Regarding the performance of the film,
"Idiot" was clearly declared by the director to belong to the dogma95 camp, (although many people pointed out that it did not strictly follow the dogma "Ten Commandments" because of the use of silent soundtracks, but in fact, this does not seem to matter. The reason why dogma95 is known to the world is that its conceptual innovation is far more important than the rules and regulations under the concept. This genre emphasizes the return of the film to its original form and content. It is enough to find another new direction of film development in the cracks), which is obviously easy to think that the so-called dogma is actually a pseudo-record style. In the film, hand-held photography that always passively follows or seeks the target, natural lighting, jumping clips, the occasional exposure of the recording microphone, and the interviews with the characters that are inserted in the narrative process, these factors successfully put the film together. Disguised as a documentary film, which can be said to be the distinctive stylistic feature of "Idiot" (although the director also used elements such as hand-held photography in many other films, but for various reasons, they are not as close to documentary as "Idiot". Idiot" so close).
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To put it simply, this film is about a group of normal people who want to do something idiots can't do: a group of normal people have organized a club of 'idiots', and they often sneak into the society of normal people to pretend to be crazy and sell fools, in the process of subverting normal social norms. However, in the end, they found that no one in the club had the courage to show their "idiots in their hearts" in front of the most important person or thing, and the club was dissolved. In the first half of the film, when the "idiots" were unanimous and took the initiative to provoke normal society, they won such a huge victory that they scared off the tenants and the head of the community committee, and maintained the stability and safety of the club; however, When the father of one of the female members suddenly broke in and claimed to take her, the "idiots" couldn't do anything about it, and the incident became the trigger to unravel the group from within as they found themselves unable to escape. The network of normal society, tied with his "idiot in his heart" to obtain eternal happiness. At this time, all the previous pleasures have been automatically reduced to fleeting illusions. For normal people, pretending to be an "idiot" is just a mental anesthetic and a senseless escape. When the people in the film finally see the hidden truth behind them, they are also in a deeper pain than happiness. In a way, the film is brutal, it ignites our desire to release our idiots and get a light soul at the beginning, but it teaches us harshly at the end: this desire can only be It is desire, the "idiot" deep in my heart is destined to become an unbearable light in life!
There is a line in the film: Idiots are the future of mankind. The tone is arrogant and extreme, not like a serious statement, but some plots in the film seem to provide confirmation. At the end of the film, Helen vomits the cake in front of her family and becomes the last victor of resistance to society and becomes a real idiot. On the surface, she did gain the liberation of the soul, but the prerequisite for this happiness was the loss of family love. When Helen's family showed nothing but indifference after seeing their relatives who had been missing for two weeks, when they used her to go to their son's funeral as a criterion for judging whether she had the heart of her son, when the husband saw Helen's unusual behavior When violence was used against her for no reason, the "family" at this time was no longer "family", but only an extension of society. In Lars von Trier's view, human society is a mechanical and indifferent institutionalized machine, which conceals the true conscience of human beings with various behavioral norms. It can be said that there is a deep-rooted fear in Russ, which is the fear of the infinite expansion of the social mechanism that may occur in the future and the destruction of the individual soul by this expansion. Therefore, he uttered this apocalyptic line through the mouth of a fanatic, intentionally or unintentionally. This seems to be telling the world: either stop it from happening or be an idiot! (Russ's films are consistently anti-social, especially with a strong critique of the state apparatus or institutions of social power. In several of his films of the same period as The Idiot, the individual is an angel, while the social Sexually inclined individuals or people in society are devils. Typical works such as "Dancers in the Darkness").
Writing this, I suddenly felt a shudder. Is human society really so terrible? Can the future of human beings really only be the destruction of the soul or becoming an idiot... Sometimes I really feel that Lars von Trier's movies are like a black hole. It tells some truths that we don't want to face. Knowing that, it is easy to fall into it and cannot extricate yourself... Maybe, there are some things that you can't think about, but you can't think about it too much. We should wait for our conscience that has not been completely wiped out, and live a good life.
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