Three sayings about despair,, bis

Uriel 2021-12-22 08:01:27

A few years ago, in the Dalian Development Zone, in the off-season, there was no one on the seaside road in the evening. I was on the back seat of a motorcycle, and it was the first time I experienced what is called a sprint. Howling voice: Are you afraid? Don't be afraid, let's hurry up. I opened my voice: Not afraid! Hurry up! Then I closed my eyes.

Maybe there was that crazy experience, and I didn't feel particularly shocking and unbelievable when seeing the content of "collision".
The film describes a group of aliens in the industrial age, persistently pursuing rapid pleasure, rapid sports cars and rapid sex, climax and destruction at the same time, crash, the word will breathe out coldly when read. The Chinese translation of "collision" loses the taste.

Speed ​​is fascinating. There are the most primitive instincts of mankind. The sly Milan Kundera can always tell what everyone has in his heart but cannot express:
He said that a person is walking on the street and is trying to recall something. Things, but can't remember for a while, he will automatically slow down, and the other person will go faster and faster if he wants to forget an event that just happened. It seems that he wants to distance himself with speed and forget it.
Speed ​​can give us the illusion of forgetting.
Sex is fascinating, and it is also human instinct. If you imagine that you have a dead end and only have a moment to do something, many people will answer that you have sex. Sex and vitality are closely linked, and people will instinctively resist the arrival of death.
The speed is right, the sex is right.
But if there is no love in sex, speed and direction, if all this is just to escape for instant pleasure, it is like a walking dead without soul. That kind of pleasure has nothing to do with happiness. What you can get afterwards is deeper despair and emptiness. The purpose of crash is the climax of speed and quantity. The faster the better, and the real happiness and higher happiness are only Can slowly understand.
Still with the surname Mi, describe a boy who overtakes on a highway like this: he has been thrown away from the continuity of time, he is out of time, he has entered a state of ecstasy, he has forgotten his age, His wife, his children, so he has nothing to fear, because the source of fear is the future, so a person who is free from the future is fearless.
In a desperate era, the only thing desperate people can do is forget. Forget the past and discard the future. Persevere in the momentary life, pursue the momentary pleasure, and be fearless.

This is the most desperate movie I have ever seen. The film creates an icy atmosphere through sound colors from beginning to end, metal, machinery, silver, and gray. The subtitles and music at the beginning of the movie are like a desperate devil.
In terms of plot structure, from the beginning, the hero and heroine had sex in an empty parking lot leaning on a car, with a gray hazy sky in the distance; in the middle, a woman covered with metal brackets after several crashes appeared and could not tell whether it was a machine or a person. ; Until the end, the protagonist has completely fallen into his own practice, dying of scars under the bright sunshine. The world of despair is unfolded methodically. More importantly, in such a world, everyone is indifferent, and the protagonist goes from surprise to approval. Once indifference becomes happy, once absurdity becomes reasonable, besides despair, you still What can I feel?
The cold metal light became the dawn of the end of mankind, shining on the numb crowd towards the end in vain happiness. It's such despair.

The actors in this film are also outstanding.
There is a scene when the heroine is making love, with her eyes open, looking nowhere, empty, at a loss, serene, and quiet. The desperation that has no past and no future, immersed in the moment is vividly expressed. I remember her just for this look.
The male protagonist is the one starring in the "sex lie videotape". Forgot what it was called, melancholy charming guy.
And Holly Hunter, the dumb girl who doesn't eat the fireworks in the piano class.

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Crash quotes

  • James Ballard: You should've gone to the funeral.

    Catherine Ballard: I wish I had. They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months.

  • James Ballard: You had sex with all those men in cars? Only in cars?

    Helen Remington: Yes. I didn't plan it that way.

    James Ballard: Did you fantasize that Vaughan was photographing all these sex acts as though they were traffic accidents?

    Helen Remington: Yes. They felt like traffic accidents.