The story is in the form of flashbacks. Starting from the auction of this legendary violin, it extends its life experience for more than 300 years.
Starting with the legendary craftsman who made this violin from the very beginning, in fact, the technique of this movie is slow and without loss of tension and emotion. The five life experiences of the violin describe five different forms of emotional experience.
At the very beginning of the film, the director abstractly told every story that it will have in the way of tarot cards.
The birth of the violin is a symbol of the Italian craftsman's strong love for his wife and the child who will be born. He used this as a motivation to make a perfect violin.
It is a pity that this beautiful story did not end with a happy ending, and his wife died of dystocia. . The son was not born safely, the craftsman used his wife’s blood to mix fuel and painted it on the violin body to make this stunning red violin.
As the Tarot card said to the craftsman’s wife, she will be immortal for this. After more than 100 years, the violin went to a monastery in Austria and was owned by the orphans of the monastery.
As a result, his master became a musical prodigy, and his violin was superb. He was recommended to a music teacher by priests and monks, and the violin was brought into Vienna with the master.
In this second journey, the violin symbolizes the love of music and art like life. It is a child-like innocent, angelic love without a trace of purpose and worldly entanglements.
Unfortunately, this love is also like Like a demon, devouring the mind and feelings of the child prodigy, this story is also sad. The child's heart can't stand any secular pollution, the pure love, the trust of all hope can't stand any blows. .
So he slept with the violin. At that time, the teacher said very insightful, saying that he felt controlled by the violin, but in fact, he was controlled by that kind of enchanted artistic perception. His symbol is the red violin. In the end, his fragile mind could no longer bear the shock of fear of loss.
When finally playing for the prince, when he learned that the prince wanted to own the violin, the child fell to the ground and died before he started playing. It was his heart and the loss of his soul. The violin served as his funeral. But the journey is not over. His coffin was dug out in the past hundred years, and after one person after another, he was finally taken to London by the wandering Gypsies.
The third part of the journey is a great erotic love of the century. The tarot card display will be a journey of erotic disillusionment. This time the protagonist is a famous musician in British history. He and the beautiful female writer are each other. The source of inspiration for art.
They use lust as a tool to give birth to art. In the feeling of making love, they combine desire and art. When the female writer went to Russia, musicians could not stand the temptation of lust and frenzy. They had sex with Gypsy women and became females. After the writer found out, she shot them to kill them, but in the end she shot the red violin. She said that all the crime came from that violin.
In fact, the red violins are just a symbol of desire. People pursue endless desires and delusions to sublimate their own feelings in desires, but eventually they lose their way. People think that they can control the desires in their hearts, but ultimately they are controlled by desires and cannot extricate themselves. Desire swallows people's original desire for love and confuses him in a colorful vortex.
People think they have got love, but love finally leaves silently in the blur of lust. But all the products born of desire have firmly controlled people's minds. Even if they leave, they find that they have lost too much.
The musician committed suicide, and the legacy was left to the beautiful female writer as an atonement for the escalation of desire, but it was a pity that this confession came too late.
On the fourth journey, the red violin was taken to China and pawned to a pawnshop. After many years, it was bought back by a Chinese wife and given it to his daughter. Passed on from generation to generation until the Cultural Revolution.
It was an era of rejection of everything from the capitalist West, even music, even art.
The red violin is a symbol of disillusionment, doubt and hope and belief. It represents the Chinese people of that generation's suspicion of culling all beautiful things in that era, and their pursuit and belief in truth and beauty.
Even if Zhang Aijia, a cadre of the Red Guards, even if she always believes in revolution, he still knows that the melodious sound of the violin represents all the desire for feelings, kindness, and the best side of human nature, even at the risk of being criticized. I want to give this violin to the hands of a music teacher who still has a sincere affection for the future, for music, and for art.
In an extraordinary period, in an era, people have pure beliefs, but do not necessarily do sensible things. I have not experienced that era. Everything about that era is known from my parents and books. But I believe that no matter what the situation, people should keep a clear mind to look at life and stick to the principles of their own lives. Even in different situations, they must at least be worthy of the truest part of their hearts and have a sense of the future. hope.
Even though I may have to be criticized and tortured for not following the crowd, I hope that my mind and body are more fulfilled in spirit. I will not cry for the loss of hope and the future in the future, and feel that precious time has been wasted.
I think in this paragraph, the violin represents the most true and just feelings in the human heart. Just like the Tarot card said, you will be judged, but what is true, when people are unwilling or unable to admit it, isn't it being subjected to cruel worldly trial? And in this trial, how many people will insist on the truest self in their hearts?
The fifth part of the journey, returning to the modern flashback in the opening, the violin was discovered because of its perfection, because of its long history, and because of the reputation of its users. He was commissioned by Chinatown as a national treasure for auction. This The red violin, which is a metaphor for the world, ushered in his final destination.
Here, he symbolizes a kind of cherished greed and bravery. Countless people want to be their own. Countless people have different purposes, but only the appraiser who discovered and appraised this violin knows the true meaning of this violin. And value.
He is different from other people who only know that he is precious. He truly understands his value and perfection. He truly understands that this red violin is smeared with the love of the luthier and the voice of human feelings.
He is a true Aegean, and a beautiful thing can only be truly cherished in the hands of people who understand his value. This kind of love is not sensationalism, fame and gain, lust, hunger, or selfishness. , Not drifting with the flow, he is the purest treasure from the heart.
It is a pity that the appraiser cannot afford him. Its value in the material world is set too high. Perhaps it is destined to be unable to be contained by an ordinary and kind love. In the end, the appraiser took the risk and replaced him with a copy before the red violin was finally displayed in the auction room. Tarot card said: Eventually, it will stop traveling and find a peaceful destination.
The violin soundtrack of the movie. In the five stories, either rush, or melodious, or sad, or talk. Or blurred, very beautiful.
Perhaps this red violin foreshadows one's life, from the sustenance of the love of relatives at birth, to the emotional demons that cannot be controlled because of innocent obsession with things, to the illusory flow of youth's passions, which blinds people's eyes to desires. Years have gone through the transformation of reality, unable to persist in the truth to follow the trend, absorbing fame and fortune. In old age, I will find the courage to find peace and harmony, and retreat peacefully in the ocean of life. This is a person's life. Let people feel the unique breath that fate has every minute.
PS: If the film is well shot, I don't think it is fascinating, and the pace is very slow, and it doesn't make people want to stop. This is just what I think he wants to express after watching it. But not everyone is like this. Think. In fact, it is just an ordinary literary film, even a bit long and boring, but watching life from movies is my hobby. Although the film is not very beautiful, the soundtrack is really good, and it is worth listening to his original soundtrack.
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