"Chicago": The exquisite dagger under the gorgeous
brocade robe Xie Zongyu's
75th Oscar. Although "The Pianist" and "The Moment" won the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards respectively, "Chicago" was the biggest winner , It includes six awards including best film, best supporting actress, best costume, best sound, best art, and best editing. I remember the 70th Oscars, "Titanic" also won ten awards in a variety of ways, but I thought those awards were the beginning of the Best Picture Award. It was the grandiose and tearful love story that shocked everyone, and the judges made it "one person wins the way, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven." It's like a group of wandering poets invited to the magnificent palace as guests, and in the end even the toilets of the palace would also chant poems as gifts. "Chicago" is different. Any award won by "Chicago" is well deserved, and it hasn't depended on other awards to "go up and up".
Film is a comprehensive art, which encompasses almost all other art categories. "Comprehensive color, fragrance, and taste" is not only its basic requirement, but also its highest requirement. But since the beginning of the movie, there has been almost no such thing. Even the "Dogtown" that I admire is nothing but a single champion in the movie games. What it makes me worship is just its stormy and invincible sharp thinking. "Chicago" is fully regarded as the all-around champion at the film games. It should be the most representative masterpiece of the art of film in a century.
In this movie, all kinds of art are very full. We can study its jeweled and gorgeous costumes, and we can also explore its montage expressions of mixed reality and fiction; we can appreciate its light and shade of light and shadow, and we can also be fascinated by various dances that fascinate people; we can consider it shamelessly The philosophy of existence can also analyze its artistic magnetic effect directly on the soul.
And what amazes me most is the charm of its music. If you are not a music layman, I will specifically focus on its music as the object of research. More specifically, it analyzes how it uses its exquisite music to package the vulgar lyrics into an irrefutable philosophy of life. These music and the so-called revolutionary songs of the political parties of the past dynasties are really similar to each other. Just as the wizard who preached had to sell some parallel imports by the way, it was the song that captured people’s souls first, and then people could not help taking the parallel lyrics to the truth, thinking that someone was the sun, such as Hitler; and that a certain party was the mother. , Such as the Nazi Party.
There is a line in the movie called "Killing can also be an art." After watching the movie, I almost doubted that "All art is killing." Of course, it is not so straightforward that white knives enter and red knives come out, but one point one point one. Point, soak our hearts. I remember when I was a child, textbooks once said that art must express the truth, goodness and beauty in life. But "Chicago" pouted its sarcasm in disapproval. The art of "Chicago" is all in the service of "fake, evil and ugliness". In other words, it is to pack all the "fake, evil and ugliness" in life into "truth, goodness and beauty". The skill of reversing black and white is really stunned.
Many people think that "Chicago" is meant to be ironic. At first I thought so too, but after seeing it, I didn't think so. Because its artistic camp is so luxurious, that ironic dagger wrapped in an artistic gorgeous robe does not show the destructive power of a poor dagger. At this time, what it criticized unknowingly transformed into a golden rule for the audience. Does the director regret it? Do not! The glamorous plot is everywhere hinting that everything is simply the result of the director's smooth sailing. This reminds me of the domestic novelists who write about officialdom. At first, they might be ironic, but because they are so familiar with officialdom, the things they wrote were finally regarded as official magic weapons by readers. At this time, they looked back and found that this was actually the most real "rule of the jungle" in the competitive society, so they counted the sweet royalties while letting booksellers hype it into officialdom.
In the article "Criminal Morality", I once expressed this point of view: Metaphysical morality is actually a very secular means. The purpose of its existence is only to seek the "maximization of collective interests" for mankind. In order to make human beings live better, more united, more harmonious and more competitive, a self-control rule. It has nothing to do with the secular "right or wrong", and it has nothing to do with the improvement of the human mind and spiritual realm. The "civilization" attached to it is just to help human beings win absolute victory in the competition of earth species.
By extension, the original purpose of human civilization (including various arts of course) is not to make the human soul higher than other species, but to whitewash the "rule of the jungle" and better enslave other species on the earth. At any time, the human soul is actually not higher than other species on the earth. Judging from the unrestrained demand for survival resources by human beings, the human soul that has been nurtured by so-called civilization and art for many years is actually the ugliest among all species.
So, instead of using that exquisite dagger to stab others' filthy souls, how about leaving it to yourself as a weapon for seizing worldly welfare? "Chicago", which appeared as gaudy and vulgar, finally allowed me to deduce such a meaningful conclusion. Although it is a sad thing, its more speculative connotation can no longer be summarized by superficial irony.
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