There is no leeway in our choice of expression, and established prejudices have long been rooted. David Lynch loves Kafka, David Lynch loves Freud.
Since I had a strong interest in "Twin Peaks" the day before yesterday, I reviewed my homework before watching it, so I watched "The Elephant Man" again. I flipped through the records, the last time I watched it was in 2013, and I didn't leave any impression except that I remembered seeing it. It was probably just ugly, probably just David's iconic montage fading in and out. After reading it again, let's pull the film first, and then write down your feelings, or discuss it when appropriate.
Begin to keep track - the iconic dream-like opening of David, like a sand dune, like Mulholland Drive - montage first to show the dream, or the reality. Black and white, the light appears only on the face of the woman placed by the elephant and the walking and roaring elephant. In the end, I thought, the color is the emotional tone of the whole story, tragic. So is the light. On this basis London's grey skies, giant factory chimneys, gothic churches, wet streets, wet basements, circuses, giants, clowns, gnomes, toys, fuck, what a prop, they With a natural label for the film. Now that all the deformities are in place, the story goes in its normal order. Before Elephant Man leaves the factory, the foreshadowing of photography is firstly a glimpse of the circus, and then there is no frontal camera, slideshows, and physical examinations for a full ten minutes, just not letting you see the truth. Slowly, I finally showed you his body, and even let the audience see every detail of his body clearly. The lights are bright and not covert. Twisted bodies, deformed movements, crushed voices.
Speaking of expression, story structure. David Lynch successfully planted a stalk of Elephant Man in my heart through his technique, and my feelings changed accordingly. Except for the elephant man, everyone else is a prop, which is used to express the mind of the elephant man. From closed to open to being played with, and finally completed the church model, like a normal person lying on the bed to end his life, maybe this is the whole meaning of the deformity in David Lynch's heart - normal equals death?
Music, music is really not good, the same as photography skills and composition, forget it.
After talking about the skills, it’s time to talk about the connotation. My prejudice is that the elephant is a mirror of human nature. When you see him, what you see is yourself, just like Nietzsche’s abyss – when you stare at the abyss, the abyss Also staring at you. The abyss may not only be ugliness, but even the beauty in ugliness, but also reflection. Reflection is when you are frightened by the ugliness on the surface, and when you come to your senses and find that he is normal, you will feel frightened and condemned by your conscience. But what else can you do? The evil will continue to be evil, the naked evil (the guards and watchers, the circus owner and the audience), and the truth in the mask of the Elephant Man will inevitably suffer a tragic fate.
Kafka said that perversion is a form of expression, perhaps the best way.
In the end, Lynch's model of the church is his good wish, right?
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