In such a film, what is it trying to convey? What does the wall mean? Wait, wait, and so on are the problems we have to face.
In my opinion, what it wants to say are:
1. The anti-
war war is essentially a kind of self-abuse of all human beings. In the film, we saw Pinker slashing his nipples and eyebrows with a razor and bleeding. When you are dripping, have you ever felt fear in your heart? But do we ever feel that way when we watch war films, when they celebrate the great war? No, I cheered for the victory of our warriors as the plot progressed, and excited for the defeat of the evil little Japan. At this time, who would have thought that the so-called war is just a boring killing driven by human animal instinct?
Pacifists deny war, many because of the pain caused by war, and some of them do not deny war itself. And we saw the most despicable side of the war in the movie "The Wall", that is, the wounded soldiers, the ugly corpses, the water-filled trenches, and the filth and unsightly everything. That's enough to laugh at those who glorify "just" wars, behold, the wars you praise are piled upon mountains of corpses, upon festering wounds, upon stump arms, upon justice Under the banner of the young man who died for you!
The transformation of the protagonist's life is intriguing, from rescuing a dying groundhog to leading the wanton destruction of a fanatical youth, from his mother's exclamation of disgust when she sees a groundhog to the enthusiasm of the crowd. Shouting, Pinker completes the transformation. He went from a lonely child who loved every life to an imitator of war behavior, a transition that was accidental, but not abrupt, starting with Pinker trying on his dead dad's military uniform in front of a large mirror. This process begins.
The film Anti-War focuses on the pain and loneliness brought about by the war, and its bad influence on children. When I saw little Pinker looking for his father, (he actually knew he had no father at the time) he pulled out and retired. The soldier's clothes, the man looked at him and picked up his own child, I couldn't help but feel sad. It's the details that make the movie so impressive.
2. Children's awakening and awareness of sexuality, as well as their attitude towards sex as adults
Pinker peeks at the woman in the opposite building, which can be seen as the awakening of children's sexual consciousness. When he is about to climb on his mother's bed and be driven away by her, it can be seen as his Oedipus plot, and he imagines the man who is next to his mother as a skeleton, which can be regarded as his response to the person who took away his mother curse.
Since the advent of Freud's psychology, the world has never stopped criticizing it. Human beings are unwilling to admit their animal-like nature.
In this film, Freud's shadow pervades and seems to be a major attraction of the film, because no one has ever so boldly shown sex, its form and essence.
There is a short animation in the film, it is a blooming flower and a flower bone, they are fighting, and finally the flower bone inserts into another flower. Everyone knows it's a hideaway for sex, but why are they fighting?
In modern society, the sense of strangeness between people is always present, and there is a trend of alienation between people, which is also manifested in sexuality. When we have no close people, when we are in contact with strangers one after another every day, when we have just established a slightly intimate relationship with a person and he is about to move away, the closest person to us Sexual contact seems to be the only thing to rely on and trust. In this way, in modern society, sex has been elevated infinitely, and it has become the main right of human beings and even the meaning of existence.
In the film, Pinker loses his first girlfriend, and he spends his days doing nothing, even abusing himself, and even sinking in the water, with blood on his hands, until the bath is dyed red. The meaning of sex is infinitely enlarged by him.
The audacity of the film is also evident, with exposed sexual intercourse scenes abounding, a theme that embodies the meaning of infinitely expanding sexuality.
3. Loneliness is everywhere in modern society
Pink lost his father at an early age, during his time as a child. His mother's doting could not satisfy him, and he was still lonely. This loneliness is not for him alone, but for the whole society.
In today's industrialized world, everyone loses the value and meaning of his self-existence and becomes an artifact of society, which can not help but make people feel depressed and lonely. Today, we use the Internet to communicate, use the telephone to communicate, and use all modern tools to communicate, but face-to-face communication is becoming less and less, as if we cannot exist without tools, and it is not time to prove that we exist. Is a modern tool! Humans are not human beings, but have been materialized!
In modern society, people feel lonely, so they pin their hopes on the future, but the future is unreliable, it is only a possibility, and people making one choice means giving up the other. People seem to be free, but they must make choices, even if they don’t choose, it is a choice, which makes people forced to choose, and choice means his unfreedom, so it seems that people are imprisoned freedom. will. In this situation, many people can't be caught off guard, so they are dazed and lonely. The origin of loneliness actually lies in human freedom!
4. The charm of fascism
Pinker finally went to fascism. When he was reborn and stripped off the rotten skin of the gentleman, he became the leader of fascism in the "revolution". They smashed and destroyed. became a demonic figure. At this time, the "revolution" became a tool for them to vent, a panacea for them to get rid of their shackles. At this time, the leader is Pinker, the once shy child, the boy who was hurt by love, the aggrieved man who was beaten and scolded by the teacher, and the inspirational rock singer.
The sheep have lost their shepherd, and Pinker is their leader.
The beauty of fascism lies in letting others make choices for themselves.
5. The political significance of the "wall"
In the film, the wall may refer to the Berlin Wall, but of course it may also be just a metaphor.
In modern society, people have obtained great freedom, but the ultimate question of "Who am I, where do I come from, and where do I go?" is still haunting us. If we do not solve this problem, we will still live in Inside the "Wall".
Modern politics seems to be free, and it seems to allow everyone to participate, but this inevitably brings to mind the problem of the tyranny of the majority. And can our votes really represent ourselves, are our votes really rational, and are our participation really meaningful? No one could answer.
The film does not tell us the answer, which requires us to continue to search.
Taken as a whole, the film tells us countless things, but none of the questions are answered, it just expresses them.
The advantage of the film lies in the countless tortures, but after all, there is no way out for us, which is what I am thinking about.
In fact, this film is a music film. I neither understand music nor English, so I don’t know how far from the connotation of the film, so I will try my best.
Few words, not enough to say, that's all.
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