Saw this movie while learning about thematic montages and never knew Gould before. I read the profile that Gould is a weird musician. I've always liked people with eccentric characters, more interesting than ordinary people.
First of all he "blame" in his strong desire to express. Masters have a strong desire to express themselves, and their works are also a medium for self-expression. The director said that I have a story that I must tell you, so I made a movie. Most expressions tend to pay attention to the things around them. Gould, on the contrary, always likes to talk on the phone to himself, whether or not the other person is sound asleep. He said that the perfect listener-artist relationship should be 1:0. He stopped performing publicly at the age of 32, giving only phone interviews. He believes that artists should have a private creative environment that is hidden and not disturbed by the audience, should not have market awareness, and have no responsibility to the public, otherwise they will become a servile role serving music fans. As an interviewer, he also raised a question: "This original audience model will lead to no communication between the artist and the audience. How can the artist close his life?" I think what he pursues is a more idealized communication, through works It conveys that the audience experiences the feeling alone, rather than sitting in a concert hall with many people, ready to listen to a concert. This reminds me of Jiang Wen saying that after the filming of his films, many people interpret it too much, and some people say they can't understand it, but these have nothing to do with him, everything he wants to express is in the film; any work faces appreciation When they are speaking, they are expressing themselves. It is said that the author should go to life, but what is real life, and how does it count as life? Is it not a matter of life to play alone and create alone?
Contrary to his strong expressiveness, he also loves loneliness immensely. He said that when you spend an hour with someone, you will need X hours of alone time to make up for it. Canadian music biographer Kevin Bazzana wrote of Gould: "Loneliness is undoubtedly the approach to happiness." He had to be alone, but also full and freer.
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