Merry Christmas to all Mr Lawrence

Hipolito 2022-02-02 08:18:20

The scar in the palm of
my hand that will never heal I wish only for it, I believe it will save
me I am here, a lifetime away from you
The blood of the Son, or the voice of my heart
I love the clothes of the forbidden color,
I believe in my life

, the year when lightning penetrates the void,
millions of souls
Sacrifice , no life left
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_ _ _ The blood of the holy son is far away , or my heart is moved . I love the clothes of the forbidden color. I believe it for a lifetime. I love the clothes of the forbidden color . Mr. Lawrence, after knowing that this song is the soundtrack of a movie, has been trying to find this movie. At that time, the Internet information and piracy industries were far less developed than they are now, so I didn't find them. In my imagination at the time, the movie was probably about a lonely old man named Lawrence, spending a lonely Christmas Eve in a modern apartment in a modern city. It was Michaelson's electronic piano music that brought me these imaginations. Then I suddenly found out yesterday, that imagination happened to be Ai Iijima's last life portrayal. After I went to college, I saw the introduction and evaluation of this movie in the movie dictionary and yearbook in the underground bookstore with handsome male clerks. Basically, I wrote this movie as a gay love movie. At the same time as my imagination was shattered, I also lost my dedication to this movie for several years. It has nothing to do with gay love, but I just felt bored.














Later, for a while, I watched movies in the dark underground audio-visual room almost every afternoon when I skipped class, and I watched this movie by the way.
I have to admit that this movie reversed the trajectory of my life to some extent, or, in a sense, gave me another trajectory.
Most importantly, I got to know Ryuichi Sakamoto. His musical style and cosmopolitan concept still have a serious influence on me to this day. This is off topic.
I still remember the shock of the movie itself. When Ryuichi Sakamoto kissed David Bowie, my heart literally twitched. When the DVD stopped playing, a bouncing ball screensaver appeared on the screen, and for a few minutes I sat immobile in the dark basement.
Nagisa Oshima used an almost divisive approach to the film. East and West, beauty and destruction, love and death. An island far away from the outside world, squeezed into an absolute world, isolating the space of the opposite sex, condensing human emotions, without the cold tropics, leading to an out of control Christmas, a war that refuses mercy, so everyone is longing for:
love.
Only love can save the world. It has nothing to do with the same sex or the opposite sex, East or West, life and death. Just because love is human love.

On this cold Christmas night, I thought of this movie again. In reality, the carnival crowd got something and was pumped out of it. I don't quite understand what it is, but I just feel that what I have gained has drawn me, them, some people, or all of humanity, making the world colder and colder.
It is not love that is drawn out.
I hope.
Over race, gender, culture, class, all differences, love transcends and love embraces all.
I hope.



At the end of this contrived and illogical comment, I would like to say: Merry Christmas, Jesus Mary, Muhammad Shakya Muni, David Bowie Sakamoto Ryuichi, Oshima Nagisa Iijima Ai. Merry Christmas to all Mr. Lawrence in the world.

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Extended Reading
  • Pattie 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    A film that makes people gradually better, with a long stamina and a strong emotional impulse. 1. Taking the Southeast Asian prisoner of war camp as the space, the anti-war theme is expressed through the same-sex friendship across countries, races, and enemies. Except for Lawrence's confession, the whole film does not involve women, but the men's war crimes, violence and evil. Being cocooned and bound by oneself is unbearable. The cultural divide and collision between the East and the West is like the [Bridge on the River Kwai]. 2. The characters are flesh-and-blood and unforgettable: Mr. Lawrence, who is kind and gentle and often acts as a mediator, and Jack, who bears a lifetime debt for his cowardice when he was young, and uses self-destructive fearlessness to atone for his sins. The Yonojing of Zhiyuan, and the savage and arrogant but also showing compassion and kindness to the sergeant Ohara. 3. Sakamoto Ryuichi's electronic music is extremely moving, and the ethereal [Ride, Ride, Ride] is really sound. 4. Takeshi Kitano's greetings and freezes at the end are the saddest and most sincere "Merry Christmas" wishes I've ever heard. Just as Gadamer said, the festival allows the fallen people to re-experience the real time and life, and allows the separated to return to the original coexistence. (9.0/10)【2021.6.20.SIFF Tianshan Review】

  • Brenda 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    In addition, the cover of the CC version is nagging: the whole thing is a naked "kiss and fight".

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence quotes

  • [Jack is being led to the firing squad]

    Lt. Ito: [Chuckles] Can you guess what I'm thinking?

    Maj. Jack Celliers: Yes, I think so. Can you?

    [Lt. Ito's smile turns into a frown, he strikes Celliers]

  • Col. John Lawrence: [to Yonoi] It's your gods. It's your bloody awful stinking gods. They made you what you are. May they rot in whatever filthy hell they came from! Damn them! Damn your fucking gods! Damn! Damn them!