Just talk about a few feelings:
Father Philip III and young Alexander saw several stories on the cave paintings, all of which are a portrayal of Alexander’s life:
Prometheus stole the fire and was imprisoned by Zeus, and the condor pecking every day Its liver to punish his transgression; the same-sex love between Argyleus and Troclus; Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother, and digs out his own eyes when he finds out the truth; Medea kills himself in revenge for his unfaithful husband Death of two sons... Alexander revered Prometheus, pretended to be Hercules, and thought he was on a mission to save the light.
There are three types of animal imagery that recur in the film: snakes, horses, and eagles.
The snake is a symbol of motherhood and Olympias' ubiquitous desire to pry and control. Adult Alexander tried his best to get rid of his mother's shadow, but it still lingered. He married an alien woman who looked like his mother, and the same jealous woman ended up poisoning Hephaestion, Alexander's close companion of the same sex. Alexander was to Hephaestion what Argyleus was to Troclus. According to the life-and-death contract made when he was young, Alexander died a year after Hephaestion's death. (Gossip: The film says that Alexander died on June 10, a month before his 33rd birthday, so he was born on July 10, Cancer)
The horse is a portrait of Alexander's self. The young Alexander used his language talent to tame the fierce horse. This episode is worth pondering. To be honest, if Stone shoots him and rushes to conquer the fierce horse by brute force, I will be extremely disappointed. In those days, there were many strong men, and the brushes for taming horses were absolutely amazing. It is impossible to make Alexander stand in the forest of warriors, and according to historical records, when Alexander sat on the throne of Darius III, he found his feet hanging in the air, showing how ordinary his stature was. To my gratification, Stone asked the stinky child to say to Lie Ma: "...don't be afraid, look, that's our shadow..." He also said a lot, but this sentence was the most impressive. Alexander was a brilliant military strategist and orator, with his provocative speeches, his ability to tap into the deep needs of the warriors, a talent that first appeared in his teenage years. Since then, this fierce horse has become his vehicle, until he met a powerful elephant team in the ancient Indian jungle, and the horse and Alexander were shot by the natives with arrows. In this film, Stone intends to make the car a symbol of Alexander's soul, and in the final battle, he confronts Alexander with the natives riding the elephant. The disparate figures of the two animals form a magical unity on the entire screen. The final blow of the invincible Alexander's self-control stems from the inner need to constantly overcome fear. This dangerous and fascinating drive has gradually grown since he realized that people's initial fears are only their own shadows. The essence of "chasing glory and dreams" is nothing but a great contest between him and another cowardly self. When he looked at the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountains and asked loudly "Where is my home?" As a bystander, I deeply felt the loneliness of a true king. (It's still shallow to say loneliness, but I haven't found a matching word yet.)
The eagle is the result of Alexander's lifelong pursuit. With his short life span of 32 years and eleven months, it is a miracle to expand the territory of Little Macedonia to an unprecedented size. It is puzzling that he kills the resisters, but spares the surrenderers, and even returns some lands to the submissive barbarians. There were numerous Macedonian soldiers killed and wounded on the Eastern Expedition, and there were many conflicts at the top, but these could not stop his strange ambition to continue to expand eastward to find unknown areas. He is dictatorial and kills the opposition; he is also merciful, betraying his teacher Aristotle's precept that the Greeks are civilized, treat the barbarians as equals and do not hesitate to harm the rights of the Macedonians. In Alexander's consciousness, he was following Hercules, the god who rescued Prometheus. In fact, he did what Prometheus did. The only difference was that this time it was not Zeus who opposed him. Is the original loyal fans. The apparent disagreement lies in their notion of "home" and their struggle for equal status, but the real problem is that no one, not even Hephaistion, the closest lover, could understand Alexander's repressed sympathy for the dark and monstrous things. deep fear. On the surface of Alexander’s consciousness, this fear was transformed into the image of a condor—a condor pecking at Prometheus’s liver for the purpose of inflicting pain on the betrayal—and Alexander was precisely the apostate. The eagle's freedom and bravery stimulated him to expand continuously, and at the same time symbolized his inner self-punishment consciousness. As he was dying, a condor flew towards him, and he took off his ring and held it up to the condor, I thought he was asking for forgiveness.
Finally, as a digression, after watching the film, I went to read the materials of Alexander and Darius III, and found that the stirrup was invented in our country after the third century AD. When fighting on horseback, if there is no stirrup, the soldier cannot balance his body at all, let alone make complex movements, so the image of Guan Gong dancing a big sword on horse in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is pure nonsense.
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