such as money, status, and even love.
Meika fell in love with her teacher Poitl when she was in high school, but the teacher abandoned her after she became pregnant. For her mother's future, Meika's daughter became his sister. A few years later, Meika graduated from University, and her sister "Majia" was six years old. Meika tried to obtain her right to be a mother, but she found that she was missing a little bit of her identity as a daughter. When Meika took Majia to Poitel’s residence, a brief moment It seems not to be true, and when Meika was unable to obtain her identity and chose to leave alone, Majia still couldn't call the name that should belong to Meika at the last moment, and her mother seemed to be too. Aware of some kind of sadness.
Meika finally reluctantly chose to leave with nothing, but we still struggle with self-affirmation and cannot extricate ourselves. For destiny, this affirmation comes from others, even if you seem so strong.
The eighth commandment - crime soul
sin not what you had committed, but the fate of a conspiracy. There is no good person here, because everyone is the planner and victim of this occasion, without exception.
Sofia is a respected professor in the philosophy department of the university. And Elizabeth has translated a lot of Sofia’s works. One day Elizabeth came to Sofia’s class and told a story:
There was a little girl who was Jewish and her parents were locked up in a concentration camp. A kind tailor hid her. . The Gestapo was about to start a large-scale raid. She had to obtain a fake birth certificate. The tailor found a young Catholic couple. When the agreed time came, the couple showed hesitation. Finally, the wife said that they regretted that they could not provide Elizabeth with a false certificate. Finally, the tailor found someone to take the child and fled Poland. Many years later, the husband of the couple was dead, and the wife became a professor in the philosophy department of the university.
A simple story. Yes, Elizabeth is the little girl, and Sofia is the university professor.
Elizabeth lives in an indelible memory, while Sophia always lives in guilt. They live in different trajectories, but they are always entangled in the dark. Finally they came together. But the result does not seem to be the case. Sophia told Elizabeth the truth many years later: In fact, the couple had already been followed at that time. They were afraid of endangering the life of the little girl, so they refused to help. But this seemingly simple result entangled the life trajectory of many people, including the tailor.
Elizabeth later found the tailor who rescued her back then, but the tailor refused to recognize her. Through the window, the tailor looked at the little girl he had saved and Sophia who had made him and the little girl helpless... Like he can only make pre-war fashion clothes, no matter how to escape, he can't get rid of the past.
In the film, the story in the second commandment was quietly brought out and let us know that they all happened in the same building, and the old stamp collector who appeared twice is the tenth commandment Central Asia that has not yet appeared. The dead father of Se and Jesse...
Then do you believe in that hand in the dark, at least I do. Perhaps when you see these words, we are also in the same building, who knows.
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