Knowing that Nick and this movie were heartbroken in a long and unresolved relationship, the Mercy Seat looped endlessly, with anger and doubt. And when I look at it, it is the last day of the 1910s, and these five years seem to have passed five centuries. What I know about Nick Cave is no longer the strange-looking singer in the red shirt in "Under the Berlin Sky", but a real artist.
Nick Cave's own world is intense and rich, full of fantasy, heroes, religion, anger, darkness, symbols, erotica, crime and punishment. After the death of beloved son Arthur, it became more and more, landing in earthly acceptance, detachment. All the details that belonged to reality or fantasy seemed to flash through his brain, stay briefly, be stirred, selected, arranged, and finally turned into song after song of devil or angel. As he puts it, "To write lyrics is to put two completely different scenes together and see where the sparks are, it's to put a child and a Mongolian pervert in the same room, see what happens, and then put another The clown on the tricycle, then wait, watch, and if it doesn't work, kill the clown."
He said that the whole meaning of our life lies in memories, so he built an archive for himself, keeping all the details of past life, portraits of all ages, handwritten notes, and living in a ruined apartment in Berlin photos, long hair from the flea market, religious postcards, the maddened audience on stage at the show, the portrait of the wife's pale vampire face, and so on. All these things are connected in series, and it is the net made up by this soul's journey and fantasies in the world.
In addition to the stories or lies told in the name of "I", he is still in Brighton's rainy bad weather, carrying people who have meant a lot to him, friends, former partners or lovers, chatting rock and roll The definition of a star, talking about why they left, going back or continuing some unfinished conversation from many years ago. I always thought that Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue were really in love. When Nick heard Kylie describe him as a tree in a Hitchcock movie, he was shy but couldn't help laughing.
"Is there anything you're afraid of?"
"Of course, I'm afraid of loneliness and being forgotten."
"Really? You have so many wax figures."
Last year they sang "Where the Wild Roses Grow" on Glastonbury, which was soulful and moving.
He also kept mentioning his performances with Nina Simone. She went on stage to stare at all the audience, and then frantically played the piano, frightening and immersing all the audience with huge energy. It was the kind of gig he was looking for. That kind of giving can make us forget ourselves and become someone else's show for a short time. Like his father read Lolita seriously to him when he was a child. "At that moment, the time and space became different, and the father seemed to become a greater being."
My memories of the entire fall of 2019 are in Ghosteen and those beautiful letters from Nick answering fans' questions. He opens himself up honestly, shares his inspiration, the past. The reason for the end of the relationship, the spiritual method, the meaning of a certain image in a certain song, the meaning of shyness... And more importantly, he soothes the scars of those who have also lost someone.
Like the story in "Hollywood": The mother who lost her child asked the Buddha for help and asked me what to do. The Buddha said that you go from house to house to collect mustard seeds, but remember, these families must be families that have never had a deceased person. My mother knocked on the door of every house, but she didn't come, because everyone has a deceased person in their lives. The mother recognized it and finally stepped into the jungle to bury the child. He sings again and seeks the way of peace, but it is still a long way. This powerful pathos and healing, they give me great comfort in the cold season.
“Sometimes the past will emerge like a fool through the darkness, clamoring for approval.”
The dense fog of memory interweaves the past with the present and extends into the future. I will no longer dodge.
They are wild and I am broken.
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