1. The beauty of Nightingale (The Nightingale, 2018) is the way to reveal the essence of the protagonist in the story-this weak woman is actually a fighter for life. It is worth noting that her "braveness" does not come from being able to drive. Horse, holding a gun, going deep into danger, killing the enemy for revenge, or against the existing system, becoming a character like the brave vengeance (The Brave One, 2007), which comes from the inner desire to overcome revenge and destructiveness . From the aspect of events, no one does not understand the causes and consequences, but the point of view of this movie lies in the portrayal, transition, consciousness and awakening of psychological pressure. If you are a little more reminded, it is in the middle of the movie, when she decisively killed the first soldier, this milestone experience was carved into her entire life course, so after night fell, we learned from the dream of the hero of the story Perceived, she has noticed that she has changed quietly, that is, she has perceived the loss of her own humanity-she has lost her husband and her children, and she can no longer lose herself. In the second half of the movie, is the heroine hesitating and twitching, causing the plot to drag, or a long journey from dream to awakening. It depends on the audience's focus. The focus is on punishing rape and eliminating evil, or the protagonist of the story. Life situation.
2. After the consciousness gradually awakens, the heroine's not to kill is a kind of "choice." Robert McKee, Story (Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, 1997), Chapter 5, Structure and Characters:
The truth of the character can only be revealed when a person makes a choice under pressure-the greater the pressure, the deeper the reveal, the more true the choice is to express the character's nature. Under the surface of character creation (age, IQ, gender, sexual orientation, language, gestures, style, taste, education, occupation, personality, temperament, values, etc. settings and records), no matter what his appearance, who is this person? In the deepest part of humanity, what we will find... The only way to know the truth is to look at his "choices made under pressure", in the pursuit of his desires, whether he takes such actions, or That kind of action; what choice he makes, he is what kind of person. ……The most outstanding works not only reveal the truth of the characters, but also show the development trajectory or changes of the characters' nature in the process of telling, whether it is getting better or worse.
3. From the candlelights, wood fires, stove fires, wildfires in the movie, to the brilliant morning glow on the horizon (the sun is a fire), the nightingale is finally reborn from the fire, "Fengming Chaoyang".
4. I would like to mention one thing here. In the competition at the Venice Film Festival, from the Joker of the Americans in the Northern Hemisphere (Joker, 2019) to the Nightingale of the Australians in the Southern Hemisphere, there are two very different values.
5. The characteristic of troubled times is that the legal net is tight, and being accused does not mean that the inner spirituality is really defective. Because the world has collapsed, and the people who have sinned against you are the victims of the times just like the people who have suffered. Their abuse of power is also caused by the collapse of the inner world, which is an outward manifestation of spiritual unbelief. When we consider this When a famous military officer commits atrocities, he cannot ignore his historical background and psychological causes. Xin Yiyun, Zhuang Zixin said, excerpts from De Chongfu:
Lu Youwu's uncle Shan has no toes, and he meets Zhongni. Zhongni said: "If you don't want to go ahead, if you have committed troubles. Even if you come now, how come!" Wuzhi said: "I just don't know what to do and use my body lightly. There are still those who are honored, and I will do everything. My husband and the sky are always overturned, and the earth is everywhere. I regard the Master as the heaven and the earth, and it is as if the Master is safe!"
Shushan Wuzhi is a fictional character of Zhuangzi. The ancients said that Shushan was a Chinese character, and a native of Lu was also a tortured person. He was also called toeless because he had his toe cut off for breaking the law. Because there are no toes, so I see Zhongni. The heel is the heel. Seeing Zhongni, he walked with his heel to meet Confucius. That is to say, because Shushan Toeless had no toes, he could only use his heel to walk limpingly to pay homage to Confucius. Confucius said: If you are not careful, if you have committed troubles. Although today, how much time is it! Zi, is a respectful word, it is you. Inadvertent means not being cautious, that is, improper behavior. If you are not pretentious, if the crime is over, Confucius even said that you are too careless and too unruly. Although today, how much time is it! "Although you are here today" actually means "you are here today." It means that you have reached this point, and your toes have been cut off. Even if you come down to my door today and want to learn something, how much time is there? , What else can I save?
After hearing this, Toeless replied: I only don’t know what to do and use my body lightly. I don't know the affairs, that is, I don't know the current affairs. We have a saying, “A person who knows the current affairs is a good man.” This sentence is to remind people to pay attention to what is most beneficial to them in the current society and what is the most important mainstream value, and then remind themselves not to violate the mainstream utilitarianism in the society. value. If you can recognize the value of these mainstream utilitarians, and then cater to them, you are a master. Therefore, those who know the current affairs are a master. Shushan Toeless said, I just don’t know what to do. I just use my body lightly because I don’t know the current affairs. Through the words of Shushan Wuzhi, the legal net established in that era and that mainstream utilitarian value is very deep, and it also shows that he broke the law, even suffered a toe, and cut off his toe. It does not mean that he really committed a crime, or that he did something wrong in morality and truth.
This is just like what the face in the Analects of Confucius said about his good student Gongyechang: Zi is Gongyechang, but his wife is also a crime. Although this student was in humiliation, he was imprisoned, but it was not his sin or his sin. This man was a good man, but also a wife, so he married his daughter. In fact, from a historical point of view, Chang Gongye was indeed a very virtuous person. He also violated the criminal net and was imprisoned. However, Confucius said that even though he was in the embarrassment, it was not his crime. On the one hand, even a virtuous person would violate the law on such a law net in a turbulent and uncertain age; on the other hand, it also shows that in that age, in the spring and autumn ceremony In the era of collapse, when people have nowhere to follow in society, people are very easy to violate the law.
From the time of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period to the time of Zhuangzi in the middle of the Warring States period, it was even more remarkable. Anyone with a little bit of historical knowledge in this area knows that it was an era of incredible turbulence and change, so the criminal net is more tightly formed. Zhuangzi talks about this era with these survivors, and at the same time tells us whether it is possible to look beyond the general social point of view of this era, understand this era, and even take a closer look at these crippled survivors. Possibility to reach the inner spirit of man. The development of the human inner spirit is actually not affected by physical disabilities.
Shushan Wuzhi said, I only use my body lightly because I don't know the affairs. I don't know the current affairs and use my body lightly. I was very reckless and didn't distinguish the seriousness of things, so I just accepted the task and used my body directly. To put it more profoundly, I didn't realize such a profound and complicated thing, and I forgot to protect myself. Instead, I rashly accepted some jobs and plunged into it, knowing that I violated the French Open, so I died. Today I come, there are still those who respect the feet, and I do everything, that is to say, having a broken foot makes me more aware of something more noble than toes or our body limbs. What is this more noble thing? Zhuangzi here refers to the inner virtue and inner spirit, that is, the virtue that can make oneself reach the level of comprehension. Although the toes were chopped off, they did not eliminate the ability to realize the inner self or the ability to awaken the inner self. This has not been lost, and this is higher than our body. I am doing everything, so I am awakened today, and I want to go all out to pursue and preserve the inner consciousness of this kind of person.
......After Wu Zhi finished talking with Confucius and went out, Confucius said to the students: students! You must work hard! You see, Shushan Wuzhi, a tortured disabled person, still knows to go all out to pursue and concentrate on studying to remedy the mistakes of the past. This is when we realize that we have not done well before but we can do it now. Get better, so I came to make up for the past mistakes and ignorance, in order to seek the most complete inner life development in life. Because the completeness of true life must be developed through the realization of the inner life of the self. Therefore, those of us who are able-bodied, can we not work hard to pursue the life abilities we recognize? Can we not allow ourselves to have a life awakening? You guys! Work hard!
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