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The "Molly" is driving on the wide Amazon river, on which is the European opera troupe that is performing. When Caruso’s high-pitched and beautiful opera echoed in the Amazon jungle for the first time, it was a unique landscape created by culture, even with local rubber. The tycoon also repeatedly praised: "It's so spectacular!" And Fitzgerald, who made all these wonders, stood on the deck, smoking a cigar, standing by the velvet chair, admiring his masterpiece, and raising his head. Upward, there is pride in his eyes. While the ship is galloping, he is a successful man who has created a miracle, but he is also a conqueror of this land and this jungle.
But in this miracle created by nature and human civilization, there are two things that are missing: the same is the sound. From the beginning of the movie, there are errors in the downloaded movie soundtrack, not just the problem of out-of-sync, mixed The voice could hardly hear the dialogue, so it came to a thorough and turned off all the sounds. Therefore, listening to the opera in the Brazilian theater is silent, and deep into the jungle of the Shirowa on the Amazon River is silent, and all the shouts. , Conflicts, hugs, and applause, all happened in silence-of course, when the European Opera Company played on the "Molly" in the end, it was also unfolded in silence. It felt like Paul was slowly entering in a boat. The narrower the waterway, the emotion is the same: "It's too quiet!" Silent silence often indicates accidents and even dangers. A kind of man-made silence for watching movies, is it also creating a mysterious atmosphere, is it also waiting for the unexpected to come?
The second thing missing is the Indians on the ship. When the ship has reached the Pango interface, there is no more Indian fleet following behind, nor is there any Shirowa fleet that created obstacles in front, or even Those indigenous people who came from the boat seemed to have become cheering people standing on the shore. They merged into the group world and were even obliterated in the miracle. When there is no fleet, there is no possible danger. Everything is incorporated into the civilization system, they have also become spectators, and they even made "too spectacular" shouts-Does the collective "disappearance" of the Indians mean that the mysterious, unfamiliar and dangerous jungle is completely included In the Western discourse system related to opera, railways, plantations, and capital? Did they disappear by themselves or were they driven out of this land?
Turning off the sound artificially, let the plot unfold in silence; the Indians disappeared, and civilization began to flourish-when these two things were in the driving of the "Molly", in the performances of the opera troupe, in Fitzgerald's In the intoxication, disappearing in the cheers of the crowd, does it also have an implication: Herzog made civilization the master of this land, a kind of submission, which completely changed his previous ridiculous attitude towards rational civilization , Just like the meaning of the title "Ship on the Land": When a large ship that symbolizes Western civilization passes through the primeval forest, it is a kind of conquest in Herzog, conquering primitive, conquering barbarism, and conquering irrationality. , Thus becoming the most "spectacular" scene in the civilized world. But, after ten years from "Aguirre, God's Wrath", why did Herzog complete the big turn?
This kind of turn seems unbelievable, and even reflects Herzog’s ambivalence. In the Indian world, that virgin forest means "the unfinished land of God." They believe that only when humans disappear, God will return to complete. his job. So from this setting, Herzog is still repeating the theme of "Aguirre, God’s Wrath". The land and jungle that belong to God only cannot allow humans to enter, otherwise God will Angry, the Pachdi tragedy that Philip Gerrard had heard about before setting off was the consequence of "God's Wrath", so Philip Gerrard went deep into the jungle and broke into this "land unfinished by God". An adventure: He brought with him the adventurous captain Paul, the strong mechanic Qiu Luo, and the best chef in the Amazon basin, Hu La, who had the intention of offending "God’s Wrath", but in Fizger It became a challenge for Ladd. When the crew with him began to worry, he thought they were timid and cowardly, so he fired a few crew members midway; but the more the ship went into the jungle, the more the feeling became. It became more and more obvious that in the end almost all the crew on the ship fled, leaving only him, Paul, Qiu Luo, and Hula to give to the four people.
The jungle seems to be full of dangers, the river seems to have hidden dangers, and even the lives of four people are threatened. In such a state of intrusion, they represent the so-called civilization, and their penetration is the beginning of conquest. In this civilized conquest, the danger has actually gradually emerged. At the Amazon terminal, a black railway station master greeted them. The black people and the railway construction constitute a contradiction, which means more conquest, and the black station master told them The thing is, he is looking forward to the railway going deep into the jungle, but civilization seems to be hindered here, because the railway construction is almost stranded, the black station master is just stationed here as a symbol, and the railroad tracks here are also Indians. Excavated, when Fitzgerald carried the rails onto the ship, it was both a destruction of the civilized world and a continuation, because in his opinion, his ship had more conquering significance; and he stopped on the way. I met two preaching pastors in the place where the pastors seem to have encountered difficulties, because the primitive Shirowa people have retreated to the depths of the jungle, and they have no objects to preach; but in fact, this difficulty implies danger , Because when Fitzgerald’s ship continued to move forward, they saw an inverted umbrella floating on the water. One kind of suspicion was: this is the umbrella of the preacher, but he has been killed by the locals, so It is a warning to the fleet.
"It's too quiet!" At this moment, Paul sighed. Quietness is not a kind of eternal silence, but it hides sudden danger. The previous Tragedy of Pacidi, now the stranded railway construction plan and transmission The horror of the Taoist being killed all conveys the reality: Fitzgerald, who represents civilization, ventures into this jungle of Indians. He will definitely incur the wrath of God and repeat the tragedy of the destruction of civilization—— Herzog created tension in this way. But this tension slowly turned into a gimmick, and in the end it turned out to be a disaster: when the crew fled one after another, the danger seemed to be ahead, but there were no crossbows and no secret arrows; when entering the Shirowa territory, the big ship appeared behind. There were countless small boats, and the felled trees on the mountain became obstacles for the ship to sail away, but the danger still did not appear. The chief only led everyone on the ship and began a peaceful dialogue in hand-to-hand contact; when Fitz Gerrard proposed to tow the boat from the depths of the woods in order to shorten the itinerary, but this did not meet any opposition. Even the Indians actively cooperated; they fell a lot of trees, built a mountain top platform, and paid for it. After a huge amount of labor, the ship finally began to crawl slowly. Even when an accident happened and the Indians were crushed to death under the hull, the indigenous people did not aim at them, and finally pushed the big ship through the jungle smoothly to the other side. Of land and water.
The huge project of "boating by land" not only caused no conflicts, but also became a model of cooperation. Especially when the Indians died in an accident, and the practice of relying solely on their physical strength encountered difficulties, Qiu Luo started the boat. The power system is pushed upwards, and the artificial force pulls upwards, forming a cooperative system of "mechanical and physical". This is a symbol of the harmonious coexistence of civilization and barbarism. When a huge ship is cut down from the jungle Walking through, when the Indians paid the price of their lives, and when the final project was completed, everyone was immersed in carnival. In this cooperative world, there are no enemies and no dangers. Of course, the adventures brewing from the beginning are not. Re-existed. Why is God not angry? Why didn't the Indians resist? No white people will be unimpeded?
These reasons may be Herzog’s biggest contradiction. On the one hand, he continued the theme of "God’s Wrath". Letting civilized ships enter it was creating possible death, but he didn’t seem to put Fizger into it. Ladd sees it as a simple conqueror, because he represents passion and resistance to civilized order: he is obsessed with opera, and the dreamer builds a grand theater in a small town in Peru, just because this dream requires sufficient funds , So he agreed to the rubber tycoon’s suggestion to go to this mysterious and even terrifying forest area to harvest. That is to say, Fitzgerald’s behavior is for art, for dreams, not for conquest, and even the so-called funds are also a kind of It’s just a kind of tool, so in Herzog’s vision, Filgerald represents real art. He is different from the conqueror in the rationality of entering the Amazon jungle, so in a "too quiet" world , He decisively took out the phonograph and let Caruso’s opera spread to the depths of the jungle through the loudspeaker. Not only in Fitzgerald’s view, but also in Herzog’s view, such a sound is not destructive. The tranquility of nature, and the sound of nature is in harmony with this jungle, so it is not destruction, nor will it attract resistance.
In Caruso’s singing world, such a harmonious world was easily established, and beyond the scope of opera, it became a symbol of mythology. Together with this big ship, in the Indian world, it became completely " "Artifact"-God was not angry, but was appeased: cutting down a large forest is not a destruction of nature; pulleys and nooses are not symbols of the industrial world, but symbols of creating a new world; what is the relationship between the death of two indigenous people , Because they are engaged in a great cause—the Indians’ resistance to civilization from the front, to cooperation in the future, and finally to the respect of civilization as gods. This change is actually not based on a reasonable change in Indians’ psychology and beliefs. It's just an artificial setting of Herzog: when Fitzgerald decided to implement the plan of "boating by land", when the big ship moved on the physical ropes of the Indians, when the death incident was gently erased in the cooperation, even the whites They also feel incredible in the world, how can they become the common transformation of the Indians? What Fitzgerald could not understand was: "Why do they work for us like dogs?" When the project was about to be completed, the Indians began to paint on their faces, and Hula worried about what they were planning, because only war came. They will be "invisible" like this, "The four of us will definitely press our heads and heads together in the end." But nothing happened. The ship glided down from a high place, the ship entered the water, and the ship entered the wide water from a narrow area. There was no conflict, let alone war, and the four white men were safe and sound, and even became heroes to complete this incredible journey.
In fact, all this is only because the Indians regarded this big ship as an "artifact": "It will quiet the ghosts in the water." It is just for this reason, to let all dangers disappear and all oppositions to become cooperation. Let civilization move forward-in this "land unfinished by God", Indians are actually the protagonists in Herzog movies. They have been building railways and missionaries have gone deep. What have they experienced? ? When they faced the big ship and the civilized world, what kind of entanglement did they have? Why is there no anger in this "land unfinished by God" in the unbridled introduction of mankind? Herzog did not explain all of this deeply. In the simple deification of the ship, there is no suspense. The so-called artifact, in destroying virgin forests, creating death, and destroying homes, has actually become a kind of fiction. It even reflects the ignorance of the Indians themselves, just like when Fitzgerald held a piece of ice to the chief. At that time, the chief looked curiously. In his opinion, this may also be a kind of artifact, but the ice will melt, the ice is nothingness, and Fitzgerald seems to have deliberately created a lie, "There is no way to tell, in their language There is no word ice."
There is no word of civilization in their language, no word of religion, no word of opera, all together are just an illusory kingdom made by white people, but for Fitzgerald, why bother if the indigenous people understand this? Everything, because in his opinion, success means seeing and self-satisfaction, just like the story he told about the white man who finally saw the Great Falls of Nicaragua. When everyone questioned him, he just said One sentence: "I saw it." The success and satisfaction together has something to do with me, why bother about their misunderstandings, why bother about the evidence they want-a one-man Fitzgerald playing on the Amazon River in a European opera troupe In, standing next to a velvet chair and smoking a cigar, he became a distinctive symbol of individualism in European civilization.
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