1. On a personal level, the heroines in I Love Therefore I Am (Io sono l'amore, 2009) and The Bridges of Madison County (1995) are from a foreign land (Russia/Italy) Come, like listening to opera (from the aria La mamma morta sung by Callas in the 1993 film Philadelphia in Philadelphia / from the radio channel), showing that the decision of the immigrants fell into the trap, and the romantic elements of their characters have since been swept away. repressed.
2. The movie expresses the point of "beyond the need for survival" superbly. From the heroine's high-end middle-class life, we can see that people are different from animals - people not only need to survive, but also need to have culture ; and then we go back to the original side after the heroine's affair, and witness the second breakthrough of super-survival needs - refusing to let culture become a consumer product or a symbol of qualification. Therefore, at the meetings of the St. Regis family in Milan, the hostess is more like a deacon's housekeeper; in the countryside of Sanremo, she enjoys life to the fullest. From this point of view, I can trace back to a hidden and powerful part of the family gathering. When my grandfather opened the birthday present of his granddaughter Beta, he said to everyone: "One day she becomes famous, and I want everyone to spend money to see these paintings. "Unexpectedly, Beta no longer painted, but sent a photo, and this photo appeared again when the heroine visited the old Regis's house. Here we can see the two attitudes of grandfather and granddaughter. For Old Regis, art has become a kind of consumption material, which is his interpretation of life, while granddaughter no longer "paints", but starts "photography", symbolizing her To be honest with myself, here is a deep aesthetic background:
"Beauty" is not the opposite of "ugly", but the opposite of "false"; it is a perceptive statement of what a thing or a person is like. (Beauty and ugliness are only conventional categories, and there are great differences between cultures. Most people tend to take "sunset" as an example of beauty. In fact, why not rain or fog? Comfortable.)
3. Tida Swindon has a very meticulous grasp of human nature. In the scene of the affair, we feel that she is a "person" and has a "personality". She behaves as follows. Fromm, New Hope for Humanity, 4. What is the meaning of human nature, 4. The need for survival and the need for super-survival:
No one has expressed this more clearly than Marx: "Enthusiasm is the function of men in pursuit of their goals." In this statement, enthusiasm is taken to be a relational or connected concept. ...this means: because I have eyes, I have a need to see, because I have ears, I have a need to hear, because I have a mind, I have a need to think, because I have a heart, I have a need feel the need. In short, because I am human, I am in the need of human beings for the world. Marx put the "human function" very clearly: the humanized relationship between man and the world - seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking, seeing, feeling, desire, behavior, love - in this relationship, the individual All the organs of the . . . positive expression of the fact of human nature.
4. The film uses the changes in the high-end middle-class St. Regis family business to refer to the problem of Chen's personal identity being wiped out: the story adds a "craft society" to the "middle class". Among them, the two scenes shot are very important as the lining of the main axis of the story: First, during the family gathering, the grandfather officially handed over the family business to his son Tancored and grandson Eduardo. 2. At a business meeting in London, Tancred, who took over the family business, sold the family business on the grounds of maximum profit. In industrial society, the requirement of maximum efficiency or profit leads to another result: the reduction of individual individuality to a minimum. Tankred's decision is the result of calculation and logic. He makes decisions based on "factual needs", and he has no guilt. For him, the employees who have worked hard for the company all their lives are not human beings. At the same time, he also does his best. He may have forgotten the human element of his own - he surrendered human insight, knowledge, exploration, responsibility, as well as tenderness and compassion to an idol: the computer, so that his wife Emma confessed her love to him. Tancred ripped off the coat that he had just put on his wife when he had sex with someone else, more because his wife's decision would ruin the reputation and status the family had built, rather than personal injury and disappointment. (Tida Swindon reminded in an interview that Tancred didn't say he was going to marry a woman he loved, but that he was going to marry someone more beautiful than his mother, here, don't forget Tan Cored is a collector, he's just collecting art.)
5. There are strong oppositions within a fluid story: mansion/nature; collective/individual; hoarding/enjoyment; repression (submission)/freedom; machine (slavery)/human.
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