The above scene left me with an impression of aftertaste. It is not strong, but powerful. It is a miracle of the interaction between shadow and light and language. The moment the shadow turns and disappears, it is a half-length figure. There are only outlines, no faces. Perhaps this is what the fellows look like. In fact, the answer has already appeared, but C hasn't found it yet. And when C finally sat on the steps, Mussolini had already stepped down at that time, and a small fire next to him was burning, and his face was red with the flames. He turned his head and went in through the railing, and he was alone in the dark. Shaking the record player. It is still firelight, cave-like darkness, this scene can immediately remind you of the first scene, C's lens close-up, red light flashes on his face, you don’t know where he is, maybe it’s on the train, I I guessed that his expression was serious and full of false phantoms. When the lens began to move away, the phone rang, and he was on the bed, the red light should be a neon flash. Light, we mentioned light again and again, as if C himself had to feel ashamed that he didn't notice this. When he confirmed that the woman also got in the car, he immediately went out. He walked to the other side of the bed, a woman with a naked back was as quiet as dead, so I couldn't help but give birth to bad thoughts, no, no, you guessed it, I just thought this at the beginning of the movie A woman is not an important role, so I actually suspect that she is indeed dead (this woman is C's wife).
C is now going to find another woman Anna.
C, who volunteered to serve the Nazis, is obviously also attractive to the Nazis. You know, the other party said that many people joined the Nazis. In fact, they did not believe in it, and they did not believe in it. They were trying to make a fortune. C feels that he is right. Why did he throw himself into this torrent, and at the same time he announced to his blind friend that he was going to get married.
C and his subordinates are still chasing Anna.
C said that as long as he is alone with his fiancée, his fiancée is slutty enough.
If the story is a simple straight line narrative, then C is like other secret police, but some small characters who want to touch women and violence through chaos. Bertolucci said that editing can achieve effects that you can't imagine at first. The editor slightly broke the compactness of this company's catch-up event, and used circuitous and flashback techniques, and added some other materials of similar structure into these gaps. C is like a movie star in others. In his story, he made a shadow of himself (this situation is very complicated, because as an actor XX plays C, and C’s experience is just like the protagonist in those spy stories, the actor made his achievements in C’s story It’s like my own shadow, so just like that short story by Borges, you can probably guess which one I’m talking about as long as I mention fire and shadow).
C suddenly asked to get out of the car. After a while, he made a gesture in front of the car to stop the car.
A child wearing a ridiculous hat and knee-length shorts first avoided the small car that was slowly driving next to him, then stopped, and gestured in front of the car to stop.
This child is C in his childhood. These two similar actions suddenly brought out some kind of psychological hint. Maybe we should emphasize more, or the color is more intense, and it is not enough to attract attention. .
C is repenting. His repentance is just a statement, because he admits all his faults and is willing to bear the consequences. However, let’s not talk about it yet. C said that he killed someone. C began to remember when he was a child when he followed the driver who drove home. The driver said that he had a gun. The male driver began to hint to the child and let the child. C said to the priest that he was shaking like a woman, the male driver. He began to kiss the child's thin legs. Finally, C suddenly jumped up from the driver's bed, grabbed the gun, and shot randomly. The priest asked C, he molested you (has it succeeded?). C said that it seems that the priest thinks the crime of indecency is more serious than the crime of homicide. The memory of this incident, in my opinion, is the shadow cast by the director on the wall of C’s cave. Under the guidance of this shadow, C identified himself as a killer and became a certain guide to his identification of sex and his position. . Ever since, he believed that getting married with a petty-bourgeois woman was one of the normal manifestations, and being obsessed with the woman Anna but not crazy is one of the normal manifestations. Joining the Nazi Party in a country controlled by the Nazi government to eliminate the country’s Anti-Nazis are also one of the norms.
The former and the latter are completely integrated and connected. Parking, interruption, confession, shooting, so under such a small stream of consciousness arrangement, presenting C's self-knowledge before your eyes is still not enough, so they arranged such a plot, C took his mother to the mental hospital to visit The father in the hospital, the needle under the bed, the male servant (also mother’s concubine), the father’s sanity, the empty space in the mental hospital, the white long stone chair, the Roman solemnity (a strange combination with the mental hospital) Musso Rini-style dream buildings, these constructions seem to not only bring C into a chaotic world but also maintain order. This is also C’s spiritual world. For C, his mother’s normalization of his concubine and his father’s Going crazy is an abnormal behavior, and he is unwilling to accept it. Just like Bertolucci’s analysis of the character C, this type of person pretends to be high-minded and feels that he is different from others. He strives to be normal (the word "normality" is often mentioned by C), and constantly proves his normality. Be a fellow. Normality, in the basement, a blind friend celebrated C’s farewell bachelor party. C talked about normality while sitting with his blind friend. C saw that one of his friends’ feet was black. , The other one is brown, and the director constantly introduces this kind of allegorical potential discourse (Anna's ambiguous relationship with C's wife). Discussing the issue of normalcy with the blind is originally a joking scene. The blind themselves are abnormal. They are blind, so they have to look for a normalcy. (C’s blind friend is a Nazi, and C is introduced to the Nazi party by him. Human), Bertolucci once arranged a scene in which blind people vote for Mussolini (later it was useless). In fact, this hints at a misunderstanding of C’s understanding of normalcy (so in his dialogue with the teacher We know that his dissertation when he graduated was about the shadow of Plato's cave. The teacher said he hadn't finished it. I thought of the end of the film C even if it was finished completely). Another outlet for C's self-knowledge is the woman named Anna. Anna is the teacher's wife, an intellectual, and an elegant woman. In the office of a minister in the Nazi Party, he saw that the woman flirting with the minister was Anna, and the prostitute he met during the assassination of the teacher was also Anna, but this Anna had a scar on her face. C's self-awareness is also peeking into the audience's viewing. Anna was like a safe temptation. Of course he was shaken. He chased Anna and his teacher's car. As a result, he finally chose the identity of an uncertain fellow. He did not rescue Anna. The death of Anna and his teacher finally allowed him to reluctantly stabilize his status as a fellow.
Things came to an end.
The original ending of the author Moravia's novel, C, was sitting in the car, and there was an airplane watching him all the time, probably, according to Bertolucci. Bei felt that the ending seemed too cruel, so he broadcasted Mussolini's downfall on the radio, but C had to go out to meet his blind friend. His wife stopped him. Everything seemed so depressed, even at this time C still Like a steadfast fellow, he has no doubt about his own path, but he actually saw that the driver who molested him was still alive and was seducing another man, so he was different, he told the priest The fact that he killed someone at the age of 13 was producing a butterfly-like power of fear at this time. He suddenly shouted that the resurrected driver was a Nazi, and pointed to his blind friend, saying, chanting his friend’s Name, shouting to everyone that he is a Nazi.
As a fellow, C failed. So in the end, as I described before, the red fire light illuminated his upper body and his face, looking into the cave-like darkness, but the shadow was gone.
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