"Chicago": Shamelessness can be an art

Casimer 2022-03-23 09:01:30

The title of the article is taken from Netease Entertainment's short review of the film, because I really can't think of a more appropriate description than this.

With quick shots of a group of dancers rushing in to change clothes, and lavish ballroom interiors, the film transports us into the bustling, fast-paced world of Chicago in an efficient manner with almost zero wastage.

Then, a charming song and dance show began.

Kelly, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, came on stage slowly in a mysterious atmosphere. The audience was silent for a moment, and in less than a second, she was immediately ignited by her high-pitched and vigorous singing. Kelly's slender and toned figure, with the rhythm of the music, wriggled powerfully and sexy, her hot body seemed to tear the already exposed tights at any time, and under the heavy eye makeup, her eyes remained the same. Cold... This is the highest state of seducing a man, if you want to refuse, you will welcome it!

Kelly Dance


What Kelly didn't expect was that when he tried his best to tease men's physical desires, he also aroused women's psychological desires.

Hart, played by Renee Zellweger, looks at Kelly obsessively, and when Kelly completes the show with a fiery high-pitched voice, Hart's emotions also reach a climax, as if she sees herself taking Kelly's place in the center of the stage , to become the star of the stars. There is no doubt that Hart wants to be famous, and the eyes that were full of obsession a moment ago are now full of desire.

There are many ways to achieve desires. To accomplish it through unremitting efforts is called inspiration, and in Chicago, it is called shameless.

Hart first chose the most familiar unspoken rules to approach desire. She carried her husband and went to bed with a man who claimed to know the upper echelons of the dance floor. After a heated turn of events, the man immediately pulled his dick and ruthless, disregarding the promises he had made. Hart, who had shattered his dreams, was stimulated by the man's mean words. He got out of control and shot him.



Obviously, Miss Hart has long learned shameless, but she has not learned to look at shameless with an "artistic" eye, so she failed and was put in a women's prison.

If we say that the prosperous Chicago at the beginning of the film is to pave the way for the flood of desires in the city that follows, then the murders described in the song and dance show of Orange Is the New Black are poised for the impetuous blindness of the city that follows.

This is an amazing song and dance show. Eight female murderers appeared in turn. Under the accompaniment of the dance partner and the music, the female murderer stepped on the hot dance steps and sang her crime process. These cases have obvious commonalities: fussing and impulsive killing. It is unimaginable that these women would be so impulsive to end a life for such a trivial matter. The only explanation is the impetuous living state. What is even more terrifying is that on the bright and moving faces of the female murderers, they have a natural look, their sexy thighs are swaying frivolously, provoking your vision, and challenging your moral bottom line. In the impetuous city, life is So disrespected.



At this time, Billy, a lawyer played by Richard Gere, appeared. The legendary lawyer with an astonishing record of zero losses, the savior of female murderers and Hart's soul mentor, taught Hart a vivid lesson on how to make shamelessness an art.

Billy first falsified Hart's life, from birth to marriage, made her into a poor girl who was born well, highly educated, and stumbled because of ignorance, and then asked Hart to follow her "new life" Dress up. Is this a lawyer? Oh, this is a master lie maker. However, it was this low-quality lie that could not stand up to scrutiny. Under Billy's operation, it actually worked! Hart received unanimous sympathy from the media, but none of the media questioned the information about her.

Compared to the truth, the media prefer stories of dog blood.



Perhaps, the eight female murderers in prison are a special case, which is not enough to reflect the problem, so the media's pursuit of this entertainment quality of murder cases is understandable because of the wide audience behind it and has witnessed the whole society. impetuous. With the media hype, Hart has become a "star" that people are chasing after, and some people even started to imitate her hairstyle and buy her personal items... No one cares about the man who was killed, yes The trampling of life is so explicit.

The film uses a wonderful marionette dance show to show Billy's manipulation of the media, and in my opinion, Billy caters to the impetuous taste of the media rather than Billy's manipulation of the media. Shameless became an art, rather he was lucky enough to find a market that would appreciate it.

Fantastic marionette dance show


All this, Hart saw in his eyes, kept in mind, and soon came in handy.

The media blindly chasing hot topics is like a ruthless man who throws it away no matter who it is. When a new case emerged, Hart quickly faded out of the public eye, and no media was interested in follow-up reports. Hart's case was in danger of being suppressed indefinitely, but Hart was no longer that one. The silly girl who panicked and lost control on impulse, she immediately reacted in her favor: pretending to be pregnant! And through the unspoken rules again, I bought a doctor and got a pregnancy certificate.

Hart has managed to pull back the media's attention, and it's clear that she's out of a school for the art of shamelessness. The consumers of this art are the media and the vast readership behind it. The whole society is eager for the nourishment of this art like a slut. She will not ask who entered her body and how it entered her. body, and only pursue the spiritual orgasm brought by waves of hype.

An impetuous society is a world of entertainment to death. In a world of entertainment to death, murder is also a consumer product for entertainment. Life becomes cheap and morality becomes shameful. Therefore, when a female prisoner was hanged for losing a case, it was no surprise that she saw the commotion in the media and even the whole society. Everyone was in a "sad" atmosphere and was finally moved by their own "sadness". Only the female inmates in the prison shivered with fear, such as Hart, who was immersed in the joy of "fame" and realized how cheap the media and the public's sympathy for her is! To be more thorough, that's just consuming her, no one really cares about her life or death.

Billy wakes up Hart from a dream


The trial finally came. Hart and Billy sang in court and put on a good show. Seeing that victory was in sight, an accident happened. Kelly, who was also imprisoned for murder, appeared. In order to gain media exposure, she stole Hart's diary and appeared in court as a prosecution witness. Hart's life was hanging by a thread!

At this time, Billy made another big move. Faced with a mountain of hard evidence, he even used a three-inch tongue to say that the black was white. While he was eloquent and fiercely defending, the film was also inserted into the comparison from time to time. In the picture of Billy tap dancing, the fast rhythm of the dance steps symbolizes the tense atmosphere in the courtroom, and it also symbolizes Billy's eloquent tongue under the rapid rotation of his mind. This time, he went from a media manipulator to a judicial molester.

Billy took the diary that Kelly brought and dealt with it calmly

Billy tap dances


Representing the final position of justice - the court, it finally fell, and Hart was acquitted in court! The incompetence of the judiciary in the trial of the case is condoning shamelessness. The zero record of losing cases is a legend of Billy, and it is also a shame for the judiciary.

His life was saved, and the desire to become famous once again occupied the commanding heights of the soul, but Hart was surprised to find that the media had receded like a tide, and the newspapers reporting Hart's acquittal were trampled into garbage, because the streets were full of rubbish. A woman is murdering! And Hart no longer has the bargaining chip to hype, to save the media attention.

The lonely Hart found that in this farce, only Billy gained both fame and fortune. He is still the legendary lawyer with zero record of losing cases, and his worth has doubled. He really deserves to be the master of the art of shamelessness!




If the story ends here, the film will be reduced to an old-fashioned critical work due to the failure of the protagonist. But the end of the film tells the audience that it is not just satirizing the shameless behavior, it is the soul of creation at all!

Two women who should have been spurned for murder, Hart and Kelly, actually formed a song and dance troupe and boarded the stage of the Chicago Theatre. The organizer also used the two's criminal history as a selling point, attracting many audiences to come. Watching, and when the two danced on stage with imitation guns after a warm-up, the audience instantly boiled. The shooting action was actually seamlessly integrated with the sexy dance. At this moment, Shameless was really performed. It has become an art, and Billy, who was sitting in the audience, had to laugh and shake his head again and again.


Hart and Kelly on stage with fake guns


When Hart and Kelly danced on stage, the audience didn't know how many men had erections, how many women had dreams of stardom, and how many people would die off the stage without justice. .

The prosperous Chicago, impetuous and full of desire, eventually became a hotbed of shamelessness, accompanied by the infinite sinking of morality.

The film tells the story of Chicago in the 1920s, but now it seems familiar, from the previous beasts and beasts, and Feng Jie recruiting relatives, to the recent Uniqlo indecent video, Wang Sicong's answering interaction, which of these incidents Not sought after by the media, which one is not talked about by the public? All of them witness the impetuousness and shamelessness of the current China.

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Chicago quotes

  • Roxie: [singing] He ain't no sheik, that's no great physique, and lord knows he ain't got the smarts.

  • [after singing "Mr. Cellophane"]

    Amos Hart: Hope I didn't take up too much of your time.