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Dalia stroked the red T-shirt, got out of the car, turned around, and looked back: in that resort hotel among the rocks, the meeting to discover the business "gold" is in full swing, when one is far from the company's development plan, She made herself independent on the way back, and this time, looking back was no longer nostalgia. At the moment of staring, the resort hotel, conference room, and everything related to "gold" were disintegrated in an explosion. : The first explosion, the second explosion, the third explosion; a long-range explosion, a close-up explosion, a close-up explosion; the TV set was disassembled, the refrigerator was disassembled, the books were disassembled, tomatoes, lobsters, watermelons, Turkey...everything fell to pieces in the explosion.
From far to near, from big to small, in the repeated but different perspectives of the explosion, everything is broken down in slow motion, the conference room between the rocks, the TV and refrigerator in the conference room, the refrigerator in the refrigerator. Food... penetrates into every object and corner, penetrates into the inside of the object, this is the most thorough explosion, this is the most enjoyable kind of destruction, Dalia just ignited her anger by visual means, and completed the destruction , Undoubtedly, this is a kind of destruction to the world of things, whether it is the technology represented by TV sets or refrigerators, or the desires of all kinds of food represented by human beings, or even the modern business system represented by the resort hotels built among the rocks, all are in ashes. And Dalia, who stood in the distance and created the destruction event with her eyes, is a winner. When she witnessed the whole process with a smile, when she turned and drove away with satisfaction, she was the winner, and she completed the operation. Meaning, in addition to liberating himself from the shackles of this business company, he is also an heir to fulfill the last wish of Mark, a young student who was killed by the police.
The winner is to face the afterglow of the setting sun and leave, the winner is to move on with the sound of the music he likes, but where will the winner go? Will she go looking for the dead Mark? Or will they go back to the city they left off? There is no answer, or the answer itself hangs there - when Mark is shot by the police, when Dalia completes her mission alone, for the individual, their revolutionary significance is still unclear, and In this battle of mixed reality and imagination, resistance and sacrifice, escape and destruction, everything looks more like an adventure. Mark once said to Dalia: "I like adventure." And adventure after destroying a reality , the meaning of the individual is actually put on hold in the ending without the final answer, just like Dalia came to this desert, and after calling the bar in that bar, she saw the sign, which said: "Please lift this wooden board in the event of a fire. ." But when the curious Dalia opened the wooden board with her hands, another sentence was written inside: "Idiot, it can only be opened when there is a fire."
Daria was driven by curiosity to lift the plank, and even this curiosity can be regarded as an instinct, but without fire, everything is meaningless, and the metaphor of this move is: Is it okay to have no fire? Create a fire, thus creating a rationality for opening the board and seeing the world inside. As an employee of Sunshine Dunes, Dalia seems to be driven by this fire-making drive for her entire operation: she drives away from the company's headquarters; she searches for the "Granville" Local and deep into the desert, she was alone in a desert town asking "Jimmy" without a clue - it seemed that everything was uncertain, her departure, her arrival, all seemed to see the words on the wooden board, only to see the words on the board. The world opened up when conditions allowed, so she would lose her direction, wandering around the town not knowing where to look, so she inquired about "Jimmy" who was probably sitting beside her. The silent policeman might be "Jimmy", So she'd be watched and rubbed by the kids with their hands in their pockets...
The fire did not happen, so the fire was artificially created, but in fact, the cruelty of this reality is: the fire has spread uncontrollably, from the city to the desert, has penetrated into every corner, and the lost people can't see the fire, and even take risks Create fires in order to be justified. For Dalia, this fire is a pervasive commercial invasion: in the city, all kinds of billboards line the streets, and the Sunshine Dunes Company, where Dalia is located, is implementing their expansion plan, " Here you can breathe fresh air, here you can have a private garden, and here you are your own master.” Even this expansion has penetrated into the heart of the desert, where the resort hotel built among the rocks is holding A seminar on market development, which Dalia seems to be attending. This reality is actually a kind of irony. When big cities and small towns are playing the company's commercials at the same time, when all the purpose of escaping is to enter, where else can we avoid this fire? Just like the company's slogan: "Escape from this city and build a new home" - the new home is nothing more than a part of business expansion, and is it a real escape?
Dalia's purposeless departure seems like a performance art, and what about Mark? As part of the school's campaign against war and democracy, his actions were more of an adventure. Mark talks about his unruly experiences at school: stealing some hardcover books, using the department chair's credit card, bringing the dog into the school, tampering with computer programs... "I like adventure." Mark seems to be taking such an adventure Therefore, in this movement, Mark is not sure what he is really resisting, he buys guns, he participates in the parade, and finally kills a policeman in a confrontation and evasion, and he is desperate. The "Lily 7" private jet at the airport was driven away. Parades, confrontations, joining organizations, buying guns, and even killing the police have all become ceremonies that adventurers cannot extricate themselves from, so the acquisition of such a sense of existence is inevitably accompanied by a certain destiny while searching for a rational meaning. Self-joking, when Mark was visiting a classmate who was detained by the police, the police asked him his name, and he wrote his name: Karl Marx - under the annotation of this label, the revolution has lost its seriousness, and it is also like Da. Like Leah, under the condition of no fire, they set up a fire by themselves, and in the face of the real fire, they do not know whether to extinguish or let it burn.
Dalia is surrounded by the fires of commerce but unsuspecting, and Mark is besieged by the fires of politics but takes risks in a playful way, in what Godard called "the age of Marx and Coca-Cola", and Dalia and Mark The meaning of being an individual is actually not to lift the wooden board out of curiosity, but to see the fire that really endangered the faith. When Dalia drove a car in the desert, and when Mark flew over the desert with Lily VII, the encounter between the sky and the ground really began to explore the consciousness of life. Curious at first, Mark saw Dalia’s car on the desert road, and then made a low-altitude flight. When the plane flew over Dalia’s head, of course she was attracted by this move, she wanted to know What really matters is what kind of specific person this person hovering above her head is. And then there's the red T-shirt, which Mark dropped from the plane and Dalia picked up from the ground, and as a token, they met.
They were walking in the desert, and they came to a place called Zabriskie Point, which used to be a lake. Due to a series of crustal movements, this sedimentary valley was finally created deep in the desert. A lake with water has turned into a desert without water. This is a change caused by nature, but in the absence of any commercial and political invasion, it still exists as a natural landscape, and Dalia seems to know at this time. What he was looking for when he escaped was to think silently: "This place is good for deep thinking." And Mark, who was looking for adventure, also found the freedom not to be chased in this unfettered world. So they ran, and played, and shouted; so they rushed down the riverbed from the hillside, playing the game of who killed the most insects, so they each told their own stories and stories; so they kissed, hugged, and tumbled naked on the earth ——There is a "smell of death" here, a feeling of home here, openness and open-mindedness here, and the silence of no one here. Two people in the desert, in the most natural state, found the original meaning of human existence. .
Far from the city, far from the material, far from the strife, far from business, far from politics, no Marx and Coca-Cola, not even that Mercedes-Benz car without a piloted plane, all modern elements are filtered. So in this atavistic world, Dalia and Mark have also removed all social attributes from their bodies, they are pure individuals, and they have also become representatives of human beings: men and women. So deep in the desert, in the river valley, two people become three people, three people become four people, individual people become group people: they tease, hug, make peace, even sharing, group sex They are not even human, but become some kind of animal full of primitive desires. They have only abundant vitality, no rules, no constraints, no opposition, no system, and everything in a civilized society does not exist.
It seems to be an ideal realm, a realm of imagination, integrated with heaven, earth and sand. But what about after waking up from the dream? Dalia got dressed, and Mark stood up; a couple drove by with their children, and they seemed to see a business opportunity here after a short stop; a patrolman passed by and asked Dalia, while Mark, who was hiding behind the portable toilet, passed by. Then he took out his gun and prepared for self-defense - waking up is to return to reality, to face the rules again, to become an individual in society again, and of course, to be besieged by that invisible fire again: Dalia is still To participate in that meeting, Marco had to take the plane back to the airport, and even, they were all facing danger, a danger of losing themselves, and when Marco finally drove the plane back to order, it was not freedom, but the police that greeted him. One bullet - Mark shot and killed the policeman, who of course had to kill him.
But, having experienced the freedom of primal desire and the real feeling of finding themselves, they didn't just return: they turned "Lily Seven" into a strange big bird, painted in bright colors that read With the slogan "No War, Damn Dollars", the multiple people who marked "He, She and It" said, GAS595, the replacement of this plane is actually a challenge to the entire rule. And when Dalia heard the news on the radio that Mark was shot by the police, she also completely turned to resistance, and this time, she took the initiative to create a devastating fire, no longer driven by curiosity. Instead, when looking back at the explosion site, he scolded the society: "Idiot, it can only be opened when it is on fire" - when everything was disintegrated and turned into pieces, Dalia seemed to say it when she smiled It's another sentence: "Idiot, you have been buried in the fire, and even if you open it, there is nowhere to escape."
Only in Zabriskie Point, far away from the fire, in a world without human beings, once had the water to extinguish all fires.
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