The 12-hedron of Desire

When Nietzsche madmen generally chant: "God is dead", an atheist like me just thinks through it for a while, and then sums up: "If you die, you die. In my mind, it never existed." Director Peter. Greenaway said with a cynical attitude: "The movie is dead." I don’t know if it will be remembered by many people in many years. In fact, nothing can die out easily, it's just a change of form. When carbon becomes a diamond, a beautiful woman becomes an old woman, life becomes a machine, and Abai becomes a corpse; everything ends up in my dying physical form.


"The Painter's Contract", his first feature-length feature film, 12 paintings about landscapes show the polyhedron of desire. Peter likes to use numbers and words to deconstruct and pile up his own movies. The rational method and the absurd drama scenes, his skills as a painter are vividly displayed on the screen. The sarcasm and sarcasm of the upper class is alike, and the oil painting-style shots are endless; human desire has become the ballast stone that accelerates destruction in the sunken ship, and this is how this renegade Englishman uses graffiti to reveal it.

Michael. Newman's soundtrack adjusted the rhythm of the 12 episodes of the movie, filling the whole movie with the novel flavor of a short film. The neo-classical music is relaxed and sweet, and it is counterpointed with the picture, with a taste of jokes. The soundtrack is an indispensable link in modern movies. If it is done well, it will be icing on the cake, and if it is not done well, it will be superfluous. However, the director's artistic taste will not tolerate bad music in his films. Women's blind desires seem to have always been the subject of Greenaway's irony, and they also appear repeatedly in "A Woman in Eight and a Half" and "The Pillow Book". Perhaps feminists will hate his irony, but you can't deny that his sharpness often hits the point of the water-slickers.

Movies are just movies, nothing can replace them. Real-life tablets are monotonous, far less exciting than movie books. What is a movie? It's just another way of spiritual reading. Eco told me that the occurrence of an event means another event that has already occurred. All things that have happened are things in the past. The movie is still going on, and so is the life of human beings in me. The occurrence and disappearance of desire are more miraculous than in "Theory of Evolution", and the driving force of the world is also the expansion of desire.

If you ask me how I am doing, I ask you to repeat your question again. This is my answer.

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