When I watched this "Metropolis" with my professional friends and I, I felt like I was wasting the best friend's night that I finally got together. . If the protagonist Packer is not a tender cow, Wufang may feel slightly better (we don't want depth.. just pleasing to the eye.), and Gosling's "Drive" also appears in that list, the two films are next to each other, because The professor said they were expressing the same theme: a crisis of identity, a crisis of values, a crisis of society.
In "Drive", Commander Gao has no name, no past, no family... missing all the information used to define his personal identity, although the tender cow is named Packer in "Cosmopolis", he is still a billionaire, but that's all , and no further information could be found on his identity. The second protagonists of these two films are all non-humans: cars, mobile tools, time and space have no fixed point, which is the non-place that Marc Auge said, and it is also indefinable. Packer's car is his whole world, giving him everything he needs to cut him off from the outside world. The only few times I got off the bus three times was to discuss sex with my wife, and these three attempts to have a relationship with the "outside" world ended in failure, once in a restaurant, once in a bookstore, once in front of a theater, food, literature, art, Symbolic meaning is obvious. Later, it was for a haircut. Getting a haircut is the most important thing in this film, and it is the male protagonist's initial wish, but this simple wish is so difficult to achieve, and the way to get a haircut is so far away, and we meet again along the way. There were so many obstacles and so many bad news, but the emperor paid off. In the end, Packer walked into the old barber shop. "Old" means it has a past, and Packer insisted on getting there, no Because the old barber's craftsmanship is good, but because the old barber knows his past, in other words, Packer can find himself in this store (which can be called a place within a certain time and space, rather than a non-place) In the past, he can find his connection with the outside world, and he is not isolated at that fixed point.
Everything in the movie takes place in Manhattan, that is, Cosmopolis, an international metropolis, the product of the highly developed capitalism, Packer is just an individual living in this economic system, and can be said to be one of the top of the pyramid, but its ending is impossible. To avoid self-destruction, this is the prophecy of the film's original author Don DeLillo and director David Cronenberg for capitalism: this system has no way out, no future. What these two are more worried about is the people and humanity under this system. In the movie, Packer keeps talking to different people. . It's endless, this is the two extremes of the taciturnity of Commander High in "Drive" (Commander Gao gets extra points.) No matter who the object of the talk is, Packer always dominates and is always on the top, which is different between him and different women. The sexual intercourse is also fully shown. Because of the lack of emotion, the requirements for the body and posture must be raised, but Juliet Binoche has never been seen naked, and the rush is a bit lacking. Sure enough, no matter how agile directors are respected. old. . Pull away. . These two most basic and direct ways of communicating between people have become the outlet of Packer's power and desire. Packer's behavior can be described as animal style, and the behavior of killing bodyguards for no reason is even animal style. Not really, the reason for Packer's self-destruction is very simple. The money is gone, and the protection of power and desire is gone. The loss of humanity in the face of coins is the greatest crisis.
I came to Spain for more than two years and lived in Madrid for more than a year. Of course, this city cannot be compared with New York in all aspects, but it is also a capital of a country and one of the cultural centers of Europe. The evil capitalism has also blossomed here. The result is the result, but I don’t think that people here live by worshipping money and objects. There are hundreds of museums in Madrid, as well as strange temporary exhibitions and performances of various cultural activities. These places are crowded every weekend, and some places are still early in the morning. When I go to line up, most of the Banya people I know know exactly what they want. They only dare to order coffee when you go to a Chinese restaurant, but they will spend money to travel everywhere. On the contrary, it is my compatriots who buy bags, shoes and cosmetics. It doesn't matter what the price is. Luxury stores may not have English translations but must have Chinese ones. We have the most incomplete capitalism, but the problems derived from capitalism are more common and more serious. Therefore, the system does not determine everything, and this will not be told to the film professor. The professor will not think that China is another North Korea like my roommate, but he will also think that capitalism is still 108,000 miles away from us.
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