Among all the words of Dante, this sentence is the one that impressed me the most and the one that I quoted the most. Turning out this sentence again, the taste and experience will be more in-depth. For nearly a year, my writing was quiet, watching movies was quiet, lectures were quiet, reading was quiet, feelings were quiet, and play was quiet. The whole life fell into a quiet state, not only outsiders didn’t know I was there. What do I do, I don’t even know what I’m doing every day. Looking back, I suddenly realized that it was a kind of despair that was as peaceful as death, and what was desperate was a sense of existence that was completely eliminated.
But the world other than me has existed in the clamor for another year, and even the tragic "sharp brother" has been sought after by everyone, giving Chromium a self-defeating existence value. Of course, the most significant dispute is undoubtedly the recent contest between "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker." To get into such a lively debate is undoubtedly the best time for the kids of our generation to stand up, bid farewell to silence, and prove their existence to others and themselves.
Roughly speaking, this controversy still has a very high standard, from the technical level of the film to the quality of the content, from the ideology of the film to the director’s gossip history, from marketing to canvassing, from the grassroots voice of the fans to the Oscars. The value trend of the company, etc., etc., and so on. Amidst the endless clamor of the outside world, the movie itself seems to be hidden in tranquility.
I don’t want to talk more about "Avatar". The first reason is that unfaithful fans who have not seen the 3DIMAX version and only watched the 2D version like me are not qualified to say anything more. They don’t wear the "tinted glasses". Never see how good this movie is. Before the Oscars were awarded, I also felt that "Avatar" deserved to be awarded, not only because such a movie that stood on the cusp of the storm and collected all the word-of-mouth as one, it has already established a deep-rooted sense of existence in everyone's minds, but also because of every time When faced with the bottleneck of the film industry, Americans who will choose technological breakthroughs can once again be proud of Europeans. Faced with an innovation comparable to the invention of sound films, Europeans can disdain it. Where can they not buy it?
Compared to "Avatar", I have to admit that if it weren't for the Oscar nomination for "The Hurt Locker", I might not really know that there is such a movie in this world. I broke into a cold sweat on my spine because of my ignorance, but after watching the whole film, I was soaked by the suffocating tranquility in the film.
I often wonder what kind of feelings in this world can bring the greatest trauma to people. This question may be complicated, but it may also be very simple, so simple that it only needs two words to answer: fear. What is most feared by people, that is, the demise of life. If it were to be extended, the sense of non-existence with flesh and blood would seem to be even more terrifying. Why did the two world wars, terrorism, earthquake and tsunami bring mankind's overall consciousness and self-help? Because we can all feel the fear of life threatened. However, compared with the overall distress trapped in the consciousness of "collective carnival", the tranquility before taking the initiative to the danger, the loneliness of being stared at by people coldly, appear to lack the shielding of personal consciousness in the noisy environment. More terrifying. The three-person team in "The Hurt Locker" is facing this peaceful fear. Although this film won two awards for the best sound editing and best sound synthesis, I am still obsessed with the quiet moments in the movie.
The most extreme tranquility in the film is the incident that night when James insisted on taking two team members to find the initiator of the detonation bomb. When they left the explosion site and entered the unknown darkness, a black field appeared in the screen for twelve seconds. In addition, we could only hear the vague footsteps in the silence. We have to admire the director’s boldness. Compared with Kubrick’s sense of gestation of life in the large black space at the beginning of "2001: A Space Adventure", Bigelow uses the black field to show the disappearance of life. Of horror. The danger that seemed invisible at first glance was everywhere, and the fear that was completely invisible was indeed the greatest fear. The life that was completely swallowed by darkness disappeared like a world of evaporation.
However, this fear of proactively walking into the dark can still be foreseen. Such as the passage in which the group of three encountered their own people but was ambushed by Islamists during their mission, but they were truly caught in an incalculable fear. While James and others were still happy to have caught the poker criminals, and when the surrounding silence seemed to declare short-term safety, a bullet that jumped out indifferently killed humans. The croaking gunfire of the American soldiers formed a sharp contrast with the vast and empty tranquility on the opposite side. The greatest danger was hiding in that tranquility. And when Sanborn confronted the sniper, the silence shrouded in life-threatening tension was even more breathless like hell.
But I think this kind of face-to-face confrontation is far from hell. The hell-like silence still appears in the most common bomb disposal scene in the film. The lonely bomb destroyer was completely exposed to the terrifying silence. The cold and hostile gazes surrounding him, or the curious and cautious gazes, were the threat of being buried under the silence to cut through the silence at any time. Everyone will naturally produce a self-protective film, and the easiest to see and the easiest to hide and protect themselves is the collective noise. The act of placing the individual outside of the overall tranquility brings the tremendous existential pressure on the individual almost unbearable. Therefore, the concentration that James showed when he was enveloped by the silent gaze was the most inspiring. The heroism I admire does not lie in the way he dismantles the bomb.
However, the silence in the war and the struggle on the edge of life and death make it easier for the soldiers to confirm their sense of existence, just like James often collects the dismantled bomb parts, which is evidence of survival and existence. So when James returned to the peaceful America and returned to a real life that could not be proved by the threat of death, he couldn't bear it instead. This is another kind of extreme trauma caused by war.
Just as we need to establish ourselves amidst the noise, even if we cannot establish ourselves, we must confirm ourselves by establishing others. When we return to the most peaceful normal life, the self is abandoned by the silence we have been afraid of, let us Unrecognizable. Of course, the most ironic thing is also the contrast performance of the producers of "The Hurt Locker" in and out of the play. It was originally a so-called independently produced film that is worthy of people’s respect. It was originally a film that wanted to express and break through the horror in the silence and show the deep-seated trauma of human beings. Sense, and engage in "canvassing." This is undoubtedly another kind of irony that extends the text of the film.
In hell, the sun is silent—because we are all dead, because we do not exist, because we all return to a quiet life with the same fear.
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