The background of Woody Allen's "Purple Rose in Cairo" is set in the famous Great Depression in the United States. The streets are full of unemployed people and job seekers. The heroine Secilia is a full movie fan. She is hardworking and kind. , Simple and beautiful, she endured her husband’s idleness and domestic violence, willing to give everything. For her, the best time every day is to end the heavy waitress work in the restaurant and go to the theater to watch Cairo alone. "Purple Rose", she is fascinated by the luxurious scenes and ideal stories of the movie. The fantasy is beautiful. The movie is like a temporary exit from her real life, taking her out of reality every day. And one day, a bizarre story happened because of the movie. The actor also ran away for her. . . . . .
Sicilia began to fall in love with the male protagonist who had run away from the movie. This plot is simply the highest state of contemporary fandom, but the next trend of the story is really unusual, because the actors who play the male protagonist in reality also love it. Going to Sicilia, two people, one from the psychedelic world in the movie and the other from Hollywood in reality. When the two invited Sicilia to live in their respective worlds with themselves forever, if it were you, you should How to choose?
On the one hand, it is a dream lover who came out of the movie, and on the other hand, it is an actor who has the same worldview as herself. It seems that Secilia is hesitant, but we all know that if we change to ourselves, our choice is the same as her. In the end, Cecilia, who chose the actor, looked forward to the future with expectations. She finally mustered up the courage to say no to her husband, toward love, toward Hollywood in her dreams.
We must understand that Secilia finally did not choose the psychedelic world of the movie, which proves that desire cannot be completely satisfied. The attitude of mankind to the extremely beautiful things is just like the attitude of Secilia to the extremely beautiful things in the movie-expecting Feeling sad in the middle, and then finally returning to the pain of reality, and repeating mechanically, preparing for the next expectation, this is the meaning of desire-driving humans to approach it tortuously, instead of satisfying it, this is an unsolvable problem. It is said that moths extinguish the fire, why don't the moths expect the extreme beauty brought by the fire? And the result? The moth is dead, but the man is alive.
Desire drives us to miss the extreme beauty. This is the beauty of incompleteness and the beauty of regret. This beauty and human perception is established by missing out. Missing makes people unwilling. So, after being sad, desire drives us to start anew, and The purpose is simply to find the next miss. This is the mechanical repetition described by Freud. Human beings are constantly missing out to please desires, and desires are ready to disappoint, which ignites hope over and over again.
When we finally look back for the lost goodness, it can only mean that those good things have become memories, and you have been in a dying year. When you cannot make new beautiful mistakes, you can only live by the memories, but you can learn from Sisili Ya, every night, watching "Purple Rose in Cairo" alone, the movie is actually a temporary exit for everyone. It supports man-made beauty and calls you into it. The difference is that these beauty, as long as you don’t want to miss it, You can always watch it back. If you feel tired, change to a movie. It can also make you feel sad in anticipation.
And Sicilia? Just like everyone else, reality is always heartbreaking, and reality is always so helpless. When Sicilia drags his luggage back to the cinema, what can we say? When Secilia is fascinated by the new movie again, what can we feel? At the end of the film, Secilia was brought into a new expectation by desire. Her trembling lips and ardent eyes seemed to be one with the gorgeous psychedelic face in the movie. Her expectation was re-imagined with eager vitality.
In the era of depression, the people who lost their souls, the suppression of reality, the psychedelic madness, the only option for the people at the bottom was to be fascinated by the movies like Sicilia, because reality is too depressed, too much In addition to lifelessness, the aesthetics of desire can only continue in the movie, and the people who lose their souls have to face the sad reality alone. Tomorrow's heavy work is just a psychedelic preparation of the night movie. This cycle is analyzed. It is not just the helplessness of the times, but the helpless self-exile and sad journey of the crowd in the face of the times.
Movies have never given us reality, we only derive hope from movies, but instead we project this hope into reality, and the results are often embarrassing. The "Purple Rose of Cairo" expresses more than just love. , It digs deeper into people’s helplessness in the face of desire-driven. In "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nuts", Song Zi wrote on his wall, "I am a man, I'm sorry." It reflects this cycle of desire. The helplessness that comes, why are people born? We don't want to walk into the dead end of the meaning of life in this way. We just face the reality. We always seem so unwilling. Facing the illusion, we can find hope so easily.
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