Ignorance, no life

Norwood 2021-10-13 13:06:09

The film is adapted from a true story.
Whenever I see a good film, there is always an impulse to write in the author's heart. This impulse is inexplicable, whether it is because of sublimation through the soul, or feeling the beauty of life again, or Is completely plunged into the abyss of nihilism and so on. But what’s even more amazing is that when you have the impulse, you often feel unable to write about it. Because of such a movie, your evaluation and praise cannot match the film itself, so you often give it up.
This is a movie with love. Compared with other movies that are based on sex and the same sex are fresh and fresh in recent years, it is tantamount to a good news for the heterosexual writer. In any art form, the form of expression is extremely important, because only very few people can see the essence of art. Because of the huge differences between individuals, even those who see the essence cannot get the essence. The meaning of this sentence is that the director used clever tricks to avoid selling corruption. Of course, this may also be a true story. The black guy finally made a marriage for the middle-aged gentleman.
The film uses black people as servants, which is not in line with the facts, but to some extent caters to the general perception that the public is biased, and all the settings seem reasonable and reasonable. The film seems to use this to tell the world that any discrimination should not exist. Not only should it not exist between gestures, but more importantly, it should not exist in everyone's heart.
There is a saying that says so, and I have heard it countless times over and over again: Everyone is born equal. This sentence has played a big role whether it is used for propaganda of faith or enlightening people's wisdom. Of course, fundamentally speaking, everyone is born unequal, which is obvious to all. However, the amazing thing is that despite all kinds of inequalities in reality, perhaps from the essence of human beings, perhaps human beings are really equal, although this is a little illusory. How to make this illusory thing true and credible, and transform it into a benign ideology, depends on the director's skill.
There are many unequal places between people, such as education level, wealth, height, appearance, birth, health status, etc. So where people are equal, this is the message that the film wants to reveal to us. People can be equal in the way they treat others, but this equality is often not a universal phenomenon or truth, but a realm. This is one reason why this film is so attractive to the author, because this equality, In most cases, it is someone else's, not one's own experience.
Therefore, one of the ideas of this film is to talk about the equality of human nature. Such equality should not include discrimination, preconceivedness, sympathy, pity, and class antagonism. For the middle-aged gentleman, the origin and past of the black guy are not considered, and for the black guy, the middle-aged gentleman is not treated as a disabled person. At first glance, it may seem absurd, but it is actually extremely reasonable. This is actually an expression of true feelings in the process of interpersonal interaction, and it does not need to be deliberate. All experiences or material storage or even spiritual enjoyment that a person has should not override a person's emotions. Just like, black young men prefer popular music, middle-aged gentlemen prefer classical music, but it does not affect the two people's happiness in these two kinds of music at the same time. Thinking about it carefully, this is a very fascinating thing. A person brings you a whole new world. For the world of a calm middle-aged gentleman, this new world is a happier and more confident world; for the black guy, this new world is a search for new knowledge and new experience. world.
That’s why these ridicules of the black guys came. The young hunter Max in Weber’s opera "The Catapult" was called a tree, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Summer was also said to be boring, and Bach’s G major The overture of No. 1 a cappella cello suite 1007 is said to be an advertisement, adding a vivid narration to the seventh movement of Bach’s B minor orchestral suite 1067: "Feng Tian, ​​the emperor said, people are waiting for me in the Viscount The musicians are here! Hurry up! Yeah! I'm a good knight!". Describe the music scene of the second movement of Bach's No. 1056 F minor keyboard concerto as a group of people streaking while giggling, and said that this guy Bach is in estrus this time. The first movement of Vivaldi’s Seasonal Spring was described as waiting music at the Paris Unemployment Assistance Center. Said "The Flying Bee" in the opera "The Story of Satan King" by Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov as the music in "Cat and Mouse" ( This is true. Maxim has also performed this piece of music on the piano). These classical music are not the dishes of the black guy, and his ridicule also makes the middle-aged gentleman begging for mercy. In the heart of this simple youth, only music that can dance is real music. As a result, a solemn life becomes a cheerful and elegant life. Sometimes it is difficult for people to tell what kind of life they really need, but any of them is not mutually exclusive, but should be harmonious. Get along, just like in the film.
We must always strive to be unbiased. Indiscriminate sympathy and compassion are no different from contempt. Any condescending is extremely arrogant. Reminiscent of the theme of another film "Dogtown", although some are not accurate, it is enough to warn us that everything we try to override others and give to others should be from the heart, not a utilitarian one. , Nor should it become a kind of pride, because the power of pride belongs only to God.
One is outgoing and confident, while the other is introverted and inferior. On the basis of real life, looking for the beauty outside of real life, such experiences and emotions teach people to die without regrets. Perhaps each of us actually has defects of this or that kind, and at the same time, we have this or that kind of shining point, this kind of or that kind of potential that we can't discover ourselves, just as the expressionist paintings of the black guys were sold. 11,000 euros. Between the two seemingly incomparably opposed classes, everything is harmoniously blended together. Both of them changed. When the black guy was interviewing for that new job, when the middle-aged gentleman sat in the cafe by the sea and met the girl, all of this spread out in a very beautiful state, giving People's warm well-being.
Faced with such a film, all explanations are superfluous. We just need to sit down quietly, enjoy quietly, and then reap the peace in each of you and me.

Digression: A lot of classical music is quoted in this film, and the other pieces of music are also very good, and the light and shadow processing of the film and the narration and portrayal of some small episodes are also very vivid, such as the shaved at the end of the film. That scene, such as the scene of massaging the ears, two different people, different experiences, with different elegance and charm, a man who talks about bad things is not necessarily a bad man, a man who can’t take care of himself may have the world in mind and has the deepest mind. Compassion.


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The Intouchables quotes

  • [while Driss is shaving Philippe, the razor near his jugular]

    Philippe: A quick cut would settle it.

    Driss: You're in great shape. I love it.

  • Driss: [in hysterics at the opera] It's a tree! It's a singing tree! Ha ha ha ha! It's German! He's singing in German!