First of all, I will introduce the names of the main characters in the play. Different translations may have different versions. The director of the mental hospital in the play, Dr. Luo Gao, the priest Abby (seems to be a job title), the female worker Meidelian, and the playwright Marquis, Simon, wife of Dr. Logao.
"Quil" and its title are also clues throughout the film, representing the freedom of expression, not only to praise virtues, but also to describe people's desires and chaos.
Dr. Luo Gao is the representative of real power. He is powerful, calm, shrewd and selfish, and he shows great control over Abby. But Dr. Luo Gao has lost his soul. He doesn't know what love is, and he doesn't see it as a problem. He has lost the possibility of exploring himself and has become a tool of society and power. Kind of alienation.
And I think Abby is the key character in the play. The whole play is based on Abby's growth as a clue. He believes in Christianity and has a firm belief in his heart. He regards Marquis as a friend and really wants to use his way to rescue Marquis.
Marquis writes sexual desire, lewdness and absurdity, and describes human desires vividly. The pornographic novels and stage plays in the play are just a representative, representing the hidden side, the suppressed side, and the side that dare not face human nature. He is the most vital character in the play. Creation is his life, and creation is the purpose of his coming to the world. In the state of creation, he is relaxed, passionate, full and enjoyable.
But the creation that does not meet the needs of power is regarded as evil, so he is strongly suppressed by Dr. Luo Gao, but the real creation will never be buried. Maidelle, a female worker, helped him secretly send the book he wrote out for publication, and I like his creations very much and share it with other female workers in the mental hospital. Extreme repression will lead to extreme indulgence. Marquis is really creating with his life, from writing with a quill at the beginning, to wine later, Blood and feces, from the beginning of writing on paper, to later on the sheets, on his own clothes, and on the walls, the environment for his creation gradually deteriorated, but his desire to express was indeed stronger, especially in the end when he was After being locked up, he used the words of other patients to create creations. Through the secondary processing of the patients, the things passed on were more direct. In the end, the walls were covered with stool. His material life was extremely miserable, but his spiritual world was extremely rich. , and he is a firm expressor, and finally completed the transmission of the expression with his own life.
Abby's Christian teachings are both a limitation and a kind of support for him personally. He internalized the needs of society and power into his real needs. Marquis once forced him to face himself and face him. Facing his own desires and his own humanity, but unfortunately he did not realize it at the beginning. Of course, he also paid the price of Maidelian's death in the end. In the scene near the end of the film, Abby asks God to redeem Marquis And myself, I think they have all been redeemed. Marquis found the inheritance of the expressor, and Abby completed his own awakening and became a real person. The film still gave a glimmer of hope and gave Abby redemption, Otherwise, the current Dr. Luo Gao may be the end of Abby.
And Meidelian, I'm very interested in his relationship with three men, her relationship with Marquis is a direct desire, or a means to get a novel, her relationship with Abby is a This kind of realistic feeling is also a common feeling in the real society, and her feeling for the mysterious man who helps her sell books is an illusion and an ideal.
Some details of human nature are still described in the text. The nuns of the convent will also be short-sighted and talkative. Sister Daisy eventually escapes with her beloved. People have to face their true desires and needs, and work hard for them. Complete yourself.
That's why I talked so much, but I didn't talk about the topic of rationality. The so-called rationality is not in the form of social norms, but is loyal to oneself, completes one's own value search, and pursues one's own happiness and self-realization. Therefore, people are really Is it rational? The price of rationality is often higher than imagined. Today’s society is a society with an obvious simplification of value orientation. Only a house, a woman’s money, and a banknote are justice. Philosophy is to make people examine themselves, their accustomed concepts, and their own eyes and ears. the practices of others, and find out what is true to you and what is social exhortation.
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