the world is a metaphor

Monique 2022-03-21 09:02:51

red violin

The film uses the results of divination as clues to unfold the following stories, one by one, and the following stories are intercut with the auction and these stories, linking the historical story of the red violin together. From the beginning of the birth of the red violin and the departure of the violin maker's wife, this was a foreshadowing. Later, when the black man was tested for DNA, we knew that he used his wife's blood to make paint, which is the origin of the red violin. The red violin is an exquisite musical instrument, and people who get it can't put it down. It flowed from the pillow of a musical prodigy to the hands of music master Bufeidi, and was later smuggled into China by the Chinese. After several waves during the Cultural Revolution, the black people finally brought Bufeidi’s imitations and real products back. The family made a gift for the daughter, and it was reborn.

The fate of the red violin is actually the same as the fate of people. It has many twists and turns, and our life will not be smooth sailing. But its own value makes it play its value in the hands of various people. Different countries and people have different political backgrounds and economic levels. The same is true for art. It is a special ideology, and it is an aesthetic ideology. , which is not affected by political economy, but reacts to political economy. The value of a work of art, its beauty is organically united from the combination of human labor practice and human emotions, subjective and objective, just like the song and dance played by Bufeidi's emotions when it was in Bufeidi's hands. It is beautiful and artistic. The red violin is not only a valuable musical instrument, nor is it just a sustenance for the wife's soul, it is also a special kind of beauty that exists uniquely with the beauty of art.

At the beginning of the film is a ceiling full of violins. This scene is very dreamy, and it is also a foreshadowing of the birth of the red violin.

What impresses me most is the part of China, which was smuggled into China and sold to traders at a low price. The traders took off the rubies from the red violins and took the embellishments of the red violins privately for profit, but this also tells us , the advantage of the red violin itself cannot be measured by money, he can only take away the gem, and those who do not understand music will not understand its value. What the cadres did later to protect the red violin was the theme of the Cultural Revolution, but the feelings for music, art, and kinship were indeed there, which was touching.

I suddenly remembered a sentence from "Kafka on the Shore": "Kafka-kun Tamura, the world is a metaphor." Every story in the film is also a metaphor. The craftsman's love for his wife made it make such a perfect musical instrument. The child prodigy of the hospital's pure and innocent love for the violin and the love for music made it sleep with the red violin underground. Later, when the red violin fell into the hands of the musical genius Bufeidi, it witnessed a love-hate relationship. The violin became a symbol of desire, so it suffered a huge trauma; later, in the Cultural Revolution, the red violin was a metaphor for the beautiful belief in freedom and democracy in the current environment; the final auction will make the violin expensive The musical instrument, something everyone wants, and as the tarot says, it will find a peaceful destination, so the blacks brought it home.

This film makes people enjoy it, and each experience is also a metaphor for a person's life. He is a true reflection of life and society, and it is beautiful.

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The Red Violin quotes

  • Charles Morritz: What do you do when the thing you most wanted, so perfect, just comes?