, a side note of ten years of watching movies 1. Watching a
movie is a very personal thing, such as its form. The 24 frames per second picture is full of sadness and joy, and the turbulence or silence in your heart may not always be understood by the person sitting next to you. Or, on a rainy weekend afternoon, you're at home watching CDs, and your only hope is that the rest of the time is just you and a story. As for preferences for movie content, it's more personal. For example, many people like Wong Kar-wai's movies, and some professional fans even recite the lines of "Evil in the East and Poison in the West". In me, I really don't like Wang's style. His movies, like "In the Mood for Love" and "2046", aside from being ambiguous or ambiguous, these stories are really not worth wasting nearly a kilometer of film and the "loving performances" of popular stars.
In the past ten years, the most unforgettable movie-watching experience was watching "The Barber of Siberia" in the lecture hall. In the shadow of Fawu cast by the street lights, he finally stopped and stood crying.
It's just my very personal feeling, I had a very close lover at the time and she couldn't understand my grief. I believe that many people have seen this film, some people will think it is not worth mentioning, some people will soon forget it, but I always remember, remember that Andrew Tolstoy thought his love was tarnished, after the torrent of love The scene of hiding in the corner and shivering in the heavy rain. I later collected its discs and asked people to watch them together, but according to him, I didn't feel anything. So I wonder if this kind of emotion is a key to emotion. It uses other people's stories to awaken a kind of deep-seated emotion in the heart of a group of people. This emotion is related to the sadness of idealistic love, and it is related to world affairs. About the vast and cold.
After "The Barber of Siberia" premiered in the Kremlin in 1999, it was accused of being too Hollywood and a myth of the Russian spirit. Its narrative technique does have a strong style of American movies, such as the plot of Tolstoy's son in the military training in the title, such as the scene of the military school teachers and students holding a dance, but its temperament is Russian, it is the vast, Loyalty and deepness emanating from the cold ground reminds us of Pushkin's poems and his duel for Natalia.
The plot of "The Barber of Siberia" is not complicated. In the late 19th century, Jane, an American woman, went to Moscow. Her task was to do a good job in the communication of the Tsarist General, the principal of the non-commissioned school, so that he could finance an invention invested by the Americans—— Build a huge logging machine called "Siberian Barber", which is used to cut down the endless birch forests in Siberia. Jane met Tolstoy, a young cadet on the train to Moscow. Perhaps it was her temperament so different from a Russian girl that Tolstoy fell in love with her. The cadet performed Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", and Tolstoy played the barber. He overheard Jane in the room on the eve of the opera and overheared the general conversation in her room. Feeling humiliated by love, she rushed into the heavy rain, pale Rain and tears flowed down his face, and his terrified eyes were heartbreaking. When Tolstoy came back on stage, his heart must have been full of pride and uncompromising: no one can insult my feelings, because they are the dignity of my life. He finally picked up the violin and bow under the worried gaze of his friends, and struggled to draw the general, and was sent to Siberia for this.
After many years, the "Barber of Siberia" can finally roar through the Siberian jungle, and Jane has the opportunity to set foot on the land where Tolstoy was exiled, but she did not find Tolstoy at her residence, and could only drive. Disappointed and left in the carriage.
At this time, Tolstoy, who was hunting in the mountains, must have sensed Jane. He ran in the direction of Jane like a wild beast. He walked through the jungle, crossed the stream, and finally stood at the foot of the mountain. The handsome boy in the past was like a savage. He lit a cigarette, smoked it, then raised his head, staring at the shadow of his former lover gradually disappearing at the end of the field.
There are many things mixed up in this film, such as Mikhalkov's fascination with the glory of the Russian Empire (before the October Revolution) and the Russian spirit, as well as his criticism of the autocratic side of this old spirit. Russian culture shock (typically represented by the giant machine). However, what moved me most was Tolstoy's loyalty and uncompromising love. He could use his future and even his life to defend the purity and nobility of love. When his classmates showed some disrespect to Jane, he suggested Settle each other's disputes by dueling, and nearly lose your life for it. In Tolstoy, love and his inner spiritual temperament are highly unified, and he defends love just like defending his own personal dignity. The extreme elements in this temperament make his life as fragile as crystal, but it also makes his vast life radiate the gleaming light after the crystal refracts the sun. In my opinion, the pride contained in this light is in human nature. The only awesome.
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It is said that love and death are the two eternal themes of art. This is also easy to understand. Most of us can't leave the ground under our feet to spread our wings and fly. We won't even go to wander far away, and we won't have too bizarre encounters in our life. The reality is so dull that we even cry and laugh. are gone.
However, we all encounter love.
A thousand people have seen a thousand Romans, so a thousand people must have seen a thousand kinds of love. Kafka wrote to Phyllis, asking: Why love.
Why love? When I was watching Brokeback Mountain, this question kept popping up in my mind. I believe that the love between Jack and Ennis is not because of lust and loneliness, otherwise, they would not be able to last for decades; I also think that their relationship The love between them is more than a mysterious accidental emotion like clouds drifting across the sky. Perhaps, love is the only way for them to be redeemed in the world. Similar life experiences and marginal situations gave them a sense of trust, and the intimate communication and mutual love no longer made them feel lonely and wandering in the world, so under the blue sky above Brokeback Mountain that was closest to the background of life, they in love.
The beginning of life is absurd, and people are "born" into this world without any awareness. How many pebbles were thrown by God when he created the world, how many boring things will happen in one's life. Everyone, as a single individual, will have moments of loneliness and helplessness. At this time, the most reliable person is another body that can fit in with their own life. In "Lovers in the New Bridge", Alex, who was abandoned by worldly life, fell in love with Michelle, who was abandoned by worldly love, because in his desolate life, she was the only warmth, and he was redeemed in the process of loving her. Michelle thought she didn't love Alex, but after escaping, she returned to Alex and said, I often dream of you, so I love you. Perhaps, she can't leave the expectation of love under the fireworks over the new bridge.
In "Wild Rose of Paris", the two sides of love, Betty and Zorg, are the embodiment of idealism and reality respectively. Zuo Ge wants to write, but has no confidence, and would rather paint hundreds of wooden houses by the sea (painting hundreds of wooden houses is boring, meaningless, it is the appearance of mundane life), and Betty first burned the wooden houses, and then tried his best to encourage Zuo Ge. She believes that Zuo Ge will write great works. In the end, Betty died, she used her life to complete the redemption of Zuo Ge, idealism and reality were finally unified in Zuo Ge, Zuo Ge began to concentrate on writing, just as Betty expected before her death.
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Love itself is not worthy of our praise, because it is too simple to fall in love with someone. You are at a fork in your life. If you choose to go left or right, you will fall in love with a different person, which is a ridiculous thing in itself. . The absurdity of love is also that you never seem to be able to tell what is true love. In Kislovsky's "Blue", Juliet has been unable to forget her dead husband. Later, when she knew that her husband had a lover and was pregnant with a son, her faith in love collapsed, and she could finally be freed from the shackles of love. To come out, the price is to realize the nothingness of love.
How to make love not ridiculous? "Scandal" is a butterfly change of love. In order to make Mrs. Zheng fall in love with him, Zhao Yuan designed moral inclinations and behaviors according to her preferences. He created a third person between himself and Mrs. Zheng, and then let Mrs. Zheng fall in love with this person. The transformation from frivolity and falsehood to deepness and truth was accomplished when Zhao Yuan took a sword and insisted on going to the Zheng family. "I still don't know who I am, but I still want to see him," he said in his dying moments. Zhao Yuan, like the hero in Greek legend, thought he was invincible, but was hit by the arrow of love to his only weakness. He found that he still had the ability to love, and he could finally die smiling because of it.
How to make love not ridiculous? You can only fight without compromise, like Tolstoy in "The Barber of Siberia", and you can only insist on the love in your heart, like Gump in "Forrest Gump". Because of his low intelligence, Gump is unable to learn and accumulate worldly experience, so all his behaviors are not disguised, but the direction of his heart.
Fourth, in the
end, who is the person you really love?
There is a story in The Tango Lesson. Jacob was walking around, and one day he met a arrogant young man in the valley at dusk. He couldn't bear the pride of the young man, so he fought with him. In the middle of the night until the sun rose, at last, Jacob stopped, because he found that all his efforts were in vain, the young man could not overcome, he might be an angel, or maybe God himself.
Your lover is the invincible person in your heart.
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