Why Jarmusch can't tell the story of "death"

Kennedy 2022-03-23 09:01:55




Why can't Jarmusch tell the story of "death"?

1. The sense of nothingness that dissolves in the blood.

Death is a feast. Death means - "to have".
When a person dies, his life is frozen for him, and all the accumulation of life is no longer reintegrated because of the next second encounter. For example, after a man dies, his wife gets married, but for a dead man, he has a love with a woman that will last forever.
Death is a grand gift. And Jiamusu, who is familiar with the sense of nothingness, was surprised by such a rich gift.

2. The intersection of sorrow and joy

is like the four words left by Master Hongyi before his death: the intersection of sorrow and joy. This is death. However, Jarmusch only vaguely felt the mystery of death, such as the sky seen by the sleeping boat, such as the tobacco that is always unavailable (in addition, the American writer Erskine Caldwell's book "Tobacco Road" may be related to the This use is related. His works are based on the ignorance, backwardness, miserable life of the poor whites in the southern United States, and the racial persecution of blacks, with more exposure, sometimes with some naturalistic brush and ink.) But Jarmusch's thoughts on death Understanding is a hunt and doomed to die. He didn't know where the sadness came from, and he didn't even know what joy was.

Therefore, Jarmusch was so excited on a topic so informative that he was confused. So I think, Jarmusch failed.

Pat on the shoulder, everyone has different life attributes, and every director is no exception.
You are Jarmusch, you are not Bergman.

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  • Nobody: I was then taken east, in a cage. I was taken to Toronto. Then Philadelphia. And then to New York. And each time I arrived at another city, somehow the white men had moved all their people there ahead of me. Each new city contained the same white people as the last, and I could not understand how a whole city of people could be moved so quickly.

  • Nobody: That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.