If marginal modernity is a weapon in the hands of Fitzcarardo in "Ark by Land", and he uses it to challenge modern rationality’s suppression of life fanaticism, then in Herzog’s another film "Schuxi In "Wandering", Bruno S played Shi Chuxi became a victim of modern rationality. His fringe modern identity cannot be a weapon for him to attack outside, but instead makes him fall into the sweet trap of modern rationality and eventually be destroyed. Fitzcarando and Schuxi respectively symbolize the two destinies of marginal modern people. One is to declare the dignity of marginal modern people to the rational world through hard struggle, and the other is trapped in the trap of desire constructed by the rational world for people. destroy. "The Wanderings of Shi Chuxi" is such a film about the external environment's infringement on Shi Chuxi. Bruno S once again played such a marginal modern man who could not fit into the rules of the game of rational society after "The Mystery of Caspar House". This is another alien from the sacred world. The opening scene in which Shi Chuxi was released from prison showed the sacred dimension of this marginal man: he did not rush out to take his things, but solemnly picked up the horn and blew it, as if talking to himself He said like an oracle: "Bruno is now officially restored to his freedom."-His sense of dignity was expressed in this ceremony. The next shot is another Herzog’s signature mirage: the spoon reflects the blurry scene in the cell. Then there was a sincere farewell from inmates. And just after Shi Chuxi came out, the dialogue between him and the trainer in the prison office embodied the fundamental contradiction between modern rationality and marginal modern people: the trainer (the actor and the "Mystery of Caspar House" (The logician in is the same person) insisted that Shi Chuxi was in jail because he was always alcoholic, but Shi Chuxi insisted that the reformatory made him what he is now. "Attributable to alcoholism" makes it easy for us to think that the ending of "Casper House Mystery" must attribute Casper's anomaly to a rational interpretable reason (abnormal brain structure). As Foucault said: "Judicial power gives way to medical knowledge in a serious way... This creates a system where medicine and justice partially overlap." The overlap between the cause of alcoholism and the prison system is precisely the right entity of modern reason against the margins. A coded imprisonment of modern people. At the beginning of the film, the background of the era that Shi Chuxi faced was pointed out. Next is the appearance of Eva. Eva is different from Schuxi. Shi Chuxi has a complete and sacred marginal world, but Eva is incomplete and dependent. Eva's appearance was to act as a seduction tool in a "fairy jumping" sex trafficking scam. Eva does not have the ability to be self-reliant, he will always need to rely on men to survive. It's not that Eva and Shi Chuxi really fall in love with this marginal person, but that it can free her from the violent torture of the previous man. It can be said that Eva is the product of a typical modern rational society. Her dependence on Shi Chuxi makes Shi Chuxi fall into a false classicism love by mistake. This plot can be compared with Parry’s love for Lydia in Terry Gilliam’s "The fisher king". Parry’s love is truly classical, because Lydia and Parry The same, they are all marginal modern people who are incompatible with modern rational society; but Shi Chuxi mistakenly regarded Eva as a princess imprisoned by a tower like Lydia, so this love eventually became the biggest external cause to ruin Shi Chuxi. Schuxi’s world is also the same as that of Parry in "The Fisher King". Old piano and accordion, a trumpet used by railroad workers, and a parrot-various collages and Holy Grail figures in Parry's house and them. The same is the refuge of the original imagination of mankind who is incompatible with the rational world. They may be all kinds of incomplete garbage abandoned in modern society, but these abandoned objects have constructed the integrity of Shi Chuxi's spiritual world. However, a terrifying devil wearing a lovely sad mask broke into this complete and sacred world, and the ruthless trampling of fate began. The old man Schweitz is another character who cannot fit into the rules of the game in modern rational society. Unlike Shi Chuxi, he seems to have completely lost the ability to communicate with the real environment. Shi Chuxi can still establish his dignity in the real society within a certain range through proactive behaviors such as acting and finding a doctor. Although Schwytz is dressed Unconventional, but in the film he is completely dependent on Shi Chuxi's care to survive. The sacred light on Shi Chuxi’s personality is too dazzling. Although this dazzling is not understood by modern rational people, it has also received sympathy from modern rational people: this is from the doctor’s care for him, Eva’s reliance on him, and the performance. The warm eyes cast by the surrounding residents during the accordion can be seen. Switz and Eva, who lived in the sacred light of Schuxi, dragged Schuxi into death through the invitation of their destined distant relatives and the other through a mutilated dependent personality. In fact, Schwytz's mental abnormality is also caused to some extent by modern rational society. In the real environment, he always finds no sense of security. He dared not fly to the United States because he was afraid that someone would frame him. When Eva’s ex-boyfriend gangsters smashed Shi Chuxi’s house, he was the first to ask the police, and in the film In the end, after their house was confiscated, he thought it was a frame of himself, and took the gun to "avenge" him. In the eyes of this marginal person, everything in the rational world was "conspiracy" and framed him. , He does not possess the broad "sacred love" of Shi Chuxi, he will only hide in his own world. And this is the same character as the character of the character actor Clemons Schaitz: "He always likes to mention that he dare not fly to Berlin, because at that time Berlin was in the heart of East Germany, and the KGB would kidnap I, tortured me, in order to let me tell the secret.'" But for such a man whose head is already crazy, Herzog thought: "In my opinion, he is always very sane and sober." Shi Wei The difference between Old Man Ci and Shi Chuxi is that the former is an inward, self-protective, and evasive marginal modern person; the latter is an open, outwardly loving, idealistic marginal modern person. However, it was Shi Chuxi's simplicity and openness that ultimately led to his tragic ending. The trip to the United States is a demarcation point, which distinguishes the environmental persecution suffered by Shi Chuxi in Germany before and the environmental persecution suffered by Shi Chuxi in the United States afterwards. The persecution in these two phases corresponds exactly to Foucault's evolution of modernity to crazy coding. In Germany, whether it is the beating and scolding in the reformatory, the detention of the prison or the abuse of the gangster, it is similar to the physical torture of mental illness as heresy and the devil in the 16th and 17th centuries; while under the highly modernized civilization of the United States , The physical torture has evolved to the stage of "display", "surveillance" and "treatment". The marginal modernity is no longer the object of physical torture. They are even accepted and tolerated by the apparent "pluralism" of American culture, but in fact there is still no way to communicate with the marginal modernity in a real sense. In the United States, the inability of language to communicate symbolizes the inability of the marginal to communicate with modern rationality, and an interesting detail is that the only person who understands English is Eva. This proves once again that Eva is completely a product of modern rationality. Schwytz is not in the same group at all. Eva and Shi Chuxi have a warm scene where they hug and listen to music, but the schedule for this scene is that Shi Chuxi sits in the front, and Eva hugs Shi Chuxi's back in the back: Eva actively seeks to rely on the posture. . In the whole process, Shi Chuxi has been a victim of being exploited and humiliated, as he said to Eva after a period of experience in the United States (this is the most important dialogue of the film): "I was bullied in Germany. Now that we are in the United States, I thought the situation would improve and we could finally achieve our dreams, but I was wrong: people turned a blind eye to Bruno.... The situation in the reformatory was exactly the same as here. During the Nazi period, if someone wets the bed, they will be punished. The clothesline was held up by hand all day long. Behind was the instructor with the stick. If the bedwetting people put their hands down because they couldn’t bear their hands, they would be beaten up.... The abuse at that time was tangible. Today they are. The damage to you is invisible. They will not punch you, but will hurt you politely. This is more cruel than before! People's disdain is in the air, clearly visible. God knows what will happen to fate !" This dialogue takes Shi Chuxi as a marginal person, his mental journey, his keen perception of the harmfulness of modern reason, and his terrible foreboding of his own destiny, etc., are fully displayed. And this paragraph of dialogue being thrown into Eva's heart will not evoke much sympathy with Eva (because Eva does not belong to Schuxi's fringe world), but will make Eva consider leaving Schuxi and looking for the next person to rely on. Both Shi Chuxi and Eva are sensitive people, but Eva is sensitive to the pattern of realist power and benefit distribution, while Shi Chuxi is sensitive to the blocking and invasion of surreal communication between reality. Although Schwyz’s nephew invited them to the United States and arranged for them to work, American individualism would not give him even the slightest idea of thinking about him from the standpoint of Schuxi: individualism believes in gaining through personal struggle. Everything, the strong is king, you can only work hard to play the rules of the game in this rational society and use the rules to get the best benefit for yourself. In their eyes, Shi Chuxi, a marginal person who cannot communicate with this rule, can only be the weak—you It can only build sympathy with the weak, but it will not establish communication. Schwytz could not communicate with the hunter with a gun, and could only shake hands politely; Shi Chuxi could not communicate with the bank staff who were polite and tried to find words that were as polite as possible and that did not harm each other's dignity, and could only pay a solemn greeting. When politeness is no longer a way of seeking sincere communication between people, it has become the most secure way of maintaining communication between people, this civilization is a big problem. As for the RV auction, Herzog was extremely ironic, and showed this kind of communication obstruction to the fullest: standing in Shi Chuxi's inner world, he represented the auctioneer's auction process as a series of humorous ventriloquists. With almost sacred love, Shi Chuxi opened his arms to embrace this "American Dream", but although this dream has a graceful and magnificent appearance, for Shi Chuxi and Schwyz, it can only be a mirage forever. The background music at the moment the RV drove away was the same as the music when they first shipped the RV. It was light music from the vinyl record player: warm but not so real. This light music symbol emphasizes the feeling of "this is a big dream". When Schwytz was captured, Shi Chuxi's conversation with an American in the tavern could be said to have put a heavy stop to this "big dream": Why is Shi Chuxi, who could not communicate in English before, is here? Can you communicate smoothly with an English-speaking American? This scene can only be explained by "combination of virtuality and reality". It can be interpreted as a listening object in Shi Chuxi's illusion. This object conveys a sense of the "American spirit" that is difficult to interpret in words: it is both optimistic and indifferent-so far, Herzog's consistent worldview has once again appeared in this movie. This is impersonal optimism. This object is similar to the smiling African boy holding a cat in Genesis, the pianist who plays Chopin in The Message of Life, and the Scourge and The Rest of the Green Ants. Like primitive people with numb midface, they deconstruct warmth while expressing warmth, and express the most ruthless mood with the most humorous sentiment. Whether it’s an unmanned truck spinning around in circles (this is the same as the end of "Dwarf Hooligans"), or a dancing chicken, or the revolving gondola that Schuxi finally rides on, these Sisyphus-style dispatching designs are all It is a symbol of the core of Herzog's existentialism. Herzog did not show Shi Chuxi's suicide head-on, and the camera rose into the wider sky, and a dull gunshot sounded in the increasingly confused picture. The environment finally achieved the purpose of allowing Shi Chuxi to examine his own existence in the tragedy. The connotation of "Is this really me" behind the cable car seat is: After this series of secular "sinks", Shi Chuxi "sees" the sacred fringe world that was previously "covered", but he is now an outsider. He looked at the world from the perspective of “I don’t know who I am”, so he entered a state of “fear” at the moment of “I don’t know who I am”. One’s own, the freest self-existence manifests itself." However, the result of this "see through" was to completely cut off all connections with this rational world. Shi Chuxi's suicide is certainly a tragedy, but in terms of his sacred world that is incompatible with us, is it not an ultimate relief? No harm will happen to him anymore. When he first came out of prison, inmates made a "smallest paper boat in the world" and gave it to him. In the bar, Eva cried and asked him: "Where have you been." He replied warmly in a classic heroic chivalry style: "I went on vacation." Finally, the marginal modern man really sat down. This little paper boat has gone to spend his eternal vacation, leaving us human beings as busy as chickens in this rational world, but they don't know the self, and there is no redemption.
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