The French advocate freedom. During the Second World War, the French resistance organization against Nazi German aggression led by Charles de Gaulle was called "Free France". They were not only addicted to freedom, but also liked to forcibly give "freedom" to others. When Napoleon conquered Spain , just shouted the slogan "Long live freedom", but embarrassingly, not everyone liked the freedom that was imposed. The Spanish master Goya's "The Shooting of the Insurgents on the Night of May 3, 1808" reflected the Spanish patriots at that time. of resistance.
The film "The Phantom of Liberty" starts from this painting by Goya. At the beginning of the film, a group of Spanish insurgents were shot and killed. They shouted the slogan "Get out of freedom". , does not tell a complete story from beginning to end, and all the characters are disconnected and bizarre.
But if you know that this movie is from the hands of Luis Buñuel, you probably know why you feel like reading a book from heaven. Buñuel is known as the "father of surrealist cinema", and all his films are It is a work that combines reality and fantasy to form a surreal style. In 1928, he and Dali, the creator of "The Eternal Memory", jointly produced "The Dog of Andalus", which is also regarded as a surreal film. 's foundational work.
Dreams, the church, and the bourgeoisie are the three elements of Buñuel’s ten-minute love. All of his works revolve around the criticism of the bourgeoisie and the church. The director lived in the Western world before and after World War II and witnessed the bourgeoisie. The prosperity and corruption of the film, questioned the hypocrisy of the middle class and the authenticity of religion, and used realistic and illusory methods to implicitly indict the crimes of capitalism. In "The Phantom of Freedom", the director also used a consistent method The five unrealistic stories are cleverly conveyed through the characters. There is no intrinsic connection between the stories, and there is no beginning or end. There are many unbelievable plots in the film, so we cannot appreciate Buñue from a normal perspective. Er's works.
In 100 minutes, the director showed us multiple themes such as incest, homosexuality, masochism, religion, etc., but we could not immediately tell which were real and which were imaginary. For example, the first story in the film, the heroine Fucou suffers from insomnia. When he was about to fall asleep, he found that the clock was abnormal, and an hour passed every few seconds. In his bedroom, there were a rooster, a woman in black, a letter from the postman, and an ostrich. If this is a dream, there is actually a letter from the postman left on the bed of Dvorka. The other storylines in the film are similar. The director moved the surreal scenes that we can only appear in dreams to reality. time and space.
Several of the stories in the film allude to the director's critique of the middle class. One of the episodes takes place in a remote hotel where four missionaries, a female nurse, a man and woman playing SM games and a woman live. For the incestuous couple, the missionary went to the nurse's room to pray for his father, but in the next second a few people smoked, drank and played cards. SM men and women deliberately invited everyone to the room to watch their sexual abuse Games, in order to trigger pleasure, and the incest couple's plot is similar to "The Graduate". A young man who graduated from high school falls in love with an old woman who is over half a hundred years old. Both of them are hindered by their social status and can't restrain their primitive impulses and run to the scene. Hotel cheating, these people are middle-class people in the eyes of ordinary people, living rich but empty and useless in their hearts.
Buñuel is also a director who loves to tease the audience. He captures people's inner prejudice against "sex". When a strange man gave a girl a dozen photos and her parents found out, the camera did not tell the audience the photos first. The content of the content, but through the dialogue between the parents, people imagined, "Giving this kind of thing to a child is no different from blasphemy", the two panicked and their expressions were ambiguous, but in fact, those photos were just architectural photos of Paris, Buñuel saw the audience's thoughts and thought it was some dirty work, but in fact, dirty thoughts exist as naturally as we sneeze.
There are many absurd ideas in the film. A strange man shoots pedestrians upstairs and is finally sentenced to death, but he walks out of the court like an ordinary person and is sought after by a lady. A couple reported to the police officer that their daughter was missing, but in fact her daughter was In the side, these plots are actually the director's criticism of the hypocrisy of the middle class. They think they have ideas and knowledge, but in fact they are not outdated and don't care about things that are not their own. Regardless of reality, it is like an ant.
There are also two thought-provoking plots in the story. One is the old professor's story about his visit to a friend's house. Everyone's chairs are toilets. Everyone takes off their pants and sits on them to talk and talk. In the bathroom, the old professor went into the restaurant for dinner, and when someone knocked on the door, he replied: "Someone", which is contrary to our real situation, the director can be said to have good intentions. Like excretion, it is useless.
In another episode, a gentleman begged the doctor to tell him about his condition. When the doctor truthfully reported that he had cancer, the gentleman slapped him. Some people just couldn't listen to the truth.
In "A Dream of Red Mansions", Liu Xianglian said that only the pair of stone lions in front of the gate of Jia's mansion is clean. I don't think so. How many dirty things have the stone lions seen, even if they are different, they may not be clean. If you are in a quagmire, Don't think about getting out of the mud, it's better to be a happy dog who can wag his tail and be able to please his heart. If you are afraid, you will struggle for a lifetime, and you may not get a dog certificate.
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