A girl recommended this movie to me.
That's why I wrote my first movie review.
Talk about it.
In this movie, the male protagonist is an artist, quite talented, but he has skills but no emotion, until he meets Yilan. Yilan, the businessman's daughter, let's take her as a wealthy girl for now, but she doesn't have that kind of unruly habit at all, but is as gentle as water, not only for the male protagonist, but also in this whole movie. Both are perfect incarnations. Like a muse, Ylang-ylang fills the male lead's violin with emotion, which is the first turning point in his artistic career. The relationship between the artist and the muse was smooth and emotionally sweet. Muse became the most qualified audience for the artist, but when it came time to talk about marriage, Yilan gave up because of her father.
Here, there is a small sublimation, that is, Yilan's father is a businessman, which is only the signifier, but the signified is an incarnation of the ascension to the cruel material reality. Therefore, rather than Yilan compromising with her father, it is better to say that art that pursues spirituality is often forced to compromise with society that pursues materialism. This is usually the sadness of some obscure artist. In the second turning point, the pain of love brings the artist's music a step further, but this separation is only a labor pain before childbirth. If we internalize a whole movie into a person's spiritual world, in fact, Yilan is the artist's beautiful sustenance for music, and the violin given to him by the master is a life-saving rope, whenever he plays that tune , the Muse was by his side. However, if you look closely, the real Yilan later married a general. I personally think that this is a metaphor for authority, that is, good compromises with material life and authority.
There are two goodbyes between the artist and Ylang. The first time was a fake goodbye, and there was still a kiss when parting. Muse was not really happy after leaving the artist. He often missed the man who played the violin. As for the second time, it was a real goodbye. When many years later, The artist and his muse meet again, but Yilan pretends not to know each other. This time there is no kiss, no reluctance, only politeness, restraint and strangeness. This kind of unfamiliarity was deliberately created, because Yilan knew that there was absolutely no possibility between the two, and she was even a grandmother, so she pretended to forget each other, and this time, the departure of the Muse had a negative impact on the artist. It was a huge blow. For him, the person who never forgets is the embodiment of artistic ideals. I've made up my mind to devote myself to art, but art doesn't need me at all! She even forgot about me! With or without me, art can survive well. I have no value, I am dispensable, what is the meaning of my existence?
Therefore, although he bought a new violin, no matter how he played it, he couldn't play the kind of music he dreamed of. That music was his lifeline, and he depended on it for survival and death. The artist is looking everywhere for a new piano, but is the problem really the new piano? Could it be that there is no longer a piano that can match him in this world? Oh, he found, the famous violin of the famous violin, but whether or not the violin really belonged to Mozart, the artist had already experienced a second goodbye with Yilan when he played this violin, and realized what he lacked. It's not a proper violin, but the one who plays it, his muse. At this time, when he realizes his own shortcomings, he knows that his artistic ideal has been shattered, and the good sustenance has also left him. It is not the piano that has the problem, but the human being.
Let's talk about the artist's wife, a common man who doesn't understand art, but is full of true love. It is a tragedy to fall in love with an obscure artist, because artists are always self-righteous and pretentious, with their artistic self-esteem and lofty prejudices, self-consciously different from the worldly people. The reason why I say this is a tragedy is because the artist only sees art and beauty, and his wife, who is the "poor and poor teacher" in his eyes, loves him really, but he is sad and angry, thinking that A man should take up the responsibility of the family, not hold a violin and feel sorry for himself.
It is important, however, that artists are genderless. Many people think that artists have no sense of responsibility and can't assume their due obligations, but real artists are genderless. They don't have a sense of responsibility, but they don't care. They only have their own artistic pursuits in their eyes, and everything else is empty. thing. The male protagonist's wife restrained him with a worldly gaze, so she failed, partly because the male protagonist doesn't care about the mundane life other than the muse, and partly because the artist often feels good about himself, and there is such a problem, That is, he feels superior to others, and the male protagonist looks down on his wife from the bottom of his heart. To him, she will always be a "poor and poor teacher".
For the male protagonist, what he wants is a lifelong pursuit of music, but for his wife, he just wants her husband to work and live like a normal person. This is the tragic source of the combination of the two. The wife is more like the embodiment of life and the world. When the wife couldn't stand the artist's contempt, she finally broke out, but it was not the violin that she broke, but the artistic self-esteem of the male protagonist, which made the last thought of beauty remain on the illusory way of looking for a new violin. It's just, as I said before, the most important thing is never a suitable piano. He met Yilan on the way back from buying the first piano, and experienced two goodbyes, so his artistic ideal was disillusioned. Hope is vanished. That prenatal pain is finally over. He failed to give birth to his artistic crystallization, and died in childbirth.
In fact, the artist and the muse said goodbye for the third time, but at that time, she was here, he was there, she could only cry, and he could only be silent and lethargic.
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