In this summer's frenzy of Jin Min's re-screening, the magician who went west ten years ago seems to be reinvigorated by the resurrection of the screen.
His four feature films are now almost synonymous with "must-haves for movie fans" , and by contrast, it seems that only a few people know about them:
Before the birth of the famous "Red Pepper", Jin Min first set foot in "Delusional Agent" produced by TV animation . Links , decodes and fuses the secret sources of each of his four feature films.
If every feature film is like a fleeting silhouette of Jin Min, "Delusional Agent" is like standing behind these four shadowy mirrors, a giant that collects Jin Min's soul :
It uses the highest precision , simplicity and humor to connect the abandoned ronin in " The Godfather of Tokyo", the high-pressure nightmare under the spotlight in "The House of Weima", the endless delusion in "Red Pepper" , and " The Godfather of Tokyo". The unpredictable space-time setting in Millennium Actress .
And these elements are organically unified under a common premise: a comprehensive examination of the spiritual world of modern people , and an early warning of a potential crisis of the times .
Lu Yuezi, the designer of the popular doll "Ma Lome", was under pressure after the success of her work, the jealousy of colleagues, the boss's push for new works, and the exhaustion of inspiration:
The anxiety of living alone in the city made her desperately long for an exit. Just one day after she passed the dead end, while walking home, a teenager with a curved bat and a golden pulley knocked her unconscious.
The honest detectives Zhu Shou and Ma Ju investigate the case. Just when you think this will be a crappy detective story like Kogoro Maori, Jin Min gently lifts another curtain.
In each of the following episodes, a new victim of "Baby Boy" was born. The columnist Kawazu, who suffered from huge compensation fees, and the genius children Tai Liang and Bai Tian, who were criticized because of their similar appearance to "Baby Boy" Chono, a multi-personality patient who is a university teaching assistant and the top lady at night, tried to play the "boy with a baseball" but was dismantled, and was finally killed by the real "juvenile" in prison. The paranoid student Foxzuka, whose ostensible position is a traffic policeman, is actually a delusional student. Hirukawa, a perverted father who was haunted by the underworld and forced to commit crimes, and his daughter Taeko, who thought that Hikawa loved him the most since childhood, stumbled upon the surveillance he installed in his study one day, and realized that his father had a deformed desire for him.
As a result, this drama becomes a Lynch-like puzzle, with a slight but inevitable relationship between characters and events. The trivial supporting roles surrounding the last victim seem to be standing in the center of the world the next moment, bearing all the Painful weight.
A suspenseful case is no longer a spiral labyrinth that turns inward, as conventionally expected, but a picture scroll that extends infinitely in all directions . In Jin Min's hands, the focus of the crime does not seem to be "Who is the culprit?", but "How many people are there who are equally likely to suffer?"
If we are careful enough, we will find that almost every victim's name is made up of an animal, which seems to imply that in Jin Min's dictionary, far from being a 9-to-5 office worker, a "social animal" is even Beginning with elementary school students, until the moment before life stops, the inhabitants of modern cities, although vainly called "human beings", are in fact animals without identity , and submissively play their assigned roles in the unnatural expectations of society .
It seems that he realizes that he has lost his qualification to be a human being and has become a "fake" with different appearances. In order to escape such a position, every victim has built an imaginary statue for himself in his heart: Yuichi is always there 'Aichi', who is on the top of the list in all aspects, delusional young Fox Zuka thinks he is a saint who punishes evil and promotes good, and Hirukawa sees the crime under coercion as the only way for a man to go.
In order to escape from the humble, they tried to set up delusions to beautify the reality, but they did not expect that this would highlight their own unbearable and absurdity, and at the same time insinuate that not only human beings have been devalued into animals , but even the world has changed from the era of legends and epics. Degenerated into a wasteland that no longer tolerates heroes , no place for decency, dignity and struggle .
If "Delusional Agent" just stays in the pattern of the first seven episodes and continues to follow the serial crime to start the narrative, this is undoubtedly a setting that takes a different approach and takes a different approach, like a dossier listing mental syndrome, it flickers The return of humanism after a long absence.
However, at the moment when we were most caught off guard, Jin Min left the unresolved mysteries behind and turned his attention to the ecology further afield . In an instant, we once again experienced the joy of being lost in the game of chess. The stage suddenly shifted beyond the seemingly unrelated field of vision, and the tip of the iceberg turned into a vast labyrinth garden.
The story shifts from an inner cycle of human suffering to a mirror-like contemplation of the outside world. The definition of "Baby Boy" has also evolved from a reassuring, instant relief, belief in "intermittent death" to a sanctuary of collective nightmares .
A suicide squad that tried many methods to find death and failed, a group of long-tongued women who fanned the rumors of "Baby Boy", a team that made animation for the puppet "Malome", we shuttled between twisted faces and bodies , like watching O'Henry's short stories, witnessing the predestined but absurd deaths of every kind of people .
The three members of the Suicide Squad are Xiao Ou, who has not yet reached his menarche, the infertile old man "Winter Bee", and the young and strong but gay "Zebra".
——Use the atrophy of fertility as a metaphor for three bodies whose hearts are still beating but withered, and even the government strongly advocates family planning ("wise family planning");
In connection with the promiscuous Chono and the girl-loving Hirokawa in the previous chapter, isn't Jin Min alluding to an era in which per capita sexual desire is distorted by repression , but no longer has healthy productivity ?
We are alive, but we are dead, and Eliot is clearly describing the same crisis in The Hollow Man: "The whispers as we meet/Silence and meaningless/Like the wind in the hay/... No structure/image but no color/paralyzed power/posture but no action", which is why "Baby Boy" , a symbol of human surrender to death , has become a totem that people in the play flock to .
At a time when "Baby Boy" is becoming more and more rampant, people's demand for the healing doll "Malome" is also more and more fanatical. The seemingly two-level spiritual products are actually the same thing. Once we choose to sleep in a desperate situation , the " bat " will hit the head . Other than that we seem to have no choice .
Modern society worships a mirage disguised by death, an illusion created by consumerism driven by the innate human instinct for self-deception .
We didn't know until the end that the "Baby Boy" was a confinement in the teenage years. Because of the menarche, his body was in pain, and he accidentally let go of his pet "Ma Lome", which caused him to be killed by a car. Improvised excuses.
What was supposed to mean the beginning of a new life actually brought a delusion of escape. And escaping is not the same as cowardly , but the equivalent of blindfolded, sliding to death in sweet dreams .
When a group faces its own fault, if one person stands up and shirks, everyone else will respond from the heart. This is the contagiousness of delusions . The mental self-defense mechanism is like a disease with no cure. In the era of mass production, in the form of commodities, everyone is guaranteed to contract the same disease, take the same hallucinogen, and all produce the same dependency.
"Malome" is the epitome of self-deception and a commercial shell, but isn't it the epitome of capitalism itself? Isn't it just that one thousand people are one after another , and the spectacle of Taiping is decorated by capital ?
At this time, we may be a little surprised to realize that this animation producer, with his surreal settings, will be repeatedly borrowed (chao) by many Hollywood plays (xi) in the next ten years. It is actually quite different from the "physicist" who is addicted to concocting the universe of building blocks and superman. Instead, he is a contemplative observer who has always rooted the world of creation in reality .
And those magical shells are actually the confused light refracted in his worried eyes in this era of distortion. Even in "Millennium Actress", which is the most fairy-tale-like, hidden in the story is still the film as the memory carrier of human beings, in the reincarnation of war history, resistance to forgetting and tampering.
If we regard the mushroom cloud rising from the explosion of "Little Boy" in Hiroshima as God's death sentence for mankind, then the only thing that mankind can do after World War II is to use material to build a more indestructible lie for themselves to make themselves forget that piece The ruins of eternal presence, so we have the era of economic globalization and big data, which means uniting every country and every mechanism to guard the continuation of lies. This is why, after one catastrophe is over, human efforts to rebuild can only be the beginning of another catastrophe .
That’s when we recall the horror we felt while watching The Matrix: In a world where computers are powerful enough to simulate perception, humans can’t be sure whether they’re experiencing reality or brain waves coming from a plug in a water tank.
"Light is the darkness of dreaming" , Jin Min revealed the secret in the dream of "Red Pepper", the era has long lost the power to choose between the real and the fake, each of us is in a volute In a tightly wrapped dream .
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