"better not with the dead peer" - Henri Michaux
imagery of death tightly gripped the movie from the start.
On the train heading west, William Black (Johnny Depp) from Cleveland looked a little lonely. As the scenery outside the window changed, the woods, tunnels, and desolation... the people in the carriage also changed. After several waves, the gentlemen in suits and leather shoes gradually changed to vulgar hunters. They even banged at the window. William Blake became more and more nervous, so he had to hold his suitcase tightly to find a little sense of security. . Obviously, this is a long and dangerous journey.
"Machine Town, that's the terminal."
"I can tell you for sure, I don't believe anything written on paper."
"Looking out the window is like looking at the starry sky on a ship, guessing why everything is moving, and the ship is Static"
-the train driver said to him.
William Blake arrived at Machine Town. He walked across the street. The white sunlight made his face look even more bloodless-the street was muddy and dirty, people were ragged, and on both sides of the road were coffin shops and scattered bovine skeletons. The babies in the cradle didn't cry, but the prostitutes and their clients had oral sex on the side of the street—the Dickinson Metal Factory was at the end of the street, and William Blake was going to be an accountant there.
But he was kicked out. He was late for a month. Both his behavior and his attire were ridiculed by people. He was also pointed to the head with a gun by the owner of the Dickinson Metal Factory. ——It seems that people here like to use guns. Violence makes the problem simple and straightforward.——He came to the tavern in town in frustration. Did the story begin? He met a flower girl, a one-night stand, and the girl’s boyfriend broke in, the bullet passed through the girl’s chest and was embedded in William Black’s chest. He killed the man again, rode his horse, and hurried away.
When he woke up, Nobody, an Indian man, was trying to help him dig out the bullet next to the heart, but it was too deep-it was destined that William Blake would not live long. Knowing his name, Nobody stubbornly believed that he was not only the British poet William Blake, but also a dead man, and no longer called him a "stupid white man." Rather excitedly chanting William Blake’s poem:
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Night & every Morn
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.
"Every night, every morning, some people are destined to be miserable.
Every night, every morning, some people are destined to be happy.
Some people are destined to be happy, and some are destined to endure the endless night."
But the bigger problem lies in William. The man Blake killed was the son of boss Dickinson. The horse he rode was still Dickinson’s favorite horse. Boss Dickinson not only hired three killers to kill him-he killed 14 people at a young age and one chattered endlessly. , A parent who ate themselves! ——Also issued notices to hunt him down. Thus, a chase and escape began.
Nobody, who was full of poems and words, and was expelled by his own race, became the leader of William Blake who was on his way to death. In fact, William Black didn't know where to go, and Nobody was also a wanderer.
When William Blake said that he was hungry, Nobody said, "Exploring dreams is a great blessing, William Blake. To do this, you must experience a time without water and no food."
When William Blake can’t find glasses, he finds Nobody was putting it on the bridge of his nose and said, "You might see it better without it."
…………
In this black-and-white movie, people are insecure and never get close to each other. They usually look suspicious. Most people own guns, so they naturally have a certain right to be safe. Distrust can be easily eliminated. They have no respect for anything. People attack each other dramatically, and then die dramatically. Even the killers are indulging in cannibalism. William Blake with a bullet in his chest, this timid accountant, was destined to die from the beginning, but he still grew up as an uncompromising killer, learned to fight back, dig out another side of himself in the chase and kill, learn Save the last moment of your life.
We, like William Blake, have only one end, but usually we don’t face it or think about it, as if it never existed and will never come. In this 1995 film by Jamusch, William Blake becomes a metaphor. The whole film is full of poetic death and desolate atmosphere. William Blake walks toward death while thinking about the true meaning of life—— Some people are destined to be miserable... some are destined to be happy... some are destined to endure the endless night-is that true?
The shots in the movie often change into the state of a half-dead William Black, shaking slightly and helplessly pointing to the surrounding scenery and the pale sky. At the end of the movie, Nobody took William Blake to the Indian camp. The last killer followed. On both sides of the river, even the deer looking for food looked decadent and lifeless. Nobody put William Blake in the boat at the last moment of his life and pushed him into the river, and said to him: "People in this world will never think of you anymore." The accountant William Blake and the poet William Blake finally met, and he left the river bank. From afar, in the final killing, people rushed to die.
Neil Young's music always appears just right, and Johnny Depp's performance is very natural and appropriate. Of course, this is definitely not a happy movie. It always smells of death, corruption and dampness. But this is a film that is thought-provoking and worth watching.
If someone says that movies are first and foremost pleasing to the public, then that person must not understand movies.
The verse quoted at the beginning of the film "It's better not to walk with the dead" comes from the French poet Henri Mischau (1899-1984), a solitary surrealist and a painter. He once wrote: Isn’t it natural that the fish caught on the hook miss the water so much, so much?
British poet William Blake (1757-1827), he was also a watercolor painter and printmaker. He also once wrote:
One flower, one world,
one sand and one heaven,
holding infinity in the palm, and
suddenly becoming eternal.
—— "Auguries of Innocence" (Auguries of Innocence), 1863
2004-7-4 Beijing Chaonanju
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