He always seemed to be out of place.
In the beginning, he was considered a loser who would not speak without a manuscript and was not qualified to be a pastor. He was passionate about religion. In his eyes, preaching the teachings is worse than experiencing their lives and helping those in need. He went 500 meters underground with the miners and understood their fears and hardships. He slept on filthy straw, accompanied only by painting and calligraphy. This was of course contrary to the general rule of the priests at the time. The priest is supposed to live with dignity, but he is not a mere formality, but lives like a true Christian. He cares about what people think and feel. This also became the starting point of his painting.
His younger brother, Theo, came to see him, and he described himself as an idler. But not because of laziness, but because of being stuck in a cage. out of place. What is painful. Of course, the upper classes would not care about his subjects: miners, weavers, peasants working the fields, toilers eating potatoes. However, he insisted that life is too precious, and the real life cannot be experienced from brocade clothes and jade food. Cousin Moire told him what color is, and since then, Van Gogh's pursuit of color has gone out of control. By chance, he came to Paris and came into contact with Impressionism, a group of people who were also rejected by that era. Van Gogh saw color and light in their paintings. He embraced various avant-garde ideas. Pissarro said, "Leaves have only their own color, but the sky, the earth, and water give them other colors." Seurat said, "I don't use canvas to color, I color from the eyes of the painter. I paint mathematically. , let precision and science guide my brush." Fortunately, Van Gogh did not blindly follow and lose himself, but found his own way. However, if you are too immersed in your own thoughts, you will forget the world. The real world always likes some soft flattery and pandering. His work was too rough and rigid to be considered worthless.
I really liked the recitation of Van Gogh's letter to Theo in the film. "Is love and the need for love a sin, Theo." "This is a real home, rooted in life. My feelings are sincere." "When have you seen a painting in the classical school? A man or a woman at work? So I'm painting subjects that no one has ever seen before." "What a fascinating thing the colors are: lemon yellow, sulfur, green-yellow, and I pour paint on the canvas, so I have more A strong sense of breadth and strength." "I am often immersed in paintings and can't stop, unaware of my own existence. Sooner or later something will happen" These monologues are full of inner struggles. Sometimes happy and sometimes anxious, but always full of fiery love for life.
But this love is too strong. He is unworldly. Just express yourself genuinely, unflinchingly, and never control your emotions. Even in love, he is stubbornly insisting on his own wishful thinking. When he painted the sun, he wanted people to see the burning. When he painted a wheat field, he felt the sun bake. He's too attached to his own feelings and longs for others to feel the same, but pioneers are always the loners of their time. So much so that after Gauguin left, Van Gogh cut off his own ear in unbearable pain.
It's because I love life too much, so I chose to be angry and scream when I couldn't understand my enthusiasm. There are too few such pure idealists in the world. His emotions cannot be vented, so he can only use destroying himself, or even his life, to promote the consciousness of society? It might be too cruel. But he said in his paintings that death is not frightening, just like the golden sun covering the earth, in his eyes, it is bright.
When I watch movies at that time now, they are all small scenes and performances like a drama. You can even see people working hard to restore the scene in Van Gogh's drawings. Now it seems that it is not delicate, but full of sincerity. The peasants and straw stacks in the fields, and Van Gogh's small house, are all restored to living paintings. And the film focuses on and expresses Van Gogh's feelings, which is also the most important part of him. You can experience the surprise of Van Gogh when he was in Arles and saw the colorful fallen flowers. I can also feel the confusion of Van Gogh when Gauguin left. Facing the carnival of the citizens, Van Gogh's loneliness of "the liveliness is theirs, I have nothing". Finally, when the bright wheat field flew over the crows, Van Gogh's world turned into a total black despair.
After watching the film, I just want to say that for those who insist on their inner purity, the world does not know how to cherish them.
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