Tokyo Gaga - Paradise
"The pursuit of excess harmony and morality, the slenderness of culture and art is the predicament we will face." The words of lunatic, violent maniac, sexist in the film industry appear frequently in the audience's comments on Yuan Ziwen. His film expressions can be described as daring, and none of the elements that touch the taboo field are left behind. He creates a philosophical expression beyond appearance through the combination of extreme elements, and enjoys the polarized public opinion evaluation. In fact, long before Yuan Ziwen stepped into the film industry, he was already an out-and-out "madman". The young Sonoko didn't understand why people felt ashamed and avoided the exposure of sexual organs, so he wandered naked in the school with a novel attitude. The teacher's incomprehension and violent discipline made him bury the idea of hating reading, and the heavy school work was worthless in his eyes. Most of the time, Sono Ziwen devoted himself to the study of his favorite poetry, rock and comics. His early poetry was also very good, and if we see him not as a director today, he may well be a world-renowned poet. The repressed family life made Sono Ziwen very precocious. His favorite works are all gloomy and heavy genres such as Jean Genet, Terayama Seuss, Dostoevsky, etc., but he is happy for it, and firmly believes that he is also It will become an existence that will go down in history. From this, it can be seen that the difference of Sono Ziwen's films stems from his own innate differences. It's an interesting story about Sonoko Wen's inspirational muse. Yuan Ziwen's rebelliousness towards sex is deeply buried in his heart. He ran away from home when he was a teenager and met a woman who wanted to die with him after divorced her husband. Yuan Ziwen, who thought he could taste the forbidden fruit, was taken back to his hometown by the woman. After disguising her husband for a few days, his understanding of love has quietly changed, and this woman has also become a classic image of "Niko" in his early films. When he entered society, he joined cult organizations and left-wing marches when he was down. The reason was just to get free meals and avoid starvation. The funny past incidents became the foundation for his later creation of "Love Exposure". This kind of life is difficult to continue, Yuan Ziwen finally decided to retreat for half a year and was admitted to the university. In the university, his life was finally in line with the movies. In order to promote his independent film, Yuan Ziwen did a lot of crazy things. The streets are full of banners of "'Bo'lin Film Festival", holding bizarre exhibitions, and making grandstanding everywhere. He later founded a marvelous organization called Tokyo Quack, which regularly took to the streets, held banners and raised horns and repeatedly quacked ducks. But such a crazy organization is growing in number, and its members spread to all walks of life. Those deviant desires buried in the hearts of urbanites are all in the grotesque screams. filled the streets. Both left-wing organizations and religious organizations extended olive branches to Sono Ziwen, but he refused with the theme of “Tokyo Gaga” being “meaningless, purposeless, and religious.” Yuan Ziwen's deviant spirit is buried in his blood. It is said that his ancestors once had a legendary history of elopement between nuns and monks. Therefore, the educational philosophy of the older generation for future generations is not limited to secular ethics. He was born in a time when the garden family was in the middle of nowhere, and his parents rarely mentioned the garden family and the wealthy family business that disappeared in a fire. The conflicts and grievances with his parents in the old years have been accumulated in the deep memory for many years, and most of his works also have the meaning of taking the opportunity to vent the confrontation. Sono Ziwen's film expression is sharp, but in the fierce struggle with family relations, Sono Ziwen's idealistic attachment to home is hidden. The amusement park and Debussy classical and romantic piano pieces in "Mystic Circus", the cosmic celestial bodies in "Icy Tropical Fish", the infatuation with the Virgin Mary in "Love Exposure". As he understands, movies are divided into two types: one is to relieve dissatisfaction and release desire; the other is to shock and awaken the soul. His films straddle the extremes of the two genres. Violent thrillers are jaw-dropping, and pure love and tenderness can make people cry. "There are boring directors all over the world, making money by making boring movies. I don't want to be such a fool. I want to make a name for myself in the history of movies and become a legend." Yuan Ziwen believes that interesting things come from conventions The ruins, he never compromised with worldly critique, be it in life or film. The second is shocking, and it is spiritually awakening. His films straddle the extremes of the two genres. Violent thrillers are jaw-dropping, and pure love and tenderness can make people cry. "There are boring directors all over the world, making money by making boring movies. I don't want to be such a fool. I want to make a name for myself in the history of movies and become a legend." Yuan Ziwen believes that interesting things come from conventions The ruins, he never compromised with worldly critique, be it in life or film. The second is shocking, and it is spiritually awakening. His films straddle the extremes of the two genres. Violent thrillers are jaw-dropping, and pure love and tenderness can make people cry. "There are boring directors all over the world, making money by making boring movies. I don't want to be such a fool. I want to make a name for myself in the history of movies and become a legend." Yuan Ziwen believes that interesting things come from conventions The ruins, he never compromised with worldly critique, be it in life or film.
The Dream of the Holy Spirit - Paradise Lost
"There is no good or evil. If his existence is destined to fall into this vortex, then he is born with a mission to fight." Debussy's impressionist classical piano music, the deep blood color of the rose, the amusement park spinning in fantasy The circular motion of the Trojan horse and the Ferris wheel, the colorful fish in the tropical ocean, the celestial bodies that never die in the endless universe... "Mysterious Circus" and "Icy Tropical Fish" use the most romantic images to express the extreme idealism of the characters, and then use violence and bloody coercion Tear up these beautiful appearances, there is sorrow in beauty, and beauty in sorrow. Sono Ziwen's extremes are reflected in the alienation of characters and events, focusing on the contrast of characters and behaviors, the priest of the church, the well-intentioned boss, the innocent girl, and the kind father. Rational dementia, thus maximizing the explosive and shocking power of human nature in extreme situations. Mystery Circus was a tragic killing. Once a person loses her memory, she is a prisoner in a fantasy cage. She cannot establish a connection between herself and the outside world, and is destined to be lost and crazy. The suffering of women under the oppression of male power is nourished by evil, and eventually turns into a morbid and twisted flower of evil. A family of three in deep pain is in an endless cycle of mutual torture and revenge, which is destined to be a pervert-oriented tragedy. The whole film does not introduce the background of the characters, and the fantasy of circuses and amusement parks has no substantial foothold in the repeated montages. This highly saturated thriller stacked with form and alienation is permeated with the garden’s tenderness and intentionality. , and of course his wild ambitions for art. "Icy Tropical Fish" is a reverse oppression in an ethical relationship. A husband's sense of responsibility for his wife and daughter becomes the rope that kills his own desires, which further kills his own reason and morality. The film mentions the habits of the Amazon crocodile. Eating cold tropical fish is just a shortcut for survival. If you want to retain its animal nature, you must eat live fish. This is a metaphor for the oppression of the law of the weak and the strong. The male protagonist is witnessing the whole process of dismembering and throwing the corpse, and the evil flame extradites his upper body, summoning his instinctual bestiality. The conflict and fusion of "chrysanthemum and sword" in Japanese culture, the coexistence of quiet elegance and ruthlessness, is a gentleman and a jackal. This is a death that will no longer be remembered for the group, and even if it is still alive, there is no way to continue to live well. Sono Ziwen strives to pay attention to the individual and analyze individual desires and emotions. The view of good and evil that he desires to show is not critical, but more of a reflection and compassion. True love can destroy everything and redeem everything. He just leaves the process to the audience and the answer to life.
Born to be a person - Fuyuan
"We will always encounter evil. When a person does evil with good, there is no longer the most extreme evil." In Sono Ziwen's works, the use of opposites is not only on the surface of form, but also uses death To convey life, to convey the infinite core with the finite. He said that "great people will be homeless once," and this is the energy he really felt in his life in the United States. Realizing that the Hollywood model of the assembly line was not for him, he went from prying the world to prying himself, from craving recognition for awards to being loyal to himself and exploring humanity. Japan is one of the regions where paganism is rampant. My friend was once deeply involved in cults. The phrase "come back to this world" became the starting point of Sono Ziwen's "Exposure of Love". "Icy Tropical Fish" and "Love Exposure" all involve religious themes. Sono Ziwen's treatment of religious rebellion and madness is the link of his spiritual output. Whether it is to break the idol or deconstruct morality, he uses perversion to declare to the world that abandoning the true feelings is the original sin. In his works, there are many entanglements between characters and their original families. In Sono Ziwen's concept, the indelible blood relationship over time is the beginning of all fetters. The monologue in "The Mediocre" stuck in my memory: "The flies fall into the milk, black and white at a glance. I know everything except myself." Confused about the future, they are like pistols hidden in the washing machine. Maybe at this moment we are dancing in front of the dimly lit wooden house, or running in the barren and decadent fields, Sono Ziwen told us that life will always give luck in misfortune. "When I cross everything that sinks and fight for eternity, you are my flag." Yuan Ziwen has always turned emotion into the flag of life, not only to believe in the existence of good, but also in the eternity of evil. Even if you see the broken walls of life become a wilderness, don't forget to do your best to shout for each other when running. "Life is a person, born to develop one's own path, and it is our mission to embark on a path that no one has set foot on." Movies are Sono Ziwen's black paradise, and human nature and emotion are derived from the mapping relationship between movies and reality. It's not fantasy, it's not artificial, paradise doesn't just exist in movies, but it's not just black and white in the real world.
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