When the colors and brushstrokes of the last oil painting gradually disappeared from the screen, and when the world in front of me became more delicate, I knew that Vincent came closer to me. Just like the lyrics of the strong female voice at the end, it seems to be telling: Now I understand what you tried to say to me.
Maybe they never loved you, but your love is as real as a miracle. - Song "Starry Starry Night"
The novelty of the film is also the most interesting point: the picture uses Van Gogh's paintings of people who have had an intersection with him as images, and the audience knows them through the images of the paintings, and hears them express their thoughts about Van Gogh. impression. So there was a "mutual look": Van Gogh looked at the people around him, people around him looked at Van Gogh, the audience looked at them in the eyes of Van Gogh, and then brought us back to focus on Van Gogh.
In terms of content, the main expression of the film is to use other people's narrative to shape a Van Gogh, but at the same time it is fragmentary and patchwork, and it is full of dual attributes of objective and subjective. Each is corroborating or presenting inconsistencies in another's account. Among the various narrations of people of different identities, there is no so-called truth and truth, only what to choose to believe, which can be said to present a multi-person "Rashomon"-style Van Gogh.
But the real purpose of the film is not to restore a so-called real Van Gogh, but to let us see the various actions of people at that time towards Van Gogh through their mouths, which seems to tell us what the environment in which Van Gogh lived. , and how amazing his work in such an environment is!
No large human society is truly immune to discrimination. - "A Brief History of Humanity"
No matter from which point of view, Van Gogh's life seems to be full of tragic colors. Neither he nor his paintings were understood, treated or respected by the world at that time. A common saying is that there is a fine line between genius and madness. But the attitude of the world and the people around it towards geniuses and lunatics is worlds apart.
Recently, in "A Brief History of Humanity", it was mentioned that every social form breeds discrimination. People will automatically exclude others. Maybe any relatively special few individuals, even if they did not hurt anyone, but if they are special enough, or not integrated with everyone, then they will become the target of being attacked and neglected. Here, I don't want to seek justice for him, the world is so cruel. When the most basic kindness in a society disappears, the respect he needs naturally cannot be found.
If a person cannot gain social recognition and cannot have the most basic tolerance and kindness, he is undoubtedly suffering. But if he got these at that time, if the painting world at that time recognized his value, then if this pain was far away from him, would he still paint such a "Starry Sky"? I have read some articles before speculating that the world in Van Gogh’s eyes was caused by taking medicine after depression. So, pain is the soil that nurtures extraordinary works? In terms of technique and love and self-expression, I believe that he will still draw peerless paintings, but you must know that great honor is also a poison. If Paris was crazy for him at the time, if he was sought after, would his paintings continue to have such a style? If everything is doomed, then maybe this is the best arrangement of fate.
If there is no longer something infinite, profound, and real in life, I will no longer be attached to the world. - "Dear Theo" by Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh's pain and his love are not contradictory. He suffered, but the fire in his heart for painting, his love for all things in the world, kept burning. He is not a poor man, on the contrary, his love for life is much stronger than others. So, why did he kill himself? The film also puts forward an assumption: he was accidentally injured by someone, but because he has no hope of survival in his heart and does not want to blame others, he proposes that he does not need medical treatment.
The truth about Van Gogh's suicide may not be conclusive. But he firmly wants to leave this world, there should be no doubt. As he said, after seeing the world, he found that he was not attached to it, on the contrary, it might drag others down, so he felt that there was no need to survive. The meaning of a person's continued existence can be needing and being needed by others. He, who has always been alone, may think that this time he can really let go.
I always think that people who take the initiative to say goodbye to the world are brave. Van Gogh is an Aries. Throughout his life, he is very in line with the characteristics of this fire constellation - he is so passionately in love with a cause, so focused on it and unable to extricate himself, so clear of good and evil, ignorant of world affairs, and friends When they are good friends, they dig their hearts out and dig their lungs out, and when they quarrel, they also get angry. This is him, burning himself so fiery.
The film uses the imitation of Van Gogh's paintings as the basis to present the oil painting texture, which made me feel those dynamic brushstrokes as if they were about to jump out. They are Van Gogh's own blood and soul. Today, the reason why later generations like his paintings is also because he unreservedly shows the world in his eyes. Because, the most special and most commendable thing in the world is to insist on yourself.
Nice to meet you more, lovely Vincent!
December 6, 2017 at 15:46
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