This is not a purely personal tragic situation, but a dilemma in which a group of young people are on the verge of stepping into it.
In psychology, modern society forms a personality, the giant baby. It looks like an adult, but in fact, the level of mental development is still a baby. Relying on the help of the outside world and friends and family to live, for a long time can not stand on their own. For loved ones, relatives, unwilling to take responsibility, and unwilling to be bound by social rules. But they tend to be kind. The reason for this is largely due to narcissism. Infancy is not recognized and satisfied, and it is not carefully cared for and emotionally responded to. When outward emotions are not satisfied, they tend to be inward to obtain this satisfaction during adolescence. And literature, art, music, painting, poetry will contribute to the fertile soil of self. What is Hemingway's answer to what is the most important factor in becoming a writer? "Unfortunate childhood," he replied.
Artists are often very "self-aware".
And music, like poetry, is one of the most inwardly inclined of all artistic genres. In Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy", art was symbolized by the connection between two Greek gods. One was the "Sun God" Apollo, the god of light, who made everything appear beautiful. The other is "Bacchus" Dionysus, which symbolizes emotional indulgence. "This is a tragic emotion, breaking all taboos, releasing the shackles of individualization and the joy of merging with the world."
Nietzsche said, "Music is a pure Dionysian art.” Music itself is emotion.
Musicians are often associated with bars, not just because it's a performance venue, but because the inner feel of the musicians aligns with the inner feeling created by the bar. Many rock musicians have alcohol problems.
Once a person is inclined to feel, it is often easy to form a distance from the society, and a man's growth is to face a series of evaluations of universal values: how much money he earns, what kind of house for him, and what kind of position he does. It's a measure of a man's worth.
One loves art. It is often the acceptance of broader feelings and more diverse values. When you have doubts about the universal value of everything and don't use it as the only criterion. A pure person is more inclined to be honest with himself, he will be consistent with his words and deeds, and be consistent in his behavior. When I was a teenager, the problem would not be obvious, and maybe it would be a moment because of this rebelliousness. Fortunately, there are a few. Most of these people are faced with standing in their thirties, but they are out of tune with this world.
That's exactly the problem Llewyn Davis faces in this film.
There's a conversation in a cafe where the girlfriend says, "Don't you fucking think about the future at all?" Llewyn Davis: "The future? A hotel on the moon?" Girlfriend: "That's why you It was a complete failure."
Llewyn Davis doesn't see things in the world's usual way. Including our narrow "future".
He faced the ordeal again and again, as if he did not compromise, until his most important day in the film.
That's when he rubbed the car overnight in the heavy snow, and went to Chicago after a lot of hard work. Come to the place he dreams of giving hope: The Gate of Horn (where many folk musicians made their fortunes).
When he hopefully invites that manager to decide his own destiny and listen to his own song. The shot Coen gave was, slowly pushing up on the manager's face. He didn't move, looked deeply at the young man in front of him, and was almost moved. And what he said afterward showed the world's ruthless "I don't see it selling for money" to a man who insisted on expressing his grief.
The manager gave him two paths: One, change his image and join his company's three-person chorus, but not be the lead singer. Llewyn Davis declined. Two, go back and find your partner. (His partner had committed suicide by jumping off the bridge before the story began.)
"Gloomy nothingness" is the second most common mental condition experienced by all such people. It's a road, it's a natural way.
When a person is inclined to inner feelings and have a different view of the world, there will be seeds of doubt in his heart, he will start to disbelieve in religion (how many rockers are religious?), not in politics (of course!) How can they not be pessimistic and world-weary when they have to face the world, but are unable to change anything?
The tragic atmosphere of the story begins to really climax when Llewyn Davis is on his way back.
He had hit a cat (he had been looking for it, but had found the wrong one) in a terribly exhausting drive. He looked at the lame cat and limped into the woods with sadness on his face.
That one later came to be known as "Ulysses," and the name was even more metaphorical. Joyce's "Ulysses," about a brooding Berlin salesman, goes through the day-to-day life of an anti-hero. Wandering Ulysses, the wandering travels of a cat. It echoes what happened to Davis in just a few days.
After returning, he accepted his fate and went to his father's Sailors' Association. I want to take over my father's class and become a sailor and an ordinary person. And the world may not even give this benevolent chance to this traitor.
Step by step, the pillars of Llewyn Davis's spirit were disintegrated - poverty, fortune, inheritance of his father's fate, betrayal by his lover, and he thought hope was about to appear, but was hurt by friends again.
The so-called fate is that when you suffer all the blows and fail, you think you will end your hardships, but you find new people come out.
The story ends in January 1961 when Bob Dylan first appeared to sing in Greenwich Village.
Llewyn Davis was in a bar and saw a guy with a guitar on stage singing, that singing meant the end of an era. The era of Bob Dylan began, and a large number of folk singers at the same time were buried in the old era.
Screenwriting Skills:
Characteristics of the Coen Brothers Plays: Forever anti-genre.
Llewyn Davis in the story is a loser in life, a loser in time. The ending of the story did not make the audience happy and satisfied.
Because of writing this article, I look back and see that 1983's "Tender Mercies" is also a folk singer, escaped alcoholism, experienced the ups and downs in life, and finally won the respect of the public. This film in 1983 , still gave a glimmer of hope.
The folk singer written by the Coen brothers, the ending did not turn around, and it failed all the way to the bottom. But we know very well that Cohen was right about the character. In the change of times, there is often a member outside the tide. They choose an unredeemed loser to write with a special perspective, but more universal significance.
A little feeling:
Nietzsche has long believed that "Since life is without pain, the world and life are meaningless, the only way to live without pessimism and misery is to resort to art. To affirm life. With the pain and destruction it contains, Play with pain."
Tagore also has a saying, "The world kisses me with pain, and asks me to repay with song."
Perhaps the only good thing for Llewyn Davis is that he still has music, and guitar, and those melody from the soul, let me He was able to fight depression in the cold winter nights of his life.
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