Bertrand Russell • In addressing "happiness" topic, once said: "As long as the animals do not get sick, there is enough food, they feel happy that we humans also the case, however. This is not the case in modern society, at least in most cases." The matrix in "The Matrix" once created a perfect virtual world, putting people in a carefree environment every day. Their desires are all satisfied, and within a short time, they can't bear this kind of ease and they have a nervous breakdown. It is undeniable that doubts and worries are an indispensable part of people. To a certain extent, this inherent sorrow has prompted society to think and make progress. It allows us to have lighters after drilling wood to make fires. From the creaking two-wheeled carriages to the steady and fast cars, people are in Trapped by anxiety when chasing a more perfect life forever. But once people's survival in society is oppressed and threatened, then the broad pursuit of happiness will degenerate into a tightrope-style survival instinct.
There is a former Soviet joke about "what is happiness". It sounds a little joke, but it also often comes to the bitter reality while laughing dumb. In this humorous conversation, the old-fashioned British think that happiness is the heater in winter, and the romantic French say that happiness is a vacation with a blonde. The Soviets’ view of happiness is that when someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night, you can tell it calmly. The person who came to apprehend actually lived next door. This kind of happiness does not come from the satisfaction of the soul or the joy of the spirit in the general sense, but from the fluke of survival that is hanging by a thread. Death has turned out to be a stimulant in life, making living a kind of supreme glory and happiness. . This kind of happiness is the same as the simple happiness of survival that the antelope, which escapes under the cheetah’s paws every day, is no different. This kind of happiness is negative, just as "drunkenness is a temporary suicide, a short-term rest of unhappiness", people Use a more miserable situation to numb misfortune and remind yourself that there is still "happiness" in the bleak life. For individuals, this is optimism, and for a society, this is mentally chronic suicide.
The Russian movie "Burnt by the Sun" (Burnt by the Sun 1994) sets the background of the Soviet Union in 1936. Through the experience of the national hero Red Army Colonel Kotov Seki Petrov, it depicts the protracted " The "anti-revolutionary" movement has caused great pain to the people. The film does not use the cold tones and fierce struggle scenes that are used to portray political reality. It freezes the picture in the morning breeze wrapped in the fragrance of the country, tumbling with the golden muttering wheat field, the mother's singing, the wife's sweet smile, and the daughter's embrace. . In such a thick and warm atmosphere, tears and conflicts are hidden, anxiety and violence invade the homes little by little.
The six-year-old daughter of Colonel Kotov, Nadia, has the curiosity of children entering the world. She is simply ignorant, but she is also deeply infected by the patriotic spirit when she is young. Every time a young pioneer passed by, she would squint her face and salute seriously, hoping that one day she can put on her neat uniform and walk into the team proudly. Miteya, who has gone through ups and downs, said to her in a daze that if she really experienced the days of getting up, eating, and doing morning exercises together, she would know how life bury a person, and wipe out their personality and personality. nature.
When people used the weekend to play around the lake, the radio broadcasted the words celebrating the sixth anniversary of the victory of liberation over and over again, and warned that a poison gas drill would be carried out. Every time before the end, I did not forget to say: I wish everyone a happy holiday. After bringing the anxiety and fear into the originally peaceful holiday, they did not forget to tell everyone that this should be a wonderful holiday, and to know how happy they are. It's like saying, we can't swim, can't play, can't enjoy the quiet afternoon, but we are so happy. They seem to want to create a perfect world, a utopia that has never been realized, not by improving the quality of life of the people, but by "reminding" happiness in a difficult environment, and subtly preventing people from pursuing better. Life is to make the deteriorating living environment abruptly "happy" through mental hypnosis.
Some plots in the dystopian novel Animal Farm by British writer George Orwell are taken from the real events of the Russian Revolution. In the preface of the novel, he bluntly accused the "Purge" movement, pointing out that the Soviet Union is completely different As it was in 1917, it slowly developed into a hierarchically centralized country. At the beginning of the establishment of any regime, it will not deliberately and systematically develop towards the direction of centralization, and will roll out a bright and lofty future vision, so that anyone who has seen it will be willing to make unremitting efforts to advance toward this goal. Before condemning the Soviet government, Berant Russell once wrote that young people in Russia are happier than any other country in the world, because "they have a new world to create over there, and there is something necessary to create a new world. The faith of the Russian youth may seem immature, but what is the harm? He is creating a new world; and the new world must fit his hobbies, once created, it will almost certainly be able to make Ordinary Russians are happier than before the revolution.” In Orwell’s novel, from the very beginning, the elders of Animal Farm only advocated that animals should unite closely against humans who oppressed them, and sang the exciting song " "The Beast of England" leads everyone to "listen to the happy news and look forward to the golden future." When they really succeeded in the revolution and drove away mankind, the two pig leaders decently formulated the "seven precepts" at the beginning, vowing to draw a clear line with mankind. However, the situation afterwards changed from the two leaders' disagreements to an internal struggle and an activity to exclude dissidents, and later even became an internal cleansing of bloody suppression. The powerful "Napoleon" (the name of one of the pigs) deviated step by step from the original intention of the revolution and was not allowed to hum and sing "The Beast of England", alter the "seven precepts" with water, and brainwash all animals. At the end of the story, pigs and humans formed allies and began to walk and eat like humans, until the animals couldn't tell which was a pig and which was a human.
Colonel Kotov in the film is the hero of the early days of the founding of society. He is brave, loyal, loves the motherland, is charismatic, and is good at responding to various emergencies. He can be said to be a born leader. When the army's tank drove into the peasant’s wheat field, he made the soldiers surrender and return in a few words, not only because he is the beloved comrade Kotov, but also because of his personal charm; as his wife Marusia. Knowing that he once drove away Mitya, who was with her childhood sweetheart, just to have a chance to get close to her, she was deeply shocked and crying to jump off the building, but was pulled back by Kotov's affectionate call and accepted this safely. Some cruel truth. The photo of him and Stalin has always been placed in prominent positions on the desk and the wall. This is an honor and his pride. He once fought side by side with Stalin and knew the live number of Stalin’s office. This "friend" gave him power and glory. , Also led him to the road of no return. Friends, Pushkin once said, "I don't have friends anymore, or they have moved away from me." Kotov’s tragedy was not only caused by Stalin alone. Everyone played their own role in this incident, either silently or actively responding, leaving him in the car that never went back without any choice. .
2. Sing a short song for the eternal parting,
"I was burned by the sun, and the crimson ocean dried up. I heard you say, my dear dove: there will be no more love there. Let us go, and I will no longer be left in the cold." You."-"Scorching Sun"
murder and evil preferences hide in the dirty corner of the night, even if it groans and stinks, even if it only listens with its ears, it can detect how much poison its ugly face is soaked in. The nightmare entangled in the dark night can always be dispelled by the dawn of the morning, and even the blood-sucking ghosts have to hide in the cold tomb to wait for the moon to rise and sunset again. Therefore, we love the sun, the birds that it awakens, love it to bloom in spring, love it to open up the boundaries of the blue sky, love the passion it radiates, as if only a piece of light on its leaves can get happiness. However, in "Scorching Sun", we see families burnt by happiness, smiles burned by the sun, and a mother-in-law who turns blue all the golden time. The lovers still kiss, the pine trees still rustle, and the distant singing tells of an eternal parting.
The movie begins with a dance in the snow. The land is covered by ice and snow. Small bands play on an arched stage. Lovers embrace tightly to the rhythm of the music. This is one of the few cold colors in the film. The embracing lovers are a touch of warmth in the cold, but the director also uses this atmosphere to imply that no matter how deep the kiss is, the destined parting cannot be escaped. The director condensed the story in one day, and the arms of the Secret Bureau extended into the slow, leisurely pastoral life, ending the long Sunday at a rapid pace.
The tank broke into the wheat field, making Kotov's rare rest day uneasy, and this accident is just a prelude to a series of changes. Marusia hugged her daughter and looked at all this in horror, her thin figure looking helpless in the open field. The icy muzzle did not point at any invading enemy, but swayed at its own people, comrades, and defenseless wives and daughters.
Kotov lives in a mansion specially prepared for artists and musicians. It is located in the woods, shrouded in sunlight filtered by leaves. His mother, Esina, was a singer who used her song to cherish the memory of lost in the tunnel of time.
＊＊Nadia ＊＊
Nadia is the coolest breeze in the woods. Without the vulgarity, the dirty conspiracy becomes another kind of scenery in her eyes, novel and unique. It's like talking about when my grandmother was brought back from Moscow because of a gas leak, she opened her eyes wide, and said that it was because the zoo was so smelly that everyone couldn't breathe. She doesn't have much concept of good and evil. She likes Mitea who eventually took away his father, likes the car of the Secrecy Bureau, and likes to sing the sad love song "Poison Sun". If it's not that her world is too simple and beautiful, it's just that this world hides the truth too much. Originally, Mitya should be just an uncle who can sing and dance, and the car should be just a great object in the eyes of children. "Poison Sun" should be a beautiful short song, but when it comes to the real story, we will all love them. Fear, fear the blood they bring, fear the sorrow they bring.
When boating in the lake, Kotov held Nadia cherishedly, as if she made everything easy and everything in the world harmonious. He said with a deep feeling that it would be great if he could float on the river with her for the rest of his life. These words belonged to Nadia's warm promise, but it was to Kotov's sorrow and sadness. When we make the simplest wish, we are most afraid of losing.
When parting, Kotov never had the courage to put on a military uniform, but Nadia believed her father's white lie, dressed him in a panic, and stammered excitedly when she learned that she could drive. She would never know that she unintentionally pushed her father to farewell, this will be the regret that will accompany her all her life. The last game between her and her father was a match. Who could keep saying "Woo-" without changing her breath, she naturally lost. The father's voice was long like a quiet cry. His Nadia gave him the courage to say goodbye.
In Nadia's eyes, it was not a more beautiful world that existed in fantasy, but the original purity of the world, but the helpless reality made this world look so ugly.
＊＊Mitya＊＊ is
not a villain, if he is also a martyr in the whole tragedy, but everyone will have negative feelings towards him.
"To endure the tyrannical poisonous arrow of fate silently, or stand up against the boundless suffering of the world, and clear them through struggle, which of these two behaviors is more noble?" This is Hamlet's famous question, and it is also from the beginning. In the end, the question that whipped and tortured Mitya's soul. He used to have a good life, but was taken away by the war, taken away by the hero with the generous shoulders and charming smile. Facing the injustice of fate, he chose to endure silently, and even used the tyranny of fate as an excuse for losing his conscience. Unlike several other staff of the Secret Bureau, he feels that what he has done is justice, he knows that it is sinful and he wants to seek death again and again. But his weakness made him finally succumb to life, looking for support and excuses for his actions. When he was hesitating whether to kill the person who asked for directions, he saw the portrait of Stalin rising not far away. He looked at the portrait in admiration, with a grin on his mouth, as if he had received great encouragement. , The poor man's life was ended without blinking. A little hint can turn him into a murderer.
He disguised and deceived when he appeared in Kotov's house, pretending to be blind but able to tell the memory that has been deeply buried. He always likes to pretend to be blind, as if he doesn't have to face a life that is difficult to choose. I can't say that he is a bad person, but he has a weak personality and has not made any efforts or sacrifices for the people and home he loves. When threatened that year, he left his lover without a word, leaving Marusia in distress. He said that he left to avoid bringing violence and blood into this homeland, but now he personally brought greater disaster here. It seems that everything is not to be done, but in fact it is to protect yourself. Although Kotov used his power to drive him out of the country, he has devoted his sincerity and effort to fight for love and career. The methods are not bright, but his personality is upright, at least his feet are never used to escape.
Kotov can face his wife who knows the truth, but Mitya has never been able to tell Marusia the truth. There were too many secrets and tortures that could not be told, and finally he cut Mitya's wrist in the bathtub.
＊＊The person looking for Zagorenko ＊＊
There is always a person looking for Zagorenko in the movie, dragging a cart of furniture, but never reaching the destination. He is an outsider in the story, but he has been trying to walk in here. In the process of constant search, he first encountered an unsolvable mystery, and later this search brought him conflicts, and eventually led to murder. Much like the intellectuals facing the "Purge", they are considered to be outsiders of the "Purge" movement, but the first response to such a major incident is to find out what happened. In the process of constant search, even if there are not too many attempts, they will still be involved in the whirlpool unknowingly, and then in a certain action, any sensitive nerve of the government will be touched, and their lives will be lost in vain.
And another drug-obsessed maid, Mojhova, is more like an overreacting government. A small illness would put her in a lot of drugs. Similarly, an ordinary assassination caused the government to carry out a nationwide "purge". Of course, politics can never figure out the truth, and the director can only satirize the government's madness through the comical maid.
＊＊Poisonous Sun＊＊
"Poison Sun" appeared twice in the movie as a surreal image of a fireball. At first I always felt that this technique was too explicit, like ink drops on the canvas, eye-catching and swaggering. Later, I gradually felt that it simply and directly expressed how the "anti-revolutionary" movement secretly and openly broke into people's homes, sprinkling death and terror. It is unknown and so vivid, spreading like a plague, no gas mask can beat its venom. After witnessing Mitya's death, it flew to Moscow contentedly.
There are divergent opinions on this political event in the history of the former Soviet Union. There are voices of condemnation, reflections, and doubts. Director Mikhalkov did not do too much questioning and too harsh criticism, but calmly recounted the unspeakable pain and unhealable scars that the victim faced when facing the rebellion of the motherland and the separation of relatives. Without the expected resistance and wailing, disaster came quietly with a peaceful death, Kotov sat in the car with blood stains on his face, whimpering like a wounded beast. "Let the melted snow flow like tears, from the immovable bronze eyelids, let the pigeons in the prison sing softly in the distance, and let the ships sail quietly on the Neva River." (Akhmatova "Requiem" ") Our hearts burned slowly in the sun of 1936.
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