In the process of watching "Happy Lazzaro", you need to maintain some patience, not that the rhythm of the movie is slow, but in the process, there will be some doubts, and the movie "Happy Lazzaro" is indeed The weirdest movie I've seen so far in 2018. It's a movie, but like a "dystopian allegory."
A group of peasants live together on a farm. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. The living conditions are extremely poor. Because of their debts, they have to work hard without any payment. They claim to be tenant farmers and are the property of a certain marquise. , but what they don't know is that the country they live in has long since abolished slavery and tenant farming. They lived in a civilized country, but because of the brainwashing and lies of the Marquise, they worked tirelessly to produce tobacco for her.
After being rescued by the police, they left the countryside and went to the city, but their lives did not become decent. In order to make a living, they stole, robbed, and defrauded, and completely became marginalized in urban life.
Lazaro is also one of these farmers. He is young, kind, innocent, and more industrious than anyone else. Even if he is deceived, he cannot find any anger in him, and his eyes are always shining. After accidentally falling off a cliff, he fell into a coma. When he woke up again, he returned to the original farmhouse and found that the building was empty, and the two were smuggling the equipment from the Marquis' residence. Lazaro traveled to the city under their guidance, intending to find Doncredi, the son of the Marquis. He walked, and finally found his original farm companion, but his companions of the same age had already entered middle age, and Zara Luo Que remained unchanged. It turned out that he had been in a coma for more than ten years...
This movie can't help but remind me of a strange story in ancient my country. A man who went up the mountain to chop firewood saw two old people playing chess in Zhongshan, so he watched it on the side, just watched and watched, forgetting the time, I hurried down the mountain when I realized that the time had been delayed for a long time, but when I got down the mountain, the original village had already changed. If I asked carefully, it took him several decades to go up the mountain to chop firewood this time. The people in the village thought he had already died.
Although this bridge is somewhat similar, the movie "Happy Lazaro" wants to express more things, such as "exploitation", ubiquitous exploitation, such as the metaphor of the monologue about "Saint and Wolf", such as the movie The name, what does the happy Lazaro mean.
◎ Subtle exploitation
"Those who truly know themselves will be humbler in front of themselves. It's not a good thing for human praise. For all the things I know in the universe, if I stand before God, it will be me Judging me by my actions, quenching my thirst for knowledge, for it only causes great distraction and disappointment. There is no doubt that a humble farmer can serve God better than a brilliant scientist."
This is a paragraph read by the Marquise "Lady Viper", in order to dispel the peasants' curiosity about knowledge, and also for her own rule, but in the end her rule was ruined by the kidnapping farce of her son Doncredy. The police descended on the farm, rescued the deceived farmers, and uncovered a huge deception, people from the countryside to the city, escaped the exploitation of the marquise.
However, they still have not escaped the fate of being exploited. As long as they survive in a civilized society, they will inevitably become a part of consumption. Finally, they use the words of a former rich woman to say that "bank", or literally a bank, is just a metaphor. , by referring to the commercial society. From the countryside to the city, it just fell from one vortex to another, and the exploitation didn't change, it just became obscure and civilized.
◎Saint and Hungry Wolf
In the middle of the film, "Farmer goes to the city, Lazaro falls into a coma", there is a longer female monologue:
[Now I'm going to tell you a story about a wolf, an old-fashioned wolf who has become irrelevant. He couldn't catch any prey, so the wolves drove him out, the old wolf approached the man's house and stole the livestock hen lamb, he was hungry, the man tried to kill the wolf but they couldn't, they only Being on watch every night, they made a lot of traps and ropes that were hard to detect. People hated the wolf, they thought he was fierce and strong, they didn't know he was just an old and weak wolf.
It came to the ears of a saint who had the ability to talk to animals, and people respected him and obeyed him, so people went to the saint, and the saint accepted the people's request for him to negotiate peace with the wolf. So he set off to look for the wolf, the sage traveled a long way, he walked and walked, and winter came, the sage was exhausted, he was cold and hungry, but still couldn't find the wolf, what he didn't know was , the wolf is also hungry, and he has followed the saint for a long time. Finally one day, the sage fell, he fell on the snow, and finally the wolf appeared. The wolf slowly approached him while baring his teeth and cracking his mouth. Just as the wolf was about to eat him, the wolf smelled it. A smell, this one he had never smelled, stopped him, he sniffed and sniffed, what was that? The smell of a good man. 】
At first glance, it seems that the saint mentioned in this monologue is Lazaro. He is innocent and kind, and he is gentle and kind at all times. Even if Doncredi deceived him, he feels sorry for his tragic situation.
But in fact, he is also a wolf, helping to deceive and robbing banks. Although these do not seem like things he did, the wolf is also like this. In the eyes of the wolf, there is no so-called good and evil. Everything is caused by animal nature. If you want to eat meat, if you are thirsty, you want to drink water. Thinking this way, perhaps animality is also another aspect of divinity.
Man is a combination of human nature and animal nature. Whether it is a saint or a wolf, it seems to be a metaphor for human beings, so Lazaro is more like a mirror. Think about it, maybe Lazaro doesn't exist at all, or maybe he's already dead, no one will keep his face unchanged for more than ten years, no one will fall off a cliff and be intact, no one will let the music follow him.
As a mirror, he also reflects the appearance of humans and cities, the struggles of marginalized humans, and finally the wolf escaped from the city, just like the old wolf was not accepted by the same kind, Lazaro also died of the deception of others and the cruelty of everyone .
◎The definition of happiness
Perhaps in Lazaro's view, happiness is being needed by others, so he is also conscientious, uncomplaining, courting others with coffee, and becoming a "friend" and "brother" with Don Credy, who seems to need him the most. But was Lazaro happy in his life? of course not!
Living in a poor farm, I worked hard most of the time, and was driven by others. Later, I traveled long distances. After I had a temporary residence, I was still rejected and deceived. Finally, I died in the bank lobby because of other people's misunderstandings. More than unhappy, simply miserable life.
But what is happiness? Is it enough to eat and dress warmly? Is food and clothing worry-free? Is it rich? Is love sweet? Is life smooth?
As I got older, I began to realize one thing, what other people call happiness is more of an illusion, an illusion that has been instilled in comedy, fairy tales, and traditional concepts for a long time.
In fact, most people are not happy enough, and they are not complete enough, and, in such a life, I can't define true happiness precisely, and being needed by others may not necessarily be happiness. In the movie "Luo", happiness is kindness, compassion, innocence, tenderness, and it is Lazaro himself who does not harbor hatred.
Copyright: The copyright of the text of this article belongs to the author Paul, and the picture comes from the movie "Happy Lazaro"
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