Andrei Sarkinsev_Leviathan_2014
7.4
Leviathan's shortcomings are manifested in the straightforwardness and stereotypes of the text, and the motives of the son's actions are largely ambiguous. However, the appeal comes from its excellent video style, and the chill makes people shy, which allows director Andrei Sarkinsev to create a deep and sparse atmosphere with only a few simple characters and sets. Although this simple story lasted for more than two hours, the richness of the scheduling made it not at all boring to me.
Violence and alcohol are in the blood of Coria and the mayor, but the class divide makes them different. Most of the violence used by Coria did not have any effect, but often aggravated the incident; the mayor did not go into battle in person, and the gun in his hand was only used for deterrence, and the violence was spread to the police station, the courtroom, and his bodyguards. Coria's son, who resorted to alcohol and violence to vent his anxiety, made himself even more isolated, while the mayor's son was able to go to church with a similar class of people.
In addition to this negative inheritance, there are some very interesting counterpoints in the plot. The judge reads the verdict without emotion, and the dialogue between the priest and the mayor is also one. What they both have in common is that the first time they appeared, they had a very sarcastic humorous effect that made me almost laugh out loud, but the second time they were clearly doing the same thing, I didn't. I can't laugh at all. Obviously, this is not the result of the audience getting tired of second-hand jokes, but because of the cruel force that oppresses our shoulders as the story progresses.
Oedipal fatalism is another neat and rigid structure imposed by the creator on the lower-level characters. These people will meet their own fate on the way to escape from fate, and it must be a tragic fate, and there will be no reversal; Coria In an attempt to prevent his house from being destroyed, he invited the lawyer brother, but it was the lawyer brother who destroyed the family; the wife tried to leave this place to go to Moscow to improve her life, but it was because of this that she died at the hands of her stepson; the son's Although his motives are vague, his actions of killing his stepmother must be to solve the existing problems of his family, but his actions are the incentives that lead to his father's fifteen-year prison sentence and himself becoming an orphan.
The top is faith, the middle is law, and the bottom is ethics, corresponding to religion, government and family. Living in this land, you cannot know your son, wife, husband, mother, father, brother, and you cannot trust the court or the police. Bureau. Similar to Hobbes' book, the first part discusses ethics, the second part discusses the formation and form of the state, the accusation of the sovereign and the rights and obligations of the subjects. Conceived "The Kingdom of God".
The difference from Rousseau's "On the Origin of Human Inequality" is that the so-called sovereignty in the social contract is still in the place of the living God, while the film focuses on the personal dimension of the protagonist Coria. The Orthodox priest mentions the book of Job to Coria, which the film corresponds to. Out of "ignorance of the second cause", when mortals suffer, they always hope that they have the ability to imagine all the ins and outs of things, so they are fascinated or feared by the invisible, and even so the pain may not be reduced. The standard answer sounds cliché, and we can even explain the Eye of Providence on our own.
According to Hobbes, there are only three types of states: monarchies, democracies, and aristocracies. The monarchy is the best, because at this time private interests are equal to public interests, which is the positive meaning of Leviathan's existence. The confusion of the text lies in the fact that the Leviathan and the mayor, represented by the image of the sea, as state powers want to engulf individual lives, are juxtaposed with the social news stories depicted in the film, which are closer to a kind of "aristocratic state" and the evil dragon people. , it is very contradictory to observe together under the Hobbes theory. The Russia we have seen is more like the so-called "dark kingdom" than the sovereign Leviathan, where everyone is equal, and peace is the highest intention. Utopia . Perhaps it would be more unified in connotation to look at the story setting aside from the original work. After all, religion can also override secular life and become an ideological state apparatus to fabricate its legitimacy for violence. If it is true as the priest said, "My God is with me, and your God does not know where it is", then whether God exists or not may not be that important.
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