I read in the morning that the primitive vitality of human beings has potential destructive ability on the one hand, and creative ability on the other hand. Rilke said that if he gave up his demons, he would also have lost his angels.
Then I thought of Francis Farmer.
At that time, I was eleven or twelve years old, and I didn't know what it was like to be moved, but I recognized her. In the movie, she was wearing a pair of pants with large trousers, walking firmly on the street, full of free spirit, I think, long It's great to be like her, coming and going like the wind.
That movie was based on true events. Jessica Lange plays Farmer, a Hollywood actor. Lange presumably shines in this film, having been used as a vase until now. Later, in her 40s, she won an Oscar. Recently, Nao Ran.
What Jessica gave Farmer was a pair of aggressive eyes, like a torch, she was always trying to make others understand her, she often yelled, she was not ladylike enough, she was not even a first-class actor, but Her determined stance, her smile when she smiled, and her sluggishness when she finally had her brain removed, were all ingrained in my mind.
Farmer is a passionate person, she has ideas, she hates the hypocrisy of Hollywood, she is too egoistic, she wants to change the world around her, not herself, and she has a very flamboyant personality that makes her like Zhou. Zhou is out of tune, she is indifferent to the fame and fortune she gets, but the things she cares about are ignored by others.
I think that explosive temperament in her, which others, including her authoritarian mother, Hollywood's big boss, regarded as pathological, is precisely a kind of creativity, although it is not very polite and hysterical like a devil, However, on the human side, it is the most real and charming kind of life. However, not seen. When she was forced to undergo a brain resection, and finally became a quiet and sluggish person, the mother was satisfied, the bosses were satisfied, and there was no more crazy people who opposed them and yelled at them. However, her splendid life also came to an end from then on, and her life after that was nothing but waiting for death and lifeless. The most ridiculous thing is that the reason they murdered her was for her good, out of love. When they killed the devil, they also lost the angel.
Perhaps because it was the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, even the country that advertised freedom could not tolerate the existence of such a person at that time. Society conspires to kill her to make herself appear orderly. Is it harmonious to make everyone as uniform as printed in the mold? Fortunately, society is also progressing. Tragedy like Farmer's will not happen again in today's America. Although the same thing continues in China.
Farmer is like a legend, from the most gorgeous to the palest, rich enough and pathetic enough, the complexity of human nature is fully revealed in her, and the shock she brings to many people with her life may be a kind of meaning.
How foolish and tyrannical it is to make others conform to you and conform to your norms, but human beings often enjoy it.
P.S.: I found two such accounts on the Internet about the film and the character -
The Francis story is about the life of Francis Farmer. The actress starred in 14 films from 1936 to 1942 - most famously "Come and Get It." "Francis" is a story of extremes - from her rise to stardom to her unimaginable abyss in prison and mental asylum. This is a portrait of an ultra-independent woman, an idealist, an opinionated man who is not only against religion, against her mother, but ultimately against herself. On one level, it's a story of a conflict between society and the individual, where society wins, but the story itself is an indictment of the mother, the psychic, who conspired to destroy her spirit, who did not hesitate to brain-surge her. Analyst and studio owner. On another level, the story is about a smart, beautiful, and full of life woman who, for a myriad of intricate reasons, embarks on a journey of self-destruction.
In his childhood, Farmer had his own ideas, wrote radical articles, and became famous for a while. He visited the Soviet Union as a student representative at the time, which was out of tune with the conservative school organization of the time. As an adult, Farmer studied theater in Seattle. In 1936, she came to Hollywood and quickly became a star. She is fed up with the hypocrisy of Hollywood, while her vain mother tries to control her. Francis becomes grumpy, but her greedy mother sends her to a mental hospital. There, Francis suffered inhuman torture and was devastated physically and mentally. Later, her mother even agreed to perform a lobectomy for her, and she was finally quiet. After 11 harrowing years as a mentally ill person, Farmer is back on TV, but viewers see that Farmer is no longer her own after surgery.
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