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The weakness of biopics
Kenton 2022-12-25 14:51:31
This show and the movie "Mozart" both illustrate a truth: In general, don't expect to really know a master through a play (or movie). The pursuit of film and television drama (and the resulting superficial narratives) essentially obliterates both the exciting and precious qualities of the characters and the complexities of real life, so that great characters become clowns: neurotic freaks, children's play Such success, and a bloody life everywhere... In fact, their shortcomings are just the mortal side, they are also human, so it is normal to have various shortcomings, and the reality is more complicated than the show, not simple It can be summed up by scolding a "scumbag" and a lunatic. Einstein himself once said in his later years that he envied a friend and couple who lived together for the rest of their lives, while he was in two failed marriages. If we were not obsessed with moral evaluation of him, perhaps we would know him better. On the other hand, their strong curiosity, profound thinking, and persistent pursuit of truth and beauty (their obsession with unified field theory in their later years, although they are regarded as "tragedy" by many people, are far from nothing as everyone thinks , is precisely the tragic heroic demeanor of a generation of masters obsessed with truth). It even includes "goodness", his worrying concern and practical actions for the fate of the whole human beings at the public level later, that kind of broad feelings beyond the personal calculations of ordinary people is completely worthy of the reputation of a great man of a generation. After the filming, these almost disappeared, and the vulgarization was completely successfully realized, and the audience's eyes were directed to the vulgar. Adaptation based on facts is not called objective restoration, and it will bring "truth".
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