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Schigolch is a complicated old man. You can call him Lulu's father, but you can also call him a "pimp". Calling him "Father" is because Lulu used to call him that (I believe he raised Lulu and taught her how to "make a living"). Said he was "pimping", (as the name suggests, no need to explain!). Schigolch's actions just proved my opinion above. He rescued Lulu on the gambling boat, and then in London, he encouraged her to prostitute, which indirectly caused her final tragic death.
Let's talk about another "father", Mr. Schon, a sanctimonious upper-class figure, Lulu's lover, after getting a "political marriage" opportunity, he resolutely abandoned Lulu, and finally had to marry against his will. Back to Lulu, but at the end of Lulu's hands, (by the way, he can be seen as the representative of "Patriarchy" in the movie.)
"Son"--Alwa, he loves Lulu, but when his father is alive At that time, he didn't even dare to confess clearly to Lulu. When he encountered adversity in his life, he didn't have the courage and ability to fight back. In the end, he even had to rely on Lulu to "stand on the street" to support him. He was another cause of Lulu's final death. Indirect murderer, in this film, he is synonymous with "incompetence".
Finally, the gay Geschwitz, in a way, she is the most tragic character in the film, because at the time she lived, she didn't even have the right to "love", she only Can love Lulu silently, even sacrifice himself to help her, but can't (and dare not) ask for anything in return.
Structure of the film:
The movie is actually a three-stage style. In the first stage, Lulu is in the upper class, and her beauty and charm are her weapons that are inexorable. All bowed under her pomegranate skirt. But since she killed Schon, everything has changed, and her trial can be seen as presided over by the judges of the Weimar Republic government representing the upper class (at least the director Pabst thinks so). Therefore, the middle and lower classes quit, and they (that is, Schigolch and his friends, as well as the citizens who were listening to the case together) created chaos and let Lulu go.
However, did the middle and lower classes accept Lulu? Obviously not. (At this point the movie enters the second paragraph). On the stage of the activities of members of the middle and lower classes (gambling boats), Lulu's feminine charm can no longer capture people's souls. Here, people most want money (the upper class is not short of money). She became the object of extortion, the object of trafficking, and finally the "father" - Schigolch (at least the so-called family is beyond all interests). With Geschwitz saving her ("love" also transcends everything), Lulu fled to London with Schigolch and Alwa.
At this point, we enter the third paragraph of the film. First off, this is the second time I've seen this movie, but like the first time I saw it, I still find this segment abrupt, but it has an indescribable mystery to me attractive,
"Demon Jack" suddenly appeared as if he had come out of the ground. Of course, there is also the "Girl Scout", to a certain extent, she is an "angel", and she feeds "Demon Jack", which can be seen as a kind of purification for his soul, but, "angel" Did it work? Apparently not, because, after that, he killed Lulu, of course, you can say that her death purifies the "Demon Jack" (the pure woman Lulu's blood essence purifies the "Demon Jack" soul, just Like what Ingmar Bergman did in "The Virgin Spring"), but is it really like that? I don't see it that way, you just have to look at the look on "Demon Jack"'s face when he kills Lulu, you know at this moment, Satan's thoughts govern the actions of "Jack", but what about the Boy Scout parade at the end of the film (singing Christmas carols)? Is it a celebration of Lulu's death? I can't explain it, or, It's unacceptable to end like this.
But at least I can see Pabst's attitude towards the society and women he lives in.
Let's talk about "society" first, the "Demon Jack" in the movie is portrayed as a down-to-earth ordinary person , so he kills those innocent prostitutes (including Lulu), which can be seen as his revenge for the whole society (at least in what he considers to be members of a higher social class than him). Let's
talk about "women", in this film, lulu is consumed by everyone, the upper class consumes her beauty, the middle and lower class consume her money, (or sell her as a commodity in exchange for money).
But why should this poor woman be "arranged" to be killed What? Because in Pabst's eyes, Lulu represents feminism, so she must be killed by the "Demon Jack" who represents pabst.
Yes, Pabst's ideas are contradictory, like many of his contemporaries Like an artist.
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