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No one can deny that this is a movie full of gimmicks - it was banned in the Czech Republic for the crime of "wasting food" for only one year, and it was an outstanding representative of the Czech New Wave. Political meaning, as naive as animation"; it also has many hats, Dada, surreal, and the government is nothing.
Not to mention the film itself, it's also very interesting. The film was released in 1966, and it is still not out of date. Needless to say that the model-turned-director showed good taste, exaggerated makeup, avant-garde costumes, exquisite sets and installation art; Needless to say, the lens language with strong personal style, composition and framing, dizzying jumps, montages and singles. Color or contrasting color filters, occasionally like a long shot of the brush; not to mention the easy-to-use metaphors, including politics, economics, philosophy, art, feminism, and even the most popular sexual innuendo - just to tell this story, just rely on The two funny and decadent dolls can easily catch your eye, let you accompany them as a participant, and accompany them to make troubles - and then as a bystander, standing on the height of moral judgment, watching them I ask for your forgiveness and understanding.
Their name is Mary, and they want to be saints with garlands, but they behave erratically—so bored that they see others fall, they also run to pluck the fruits of good and evil, "Let's fall!"
They took off the garlands and threw them into the water, ditching social stereotypes, making noises, crying and laughing.
They make a fuss about nightclubs, teasing waiters, and harassing customers at adjacent tables. They play tricks on men one after another, and don't care if others are real or fake. The play is so perfunctory, there are always two bridges - a big meal and a goodbye. Smoking and sexual liberation, these deliberate behavioral displays, seem to be ingeniously integrated with the development history of feminism - haven't feminists in history also deliberately used these to declare that they also have the same rights as men?
Blonde Maria, too, hesitated, re-grazing the bed, garlands and green apples in a Garden of Eden--and we can't seem to blame her-- jumped out of her comfort zone, exhausted by the stares at her.
The liveliness of life is always temporary, and after waving goodbye at the fifth train station, they decided to change and do something right.
The conversation they had in the bathtub was interesting. Doubt about food, doubt the name of an egg - "Why is it called an egg and nothing else?" Doubt about love - "Why have love?" "Why do people say I love you" Doubt yourself - "Who's coming? Tell you, this is us?" "Who will tell you, do you really exist?" "This is what I don't understand." These three questions, from the word itself and its connection with other words, are further diffused to The essence of reality, each concept points to another concept, through which the definition is endless, the question of deconstruction is gradually deepened, and the layers are stacked.
Continue to know yourself, completely break down and then rebuild it becomes a matter of course.
They wielded scissors and cut each other to pieces - in the end only two heads with sly smiles collided in the air. "Are you annoyed?" "I'm not annoyed at all." This is a classic case of the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, cutting out the words of an article in the newspaper and arranging the lines randomly to form a poem—— A poem of your own. This further reflects the inherently rebellious character of deconstruction: smashing, superimposing, and reorganizing, paying attention to the individual itself, opposing the rigid and closed overall system, and resisting the repression of traditional authority.
Without breaking or standing, the real awakening of their female consciousness also begins from this.
And so there was even more unscrupulous destruction—they sneaked off to the splendid banquet, drank and feasted, climbed to the dining table in high heels, danced on the food, climbed to the crystal lamps and swung like a swing.
How can such advanced feminism be tolerated by the secular world - one second is happy on the crystal lamp, and the next second is thrown into the water. Struggling in the water, and watching the people on the shore reach for the stick that they would not hold, they gave in, begging the world to forgive them.
Wrapped in newspapers—as if bound by mainstream thinking—they went to clean up the messy halls, “working happily, diligently, and obediently.” But how can they do it? Can it really be as they say, "everything will be fine" and "everything will be in order"? No matter how the broken plate can be put back together again, the glossy appearance of the patriarchal society has been torn to shreds, and no matter how it is repaired, only a hundred holes will remain.
After trying their best to make amends, they lay side by side on the table and said repeatedly: "We are happy" and "really happy", but I don't know who I am talking to, myself or the judge?
They were trying to please the patriarchal society and trying to numb their minds, but they stared at the chandelier and became confused.
"It doesn't matter," they said.
Does it really matter? Is it self-paralysis, self-mockery, or the collapse of self-consciousness?
What destroyed them in the end? Is it a huge crystal chandelier that suddenly fell, or is it the ideological oppression of a patriarchal society?
But they never had a chance to speak up.
It turned out that this absurd comedy was wrapped in such a sad story: two girls awakened their feminist consciousness and tried to fight against the world, but they were too weak to decide their own destiny.
Sincerely praise the wisdom of the Czech government at the beginning: the planned economy cannot bring the expected bumper harvest, how can the audience not remember their hunger after seeing the two shameless beauties profligate? "Wasting food" is a plausible reason, but those dangerous metaphors can never be put on the table - it only fuels the spread of the idea of rebellion. The government is reluctant to see more resentment breed.
【postscript】
At first, I just thought this movie was interesting and had a core. I analyzed it over and over again, bit by bit, and became more and more fascinated by those metaphors. I am also afraid that I may not be able to analyze it, or there may be an over-interpretation, but misunderstanding is always better than copying what others say?
The written form is less than 2,000, but it is also a little effort. Studying lens language, philosophy, religion, and art (I know that my understanding of the schools and viewpoints mentioned in the article may not be correct) not to mention, even the flashing butterfly montage has also allowed me to increase the category and life of butterflies. Habitual knowledge.
Feminism and deconstruction, such two big topics, make me feel fearful and fearful when I write, but if I leave it out and don’t write it, I will feel restless and stubborn in my throat. I'm usually lazy, and I'd rather gag rather than discuss anything seriously. Even so, I still have the urge to speak up. In the melody of the athlete's march (interlude in the film), in the high-spirited emotions, in the collision between the desire to express and the fear, I wrote this article like a diarrhoea, which is really enjoyable.
I hope more people can see these two decadent dolls - the real saintess in my mind. There are a thousand twin Marys in a thousand eyes, and may your girls be better than mine.
Thanks for reading.
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