– The Two Murders in "Match Point" and "The Unreasonable"
Watched some Woody Allen films: urban series "Love in Rome", "Midnight in Barcelona", "Midnight in Paris"; "Match Point", "The Amateur" "The Thief", "Non-Powerful Aphrodisiac", "Extremely Unusual", "Deconstruction of Love Madness", etc. Among them, "Match Point" is my favorite, although he sometimes gets a headache when he talks about it in other movies.
"Midnight in Paris" has appeared in some writers, such as Hemingway and so on. Curious if Woody Allen made this film with Pushkin's "Onegin", Camus's "The Outsider" or Lermontov's "Contemporary Hero".
When I was in high school, I subscribed to "Reading for Middle School Students", and every issue will recommend a foreign novel, such as "I Am a Cat", etc. I like this section the most. There is an issue of "Contemporary Heroes" that introduced Lermontov, and I particularly like it. Several paragraphs about the protagonist Pi Qiaolin are copied in the book, and those few sonorous and powerful contrasting sentences are often circling in my mind, which has a unique momentum. Later, I bought both "I Am a Cat" and "Contemporary Hero". "Contemporary Hero" is a thin book, and I like it very much. Except for the famous opening sentence of "I Am a Cat": "Our family is a cat, I don't have a name yet." There is nothing else left.
I read "The Unreasonable Man" today, but this book pops out of my mind, including the image of the "outsider" in the famous tragic meaning of literature, which is also called the "superfluous person", but it is not very popular now.
The words that seem to be etched in my head are:
Who is Bi Qiaolin? An egoist who looks noble but is vile, or is he strong-willed, courageous, but provocative? An energetic but idle playboy who delights in chasing after women and tormenting his lover, or a cynical cynical with the most intelligent, most resolute and clever but useless and therefore cynical? Or a "devil" who "does not expect retribution for good, does not expect retribution for evil", a "devil" who "regrets forever but has no longing, knows everything, feels everything, sees everything, hates everything, and despises everything"? Is it a "giant in thought, dwarf in action", a "superfluous person" who has a passion for criticism and a sense of urgency, but is lazy in practice and stops at action? Or a "superman" who exalts personality, advocates will and absolute power?
Bi Qiaolin was born in an aristocratic family. He was gifted and intelligent, received a typical aristocratic education, lived a feasting aristocratic life, and enjoyed all the happiness that money can buy. He once had great ambitions and relentlessly pursued the lofty purpose of life, but in the face of the ruthless reality, all his ideals and aspirations came to nothing. As a result, he felt pain and disappointment, his thoughts were disturbed and disturbed, his heart was full of contradictions, his personality was split, and then he took pleasure in pursuing women, resulting in a series of tragedies.
The male protagonist is as talented and intelligent as Bi Qiaolin, and as indifferent as Onegin. When you go to a new university, fame comes first, T-shirt + shirt + beer belly, wine is always in your hand, and you have to ask the people around you regardless of the occasion: Do you drink? The debauched appearance and the melancholy and decadent eyes of Diao Erlang are just like the phrase "When he laughs, his eyes don't laugh." Joaquin Phoenix is like his gloomy self-destructive and crazy temperament in "Gladiator" who killed his father and sister F. , and the fragile loneliness in "Her" is the "lost soul" walking in the crowd.
Exuding poppy-like charm and sinful beauty, with the attraction of fatal destruction, the powerful Luotuo aura and will attracts some people who are not so strong and strong to fall into the trap. Solitary, inattentive, absent-minded, decadent, complex, mysterious and charming, interesting, different, good at words, and often able to use words to deceive the truth. ／He was so damn interesting. And different and a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words. It seems that people are here, but their thinking is beyond the clouds, leaving only a body, "living elsewhere", a posture of wandering sleepwalking in the sea of people, living only in one's own world (he's in a world all his own), you can block the outside world anytime, anywhere, and the outside world becomes silent. In the Christmas special chapter of "Black Mirror", you have to press the phone button to block others. You look at him, you can't see through the haze behind his eyes, or what kind of soul he is hiding under the mask.
Women are sometimes easily attracted to people who are decadent and fragile in appearance, and may arouse a desire for protection? Thinking you can save him and bring him back to life with energy and passion so you can be satisfied? It seems that compared with such a person, other normal things have become mediocre and not very challenging.
As said in the movie: His pain and sensitivity were exactly what I had in mind for romantic fantasies. He is really a man of his own ideas. The problem is, he says he has no passion for life, no joy, no reason to live. I especially want to help him. ／There was something about his pain and sensitivity that tapped into my romantic fantasies. He was truly an original thinker. The problem was ha had no zest for life, no joy, no clear reason for living. I wanted so much to help him.
Speaking of Kant Heidegger Kierkegaard in class, but telling students: the real world and the theoretical world of philosophical bullshit are different. Remember, even if you don't learn anything from me, remember that a lot of philosophy is just masturbation. ／There's a difference between a theoretical world of philosophy bullshit and real life. Remember, if you learn nothing else from me, you should learn that much of philosophy is verbal masturbation. Is it the wise people who despise everything around them? I forgot what Balzac said.
In his opinion, it was all bullshit, and I gave up. The broken book about Hegel will not change the world in the slightest. I wanted to be a person who actively changed the world, but I ended up being a passive and useless scholar who couldn't even be tough. ／It's all bullshit. I've given up. my bullshit book on Martin Heidegger is not gonna make a scintilla of difference to the world. I set out to be an active world changer and wound up a passive intellectual who can't fuck. No appetite and no sexual desire. As someone who has been anorexic, he understands the despair of losing appetite, not to mention the loss of sexual desire. The two biggest things in life have problems with food and sex, so what is the meaning of life. Therefore, the deadly Russian Roulette does not change his face or heartbeat when playing, just because he feels that there is no life and no love, he is like an "outsider".
It was not until the judge at the next table was overheard at the restaurant that he suddenly became motivated and had a goal to pursue. Appetite and libido have returned, and sure enough, there is a problem with not eating and thinking positively, and life seems to be full of motivation again.
Just like "Match Point", calm and precise planning and preparation, and the lawyer was killed without knowing it. After being discovered by a female student, he plans to kill the female student who loves him, which is just as heartless as the egoistic male protagonist in "Match Point" who killed the pregnant girlfriend he once passionately loved for Pan Gaozhi. The key point in "Match Point" is a ball? The key here is a lipstick at the elevator entrance. During the push, he fell into the elevator shaft and suffered the consequences, leaving the hostess at the elevator entrance holding the flashlight he won for her at the playground, dumbfounded.
In "Contemporary Heroes", Pi Qiaolin went to Persia, but died on the road aimlessly and meaninglessly. This is the "superfluous person" who really put his life and death aside. And the male protagonist who dares to play Russian roulette is just a ruthless egoist, and in the end, he is greedy for the world, he does not hesitate to let the innocent take the blame for himself, and he does not hesitate to kill and kill himself.
In this way, he is not "out of the way" as Lin Xi's "The Age of Farewell" said.
He's just a contrived fake gesture, a half-hearted "superfluous person".
PS In college, my best friend, a down-to-earth Taurus, once told me not to mention other people's names in public. really.
Leo and Taurus seem to be a little different in certain values.
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