Paul Grimmore_The King and the Bird_1952
6.8
Louis XVI was a dictatorship, and the Jacobins were a dictatorship of terror, but the significance of capturing the Bastille should not be denied: the cage was indeed broken, and the original group began to sell its interests. There is an old German saying that "those who travel far will tell stories," and Benjamin said that all history is only "narrative acts", "a list of winners." When Xiaoniao walked to the center of the screen, the bizarre Mandarin dubbing sounded, claiming to be a completely true story in an exaggerated tone, and the audience couldn't help but doubt in their hearts.
I like this one in general, it has a unique and interesting temperament, the vitality of the picture is extremely infectious to me, and the theme and story are relatively straightforward. But it's pleasing and confusing at the same time, and the most awkward part of watching the movie is when the bird enters the dungeon, especially when it is with the lion. It is probably similar to the process of the fake county magistrate overthrowing Huang Siye, and the political references are irrelevant, but the perspective and attitude of "history is the history of the elite" not only makes the story highly predictable and uninteresting, but also Simplified this struggle structure.
In Andersen's original novel, the shepherdess and the chimney sweep have a very simple wish, as long as they stay away from the cupboard and go to the outside world. But in this unique climate, their stories have been reduced to supporting roles or even tools in front of the king and the bird. Ciel's fifth plus three equals eighth, eighth plus eight equals sixteenth, and he is not friends with all the people of this country. The message from the little bird's mouth was that he was the victor who could decide who the enemy of the people was, and that the shepherdess and the chimney sweep were just his sparks for the revolution.
The architectural imagination of the film, especially its vertical scheduling, is deeply rooted in the quintessence of centralized rule, that is, the spatial discipline carried out by the king relying on the castle. George Orwell's dystopia is also built in the same way: under Big Brother is the inner party, under the inner party is the outer party, and under the outer party is the mute and speechless masses of proletarians at the bottom of society, who account for 100 of Oceania's population. Eighty-five parts. Here, the king's invasion of space is carried out by means of guards and institutions.
Foucault said that "space is the basis for the operation of any power", and the first thing totalitarianism should do is to invade the public life of the people. The factory space of the dungeon is the ultimate form desired by the ruling class, and the movements of all individuals are reduced to absolute unchanging uniformity, as Winston said in his diary, "We are the dead". In contrast, the bird wants to subvert this layer of authoritarian rule. He first disrupts the neat and uniform assembly line, restores subjectivity with the variety of material products, and then destroys the spatial order established by the king.
From a strong elite perspective, the masses are obviously stupid and directionless. Freedom The desire for freedom in the hearts of the people of the dungeon reflects what Benjamin called "animal-like passion", eager to see the sun and birds; but they also lack "animal-like original insight", and the fat sheep are robbed by the king The preaching of the walk was unconvincing, but it made the beasts take to the streets. The story then got crazier, but I'm still not sure if the lines themselves are creepy, or the Mandarin dubbing is creepy, or both.
In the ending scene, the giant mech sits bowed, with his right elbow on his left knee, his chin and lips in his hand, his eyes sunken, and his eyes low, this is Rodin's thinker. In fact, the oppressor also fakes its hand, and the revolutionaries also fake its hand. After the pattern is replaced, only it can remain, so its memory is extremely important, because the existence of the thinker's posture means that the subject has not yet died.
The creator, of course, not only clarified the dangers of both the king and the bird, but also gave the fairy-tale wish of smashing the cage. So in the end I put aside the confusing part for a while, and ended with the high-pitched mood of Winston's diary: "The age of the same, the age of loneliness, the age of Big Brother, the age of doublethink, to the future, to the past, A tribute to a time of freedom of thought and of people who are different but not alone - a time when truth exists and what has been done cannot be erased."
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