Born in Darkness Die in Light

Thinking about it carefully, it was still yesterday that I bought Breitman's Moonlight Goddess album.

When I was in college, I bought several boxes of Crazy English at the campus bookstand, about European and American music topics, so I came into contact with a lot of popular classics such as Oscar hits. In that era when there was no Internet and the cost of obtaining information was relatively high, these cassettes were a source of spiritual inspiration, and I listened to them repeatedly for four years, which had a profound impact on my music aesthetics.

Once a person is born, he is on the road. Different stages, see different scenery. Different directions, looking at the same scenery, but also very different. The various stages are connected with each other, linked by cause and effect, and cannot be reversed or replaced.

Although it is already past the 30th anniversary, I just watched the 25th anniversary of this edition, but it is indeed a coincidental meeting. If you imagine watching it six years ago, you may not be able to get the same resonance and emotion at this time. Because at that time, my understanding of music and life was still in another mountain pass, a place where I could not see more levels of scenery.

When watching a musical at this time, the plot is not the main point, the music is all. The band and the vocals weave together the melody, conveying strong, subtle, soulful and broken human emotions in the air, which are centrally received by the audio-visual senses, stirring the heart and washing the soul.

The historical versions of Phantom have their own advantages and disadvantages, and each person has their own natural preferred tone and mood. The one that you feel the most is the most suitable.

Phantom, born in darkness. Because of his physical disability, the discrimination he suffered since childhood, and the lack of love distorted his psychology. The strong contrast and impact of the innate talent and the obvious external defects have caused him to have a contradictory inner self as much as he is conceited.

Darkness is his protective color, protecting his life even if it is alive. Only in the dark can he feel the power of control, the presence of life. But his world only has the opera house and the underground labyrinth, and he is a prisoner bound by darkness.

Music is his light. The extraordinary achievement in music, like his mask, defends his dignity and comforts his loneliness and fragility.

The appearance of Little C is like a light picker, the blue bird he was looking forward to that would draw light for him and sing with him.

But he doesn't know how to love, he can only use his best music to seduce, and violence to intimidate and destroy all disobedience.

His emotions are too complicated and too strong. It is impossible not to be fascinated by his tone, from heart to heart.

This is a poor man who used all his self-confidence, rage and irritability to cover up all his inferiority, timidity and loss, and how humble he was as much as he craved for love.

In this Music of The Night, he used the most tender melody and tone to hypnotize Little C and himself. In this luminous dream, they will truly belong to each other and fly together in the music hall. And the trembling and begging under this tenderness all revealed his unease and cowardice.

The movement of this night is his spell to seduce Xiao C, and it is also his hope to redeem himself through Xiao C.

Remin's Phantom, with his sometimes bright and high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched, and sometimes frightened tone, vividly shows the powerful and weak contradiction in the begging of love, the fierce inner conflict and struggle. Hearing such a song, who can not be moved and saddened.

Humans have evolved to the stage of transcending the limitations of existence and seeking the meaning of life, precisely because human beings have a rich and sensitive emotional system. To love and be loved is the eternal theme of life, pulling our joys and sorrows, creating one after another outstanding artistic wealth, and comforting all the lonely souls.