The three directors come from different cultural backgrounds, one is a Hong Kong director who combines the typical oriental tradition and British indifference, one is an industrialized United States with a Christian Protestant background, and one is from a Catholic country in the South where wine, beauty, and music are the joy of life. Naturally, each has its own unique style on the theme of expressing Eros.
Wong Kar-wai's films are regarded as the representative of Asian films in recent years, and together with Kitano Takeshi are known as the leading figures of Asian films. Wong Kar-wai's movies are called the petty bourgeoisie's favorite, just like Murakami.
However, in my opinion, Wong Kar-wai's movies are at best a personally stylized movie. Of course, we can see the fragility and loneliness of the city bourgeois in his culture, as well as the humanity and ambiguity that the Chinese cannot stretch. , And the proportion of the style is greater than the essence of the spirit, there is no deep connotation, the human nature only shows a little, and then withdraws.
"Hand" represents this kind of culture that is Westernized on the surface but deeply rooted in Eastern traditions.
The West is the appearance, and the East is the inside. The freedom of the West has not been shown, and the favor of the East has been lost. This is Hong Kong.
The fantasy of Chinese sex seems to have always existed in the so-called brothel women since ancient times, only not so serious women. Although prostitutes have always been the dreams of men in the world, they have never been treated like Chinese men or literati. Dependence. Those beautiful lyrics and music are known by these women's singing and singing. Under Xiaofeng and dying moon, Shinobu changed the name of the floating name and sang it in a low voice. Therefore, the most famous romance novels and legends often occur between gifted men and beautiful women-brothel women, and they are written most sincerely. I doubt whether the Chinese men’s regular wives are both ugly and stupid. There are many roars and vinegar jars. Whether that kind of true romantic feelings can only be shown unconcernedly in these women.
Ambiguous feeling, not dare to or not good at expressing romance, seems to have been beautified all the time, and can only be expressed in an indirect way, such as hands. Of course, this is indeed too oriental and too Chinese, which is both moving and discouraging. Therefore, the movies made by Chinese people, especially romance movies, are the most false, worse than Indian ones. Either the naked and aesthetically explicit footage has to fall into gag and a lot of trivial household chores, without any real romance at all. The classic love movies we know all come from the West. Simply using repressed human nature does not seem to be enough to explain this lack of style expression. To say repression, in fact, Westerners are more repressed. I prefer to explain the process in which the Chinese have never been willing to create romance, but I can’t wait. On the other hand, it’s full of sexual fantasies.
I have watched "Metropolis" from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It is very interesting. The mainland is very open and can discuss any sharp topics. Taiwan’s is full of Japanese pornographic dolls. Hong Kong’s has the most beauty advertisements and sex. The topic is the least. Therefore, Hong Kong-style love is more full of the taste of small businessmen, indifferent, utilitarian and clichéd, but with a layer of pseudo-Western coat on the outside, it seems very foreign, it turned out to be just herbal tea in a coffee cup.
In the past, I was also influenced by Hollywood movies, thinking that the United States is a country where everyone wears a bikini, and everyone lives a sex and the city life. But later I found out that most of my relatives who went to the United States were very boring and boring people studying science, and they came back in exactly the same way, not as I imagined, they looked like Madonna. After listening to what they said, and reading some books, I realized that it was not the case. It turns out that the United States is a conservative Protestant country. Such a country established by the Puritans is naturally very sensitive to the topic of sex. Weber also said in his book that repressed sexual desire led to capital life. Moreover, the developed countries with a strong scientific spirit in the world are all Christian Protestant countries. The so-called Victorian era is actually an era when sexual repression leads to hysterical syndrome. Freud's doctrine was born in that era. And his most famous is the so-called universal theory. This kind of repression of the middle class can be felt in Soderbergh's famous work "Sex, Lies, Video." The story of the dream is completely based on the psychoanalysis method. Although the impatient doctor can't help but peeping, and the man is boring and nagging, this is a typical American sexual fantasy, and three The least visually sexy in this story is this story. The black and white tones are reminiscent of the weirdness in film noir, and there is a cold black humor. This is what we think of as open Americans.
Speaking of the third story, I think it is the best, worthy of being a master.
The erotic expression in Italy is very direct. Breasts and buttocks are visual-physical temptations. The beautiful women in that country have always been like this, as far as Sofia Roland and Monica Bellusi, which express the Romans Pay attention to reality, there is no abstract beauty, but concrete things. Therefore, Italy is the birthplace of art, sculpture, and costume masters, and no one can understand women and the body like Versace, and be so bold and sexy as to be disregarded. Even Christianity cannot change the Romans’ character of pursuing practical and sensory functions, and Christianity is not an abstract dogma for the Romans, but a strict canon, rituals, and the continuation of the Holy See to the Roman Empire.
Antonioni is famous for showing people's loneliness and inability to communicate in an industrialized society. This seems to be counter-testing to the enthusiastic and cheerful Latin nation. Even in this short film. People are still lonely and incommunicable, fresh flesh, short entertainment, constant quarrels, and finally two lonely women meet on the beach, don't know what will happen next. Bergman also expresses people’s loneliness and inability to communicate, but his films are cold on the outside and hot on the inside, while Antonioni is hot on the outside, cold on the inside, very cold, and he has no confidence and room for communication. It's like he said in "On the Cloud" that the girl smiled to the boy, tomorrow I am going to the monastery.
You just feel completely cold.
This third story is called Desire, a very good and apt name. There is only desire between people. Desire is permanent, and the satisfaction of desire is short-lived. After desire is satisfied, people become more lonely. , Desire is really a kind of pain.
The third story I like most is the third story, because it expresses the connotation of love most deeply. It looks gorgeous and full of temptation, but in fact it is very lonely and lost. Everyone is lonely after all. This is the essence of love-- desire.
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