"What should we do now?" I led three buddies to find my doomed home. The hippies at the beginning of the movie, the chaotic shots, the confusing plot, the lifeless people, every bit of this movie reminds me of Burgess' famous novel - "A Clockwork Orange", so, now we should What to do? Go follow Antonioni and find the absurdity of life!
All great actions and all great thoughts have a humble beginning. Great work is usually produced at the turning point or in the noise of a restaurant. Ridiculous as well. Compared with the other world, the absurd world acquires noble ideas from humble origins. ——Camus "The Myth of Sisyphus" The world is absurd, which is reflected in the film most vividly, and the absurd approach is used at the beginning of the film. Behind a group of students dressed as clowns running through the streets of London, photographer Thomas appeared.
"What's the matter, kid? What's going on?" "I want to die," I said, "I'm done, that's all. Life is so unbearable for me." - Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Life for Thomas It is bearable only because he lives in the camera, he does not live in the real world. In the early days of the film, his interactions with the models can be seen. He was confused, ecstatic, and danced, surviving in the camera and taking pictures, and perceiving the reality of the world under the constantly zooming in and out lenses. He didn't even know this. The nature of the world is absurd, clowns run wild in the streets, people live in unreality...
Thomas survived on camera in the early days, without the cinematic footage of perceiving the absurdity of the world.
If I am convinced that this life has nothing but absurd features, if I experience its whole balance in the opposition between my conscious rebellion and the ambiguity against which this rebellion is to fight, if I admit that my freedom is only If it only makes sense in terms of a restricted destiny, then I should say that the important thing is not to live the best, but to live the most. ——"The Myth of Sisyphus" Camus and the world began to become unreal, because of Anthony's freedom, he was conscious, he lived more and more, and he finally discovered the absurdity of the world in the middle of the film. ——One day, he accidentally photographed a couple in the park. After being discovered, the woman in the photo was frantically trying to get the negative back. The seemingly beautiful photo has been enlarged again and again by Thomas, and a murder case has appeared. Is life real? He couldn't help asking himself, there was a murder case hidden under the date in the park! The lens of the world is not as clear and unambiguous as the film of the camera, but absurdly zoomed in, turned, and zoomed out in the chaos, this is his first perception of the absurd, the absurdity is so clear and so untamable at the same time. .
In one of my favorite phrases - the world shows its fangs to people.
The rock scene was Anthony's second sense of absurdity. Everyone looked blankly at the rock singer, people seemed to no longer have a soul, their eyes gradually became numb, their performance in the absurd world was numbness, falling asleep, and no longer thinking about the world, its essence is for the absurd world. escape. Boredom is a good thing. For everything begins with consciousness, and nothing is worthless without it. - "The Myth of Sisyphus" The people on the Camus rock scene are even weaker than boredom, because boredom is the absurd boredom of the world that needs to be perceived through self-consciousness, and they are people who give up self-consciousness. Anthony almost merged into this group of unconscious people, but with the awakening of his self-consciousness, he grabbed the guitar among the crowd and fled desperately, escaping this dead desert.
I don't know if the world has a meaning beyond that, but I know I don't know that meaning, and I know it's impossible to know it now. What does meaning beyond my destiny mean to me? I can only understand it in human terms. What I touch, what rebels against me, is what I understand. I long for the absolute and the unity, the world cannot be reduced to a rational and common-sense principle, these two things are certain. I also know that I cannot reconcile the two. What other truth can I admit without deceiving, without introducing a hope that I do not possess and which is meaningless within the constraints of my destiny? - "The Myth of Sisyphus" Camus tennis court is Anthony's third sense of absurdity. He went from being confused at first, unable to see the tennis ball, unable to hear the tennis ball, to finally relieved, picking up the tennis ball and throwing it back, hearing the tennis ball. Many people think that he has finally melted into despair, that the world is always unreal, and people can only compromise. But I don't think so, I think the meaning is the same as Sisyphus in the mythology of Sisyphus is happy, Anthony finally understands the absurdity of the world, but continues to live, face the absurdity of life with positive existentialism, as Camus's claim is the same.
The absurd is so clear and so untamed at the same time, it comes back into one's life and finds its place again. It is also at this moment that the spirit can depart from the desolate and unforgiving path blazed by clear-headedness. This path leads to everyday life. The absurd returns to the world of the unnamed "man", and man has since returned to the world with his resistance and sobriety. He forgot to hope. This hell called "now" has finally become the kingdom of man. ——"The Myth of Sisyphus" Camus Anthony picked up the tennis ball at the end, which is the taming of the absurd world. He finally fully understood the essence of the absurd, but he was not as numb and sleepy as the people in the rock scene. He came back to life and found his home, like the hippies who played air tennis on the tennis court, and their way of taming the absurdity of life was to keep playing tennis. Anthony also had the same resistance and clear consciousness, and even happily returned to this absurd and constantly advancing world, and his look at the end, the look of vicissitudes and vicissitudes, finally turned this absurd hell-like world into a human kingdom, People can continue to live in this absurdity, this is a kind of positive and optimistic existentialism. And I also believe that this is exactly what the director wants to express.
Back in "A Clockwork Orange", Alex, who lost the fresh juice of a person in a Clockwork Orange, finally regained his human strength at the end and became an "active upward" Clockwork Orange in self-control. And Anthony in the movie, I also believe, recovers his human strength at the end and becomes a "proactive" world magnifier amid the absurdity and disorder.
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