The movie opens with a 1986 TV show: a weather forecast for the seashore, the Gulf News at 11 o'clock, a national fundraiser to fight hunger, more than 5 million people form a wall of people across the United States, followed by an advertisement for a seaside vacation tour, turn The face of childhood Adelaide reflected on the TV screen at the scene, the transformation of image and projection, is the mystery of shadow and real body.
Television as a cultural phenomenon, a form of public communication, provides potential information channels for people's daily life, these channels can lead to an unbelievable audience, can break through the fence of the national library, and spread information to the common people. It knows the weather in the future, it has a strong appeal and provocation, it can make 5 million people do one thing at the same time, it uses the number of eyes and teeth, not the mouth and head, to make you believe how amazing it is feat, a great era. Seaside tourism advertisements can also tell you where you should go next. You are not asking, who am I? Instead, follow the lead of TV and know who I want to be. Television is the gateway between the ideal and the real world.
German director Wim Wenders lived in the United States for seven years. In an essay he wrote in 1984, "The American Dream," he used a large paragraph to describe the relationship between the American dream. Image. American TV. Advertising. Entertainment and The allure of all this adds up to American political strategy, he writes in the book:
...there are about thirty channels in New York.
Then again I sat there watching TV till dawn,
After reading it, I felt empty, sad, crazy, and almost lost myself.
It's difficult to explain this feeling to someone who only knows Eurotelevision.
Because the two are almost incomparable.
We in Germany were unaware of the power of television,
Nor do they know the vast boundaries of this media influence,
The habits that affect our thinking and words and actions,
The habit of watching has been firmly controlled,
Transforming our behavior and one's ethics
King among the people. ...
... while entertaining, it also means
substitute for information.
Distractions, actually those who are distracted,
no longer know what distracts them,
Or why he was so distracted.
The absence of politics is real politics.
The latest capitalism can only affirm itself by lying.
Of course it will make it beautiful and delightful and entertaining,
do better than its ideological counterpart,
"Newest……"
is to operate in a splendid form,
rather than palatial content.
However, what they want to hide is the same:
Its individual dreams are long overdue. ...
In the United States in the 1980s, TV culture's shaping and domination of people's consciousness in real life was an unavoidable cultural background for movies. Just as the movie "Born to Kill" Rimickey said to reporters: information is the weather.
The world it alludes to as a context is very different from our cultural experience in mainland China, and talking about metaphors without this background is even more chaotic.
The film keeps appearing, coincidences, mirror images, even numbers, creating a strange atmosphere, implying that the story is approaching the critical point of two symmetrical worlds, but no real contradiction can match the relationship between the shadow and the real body in the film, It is neither race, class, nor rich or poor. Some people even contact the director's previous work. This is actually a link to the director's skin color. More than the content, if there is no direct reference to some kind of unfairness, the clone attack is just a resistance to a conceptual unfairness, and a general resistance to all unfairness. Under the circumstance that the surface people do not know the existence of the underground world, after the clones are freed from the bondage The revenge on people on the surface is almost like the slaughter of human beings by the virus so crazy, no reason is needed, so why should you tell it from RED's mouth and tell Adelaide who knows it well? Just to let the audience know too? Is it science or theology that clones and surface humans share a soul? Does the soul exist? How can the audience be asked to let go of these questions when watching a movie? Isn't the process of the fetters system failing to break free from the bondage of the soul? How did you become dominated by the little girl and become a pawn for the little girl to revenge and realize her ideal? It's not about rationality, but about richness and reality. Can a movie be so empty that it presupposes everything that can't be justified? If this version of the story is entered, the void of the entire film narrative cannot be filled, and it is completely incompatible with the mature industrial production level in terms of art music photography.
Or is it actually another movie?
This is an ironic story from the very beginning, the world of clones is real life, the world on the surface is the ideal world advertised by the American Dream, and the lives of people under the domination of TV culture go into madness, like a group of walking dead who have lost their souls, in a single Blindly imitating, reducing, submissive, pursuing the same style, or over-interpreting, idol economy, aesthetics of thousands of people, acting out love according to soap operas, showing happy expressions to represent happiness, and indifferent gestures to represent indifference , Excessive interpretation of the Bible, self-abuse, sinful souls, imitating the five wounds of Christ, fiery chatting without content, excessive fanaticism, imitation without soul and self-realization without self, no experience, only imitation of obscenity, There is no entertainment, only the form of entertainment. All this information comes from TV culture, publications, the guidance of the Internet, and the constant creation of idols by the media ... Imprisoned in the real world, little Adelaide went to the beach with his parents to celebrate his birthday, all of which The game is done by the father, and the parents play their own roles, "unsuitable", "not good enough", "not old enough"... In the name of protection, they are held hostage and entertain themselves in the name of accompanying, depriving little Adelaide. De has the power to experience everything. She can only hold a large lollipop and play the role of a little girl in the eyes of her parents. She has lost interest in these children's entertainment facilities. Little Adelaide decides to experience it herself, acting alone. , she threw the humiliating lollipop in her hand on the beach, representing her farewell to her childhood, she saw another self in the mirror maze, she was so frightened that she was speechless, and her parents felt that she was not their daughter , she betrayed their wishes, which is the paranoid concept of many parents about their children's growth. The psychiatrist suggested that the little girl learn dance. She began to practice silently, using experience and body instead of language to find herself, and finally one day her hard work and talent The score was affirmed, and it stepped from the empty real world to the stage and became the content of the American Dream propaganda.
The impact of the new media Internet has shaken the control of television over ideology, and people's horizons have become wider and their spirits more independent. No longer satisfied with imitating characters, go to the surface to replace characters, and fight for your own seat and speech space. The first to kill the character and take his place on the beach was the crucified Christ Jesus, five wounded and blood dripping from his palms. Representing a new era, this is another powerful flow of information, the inflammatory nature of the Bible as one of the most reprinted publications in the world, an interconnected mechanism long before television and the Internet. Scissors are like mobile phones, one for each hand. RED uses it to cut out the interconnection between people, and cut it again. While the mobile phone makes the connection between people more convenient, it also makes the relationship between people more estranged, and the spiritual distance is farther. We media, short video ...let people break the monuments of idols and become idols themselves, people hide behind mobile phones, use verbal violence, human flesh search to hurt others, and at the same time hand over a part of themselves, people once again become part of a common goal, This time, it's not fleeting and straying, but uniformly dressed and insanely indestructible.
Of the two homes that appear in the movie, the Adelaide home occupies a central position with a fireplace. Before the advent of television, the fireplace occupied the central position in the traditional western living room. Everyone reading and chatting around the fire was the main form of entertainment, from the basement. The mirror, explaining that this was Adelaide’s childhood home, another white couple’s home was taken over by a smart housekeeper, the man was lying in a chair leisurely sipping a glass of single malt whisky, the wife was paying attention to her appearance in the room, the child In endless somersaults. The woman noticed, what happened? What is quietly approaching them? The two families have one tradition and one future, and both have no TV. The Adelaide family's mobile phone alarm and smart housekeeper dropped the chain at a critical moment, which is a mockery of the "new style". The forever new form is the elixir of America's business-oriented society, and in the end, it's just an entertainment tool. RED's dance of reality, she knows Adelaide like the back of her hand, and was sealed by Adelaide's handcuffs forever in the real world. The victory of the character is the victory of the American dream. is the victory of lies. Finally, seeing a weird smile from the subjective perspective of Adelaide's youngest son is an interaction with the audience in front of the screen, and the audience becomes the next Adelaide. The American Dream, TV, and idols are here to stay. in some new form in the future.
The main line content and the metaphors behind the story constitute a difference between the real body and the shadow, so, which version do you believe?
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