If the economic environment is to be miniaturized in the film to express the narrative, the best object to replace it is the communication and communication of cultural symbols. Under such a set of experiences, the film's reflection of the economy is usually condensed into an implicit symbol. If the director's skill is profound, the symbol itself has infinite charm. The most famous case is the male protagonist played by Jim Carrey in "The New Money-grabbing Couple". After going through the financial crisis, after the family was poor, he came to run at the last moment, and used a man in a luxury car. The act of greeting a friend ends the movie. It is a middle-finger satire on the majestic economic system building of the United States.
The same is true for this film, and the talented director does not stop at using the lens to depict the symbols of the lack of humanity after the Greek debt crisis, but is more ambitious to explore the chronic diseases of a traditional social family unit under the economic crisis. The narration is even more gentle and slow, revolving around family trivia, supplemented by the cold-tempered style of the cold scenes. When the truth is finally revealed, the heart is already trembling, pressing the frost sword silently, and hearing thunder when it hits the ground.
What is truly frightening in the film is not just the chaotic thoughts that come from the perspective of a spectator looking at the bereaved father of the adulterer in the film, nor is it a reflection of the film's subtle camera skills. A profound carpet scan, let alone friends in their twilight years sitting together and passionately talking about the father's family making money. Rather, it is to interpret a family (as we often see, this family's stagnation has become a symbol with far-reaching significance, it is not just a family, but a social experience under social anomie, and it may also be hidden in more misfortunes. The mistakes that will happen behind the family), to face the most terrible side of human nature (here we do not need to resort to more psychological analysis skills, just thinking about it with ordinary people's thinking may be more enlightening). To this end, we need to draw up several sub-headings and think about all the issues in a subcategory way.
Patriarchy as the supreme authority for closed family community relations
Community relations are a concept in sociology, but there is no need to discuss this aspect here. The father figure in the film is also the "grandfather" of the two children, the husband of an old woman, and the backbone of the entire family (not only the guardian of the income link, the spiritual core, but also the inner core of the whole family's integration) strength, is the leader of the closed family unit). This is a traditional role, in which the precipitation is the psychological state of honor and servitude to the patriarchy formed by human civilization since the beginning of time. If the father is not deprived of his power and his body and mind are relatively complete, he will be completely I surrender myself to my chief position as the power of the family (I am carried away by my own power, and this subconsciousness is often manifested in arbitrary beatings of women, loud voices, and a series of domestic violence. Set up a waste paper military order).
But even if this kind of human subconsciousness plays a supporting role, it is by no means the main reason. It can even be said that those who use this reason to talk about things will be a big kill for all men who are about to become fathers. , the death degree is as high as five stars.
The reason we defined it as the father role in this film is based on the prefix we explained earlier---that is, the word "closed". When the family excludes the participation of some people, that is, the family becomes a separate self-unit, it is easier to infiltrate a traditional power to operate within it, until it becomes an internal system and establishes the superiority and inferiority. relation. Once this high-impact way of working is constructed, it is very difficult to motivate members to undermine it without being silent. This is a two-way surrender, the surrender of the leader and the surrender of the subordinates. In other words, it is the surrender of the father to the patriarchy and the surrender of the rest of the family to the observance of the patriarchal-centered family structure. When the father is in charge of the patriarchal power, the rationality shrinks under the abuse of the desire for power, and the servility of the women and children increases gradually under the patriarchal tradition. This is the first link to the film's "pedantic" discussion style.
Pano, the actor of the father in the film, can be said to express the image of the bereaved father with great strength. He seems to be very sensible and rational. As the leader of a closed family community, he implicitly uses his power in the film to maintain the entire family. The turnover of the family, at the same time, this kind of power can continue to cover up his savagery and let him continue to be a "beast in clothes". His wife, his two daughters, and his two "grandchildren", even if there are internal dissatisfaction and entanglements, as long as he appears, it means the emergence of an absolute power that will make them listen to them. The wife knew but had to endure his brutal beatings, the eldest daughter was pregnant three times but only choked with sobs. The slightly rebellious second daughter may be regarded as a representative of a careful challenge to this closed system, but it is almost only submissive. There is no need to discuss the other two "grandsons" who are not more important.
The above is the embodiment of the patriarchy of the family, and the following is the expression of the closed family. As we mentioned earlier, there is no substantive specificity in placing the sole paternity in any other normal family environment in the film, and the closed nature is the reason for the tacit power of the family in this film. Just like closing the window and playing at home, this kind of closed thing can produce more deformed, abnormal and unreasonable unique ethics, which may seem inconceivable to the public, but in fact, think about it, deformed family ethics The construction is only supported by such a psychological support: "If you can run, you will be stable, and if you are stable,
you will have nothing else to ask for." There is no communication with neighbors, there is no harmonious neighbor relationship, there is no friendly relationship between classmates, teachers and students in school, there is no harmonious relationship between colleagues at work, and even the relationship between family members that should be based on blood is very small. light. The movie camera is always this home, and a little further away is nothing more than a few external communications. This closed family can only be a little excited by the sentence: "Let's go to the beach tomorrow to play." This not only exposes the cold dead spot of the internal connection of the whole family, but also shows its closed nature. In this state of being helpless outside and sparse inside, if a family wants to go on, it will undoubtedly need some extraordinary means, and I mean the emergence of extraordinary power. And the reason for the closure, obviously, we are going to discuss the next topic.
Closed Ethics Covered by Economic Crisis
The root cause of the debt crisis that Greece has accumulated since 2009 is still the swelling of Greece’s own economic development (relying only on tourism and related service industries, without the ability to stabilize the national economic building and meet challenges economic bottom line), and yet fully possess the adventurous spirit of a maritime country to join the EU (of course, using a lot of boring means). Even if it wasn't "a rat poop broke a pot of porridge", it was basically "a small brake failure led to a huge car accident".
There is no doubt that we are not interested in discussing economic issues here, we are cutting into the observation of the most innocent and helpless victims in this economic crisis, in the thousands of global riots - the Greek people perspective. That is, the family in the film.
The shadow of people's psychology caused by the economic crisis, if we are a little naughty, can be called "lovelorn psychology". It is the people's distrust of the government, their doubts about the government, their resistance, their disappointment after being deceived, and the pain of confusion entangled in the haze. family as a closed unit). Efforts to appeal to society must be appealed to the family, and the depressed economy is part of the psychological cause of the bewildered and closed family. Although such a family is more united, such a united family hugs each other tightly but can only share each other's coldness. We can better grasp this situation by watching some excellent movies during the US economic crisis.
After the above elaboration, the reasons for the closed family environment in the film are very clear. Moreover, the director also focuses on the family with a dignified atmosphere. This family is a small government that saves itself and a container for the operating system determined by the "father".
Not asking for help is stupid, not resisting is servility. Then it is obvious that many similar deformities in the field of habit can be described in this way, which is obviously just a hasty description. Regardless of whether the closure in this family has existed for a long time, or the economic crisis has made the closure more obvious, in short, this deformed internal ethics has been tacitly accepted by all members of the family, and due to the isolation from the outside world, this acquiescence and recognition are extremely absurd and cruel. can last for a long time.
The duo of perversion and servility
"perversion" or "anomie" to describe this father is actually harsh, or even if it is harsh, it should be treated differently between "family" and "society". The father in the film is actually a "Japanese pressure paradigm character" who, like those adults in Japan, has to fulfill the duties of a man, the guardian of a family, to support the family, and as a few The only life direction of the family members (for these family members to work hard outside, the degree of hardship is greatly increased). In this social environment, he is a busy and insignificant figure, and he also takes on the social responsibilities (source of income, sending children to school, caring about children's grades).
The pressure of his running outside is mainly two layers: the first layer is classified as family economic support, and the second layer is social indifference. The second layer of performance is that in the film, the father finally finds a job, but he rubs elbows with the boss everywhere. In the end, the father could only scold back: "Don't you have a family? Well, I will listen to your opinion and stop going to work." Then he took his daughter to prostitution (whether it was done before the economic crisis or after the economic crisis) do we do not know). In short, there are at least two external circumstances for the abnormality of the father (subjective thoughts cannot be speculated, and this is beyond the scope of bystanders): one is the pressure of the external social environment under the economic crisis (including the support of the family and the indifference of people) , and the second layer is the unique and deformed ethical cognition of patriarchy within the closed family. But no matter how it is stated, the nature of the father's incest has not changed, that is, the ruling on it in the moral field will not change. Just with the complexity of human nature, we can find that this father still has many shining points of family warmth, including educating children, playing games with grandchildren, and trying his best to reconcile the whole family. It doesn't matter whether you criticize it as a disgraceful mask in disguise, or you start a savage personality analysis. This is something that should be done independently of the film. The director of the film still emphasizes the keyword "social problem" rather than the neuroticism and sinless evil thoughts of a single person.
When it comes to the group of family members who will not resist in the film, everyone is just rushing to the microphone to answer: "slavery". To this, I can only answer: "Where there is authority, there is servility." Instead of clinging to servility, it is better to talk about the structural environment in which servitude is cultivated and the closed authority. Only a closed authority is fertile ground for servility to grow, just as a closed iron fence will make a towering tree full of rotten branches and leaves, and most importantly, it will bend and make it bow its head. And this closure, we have discussed at length before the entire article.
Of course, even if all the above factors are combined into one, a deterministic judgment cannot be made superficially. When satisfying the closed family, economic depression, men's pressure and other factors, it will cause degeneration and anti-ethnic within the family. The director just wanted to call attention to social issues based on this special family. Although in my humble opinion, it is quite a challenge to use the film method to directly convey the appeal to the policy level, but a profession has a kind of professional humanistic care. This is a deep, unchanging theme of the film, which certainly deserves no negative criticism.
Tranquility is Qiu Liang's soul-burial song. When it came, it was either in his arms or already in hell. If you can't be saved by weak eyes alone, when your worries are locked in your throat, even your skin is pale, you growl: "Why is this!". You hear an echo from afar, even though you've heard it a thousand times: "This is the world!"
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