A black stand-up collar trench coat, a straight body, and straight eyes permeated with exhaustion stirred by desire. In the first episode of "Melrose", the eccentric Cuan Fu turned into a high-class drug addict. Struggling between his shadowy childhood and drug addiction, he travels to New York to collect his father's ashes.
He can hold up more than 60 minutes of play by himself, and his acting skills are naturally good. His acting seems to be Steney's experience school, but it is different from De Niro's irrefutable realism. I always feel that his frenzy implies rationality and coldness.
Patrick in the play has a touch of elegance whether he is awake or poking the needle into the blood vessel in a hurry. What makes me curious is that in various episodes and in life, addicts are mostly disgusting, and grace seems to have nothing to do with them. Talents like De Quincey, who wrote "The Autobiography of an Opium Addict," and Coleridge, who wrote "Kublai Khan," when they used drug addiction for inspiration, were mostly confused with the greasy and sullen side of the smokehouse. Weak bongs are not much different. But in the play, Patrick, who just casually recited Beckett's opening line "the sun rises as usual, nothing has changed" makes people feel very sexy. Aside from the deliberate creation of plot, photography, editing, etc., from the perspective of Patrick, who is played by Cuo Fu, the ability to maintain elegance when degenerate can be roughly divided into three points: 1. A wealthy family background. 2. Exquisite dress and appearance. 3. When chasing a dragon, you are all alone.
1. Wealthy family background. The mother is rich, and the father can play the piano. Even if the two people's personalities and getting along are not normal, a rich child is still mostly elegant. It can be seen from the second episode that no matter how violent and perverted the father is, his clothes, basic words and deeds, and the people he associates with are not bad. The inattentive mother is sometimes timid, sometimes coquettish and willful. Compared with another friend's girlfriend from the bottom, her temperament clearly belongs to the rich family's daughter. Patrick's heart is dark and fragile, and his manners are mostly due to elegance.
2. Exquisite dress and appearance. To put it another way, if Patrick in the play is played by Ning Caishen, who is unshaven and lost in both eyes, the play can be renamed "The Self-Saving Story of a Middle-aged Greasy Drug-addicting Man". Clothes look at people, everyone has them. Another example, when Patrick was hungry and thirsty, ran into a dimly lit shabby little house in the middle of the night, and at that moment, the unkempt boss who was already high on the sofa and Patrick who was furious because he was not inserted into the blood vessel was essentially Just as decadent, but in terms of style, the latter obviously looks a little more pleasing. Therefore, with his face and his own temperament, coupled with exquisite clothing, it is really appropriate to play a drug addict in high society.
3. When chasing a dragon, you are all alone. A person chasing the dragon can show the temperament of sinking and melancholy. It was like a person leaning against the wall in the middle of the night, looking sadly at the bottomless darkness, slowly putting the cigarette into his mouth with his index and middle fingers, and puffing out the clouds. If Fang Mou, Ke Mou, plus a few fox friends, gather in a penthouse luxury apartment to chase the dragon, the scene is as lively as eating hot pot, and there is no elegance at all.
"Either busy living, or busy dying." The skinny Patrick used drugs to defy his identity, and he was so vulnerable, how could he not be loved.
Patrick's elegance doesn't come from how literate he is, or how elegant he is, but from inheritance. In the book "Style", the author said that in the upper class, the wealth of the upper class comes from inheritance. In addition to wealth, their elegance is reflected in their behavior, dress, vocabulary used when speaking, social circle, etc. Take the use of words as an example. The words used by people in the upper class are not particularly colloquial, but they are not that difficult. In the book, the author satirizes that some new middle-class people deliberately use advanced vocabulary when speaking in order to make themselves look elegant. In the eyes of the real upper class, this makes them look stupid. In another example, the author writes of a middle-class person visiting a friend's house in the upper class, he saw a set of expensive antique china, and in order to please him, he said something appreciative, and this made the upper-class person friend felt disgusted, and he felt it didn't need praise at all. The good performance of Cui Fu is that Patrick's elegance is spontaneous, not deliberate at all. On the contrary, Patrick's arrogance and lack of self-motivation highlights this point.
In recent years, the pursuit of elegance by the emerging middle class has become a trend. It's understandable for people to go higher and to go a step further when they reach the middle class, but it's not true after all. In other words, these need to be operated for a long time. At a time when everyone is so busy, either lower the standard of elegance or falsify wildly. As far as the former is concerned, now reading novels and watching American dramas have become elegant things, which makes me feel very surprised. Both things are very common hobbies, so why do you deliberately exalt them. For the latter, they regard chicken soup for the soul and paying for knowledge as good words, and then say it in a tone of voice and in the way of teaching people. Are they trying to be high-end or stupid?
High-society elegance is true, but it's only a side view. As one beanie put it, morbid elegance trumps vulgar effort among the values that the Patricks stand for. Perhaps, elegance itself is a sickness like Daiyu's funeral flowers. A graceful person can still be a devil at the same time. Art historian Cao Xingyuan has met many so-called high-end people in New York. She said that those in the upper class look elegant when they put on their clothes and go out, but who knows when they close the door. And in Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut," the upper-class people shown in their hands hold real power, collude secretly, and gather together for prostitution. At the same time, the film implies that those people have more shocking things that have not been discovered.
When many middle-class people are ready to become "upper" classy, I doubt they have considered the price to pay. A professor at Harvard wrote in the book that many people who jumped from the middle to the upper class have a certain degree of psychopathic tendencies to some extent. One of the aspects of perversion is to use unscrupulous means to achieve goals, and to be ruthless. In the case of not breaking the law or violating morality, no one should say anything. This is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, Mahatma Gandhi is such a person. His terrible thing is that he used the power of one person to oppose the authority of the whole country. Fortunately, his nature is to be kind to others. And Churchill once said that greatness and morality do not manifest in one person. Therefore, when you gain more resources and become more "elegant", you lose a more tranquil and innocent state of mind. Even back to childlike simplicity, everything changes beyond recognition.
On another level, everyone wants to be "upper-class" and elegant, which not only shows that the economy is booming, but also shows that many people have lost the ability to think independently. Rather than pretending to be classy, I find vulgar efforts more reassuring. After a busy day, I listen to music on my mobile phone in my spare time. Although it is not as grand and elegant as going to the theater to listen to an opera, but with the fluctuation of the music, various surreal scenes emerge in my mind, and I occasionally recall the resorts I have been to. It's fun and peaceful. Show people as you are, live your current life well, and work hard for a better tomorrow, without being so pretentious and impatient.
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