Looking back at Villarlonga's films, we can see that he is a director who started from abstraction and returned to reality. The cruel pictures reveal a cold rationality. Therefore, the rich and realistic content of "Black Bread" is a three-dimensional restoration, and the more you taste its structure, the more you can discover its complexity and sophistication. The symbol of the free bird can express the utopian prophecy of the moon child running to Africa; the self-burning spell of the cousin can express the splendid fire of the spiritual mother; the repeated murder scene can express the abyss and redemption of the individual self-despair. In the spirit of leisure, it is difficult for a work with information density such as "Black Bread" to easily impress the audience because it does not conform to the general order of cognition. Therefore, in the context of the times of the film, although it can be said to be the Spanish Civil War in general terms, if you cannot accurately taste the stalemate stage of the Spanish Civil War, the story takes place within the popular front, the legal government at that time, rather than accusing Franco of dictatorship. , it is better to ask why the left-wing coalition government failed. Therefore, in the era, the story is inevitably infighting and betrayal. Orwell laid out a two-layered structure of justice for Black Bread in "Homage to Catalonia." On the first floor, if you asked me why I joined the militia, my answer would be: "Revolt against fascism." On the second floor, if you ask me why I fight, my answer is: "for the common dignity of mankind". Andrew's father and his friend Dionis were anti-gay comrades in arms, and in the anti-fascist trenches people cursed fascists as gay. At this time, his father was like a bird breeder, and Andrew had a first-level fantasy about this, pursuing freedom and yearning for peace. But it was Andrew who witnessed the tragic scene of the assassination between his comrades in arms that gave him the ideological awareness of dystopian fantasy. A beautiful idea has actually been exchanged for a cruel reality. Compared with the sanctimonious, the truth is obviously more important, but the truth has always been the truth of a certain vision. Andrew's mother has three men in her heart. One is the younger brother of Mrs. Manusben, the lord who collects photos. He is dressed in traditional religious clothes. Unlike most people's impression of homosexuality, his mother thinks that he is a good person, and he is more like a representative of the Franco regime. One is a rival in love with his father in his early years, and now he is the mayor of the government. He is obviously a representative of the Spanish Communist Party, but he implements a policy of counter-revolutionary uniting the squires. For Andrew, it is incomprehensible that his father was used to participate in the murder, and his father's self-sacrifice to achieve Andrew's future is not easy to understand. His father is the representative of the United Labour Party, the Spanish Trotskyite. As a working class, the mother walks between the three of them physically and mentally, choosing to be full of tension in light and dark, as a new Where will the next generation of Andrew go? The drunken teacher said that history is written by the victors, so first and foremost victory by any means is necessary. Mrs. Manusben, the adoptive mother, said that a decent person must have a good education and a rich material standard of living, so she should survive and climb to a higher class. My cousin said that everything here should be destroyed and we should go away and start again, so we should rebel or flee. The handsome guy with tuberculosis who ran naked said, we can't just walk away, the important thing is to strengthen our wings and open our eyes to listen to our inner voice. According to Li Ao, the first layer of justice is to seek the constitution and pursue political struggle, and the second layer of justice is to seek the liberation of the mind. The wish of Andrew's parents is that Andrew can become a doctor in the future. This is very easy to think of Zhou Shuren's mental journey of seeking medical treatment and abandoning medical treatment. In the film, Andrew finally returned to the classroom. He sighed and sighed while thinking about the world. He breathed a sigh of relief at the glass of life. Will he have a new understanding of black bread between the doctors of his parents and the doctor of self-realization? ? If you ask me, my answer is: I don't know.
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