For life, reason is just the straw that sustains life
First of all, let's talk about the reason for watching this movie. I saw Joaquin's "her" many years ago. At that time, I just regarded this film as a general artificial intelligence film, which was very novel. Now, near the age of no confusion, watching "her" again, is already the character in the play. People often make life plans, and I think it's just an imagination. Every decade is an era. In the next ten years of my life, it is really difficult to predict whether I will turn left or right. In short, the future is uncertain. The past is in the past, the future can only be imagined, but the present cannot be grasped. I don't know if this is a reflection of the "Diamond Sutra" in "The heart of the past cannot be obtained, the heart of the present cannot be obtained, and the heart of the future cannot be obtained".
Joaquin's performance in "her", the kind of loneliness and melancholy that is out of tune with the world, I really don't know if he is really like this, or he is still performing. His kind of gray emotion is set against the gray weather in the play. Looking at the world with the mind, the grayness in the heart turns the sky into gray. It was the performance of Joaquin who really wanted to know about this actor for the first time. Naturally, I will look for all his movies to watch.
Next up is "Two Lovers".
"Two Lovers", this movie is 5 years earlier than "her". The introduction says that this movie is Joaquin's work. Time has proved that Joaquin, such a unique actor, a great actor who can play the role of "Joker", did not die in his prime. It is really our blessing, because we can see such a superb performance; it is also our pain, Because Joaquin's role is really heart-wrenching. A little worried is that Joaquin himself has been walking in such a spiritual role, will it really lead to self-destruction.
"Two Lovers" is a more painful movie than "her".
On the surface, "Two Lovers" is a dilemma, ideal and reality, passion and reason, and a series of clichéd love movies with emotional entanglements. If it is played by ordinary actors, maybe this can be evaluated. But for Joaquin to play, it will have to be evaluated differently.
Watching this movie, there is an underlying basis that Joaquin (the character is called "Leonard") cannot be viewed as a normal love choice. Before the story of the movie, Joaquin was forced to suspend the relationship because he and his fiancee could not have children normally due to pathological reasons. This relationship is truly unforgettable for Joaquin. (When Joaquin started diving to commit suicide, there was a subconscious confession of the departure of his fiancee, and he kept the photos of his fiancee. This shows that for him, this relationship cannot be put down. ), he also fell into depression and couldn't extricate himself (in the play, it was said to be schizophrenia). In short, Joaquin is a man with severe depression.
Such people have a strong sense of unease and always want to run away. His mother, a mother who really loves her son, in the last paragraph of the plot, when Joaquin wanted to escape with Michelle, her mother showed incomparable love and tolerance, "Leonard, do you want to leave? ....this is your home, you can come back anytime." Actually. The son's every move is under the observation of the mother. Suicide is an act of complete mental disorder. Escape is still relatively clear cognition. There must be a reason to escape, there must be a reason. Many times there is no escape between heaven and earth. It is this kind of predicament that makes people like him breathless and want to cry, but the real sound is to cry.
After understanding his mental state, we can gain a foothold in analyzing his behavior.
Two lovers ( Chinese speaking of lover is somewhat derogatory, which is the narrowness of such a culture that values moral stance. ) First of all, Sandra, an ideal woman. Sandra's encounter with Leonard was actually Sandra's "premeditated plan". It can be seen that this woman who is gentle on the outside is actually very assertive on the inside. The original intention of her wanting to get to know Leonard was just because she happened to see Leonard inviting his mother to dance at the Laundromat at Nader's house. The most intuitive feeling was that Leonard was a "very cute" person. Sandra is gentle, pretty, empathetic, and has a solid family. The closer she got to Leonard, the more she felt that Leonard was a simple person, the same on the outside, even though she knew that he had a self-harm experience, she still wanted to take care of him. She wants to take care of him. How strong this gentle woman must be.
Michelle, a woman who will only make a mess of her life forever, has no opinion, no ability to live independently, and is inexplicable. But it was such a woman who had nothing but appearance to inspire Leonard's courage. right! It is courage! What Leonard's life lacked most was courage. In fact, the fundamental reason why Michelle could attract Leonard was not her beautiful appearance, but her frailty. Michelle is a woman with a weak soul. It is these that inspire Leonard's courage to live.
Between Sandra and Michelle, it was obvious that Leonard chose Michelle. It seems that Leonard wants to take care of Michelle, but in fact, Leonard can use Michelle's weakness to arouse the courage of his own life. It's a pity that a woman like Michelle is dangerous. What Michelle needs most is not emotional care, but someone to "pay her rent". Anytime an ordinary man sees a woman like Michelle, he has to stay far away. It is a pity that a man like Leonard does not lack the love of others, on the contrary, he needs to give love (the love Leonard wants to express is essentially a strong will stronger than fate). Only in the experience of giving "love" can Leonard save himself and pull himself up from that sense of falling down.
In the eyes of ordinary people, Leonard doesn't choose a woman like Sandra, Joaquin is damned. However, as explained above, Leonard cannot be analyzed with normal rationality.
At the end of the plot, Michelle finally chose the person who paid him the rent. Leonard walked to the sea alone by the sea. The plot can be written in two ways: one is that Leonard walked directly to the sea. You can't choose your own life in your destiny, but in the end, you still have the freedom to choose your life and death. This is tragedy!
And the film opted for another development, Leonard backing down when the water came up. Weeping alone, this is not a tear of repentance, it is a solitary cry of powerlessness. He picked up the gloves Sandra gave him on the beach and the "surprise" he was going to give Michelle. At this time, guitar music played. The soothing music of the guitar is actually quite deceptive, as if Leonard finally finally understands the meaning of real life rationally. But in fact, for Leonard's life, rationality is just the straw that sustains life.
back home. Everything at home was the same, and everyone was still laughing and laughing. Leonard pushed open the door, walked in gently and sat by the wall. This time to escape, it seems that it is just normal to go out and "make a soy sauce" to move. The mother turned to see the son, the slightly changed expression, the response of the son's eyes to the mother, in this brief eye contact, the mother knew that the son was "back".
When Leonard put the ring on Sandra, he wept. He told Sandra he was "crying with joy". But when they hugged, Leonard's eyes already showed that he was not happy.
In Chinese, crying is different from crying. Crying has a sound and is an outward emotional expression. Crying can be pitched, so it is a rational expression. Crying, relative to others, relative to heaven and earth. Crying and singing can be confused and cry for mad song. Weeping is often silent, it is an inward emotional expression, and weeping is only for oneself. Leonard, just cry, not cry. The haze in Leonard's heart just covered his solitary soul. Although my mother understood him and tolerated him, she could not dispel the haze.
Leonard's mental "illness" is, from a psychoanalytic point of view, depression, or dissociative disorder. There is no solution in Western medicine. In Zen, it is a kind of ego obsession. Whether it's with Sandra or with Michelle, it's just a match. No matter whether it is rational or passionate, Leonard will not be able to escape the haze. The origin of his haze is the entanglement of self and destiny.
People in the world always want to transcend fate, but they don't know that there is liberation without ignorance of cause and effect.
Zen master Baizhang attends the church every day. There was often an old man who listened to the Dharma and dispersed with the crowd. One day he stood still. The teacher asked: "Who is the one who established it?" The old man said: "I lived in this mountain five hundred years ago. Some scholars asked: Do the great practitioners still fall into karma? I said no . Now, let the monk change his language on your behalf."
The teacher said: "You just ask."
The old man asked, "Do great practitioners still fall into cause and effect?" The teacher said, "I don't understand cause and effect."
The old man was enlightened. Saying goodbye, the teacher said: "I have escaped from the wild fox body. I live in the back of the mountain. I beg the teacher to burn as a gift from the deceased monk."
The next day, Zen Master Baizhang asked all the monks to go to the back mountain to look for the dead monk. Everyone was puzzled. The master led them to find a dead black-haired fox on the large rock behind the mountain. After fasting, they are cremated according to the ritual of sending dead monks.
- Contains "Five Lantern Festival Yuan." Baizhang Huaihai Zen Master
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