Understand the times with pictures

Stephania 2022-03-23 09:02:44

No matter who it is, seeing that Jack who is released from prison has not stepped out of the shadow of the past, he cannot adapt to this society for a while, just like Antoine in "Four Hundred Blows"; no matter who it is, at the end of the film, his heart cannot be calm. Hope Jack doesn't jump into the icy water, then, for them, "Song of the Barbarian" must be a British film that inherits the text of Truffaut.
Yes, Antoine was sensitive to his own name, and Truffaut even went so far as to give a name to the child he rescued from the wild in "Wild Child". At the beginning of "Song of the Barbarian", Jack learned that he could have a new name. We saw his excitement, and he couldn't hide the shyness in his eyes. When the story was halfway through, he blamed his friend Chris for not using "Dabai" Whale" called his girlfriend Michelle, and soon, Michelle gave Jack a purse, and he stroked "Jack Bridge" engraved on it, as if it was a friend who was both familiar and unfamiliar. Truffaut said that a name is a symbol of a person's identity in society. "Song of the Barbarian" considers whether a civilized world has enough moral capital to tolerate a person who has made mistakes?
People find out about the amazing crime that Jack has committed, and decide to abandon, willing to obliterate his recent saving behavior. Instead of fighting back with anger, he responded by squatting in the corner of the room and crying, repeatedly saying, "That's not me." Then he insisted on putting on the work clothes that society gave him but no longer belonged to, as a way to tell people Proving his repentance to his new identity can benefit society. A knife was the weapon he used to kill the girl when he was a child. Now he used it to pry open the car door to save the little girl. Later, the little girl sent him a letter saying that he was "my angel" and drew a picture in the angel's hand. With a knife, it seems to have no deep meaning. Jack believes that evil can be redeemed through conscience, but this logic obtained from Terry, his mentor who bails him out, is completely denied by the so-called morality of society. An image of shoving work clothes into the trash can in the toilet unmistakably implies that our protagonist, who still shares the same body with the soul of the past, has a second chance closing the door to society. Twenty-four-year-old Jack must be held accountable for his childhood guilt or "essentially evil" as the lawyers put it in the film? "Song of the Barbarian" casts aside the either-or deontology of Hollywood movies, and presents a thought as complex as a miniature painting. Even Terry himself, who can be sure that he has no flaws. He also had to deal with his son's accusations that he had abandoned his wife and son and put his heart and soul into Jack, who said Jack "you are my perfect masterpiece", reminiscent of the doctor in "Wild Child", who was said to coach the wild The child, "sculpting his pupils like a sculptor," cannot hide his vanity for success.
As a friend of "Killer No Holidays" director Martin MacDonald, John Crowley is also a high-profile rising star in the British and Irish theatre circles. He and MacDonald's stage play "PillowMan" won the 2004 Lawrence · Oliver Award and two Tony Award nominations in 2005. They are good at extracting sharp stories from social reality and expressing them in drama. This may be the reason why "Song of the Barbarian" is so full of strong dramatic conflicts. After all, it is not a simple "Wild Child". "For me, whether intentional or not, expressing social indifference as an imaginary picture, starting a contemporary, or romantic, or comedy, or tragic story, is also the way to understand our time." John Crow Lee said.

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  • Jack Burridge: Jack.

    Terry: What?

    Jack Burridge: That's the name I want.

    Terry: [slowly] Okay...

    Jack Burridge: Jack.

    Terry: Well, that's the first thing taken care of.

  • Michelle: [showing her breasts posing for Jack's photograph] What?

    Jack Burridge: [laughing] You're fucking nuts. Carry on. Keep going! Keep going! Keep going!