A film about "subversion", a wonderful deconstruction

Braxton 2022-10-09 22:09:45

A film about "subversion", a wonderful deconstruction.

A far-left father meets a far-right capitalist son, and at the end of his life, he embarks on a subversive journey to the meaning of life, religion, ideology, and morality. All oppositions and conflicts, all traditions and fixed meanings are dissolved in this subversion, just like the father and son who finally reconciled.

Who is the barbarian? Is it "us", is it "them", or is it the whole of humanity? In the film, the director deconstructs and thinks about the conflicts of all civilizations.

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  • Georgianna 2022-06-15 19:56:10

    There are many movies of father-son reconciliation, such as "Big Fish", and when the father is dying, the so-called dignified farewell between father and son and relatives and friends is specially used to exaggerate the so-called dignified farewell, which is also a special feature of the director of a non-American comedy. The style, however, the Americans also followed suit. It seems that if you go to the United States for an inspection, you must have the title of "Old Bean is Stronger than America". You should have watched the DVD, but I have no impression, especially father and son never talk. Speculation to the last family hug, isn't our father and son actually this way from confusion to the final "reconciliation"? The father is inseparable from the woman, the mother also leaves the father, and the father and son become a strange relationship. At the last moment of life, friends come, wives come, and even lovers come together as sisters, everyone seems to be relieved It seems that saying goodbye to life in such a more "life-like" way is really turning grief into strength (libido); and at the end of the movie, when my father was tortured by his illness and used a large dose of "heroin" to make himself happy, We can't help but feel that the fragility and misery of life are said to be the father's generation, the son's generation

  • Adam 2022-06-15 15:46:17

    There is one episode that cannot be forgotten, when the father and his friends laughed and talked about history and philosophy, the son of good words could only listen in silence, ignorant. Mathematics and economics brought wealth, but Not to live an elegant life.

The Barbarian Invasions quotes

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.

  • Nathalie: It's not the present you cling on, it's your past life. That life is already dead.

    Rémy: Perhaps.