In order to survive, the students started a bloody killing game of cannibalism and predators with maps, food, and different weapons.
The good and evil, beauty and ugliness, greed and selflessness of human nature are exposed. A movie with such a surreal setting achieved unprecedented praise after it was released in Japan, and today we are going to talk about this movie that preceded it by nearly 40 years. 1962
"Destroyed Angels" directed by Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel, the Spanish national treasure, is known for his surrealism.
Representative works "An Andalusian Dog", "The Golden Age" (another masterpiece that is highly recommended) and the religious trilogy. Underneath the gorgeous appearance hides the sharp satire of religion and social authority, and his narrative habits fully demonstrate the reflection on ideology in "Destroy the Angels". This unpopular film was nominated for both the Palme d'Or and the Fabisi Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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door of a luxurious mansion Dachang, cut in with a mirror, take you into the hidden treacherous
A palatial enclosure envelops an ostensibly methodical extravagant banquet. After that, the servants who skipped work or left for some reason seemed to be pouring out, hiding and brewing, secretly churning...
This high-class banquet is to celebrate the birth of the new work of the musician Silvia, and the host Edmundot specially held it.
But under the calm and harmonious appearance of this banquet, undercurrents were in fact surging. The gilded bowls and chopsticks full of ruthlessness and ridicule, the essence of hypocrisy and jealousy in the upper class can be seen.
Especially when the servants brought the dishes carefully prepared by the hostess, they slipped accidentally, and instead of helping, they made fun of the hostess sarcastically.
All kinds of strange and boring reasons, but the guests have been reluctant to leave the mansion. Like being sealed, and like being cursed by something, everything here began to be isolated from the outside world.
Without food, the aristocratic spirit of old life has long since faded away. In the enclosed space, their splendid appearance was gradually torn apart by the innate animal nature of human beings. Some people's bloody mouths had already begun to bloody bite and occupy, and the blood was dripping invisible to the naked eye.
There was a mess in the hall, people outside were helpless, and only the person involved could step out of this insurmountable cycle.
The title of the film "Destroy the Angel" is meaningful: human beings use the power of life to create value, and over time, they create the illusion that they are "angels" living in heaven, and are gradually imprisoned in the thinking framework they conceived, unable to escape. , unable to progress.
Life, the endless existence of tens of thousands of fates, is rooted in its root and will never be destroyed. It comes from the courage to escape from the prison of wrong ideology, think about its origin, and explore its mystery, and this is also the idea of "Destroying Angel" the subject to be expressed.
In the most popular terms, human's cognition angle of human society constitutes ideology.
The most direct expression of this ideology in the film is through religion and class.
Let's talk religion first.
When all the people in the mansion were rescued, they, like pinned puppets, put on new clothes and went to church to listen to prayers and thank God for his mercy and mercy. In this way, the towering walls of the church imprisoned them again.
Why does religion dominate human consciousness?
According to Artoussai: Ideology becomes an "illusion" when our consciousness does not correspond to reality. When such illusions are recognized by a certain group and conform to the imagination of the group's living conditions, the so-called "believers" appear.
At this point, ideology gradually disappeared into the mind, and believers indulged in such empty hints and illusions. Religion today is linked to the power structure and power relations of the society we live in.
Religion is a mode of evaluating and perceiving belief, and it is inseparably related to the maintenance of social power, and this is the class nature of ideology.
A ruthless mockery of ideological classiness erupts in the last minute of the film: violent institutions whip the marching people, and a fierce battle is about to break out.
The dominant class or system in this society and the ruling ideology that serves it are always suppressing the ideological remnants of the old social system and giving birth to a new ideology of a political and social system that meets the requirements of the times.
And the torrent of history always ruthlessly washes away ideologies that are doomed to meet the requirements of the times. The disappearance of fascism, imperialism, and Nazism is the best proof.
Do not escape into nothingness, and cannot help but stay in a corner.
Human development is a combination of reform and reflection.
Reflection but not indulging in the past,
reforming but not rebelling against the laws of nature.
This is the true meaning of moving forward and the source of life... …
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