Cronenberg's films can rely on shattered, disjointed bodies, disgusting internal organs, and inexplicable psychedelic colors to be unforgettable, but he's more than that, there are deep metaphors in such disgust The philosophy that Cronenberg wants to explore, as in "Murder on Videotape," (the studio) "has a philosophy," a phrase that can be extended to any of Cronenberg's other films. You can say that his movies are cult, like John Carpenter's "The Thing" and "The Devil", Cronenberg's movies can be very cult, but what he wants to discuss is not only cult, it also determines Why his films surpass other cult films.
I re-watched "The Flies", "Murder on Video Tape", "The Deadly Spirit" and "Nude Lunch". In addition to the shock and profound impact on the special effects, there was also a vague sadness and pity in my heart. Compassion for the characters in the movie-----As long as you read it carefully after watching it, you will find that an insecticide who relies on pesticides, is confused and helpless, and is finally defeated by the hallucinations that are difficult to distinguish the real, a person who is full of sins A psychopath created by a failed sedative in the tint of a power struggle, a civic TV channel boss reversed by monopoly and liberal consumerism and a ban that promotes abuse and dismemberment more violently than the soft porn channel he runs, and A lonely scientist who was twice destroyed by the pursuit of pure scientific rationality and self-ideal... These people are marginalized people in society. Under the suffocating industrial environment and the color of the beat generation, they are the most lonely, confused and hesitant people. Even the most disgusting mutant fly, Sith Brondo, I can only feel a sense of pity after reading it, because these are just infinitely magnified personal tragedies of the times.
Sith Brondo finally jumped into the "protoplasmic pool" full of mucus and molts, as he put it, and he was frozen by neglect and love jealousy and alcohol at "the moment when his personal ideal was about to be realized". "Destruction and Re-creation" by his computer and his own creations. In fact, his creation is just another more nightmare destruction: when he said to Veronica "I am an insect, insects have no mercy, insects are brutal" (maybe slightly different) , he has self-denied his own humanity. His humanity was eventually swallowed by the worm, escaping into the void of technology and desire, while envy, self-will, narrow individualism and greed were magnified as part of the worm. Sith even forgot about love, intending to continue the pain to Veronica and her children in order to become human again.
Some viewers don't understand why Veronica always promises the Sith to visit him again and again, thinking she is "stupid" and "incomprehensible". In fact, Veronica is planning to restore the love and humanity of the Sith before visiting him again and again. he. It can be seen that in the opening reception, Sith showed that he was a lonely and closed person, who only followed technology and rationality, but did not know how to communicate with people, "a standard straight man in science". When love could have saved him, he destroyed himself by the jealousy of love.
This is an absolutely tragic story, there is no room for more.
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