Change my usual film review style, damn, I'm talking about style again. Let me talk about a small detail first. Dr. Schultz yelled at the beautiful woman playing the harp: Stop playing Beethoven. I believe people with a little knowledge of music can know that this piece is a piano sonata "To Alice" made by Beethoven. There are such and other gossip love anecdotes behind this sonata, so I won't repeat them. This little detail is very interesting, interesting because it is very ironic. First of all, Dr. Schultz is a German, Beethoven is also a German, and coincidentally, the beautiful black pearl’s name has the word "fan" in the middle, and Beethoven’s full name is Luther Vichy van Beethoven. So can you imagine how anxious a German who hates slavery when he hears Beethoven's music in a slave trade scene? In fact, these people who listen to Beethoven don't understand what real elegance is. They kill people and set fires and do all the things that exterminate humanity while listening to Beethoven. At least, I personally feel that they don't understand too much.
Another small detail is in the study. Dr. Schultz said that people with a little bit of literary knowledge should know this name in Dadanian, and it is also mentioned in the film. Mr. Schultz said Mr. Candy must be a fan of Alexandre Dumas, so he named his slave with the protagonist in the book, and at the next moment, he said: Alexandre Dumas is a black man. Mr. Candy is a little embarrassed. In fact, Dumas is very interesting. I would like to say a few more words here. Why did I not say more about Beethoven just now, but now I want to say more about Dumas? Look down and you will understand. In fact, Dumas was the illegitimate son of a Marquis and a black slave girl, and his son, the famous Dumas, was also the illegitimate son of Dumas. Dumas should know the pains of being an illegitimate child, and love him even more, but in fact the opposite is true. , He treated his son like others treated him back then. So why? Is it selfish? Only consider yourself, not others, even the flesh and blood? I'm afraid that's not all. The reason for this coincides with what I want to say about this film, that is, the strangulation of human nature itself by social ideology.
For Dumas, the social ideology speaks of natural aversion and discrimination towards illegitimate children. In this film, this social ideology is black slavery. The first thing to mention is the black slave housekeeper. Racial consciousness is a very strange thing, very strange, it can be said that it contains a certain sense of group identity, but in fact, this point revealed in this film is very thought-provoking. The so-called racial consciousness may actually be a deformed collective consciousness. The essence is that people have a stronger sense of identification with which ideology, or in other words, under which ideology people think they live in more in line with their own demands. The black slave housekeeper in the film has no sympathy and compassion for people of the same skin color to suffer all kinds of inhuman treatment. It can be said that in exposing the lies of Dr. Schultz and Jiang Ge, he is a very important figure. On the other hand, Mr. Candy’s phrenology explanation of the skull will let us discover that the role of a black slave housekeeper is actually a very sad role. First of all, he agrees with black slavery and believes that he has been integrated into the upper class. In the white class, but at the same time, the skin color and body structure brought about by nature cannot completely abandon the identity of being a black slave. No wonder Mr. Candy's servility speech analysis is so plausible. But unlike what he said, servility is not innate, but evolved over a long period of time under the invisible hands of long-term culture and ideology. This has nothing to do with body structure.
In terms of social ideology, Mr. Schultz can be said to be the opposite of black slave housekeepers. And this person, as one of the protagonists, in a very earthy term, is also righteous and evil. This character is also very interesting, and his values are very unique. It can be said to be very peculiar, but it is also very simple, and it can also be said to be very professional. As a bounty hunter, you want to kill people for money. Therefore, obstacles to the workplace must be removed. Because of professional inertia, people who get in the way are often dead. But the lovely thing about Mr. Schultz is that he tends to be courteous first, and he does not forget to go through the correct legal procedures. But the charm of the character is not that he takes a certain thing to the extreme and keeps abiding by it. Through the promotion of the plot, the film portrays Dr. Schultz as a man of flesh and blood, rather than a simple desperate who sells his life for money. The reason why Jiang Ge was rescued, and even Bloom Hilda was rescued, may have stemmed from his aversion to slavery. But if you watch the film carefully, it is not difficult to find that the reason is more than that, or it can be said that the dislike of slavery is just a kind of emotion and personal likes and dislikes on the surface, and the deeper level is that people hate people and people. Refusal of the matter. It is not difficult to explain why Dr. Schultz would rather shoot Mr. Candy at the risk of being killed instead of shaking hands with him. From the perspective of over-interpretation, even though Mr. Schultz has done a very great and spineless thing, this behavior also hides the narrowness of the excessive freedom of man as an individual.
What's interesting is that after killing Mr. Candy, Dr. Schultz didn't shoot at others immediately, but said: Sorry, I just couldn't help it. As a result, he was killed by a single shot. This behavior is very strange, but to some extent it is consistent with Mr. Schultz’s character and character. But I have to make me suspect that the death of Mr. Schultz was done deliberately by Quentin, because there is a little Quentin's style in it. Sorry, I'm talking about style again. It may be assumed that if Mr. Schultz did not die, then Jiang Ge would not have the opportunity to be the leader. Therefore, Schultz must die, and must die, otherwise, Jiang Ge cannot be completely liberated.
Finally it comes to Jiang Ge, the liberated Jiang Ge. The protagonist had a somewhat good life. He was inexplicably saved. He also found a job. At the same time, he was qualified to ride a horse. He could have guns and could sit on an equal footing with white people. This was a remarkable thing in that era, even though it seems to be very common nowadays. To some extent, Jiang Ge is a symbol of liberation, or Jiang Ge riding on a horse is a symbol. This symbol deviates from the mainstream ideology, so whites express surprise, while blacks also express surprise. It can be said that everyone, except Schultz, is surprised. Therefore, the black slaves looked at him with hatred, because he was seen as a running dog that squeezed the same kind, while the whites hated him, because he was seen as a rebel who rebelled against the common sense of the law, and the black housekeeper also hated him. To add to the details of the black housekeeper that I forgot to talk about, the black housekeeper is very disgusted with Jiang Ge, because in his opinion, black people are born slaves, but this is also very strange, because he didn't even think that he was also a black slave. Can it be said that under the oppression of social ideology, people have begun to deny themselves, or self-hypnosis?
Speaking of Jiang Ge, although Jiang Ge has become a symbol, at the same time, Jiang Ge's charm as an independent individual is reflected in the film. This person has ideas and wants to protect his own woman. At the same time, he is extraordinary. In his awakened human nature, the first thing that appears is the animal instinct, which uses violence to control violence, and whoever offends me, women, people, and me, even if they are far away, will be punishable. In Jiang Ge, of course, there are unavoidable commercial elements. After all, there is no black to the end, because the trajectory of the legendary hero is different from the trajectory of the villain. At the same time, the villain’s IQ is flawed. I believe this from the movie. It can be fully seen in. It’s no wonder that in the end, Jiang Ge broke into Longtan Tiger’s Lair alone, wiped out the enemy, and flew away. Personally, in the scene of blowing up Candy Manor, Quentin might as well borrow the 1812 overture used in "V-Vendetta" , To make the celebration atmosphere stronger, of course, this is just my personal opinion.
The titled Jiang Ge was rescued, and what I want to say is that even though Jiang Ge was rescued by Dr. Schultz at the beginning, he was truly free, and personally felt that he was after cheating and killing three escorts. In this scene, our lovely director Quentin also made a cameo. Having said that, there is a very interesting plot in this scene, that is, when Jiang Ge rescued himself, he also rescued three black compatriots. The three black compatriots once cast hatred at Jiang Ge, but at this moment, they looked at Jiang Ge with a respectful look. They had to say that the power of idols is infinite. Of course, the interesting plot is not about this, but after Jiang Ge rescued the three black compatriots, he just said that he threw the dynamite bag and then went away. But we might as well recall that Mr. Schultz also rescued several black slaves at the time, but he offered two solutions for black slaves. This place is very interesting. We might as well make a bold guess. In fact, in the eyes of Dr. Schultz, black people are indeed inferior. Their thoughts are not liberated. This thought is deeply ingrained. In fact, in Dr. Schultz’s words, there may have been hints about this. Mr. Schultz said that although he hated slavery very much after he rescued Jiang Ge, he now has to use slavery to gain a little bit for himself. Small interest. But Jiang Ge didn't say anything after he rescued the black compatriots. At this time, we might as well guess boldly, this symbolizes the liberation of a group consciousness, because at this moment, there is no need to say anything: you are free, etc. Words.
That’s all I want to say about the content of the film. But I also want to mention one extra point, that is, those who are rescued, those who save people, those who kill people, and those who make fun are all men. The women in the film have very little ink. Maybe the male animal instincts are stronger and more expressive. But I am still very happy to see our beautiful black pearl finally straddling the horse, holding a double spray, heroic. In the film, Mr. Candy’s sister actually personally feels that it is very interesting for Mr. Schultz. Although Mr. Schultz asked our black pearl to stay with him for the night, this does not affect Mr. Candy’s treatment of Schultz. Mr. secretly gave the Qiubo. Of course, this is not much reflected in the film, and it can be regarded as a little guess of myself.
What exactly is Quentin's style? In fact, I am not very clear about the summary, but I vaguely feel that this director is not taking the usual path, and the films he made are all commercial films that are not completely commercial. It's beautiful, it's amazing, but it also makes people think. This is really valuable. Although this style is not very clear, there is no doubt that if Quentin releases a new film, then I will definitely watch it. Perhaps this is Quentin’s style, with an irresistible attraction. force.
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