I watched "Love in Budapest" on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The sky was gloomy and melancholy, just like the sweet and sad "gloomy Sunday" in the movie. It's just that black has passed, and I still can't choose to commit suicide freely, even if it is a kind of redemption.
It has been said that music is the most direct art of the mind. Suddenly I thought of the story about Dionysus, those distant and mysterious primitive religious worship rituals, which became the source of art for generations. "gloomy Sunday" is undoubtedly the incarnation of the god of wine in the film. Those who committed suicide in the melodious melody, but found a way to indulge, no matter what signal they get from the song, their suicide is A liberation and redemption of the body, they have an epiphany in the music to realize the original intention of the life they are looking for, and bravely search for the inseparability of the body and the soul. Just like the man who always sits alone in the restaurant and draws Miss Inona, at the end of his life, he finally turns his pen to Lassilou and Andrache, and draws them as a whole on the same piece of paper. He said, "The song is beautiful...Thank you very much, I have to go." As a lonely and dedicated person, his unknowing loneliness and craving desires are lurking in the depths of his body, and he seems to be looking for What, what have been waiting for. The beautiful and melancholy melody awakened the sleeping consciousness in his body. He heard the call of self, and An Ran chose to end his life and choose the end of his life. This end is equal to liberation and uncompromising, and it is also equal to the best self-preservation. , to preserve a self-perfection and beauty.
The triangular love relationship has always been an aspect that people talk about in this film, and in it, there seems to be some kind of exploration of the director's nature of human beings hidden in it. Laxilou once said to Inona in the vegetable market such a rich sentence, "Everyone actually wants to kill two birds with one stone, one is the body, and the other is spiritual, which can fill the stomach and starve." Yes. , In this unconventional love, Laxilou, is the flesh, he can fill Inona's stomach and obtain physical pleasure, and Andrashi, this first time to go to work even bought a good suit An extraordinary man is undoubtedly a spiritual soul. He has good music and can point to the most secret place of the soul. What about Inona? She is like us wandering at a fork in the road, but few people are as lucky as she is, ingeniously achieving a certain pleasant balance between spirit and flesh. Of course, the necessary condition for this balance is the mutual compromise and concession of the three—that is, the compromise of the self to the self, the compromise of the body to the soul, and the compromise of the soul to the body.
This delicate balance is not something that can be innate from the start. There was also a fierce quarrel between the three. When the two men went from contradicting each other to standing on the same front and accusing Inona of being the source of the pain, Inona also clearly felt the tremendous pressure and pain that this seemingly satisfying one-killer brought to her. , trying to appease two men and keep balance on the balance beam is a laborious thing after all, and for a woman, perhaps, it is even more exhausting.
Rashilou and Andrache shared the same bed, which made the two hangover men suddenly discover that they were originally two parts of one body, intermingled with each other and inseparable. Rashilou took back what he couldn't do last night. Among the hidden grievances to fire Andrashi, the phrase "Andrashi, you've been rehired again." is full of meaning.
The next day, two men in identical suits walked up to the woman they both loved dearly, Inona, who was laying the tablecloths in the restaurant, preparing for the opening of the new day. The three are reunited. They apologized to her and she said, "No, it's all my fault." An angry word is also a truth, the source of pain is the expectation of beauty, and the beautiful Inona is both for Rashilou and Andrache Or other passing guests in the restaurant, are the embodiment of expectation, a symbol of beauty. And people can only get true inner peace if they leave the pursuit of expectations. Therefore, she said all the words of breaking up to solve the pain. However, without this inner belief, people lose the meaning of existence, and happiness and unhappiness are meaningless. However, no matter how intense the fight between body and soul may be, they cannot escape the need for expectation and they cannot let go. In the same way, if this expectation leaves the two, it also does not matter. So the three of them compromised. Perhaps really, there is no better choice than peaceful coexistence. On that exceptionally sunny day, Enona waded on the lawn, stretched out her hands, Laxilou and Andrache lay down one by one, the three of them hugged each other, and happiness was within reach.
Andrache died after hearing Inona's singing, after the fascist army broke into peaceful Budapest. Hans, a young man who was once rejected by Inona because of his courtship, jumped into the river to commit suicide and was rescued by Laxilou, returned to this land as a fascist colonel and returned to the restaurant of Laxilou. He asked Lassilou to tell a joke, and his tone was full of sarcasm and a kind of pretentiousness. Laxilou's embarrassed expression was already full of humiliation and burden. He recklessly told the famous joke about "Which Eye is Fake?", expressing the dissatisfaction that he had accumulated for a long time in his heart. , hatred of the fascists who have lost their humanity. Andrach had seen it all, so when Hans asked him to play "gloomy Sunday", he refused. This silent resistance is not only a resistance to fascism, but also a struggle against secular constraints. What fascism actually represents in the film is that there are too many potentially unreasonable rules in the world that must be followed. Right or wrong never has any effect on them. People can only abide by and obey, otherwise they will be punished. punish. The relationship between Rashilou, Andrache, and Enona was originally the destruction of the secular efficacy, and everything they suffered from the tragedies after that was actually already written.
In order to save Andrache, Enona picked up the sheet music and sang "gloomy Sunday" with lyrics. The woman who said she would only sing when she was alone made an exception for him and made an exception in front of everyone. After singing, his wish to hear her sing finally came true, but it was out of a compromise with the world. That kind of helplessness deeply stimulated Andrache, he suddenly understood that if good expectations were to become reality, they were destined to be raped by reality first. He chose to commit suicide, and at that moment, the message he had been searching for in the "Song of Death" composed by himself was finally clearly displayed in front of him.
When the soul dies, the body cannot exist alone. Laxilou is always aware of his own destiny. He wants to commit suicide but fails to do so. The world is to let people see the consequences of breaking the rules.
Some people say that Hans killed Lassilou, which is really good in terms of plot, as the most secularly recognized character (at the end of the film, the newscaster spoke highly of Hans, saying that he saved countless fascists in the darkest time. Jew, but in fact he was just making war fortunes and trading money for his life), Hans made a promise when he proposed to Inona that, because of you, I would build the largest import and export company in Germany. The pursuit of money and material things has always been the world's greatest motivation to move forward. When he returned to Budapest, Inona asked him if your company had been built, and he said, without you, I can't build it. In fact, Enona is also Hans's expectation, or more precisely, desire. And that import and export company is nothing but the carrier and manifestation of desire. Desire disappears, and his external nature cannot continue to support independently.
Inona's second compromise is to exchange her body for Rashilou's life. However, this compromise made Hans see the unattainability of his desires even more. He really understood that the muse in his heart never belonged to him. Sacrificing his own principles and beliefs for other men is a fatal blow to him. The world says that what you can't get, others can't get it. Hans can't control Enona's love, but he can control the life and death of La Xilou, and his failure to save is only natural.
At the end of the film, Inona poisons the already successful Hans with the poison that Andrache and Rashilou prepared to commit suicide. What's even more ridiculous is that the white-headed wife who was hand in hand with him, when he fell down, the first thing he did was to pick up the pearls pulled by her husband. The world has finally lost to the beauty in people's hearts. Perhaps, this can only be regarded as the director's kindness after all. However, no matter what, I am still willing to stubbornly believe that people with good expectations will eventually encounter an ocean in their hearts.
Liao Yimei wrote in "Rhino in Love" that loving her is the best thing I have ever done. Rashilou and Andrache, and those who understood the true meaning of "gloomy Sunday", must also be in the dark, smiling and saying, loving her is the best thing I have ever done.
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