Its eyes are
so tired from the endless iron fence that it can't take in anything.
It seems that there are only a thousand iron railings,
and there is no universe behind a thousand iron railings .
The strong footsteps are striding with the soft step capacity, and the
step capacity rotates in this tiny circle,
as if the dance of power surrounds a center, and
in the center a great will is dizzy.
Only when the eyes lifted silently. -
So there is an image immersion,
through the limbs tense silence -
naught in mind.
There was a section of the ball where Prince Salina was weary and pacing alone in the room. At this moment, I thought of this poem. There was no other thought, "His eyes are entangled by the endless iron fence. So tired, nothing can be taken in." This kind of will is too dizzy-the
other is William Blake's "Tiger":
Tiger! Tiger! The fire is as brilliant,
burning through the forest and grass of the night,
what kind of extraordinary hands and eyes
can shape you into an astonishingly symmetrical body.
What kind of remote seabed and the horizon
burn out the flames that make your eyes?
What wings do you dare to volley?
Why do you grab a handful of fire with an iron palm?
What kind of time, what kind of arm,
can you stretch your internal organs?
When your heart starts to jump,
what kind of thrilling hands and feet?
What kind of iron chain? What kind of hammer?
What kind of furnace to refine your brain?
What kind of anvil? What Meng Jin
suddenly grabbed a terrible thunder?
When it came, the stars dropped their golden guns,
tens of thousands of tears shed all over the sky,
let's take a look when they are finished. Can he smile?
Didn’t the sheep maker make you too?
Tiger! Tiger! Like a brilliant fire,
burned through the night forest and wilderness,
what extraordinary hands and eyes
dare you create an amazing symmetry?
Some people say that jackals and coyotes are nothing. Indeed, you can't judge that kind of better. These are two different values. Today one value has replaced the other. What we have now is the value of pragmatic and utilitarian bourgeoisie, while the nobles in the movie have more aesthetic and honorary values. Values, the speed and power of the leopard and tiger are the representatives of this value. This kind of value permeates every part of the aristocratic society, but it is only strange to us. For a pragmatist, the concern for leopards may only be how much leather can sell.
The transition between the two eras is generally very slow, often within several generations. People in it can always feel the occurrence of some events, and they may not be able to feel the meaning behind the events. But at a certain time and place, this change reached a culmination in a whirlpool. In movies, this is what we often call epic films, such as the era in which the difference between the two generations in "The Godfather" is reflected. feel. At this specific point in time and space, you can almost witness the changes of the times with your own eyes, witness the death of the old age and the arrival of a new age, such as Sicily in 1860 in the film.
The first event in the film is death, the soldier’s body found in the garden; the first line is suffering, "During the days of our suffering," from the "Rose" they prayed, this also laid the foundation The keynote of the entire film, until the grand and magnificent ball, the nobles became active again, as if the old age was resurrected, but in this, only Prince Salina remained calm, and stayed in the study for a long time in the movie. Annotating French painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Jean-Baptiste Greuze)'s masterpiece "Punishing ungrateful children", death is only closer, he knows this is just a reflection.
Prince Salina has nothing to do throughout the movie, like a leopard lying still, but he is not out of the era. He loves science. There are a lot of astronomical instruments in the room. He is conservative but obsessed with Catholicism. But there is a proper ridicule. The most important thing is that he still has a great vision. He realizes that the arrival of a new era is inevitable, and the unification of Italy is inevitable. He belongs to an old era, and he has almost a Proust-like sense of time spread, like Sa Yide said that he gave the impression that he was immersed in time like a giant immersed in water. But this sense of super time did not bring him any comfort. In his own words in the movie, I crossed two worlds and felt uneasy in both worlds.
He is not the only disturbed person. Tocqueville, who died a year earlier than the time in the movie, has a similar feeling. He said that the past era has passed, and the future era has not yet arrived. He left behind a "On American Democracy", which was actually judged from his aristocratic perspective. More than a hundred years ago, he had a precise understanding of our era. He said that the various characteristics of this era are not unfamiliar to us, such as equality of identity, contempt for philosophy, expectation of human perfection, countless small Virtue is less noble and great. But more than a hundred years later, we looked back through time and space, but it was only greater doubts.
Nobility is a familiar and unfamiliar thing to us. Chinese aristocracy did not exist two thousand years ago, but in Western history, from the Greco-Roman era to the French Revolution, the aristocracy has always occupied an important position. Today, we have never seen aristocrats, let alone lived in aristocratic society. Visconti’s father is a duke, and Lampedusa, the author of the novel, is also a nobleman, but that era is far from the standard noble age. Many people’s understanding of aristocracy is either the image in modern Western novels, or the stupid and dumb dumb who only knows pleasure, or some guys with inexplicable pride. Fortunately, we can still guess what we don't know through some text and images, through our existing experience.
Some things may be difficult to imagine, such as their extreme care for appearance, the countless details in the movie, waiting patiently for the servants to lay it out when getting off the carriage, and not loosening the buttons of their clothes even in the hottest time. When a person is watching, there is grace when a match is lit. The majestic temperament possessed by a naturally noble person is even more difficult for us to grasp. It is said that no one can deserve a glimpse of Louis XIV. And what they care about is even more unfamiliar to us. In the words of the priest Pirrone in the movie: "The nobles you are talking about are elusive. The world they live in is the trouble and Joy is created. Those things that you and I think are insignificant are important to them. I am not saying that they are bad people. They are not at all. They are different. They don’t care about the things we think are important. We don’t think it matters. They worry about things.”
Or as Tocqueville said:
“Some of the drawbacks and virtues inherent in the system of aristocratic countries are incompatible with the character of modern people, so they cannot be introduced to them. Some good hobbies. In the former’s eyes, the evil nature and the evil nature are evil, but in the latter’s eyes it is reasonable. Some thoughts are naturally produced from the imagination of one side, but are rejected by the spirit of the other side. This is like two Like a completely different person, each has its own special strengths and weaknesses, and each has its own inherent good and evil."
As an era has changed, morals and values have also changed since then, and subsequent literature, painting, music, and poetry will also change. Just as the light source changes, the shadow will also change. Today, we may only be able to speculate about the changed value and subsequent times through some subtle changes in literature, poetry, and painting, just as we can speculate on the position of light through changes in shadows. When we are savoring in detail, we carefully study the changes in style, study the tone of speech, and then confidently say that people in the aristocratic era would never look at things that way. Our values have changed.
Individuals who are changing in the great age cannot be as calm as we are today. Hesitation or hesitation is a taboo. The future age will only belong to those who do not know how to fear and move forward. These are not the qualities of the prince. The prince is here. Here is always an untimely person. He is just tired of everything. He just looks at the picture of death and falls into the consciousness of death——
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