movie opens with Lucian's monologue, the diva's singing makes it all unreal, especially death, until the temperature of the fingers cools down and the lightened 21-gram soul is forever sunk in with a part of Lucian." the bottom of the lake.
In fact, this is not a movie about a murder case. Its core word should be "meeting". No one would have thought that there would be special words to define them in the future for the degenerate behavior of the few hairy boys, let alone them. What impact his works have had on the literary world and even a generation, so the first acquaintance of the year can be said to be of great significance now, and all this is due to a man named Lucian.
The first time Alan Ginsberg met Lucian was when he was visiting the Columbia University library. Thunder swept through Allen's world, and it was hard to imagine such a blatantly provocative behavior in such an orthodox and serious place. Perhaps this prank had little impact on traditional education, but it undoubtedly shook Allen's heart.
The most obvious result was when Allen challenged an old professor in a poetry class, who emphasized that poetry is about rhythm, rhythm, and imagination, and Allen cites Walt Whitman as a counter-argument, professor Wordless ended the debate by saying only that Allen's father's poem also rhymed. The failure of the authority is obvious, not in the insistence on the traditional poetic form, but in the inherently decadent educational thought. Not to mention that there is no trace of genius, this breaking of the rules can be seen as a precursor to Allen becoming a great poet, and writing classic works absolutely needs to break free from the shackles of thinking like this.
It can be said that it was a coincidence of fate that Allen really knew Lucian. If Lucian hadn't played Brahms' music, or Allen was musically blind at all, then this meeting would not have happened. Maybe the two of them will meet on a certain occasion in the future, but there is absolutely no better way to meet each other than to be attracted to each other because of the same taste in music. Lucian used the word "finally" to describe the feeling of seeing Allen. The light in his eyes was like seeing a tinge of green in the dead bushes. No words like seeing each other late can be compared with this. The fiery in the eyes is comparable. As for whether this is love or not, we have no way of guessing, but every sympathy is not necessarily as great and grand as true love.
Speaking of the acquaintance of Allen and William Burroughs, it is quite the style of the Beat Generation. Allen, who was brought to the party by Lucian, accidentally pressed William's drug pipe, and no one may have expected this lying in the bathtub. The addict in the movie would write "The Naked Lunch," and Allen saw him as more of a criminal at the time. As for the days when he first met Jack Kerouac, Allen's jealousy was far more than the excitement of making a good friend. Lucian called Jack a "real writer" and Allen was very angry, except for the literati. Because of his nature, his position in Lucian's heart was replaced by Jack, which was also the reason for his resentment. It was not until a boat stealing experience that Alan's dissatisfaction was resolved. On the boat, he read out his love poems like a child longing for praise from adults, and he also got the heartfelt praise from Jack and Lucian as he wished. This allows us to see that the writing process is personal to the author, but after the work is completed, it needs to be shared for pleasure, so seeking a sense of identity is definitely the driving force of writing.
Since it is the story of the "Beat Generation", there must be all kinds of bad deeds in the film. Inspiration with alcohol and drugs is like a routine, sensory indulgences turn into fountains of thought, and dance on the typewriter turns hallucinations into black-and-white reality. If these actions were merely depraved personal acts, then the night-time replacement of the archives in the library with pornographic journals would be called a mini-revolution. The twists and turns during this period are not listed for the time being. This kind of rebellious spirit alone will become the spiritual core of the "Beat Generation" in the future. These young people who grew up after World War II are not heroes in the traditional sense. They even have some differences. Responsible and jerk nature, but they are changing the world in their own way, or saying goodbye to the old world.
"Life is round that we are stuck on this wheel of living and dying."
This is a phrase that often appears in the film, and it also coincides with the film's narrative structure. In fact, this idea is similar to the Buddhist cycle of life and death, and in this film it means an infinite continuation of the spirit.
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