The film portrays Van Gogh as a genius who is cynical in spirit but gentle and friendly in life. Although he is deeply hurt by the heart of his indifferent mother in his original family, he is still obsessed with art. Although he is rejected by the upper class, he wins the bottom of the working people with his pure heart. In love with innocent women. He has a deep love for his brothers, a tender fascination with animals and nature, and died of a prankster prank on the eve of his fame, but he still forgives them with tenderness and love, even at the cost of suicide to cover up their sins. At that time, the world owed this genius hero, and we can only sing about it in future generations and pour our hearts with other people's wine glasses.
starry starry night
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
Everyone is drunk and I wake up alone. What a beautiful word, unfortunately it's not true.
Genius? It was only in the first two years of his death that his skills matured, and he was constantly excluded from school because of his weak sketching skills. Reject the glitz of the upper class and love the lower class people? Seeking approval in Paris, but imagining the "simpleness" of the low-level people, but getting close to them has never been able to integrate. Gentle and innocent? He has been exploiting his younger brother in various ways, both financially and emotionally. The indifference of the mother of the original family? Middle-class parents have been trying to find work for him, from gallery management to bookstore clerk to pastoral basics. Does Dr. Garcher's daughter have a hazy relationship with him and will never marry him? Many old girls don't get married because of financial reasons, but they did a model after Van Gogh's many requests. Friendship with Gauguin? Really can only laugh.
"Dear Theo - A Beautiful Life" is a dream woven like this, a story acceptable to popular culture: gentle geniuses who are not aggressive, who appreciate and support each other with brotherhood, who are ignored by the world but do not change their original intentions, die Then the whole world cheered for him. Who wants to accept a real Vincent? A painter who has been down and down all his life on the secular road, coldly broken in his family relationship, repeatedly frustrated in his emotional journey and willing to be deceived? How much emotional manipulation, blackmail, lies, frustration, and despair go into the brotherhood with Theo? Vincent is not innocent, he tortures himself and the people he loves, staying in the fantasy world and unwilling to face the truth. Nor was his illness romantic: the Van Gogh family had a genetic history of mental illness, his sister spent the rest of her life in a mental hospital, and another brother committed suicide. As for Theo, Vincent's twin mirror, from a long-sleeved gallery manager to a psychopath who resents the whole world, in just a few months.
The process of reading "The Biography of Van Gogh" is painful. A small person who has been defeated again and again cannot be a gallery clerk, a teacher, or a pastor. Longing for family warmth, longing for religious redemption, but hurting his loved ones again and again and being hurt by them. Seeking women's comfort and warmth with (brother's) money is just a fantasy. Even on the path of art, he has always been attacked and denied. What else can comfort life? Achievement, money, family, and love are all unavailable. Apart from painting, what else can express one's despair and pain?
And Vincent is not a cheeky real villain, he will blame himself, be ashamed, and punish his mistakes with self-abuse. When Theo was really unable to carry his life, he really came to an end. So even if the gangster's fault led to Vincent's death, it was the death of his own choice. He could not have to bear the religious connotation of suicide, and he could forgive the faults of others, and directly relieved Theo of this heavy burden. , kill three birds with one stone, so beautiful.
The comparison between film and reality, the only constant is Vincent's madness for painting. This is not as simple as burning yourself, it is sacrifice. When there is no way to go in reality, there is only sacrifice to art. Maybe only this kind of pious madness can make him stick to himself and lead ordinary people to see a different world.
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