was originally thought to be a new work by Woody Allen. "Lost Love and Sin" (Cassandra's Dream, 2007) refers to Aeschylus' tragedy "Agamemnon" (Agamemnon). Allen has explained the tragedy of life thoroughly.
Cassandra was once the lover of Princess Troia and Apollo. She had the ability to predict. Later, because of her rejection of Apollo's love, she was cursed by him, and everyone did not believe her prophecy. After the defeat of Troya, she became a captive of Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief of the Greek army. She predicted the death of Agamemnon and herself, and the results were fulfilled one by one. See the drama "Agamemnon". After watching "Lost Love and Sin", I realized that Cassandra was not a character in the play, but Alan himself. He tasted the bitterness of life early in the morning and caught a glimpse of death. His movies are like prophecies. Those who understand nod and bow their heads, while those who don't understand think it's alarmist and nonsense.
The two brothers in "Lost Love and Crime" were originally in love with relatives. Terry worked in the garage and was more professional, but due to the uncontrollable gambling addiction, his debts were high; Ian worked in his father’s restaurant, he was more ideal, It's hard to control the relationship after being a beautiful actress. In order to enrich and invest in the hotel industry, she is in dire need of money. The wealthy uncle came to visit. He was willing to pay to solve the problems of the two brothers, but he ordered them to kill an enemy. Later, the brothers completed the task together, but Terry regretted it and was in a trance. In the end, Ian planned to kill Terry in order to prevent Terry from confessing all crimes, but was killed by Terry's wrong hands. Terry finally committed suicide.
As the actress said when she introduced her play, the play is about morality, destiny, and sin. This just constitutes the main theme of Living Allen's three most serious works-"Crime and Misconduct" ( Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1989) is about morality; "Match Point" (Match Point, 2005) is about destiny; "Lost Love and Sin" is about sin.
The male protagonist of "Lost Love and Crime" should be Terry. His prototype is Raskolnikov, the protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment". Both of them confessed guilt for murder. The guilt is entangled and the atonement is hard to find. It may be necessary to add a portrayal of Dostoevsky’s own life, both of which are gamblers. In fact, Dostoevsky also wrote a part. The novel is titled "The Gambler", which was completed in three weeks during the creation and serialization of "Crime and Punishment". The protagonist Alexei's gambler can be attributed to Terry on the one hand, wealth and love craze. It belongs to Ian. Ian's prototype is obviously Chris in "Lost Decisive Points", who is also an upward climber, who is irrational when emotional; and the prototype of uncle is Judah in "Crime and Misconduct", who buys homicide and uses all means.
In addition to learning from Dostoevsky as in "Lost Decisive Points", it can be seen from "Lost Love and Crime" that Living Allen got a lot of inspiration from the Greek tragedy. Through the mouth of the man in the play, Allen said that he especially liked Euripides's "Medea" (Medea).
"Medea" is a tragedy about revenge and pain, justice and sin. The ungrateful husband Jason married the royal daughter Glock. The wife Medea, who was born to death, was furious. After Glock was killed, he even killed his son. , Turn the pain to the husband who regrets it.
In fact, there is no need to find the relationship between "Lost Love and Sin" and "Medea" from the characters and plots, but in terms of human nature and the composition of the drama, the two have similarities and dialogues; instead of stagnation In terms of the plot, it is better to see how the living Alan and the Greek tragedy writers view people and life.
We also find the love between men and women, and we also find jealousy and suspicion; we also find the loyalty and trust between the two people, and we find the betrayal and fear; sometimes people will love each other, friendship and harmony, sometimes they turn against each other and turn their faces ruthless. Sometimes people find it conscientiously, and sometimes they become obsessed with it; people have desires and ambitions, but they also have dreams and ideals. Man obeys the drive of the flesh, but he obeys the whisper of the soul. People will be afraid and trembling, but they will comfort and care for others. People go back to the past by memory, and imagine the future by imagination. People are blind and at the same time rational.
From movies and tragedies, we find people. But the living Alan and the Greek tragedy writers are not satisfied with this, they also pursue gods/gods.
In "Lost Love and Sin", Terry struggled before killing and felt guilty after killing. He muttered to himself and blurted out: "If the world really has God..." If God is absolutely righteous, then it is not perfect. People are really hopeless. In the Greek tragedy, due to the power of destiny, or due to karma, if sins are planted early, they will not end well-killing parents, killing parents, being exiled, incapacitated, blinded, mad, and perishing. Too much. Sophocles's "King Idipus" is a household name, needless to say, and he also mentioned the two sons of King Idipus in the opening scene of another tragedy "Antigone" They killed each other again, and finally died in the hands of the opponent, fulfilling his father's curse. The movie "Lost Love and Crime" ended up with brothers breaking the wall on the contrary, leaving behind a tragic end. Needless to say, absolute justice is the greatest enemy of human morality, and mistakes cannot be undone and corrected over time, so people cannot expect to atone for their sins on their own.
"Lost Love and Crime" is more pessimistic than "Crime and Misconduct" and "Lost Decisive Points". At least "Crime and Misconduct" leaves a little bit of self-deprecation and black humor. Chris in "Lost Decisive Points" is the god of luck. Blessed, impunity, maybe he will have room for change. "Lost Love and Sin" leaves madness, regret, death and fate, "If the world really has a God..." Terry said. Maybe God really exists, not just Michelangelo’s painting "Genesis: The Creation of Adam" that Terry put on the bedside. In the painting, God is the creator, and man has life, but after man has eaten the forbidden fruit and knows how to distinguish between good and evil, morality will appear; when man is expelled from the Garden of Eden, freedom also appears, but freedom is subject to fate, and morality is again Subject to sin. Living Allen not only absorbed the theme of Greek tragedy, but continued Dostoevsky's thinking, but also sought a foothold in his own Jewish tradition.
The movie keeps talking about "life"-brothers on the boat talk about the beauty of life. The father sighed to his son and said that life is impermanent. The actress in the play said that life is a big irony. The happiness in the last moment is reversed in the next moment. This is destiny and cannot be changed; the pessimism of "Lost Love and Sin" lies in the isolation and guilt of "life", just like a prisoner in a jail and unable to get out. Looking up again, Adam in Michelangelo's painting stretched out his finger, only a little bit away from God, but that little distance constitutes hope.
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