The movie "Sunrise" uses the dim light at sunrise and sunset to describe the mode of marriage in the world, and the relationship between the two protagonists is like the trajectory of the red sun. In the last radiant happiness. However, when we implement the relationship between the three into our life, let go of the pursuit of a happy ending for the work of art, and only carefully observe it with a secular eye, how can it not be like a solar eclipse. We know that when the moon, the sun and the earth are in a straight line, the moon will block the light from the sun to the earth, and the dark shadow behind the moon will fall to the earth, and a solar eclipse will occur at this time. Derived from the film, the three refer to peasant women, city women and farmers respectively.
As the moon, the peasant woman can only revolve around the earth since she is attracted by the earth. Once the earth no longer receives the light of the sun, she will also become dim. In the marriage at that time, wives undoubtedly lived their husband-centered lives, and they were powerless to fight, just like a woman could only go back to her room and shed tears when she knew that her husband was out for fun. The interesting thing is that the peasant woman here looks quite like the Virgin of Macarena in Spain. There is no resentment or anger in her eyes when she weeps. The close-up camera is full of her absence and even pity, making the viewer feel ashamed and reflect on whether he has committed the same. sin. This expression is also in line with her inaction, and she will not question and win, because she is more afraid of her husband abandoning his family and children. Just imagine that if the earth ends its gravitational pull on the moon, then the moon will die after impacting in centrifugal motion. In other words, the derailment that entangles the other party will derail her, and the woman's life will only be completely out of control. By analogy to this, we don't need to use the modern sense of equality to criticize the heroine's submissiveness. Under the strong premise of the background of the times, to endure is the only choice.
As the sun, the city woman shines by herself. At the beginning of the scene, the director asked her to lift her skirt and open her legs at will, waiting for the servant to sort out her shoes.
The black coat can cover her sexy pajamas but not her bare bare legs, which not only hints at her wild personality but also satisfies the viewer's voyeuristic desire. With a cigarette in her hand, she carefully prepares for a meeting with her lover in the smoke, and it is hard not to associate this scene with the steam in the opening station: we cannot see the figure of the woman, nor the train. , but was attracted by it. Indeed, she is from the city, and in the only two scenes, the director uses the haze of smoking and the urban newspaper to emphasize her identity as an urban woman, a beneficiary of modernity, stylish, beautiful and alluring. In the film, she is also like a banshee who always charms people to go to the city, and people are often unable to control themselves.
As a result, the binary opposition is constructed in these two women, and the conflict between the village represented by the peasant women and the city represented by the beautiful women in the film cannot be ignored. The simplicity and innocence of the peasant woman and the coquettish and coquettishness of the urban woman respectively concretize the characteristics of the countryside and the city, and promote the dramatic collision of the two life forms represented behind them.
Village life is as bright as moonlight, quiet and beautiful. In the scene where the servants reminisce about the past lives of the two protagonists, the women are with their husbands and their children, the men are farming and laboring, and the family sits happily in the grass in the countryside in their spare time. They are so carefree, and the two are so intimate. This is the great benefit of rural life, people can enjoy the pleasures of nature, and family life is happy and peaceful. In contrast, the modernization of urban life is as dazzling as sunlight, and the accompanying sound of train whistles sharply pierces the original calm. The male protagonist's empathy, the heroine's weeping and grief, the family's disintegration, the initiators are the uninvited guests from the city. It is not difficult to see the director's obvious inclination towards the two modes of life. Leaving aside the film, this may be related to the serious pollution of the German environment where the director lived during the Second Industrial Revolution. At that time, people's attitude towards modernization generally changed from positive to worry. This kind of environmental anxiety also makes people yearn for the primitive rural life. The urban woman proposes to kill the rural woman for herself and the male protagonist, and will use sex to appease the other party to achieve her goal. You can say that she works hard by any means. Coincidentally, modernization also sacrifices the environment in order to achieve its goals, and the village suffers like a peasant woman. He was left to be slaughtered, and was forced to lose his true color in the thick smoke of steam. But no matter how tempting the vision of urbanization is, it will reveal its cold and inhuman nature. Even if the coat can cover the ketone body of the urban woman, it cannot restrain her stretched out naked legs. Trampled under her feet, she can freely switch between indulgences and executioners. She can be as tender as water and shy of life, and these are also the ghostwriters of the city.
As the earth, man both revolves around the sun and revolves around the sun. How selfish he is compared to women, and it is precisely because his married life is dominated by him that he can date lovers with impunity. Will he be timid when cheating, no, he is the backbone of the family, even if he is badly rusted, he will not be replaced, and his primary pursuit is his own pleasure. At the same time, the attraction of urban women to him is natural, and the temptation to him is inevitable. After all, jade girls can make people feel pity, while sluts make people fascinated. With just a few kisses, she can make a man indulge in a sea of lust and agree to murder his good wife. And apart from the temptation of sex, the life of the intoxicated city in the city behind it also firmly grasped the hearts of men. When the two lie in the grass and fantasize about the city life through the fog, where there is a lot of fun and excitement, it is much more charming than the monotonous life on the farm with his wife, so the binary opposition mentioned above is also presented in the male protagonist. In this contest, urbanization won overwhelmingly, so he agreed to his lover's proposal and took over the reeds who wanted to live alone.
We are glad that a man made the right choice at the last moment, but we cannot figure out what is the driving force for him to pull back from the precipice, the fear of murder, the moral limitation, or the love for his wife, we do not know. Maybe the bark of the black dog brought back his reason, and the fearful expression of his wife made him stop. As a viewer, I just feel that this change seems too rigid, and the expression of fear, kindness and love is insufficient, and it is difficult to support it. It's really a pity for this turn of events.
When it comes to the content, the movie describes the touching story of the two people reconciling after the lover's change of heart, in which the countryside is finally better than the city, and the man chooses to return to the comfortable life of the countryside, but we can detect the dark waves. Regardless of the lack of motivation for the man to temporarily abandon the murder plan, it is evident just by looking at his reconciliation with his wife: their renewed love and passion in the city. Men repent on the train, kiss in the photo studio, dance together in the playground, and so on, all done in the context of the city. It cannot be denied that the new ideas brought by modernization have provided psychological stimulation for the two. In fact, it is easy for people to mistake the stimulation of this new environment for the rekindled desire for their lover. The effect is also indisputable. Perhaps even the director himself did not expect to see that no matter how tilted the balance he holds on the binary opposition in the film, the arrival of urbanization and the attraction of people in it has become a historical foregone conclusion. Perhaps he also had a difficult solution to this conflict, so he arranged for the two women to know each other's threats but did not meet, and at the end, Murnau knew that he couldn't do anything to chat and console himself.
Finally, we return to reality, how many such happy endings can be, and how long can a man's passion for his wife come back, my answer is that it is only as short as the eclipse moment. How many times can the moon block the brilliance of the sun? It is rare once in a few decades. After the solar eclipse time, the earth is still bathed in sunlight and attracted by the sun, and the moon still returns to darkness and revolves around the earth. What the moon can do is to treasure this opportunity so that it can comfort itself through the eternal night before the next solar eclipse.
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