"Frida" Watching Movies
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The difference between people and people is not that you can learn more if you read too much, so it is useless for you to envy others, perhaps for the sake of others, Your mediocre aptitude still complains about others. If you can't reach it, you can't reach it. So because of love, hatred. Envy mostly comes from this way.
When I wrote the above sentence, I just wiped away my tears, gritted my teeth and loved and hated a Mexican female painter who had long since passed away. Well, if you love art a little, read a little book, watch a little movie, you should know who I am talking about.
I think I'm still right.
From the time when the last piece of personal film review was submitted, as if entering a dormant period, I began to chaotically and deliberately just couldn't write. I am trying to rebirth, like molting a butterfly, so that I no longer stay on the surface.
I don't know how long this process has been brewing, and there is a faint thunder from a distance: Maybe I make you mediocre. --mediocre? ! What a terrible word. So who can tell me, who is a genius and who is a mediocre in this world?
I don’t know what is the difference between hibernation and horror, is it because one is too cold and the other is too hot? I have also been trying to pull out my soul to talk about whether I really fell. Maybe I should ask the goddess of truth, can love really turn a normal woman into a dull woman? Or, can love turn a dull woman into a keen woman? Is it possible to blame one love and one hate so clearly?
I threw myself into sleep, the seemingly endless darkness. Among them, I struggled hard to open my eyes and got up, but everything was a dream. I was still lying down, like a freeze frame in a certain movie. I smiled and watched myself lying on the bed like a corpse, and then shouted for Burn yourself.
"Burn it!"
That's right, I almost lost my heart and died crazy because I saw Frida on the screen.
The source of crying is mixed with too many personal factors, such as seeing each other late, sympathy and pity, appreciation and admiration, "hate has no boundaries but love has no boundaries", there is self-compassion, and there is "thinking hard but nowhere to find." His painful memories, and also about marriage... Before Lin Huiyin said: "It's love/is a kiss/is hope", and then: "It's a sin/is a pain/is a burden".
These overlapping descriptions become emotionless because they are just a description. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, just a result; it's like Frida's splicing life after a car accident, but it has created a decisive love-hate journey for a generation of artists, and only he can experience the taste.
However, there is a truth goddess who told me when I was in a state of chaos: All moving is due to the self.
The love, hatred, hatred, and stormy waves on the screen are all images of external sentient beings, even if they are whimsical, they are just other people's exhibitions. Only when it touches a certain point in your nerve endings about the self in the past will you laugh and cry madly.
We are not so anxious to want to be who and who, what to do, and how to achieve. We are loyal to ourselves, we are always alone, and we can never be redeemed.
——This is what I read in Frida’s unspoken eyes.
So I cried.
This reminds me of one day in November 2004. I just bought Frida’s picture book and biography at the art gallery, and then I lay in the hospital the next day. After half a month, it became a fragmentation about the unknowable future. People.
This half-month-long white life, with the white background of the ward, struggling to lean on the bedside, reading page by page of the extraordinary life of this disabled woman like a puzzle. It's as long as a lifetime.
She said that it hurts every day. She said that one day when the pain is gone, she will definitely feel uncomfortable. But it’s strange. When I look at the text and look at the pictures, the one who should shed tears the most, at that time, Bijing just couldn’t get up to go to the bathroom by himself in the middle of the night and called a caregiver several times. Half a tear. But now, after looking for nearly a year and finally getting his wish to see the movie, he is always in tears because of the few paintings of Frida's big freeze-frame scenes in response to the scene.
Later, I asked the Goddess of Truth whether memories can always be saddened. The Goddess of Truth said that it was just self-deception.
In fact, there has never been a real past, only a fleeting present.
The charm of the movie is here too.
It started when the 46-year-old Frida wore the iconic red Mexican costume and was carried on a bed to participate in the first exhibition in her life and the only painting exhibition she participated in, using flashbacks from being deliberately drawn with a letter eyebrow. Salma Hayek’s forbearing face switched to the face of 18-year-old Frida with short hair Salma Hayek. The former is suffering and strong, the latter is full of wildness and joy; the former is the culmination of glory but it is too late, the latter is the starting point of life's suffering, but it is also the beginning of artistic life. It cannot be said that this car accident at the age of 18 made Frida. It can only be said that fate entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, like a painful and long pregnancy reaction. The last pain did not give birth to a child, but gave birth to a legend.
The 18-year-old Frida is still a complete Frida, immersed in the passion of first love, and hardly think about the future. Even with the leading figure in the painting circle at that time, she was also Diego Rivera who was the light of life. The first positive contact also ended through a mischievous ending. It's just that what is destined is destined. Isn't God's arrangement big enough? The Mexican ate too much chili. In a car accident, for no reason, the bus hit the wall and was cut off. Frida was nailed to the bottom of the car by an armrest just like the crucifixion of Jesus. And this thorn-like handrail pierced her entire vagina and pierced her chastity. It also caused her infertility.
Metaphorically or ironically, the broken spine was accompanied by such and other fractures. When she woke up from the operating table, Freeh reached a puzzle and became a Buddha tied with plaster.
The Chinese say that the Buddha used his own suffering to atone for the sins of the world, saying, "I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell." Suffering only means rebirth, which leads to endless rebirth. When you arrive in the West, God closes this door and opens the window for you. Like regenerated grass, Frida found another piece of sky painted on the plaster. It's just that, no matter whether it was painting a certain part of the body at the beginning, to the family later, she always painted the world that unfolded with the center of self.
After she stood up like this, she went to Digo with her subtle world of herself. Just like the speech at Frida's first painting exhibition, Diego, who was also old, said that Frida asked her to go down to look at the paintings, so he went down and watched her all his life from then on.
Regarding this rumored bisexual, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, smoking, and rude woman, no one can resist her charm. The many comments about her afterwards are not admiration, or obvious accusations with jealousy but no sarcasm. Moved to the screen, there is less confusion, and the description of love with Diego is aggravated. Even in the hard work and ascent of his own artistic achievements, he has rarely portrayed it, as if it was nothing more than the mental journey of an ordinary woman with rich experience. Probably this is exactly what makes this film different from other artists' films, it is not so high above, but almost in a humble way to tell, in order to rest in peace.
Frida and Diego's love mainly focuses on three paragraphs. The art of expression in each section is heartbreaking.
The first paragraph: One is willing to fight another,
Digo and Frida are also a controversial figure. He was a muralist of the generation of Mexico, talented, and a member of the Mexican Communist Party at the time, but he was extravagant and self-righteous, and he was heavy and obese, just like a work by Rabelais. But it is such an elephant man, as if it has magical powers, as Frida said, "As long as a woman who is not too scary or fat, can be captured by him and have a relationship with him." The answer from the mouth of Diego’s second wife in the movie is that Diego’s rich personality charm lies in his ability to "praise a woman’s flaws as a work of art" and his sincerity from the heart, which just happens to be The greatest weakness of all women. Then Frida was also in catastrophe after letting Diego down the stairs to watch the painting began. It’s just that this time for Diego’s affair is different from the past. He met a woman who was shocked and admired from the beginning, and the blood of this woman whose contrast was as small as a dove was also maddening that Diego couldn’t match. . The contradictions intertwined with wildness and every minute of Frida's pain are like the vast desert outside Mexico, full of irresistible temptation.
The climax of this period is when Diego proposes to Frida to marry him. Digo said that we should get married, but he can't be single-minded except for loyalty. Digo said that having sex with other women is like a physical need, no different from brushing your teeth.
This is different from "Love in Prague", which is adapted from "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", although Thomas, played by Daniel Day Lewis, has similar behaviors and said similar things: Sleeping with other women is like eating and sleeping. It has no special meaning. But they are still different in their essential starting points. In comparison, Diego is more primitive, his own character is extravagant and indulgence, with the passion in the blood of Mexicans, like a Latin dance music; and Thomas with The great sense of mission in the Czech Republic and even Europe, the blood flowing in the bones of thinking about life too much, which makes it even more sluggish, this kind of derailment is more like sending depression, just like a European symphony with rich meaning.
Frida still married Digo willingly and happily.
Perhaps it was a wish to fight and a willingness to endure, perhaps it was this profound combination that collided the artistic achievements of the two people, and perhaps it collided with the chaos of Frida's life.
The second paragraph: The farthest distance
in the world Since Tagore wrote "The Farthest Distance in the World", Qi Yu's wonderful words were later sung by Qi Yu, "Fish and Flying Bird", and Zhang Xiaoxian wrote "The farthest distance in the world is not the end of the world." , It’s not life and death, but I’m by your side, but you don’t know I love you”, also turned into a finishing touch by "The Great Sage of Love": “The farthest distance in the world is not when I stand in front of you, and you don’t know I love you, but I obviously love each other, but I can’t be together.” In the world of Frida and Diego’s love, he obviously returned to Tagore’s original work: “The farthest distance in the world is not to love each other, but you can’t Together, but knowing that true love is invincible, but pretending not to care at all, and didn't take you to heart."
After many twists and turns, Frida saw the naked scene where his sister and Diego got together. , Resolutely locked any entrance of the red and blue small buildings connected by the two sky bridges. She cut her own hair in the room like she was confined, trying to cut anything like Diego's love. Later, this scene was turned into a sad painting. Frida in a suit was like a man, setting off the broken hair all over the floor.
The wound opened at this time.
In fact, the hurt is always there, as Diego himself later wrote in his autobiography, "If I love a woman, the more I love her, the more I want to hurt her. Frida is the only one of this kind of bad behavior, the most obvious The victim.” Therefore, when Frida was pregnant while in the United States but eventually lost her child, everything began to resemble a serious injury, which became an unbearable burden in her life.
In fact, since Frida became Diego’s third wife, she understood that Diego does not belong to anyone, but as such a woman, how could she be satisfied with this? In addition to the physical pain, she was in constant suffering. The unexpected pregnancy became her spiritual hope that suddenly appeared. At that time, she was full of longing and sustenance like any woman who longed to be a mother. When everything fell apart, she was like a plant that gradually lost its nutrients, beginning to fall apart, decay and shrink. At this time, my heart was also broken.
The so-called love is endless love and endless hate, and when Diego stood outside the glass door of Frida’s pink little house, knocking on the glass and saying that I’m a beast, Frida calmly faced behind. It was a terrifying soul. She told Digo word by word, "I have had two major accidents in my life, one was a car accident and the other was you."
Since then, Frida moved out of the two dependent houses, with her monkey. Or maybe she doesn't want to be an accessory to her husband anymore, or whether she is forced or pretending to be truly independent anyway, or whether she is trying to stay away from the pain, between her and Diego This is the cold war period of "knowing that true love is invincible, but pretending to be indifferent and not taking you in my heart". In the meantime, her chaotic life of chaos and painful catharsis also reached its peak.
The third paragraph: Redemption.
When Diego returned, Frida's physical condition had gone from bad to worse under the uncontrolled life of tobacco, alcohol and indulgence. Her feet also began to die, and when there was no other way, she was even sawed. The toe of a foot was dropped. Even Frida was about to start putting on the plaster again. Diego is getting old, and in the constant changes of the revolutionary wave, he has gradually lost his passion. Diego walked up to Frida and said I'm coming to propose to you.
This is a touching plot. At that time, Frida's condition had affected the liver. She lost half of her foot and was retired with a plaster. She needed Du Lengding to relieve the pain at all times. So she looked at Diego's eyes and said with the bitterness of a deer in her "wounded deer". , I don’t need to be redeemed. But Diego laughed. He looked at Frida tenderly, very firm, and said, "I need."
Although the word redemption was too religious and too large to be true, Frida was put on plaster again and became a Buddha again. This time, whether she was angry or crying, Digo was patiently accompanied by her. So in the end, the two people still depend on each other.
Perhaps this is the highest state of spiritual love. The pleasure of the body will eventually be saturated, only with a steady stream of spiritual support, the world will never give up.
Salma Hayek's Mexican dress is quite similar to Frida himself. As for whether it looks like this, it can be seen that this hot Mexican beauty who is used to the role of the vase has done enough homework this time. It is a tribute to Frida, and I want to bring myself to the strong camp through the glory of this national heroine. Even the first-line Hollywood stars like Antonio Banderas are willing to run the game, not to mention that Edward Norton is only a small supporting role. Frida’s charm has never been affected by time and national boundaries. Everyone is paying tribute to her.
The film in 2002, even if it looks today, it will not feel that time has passed and its charm has been lost. Although people continue to say how ambitious this biographical film is, I think that the director of this film, Julie Taymore, was also crazy to death because of this disabled woman like a puzzle.
The film technique is a combination of surrealism and montage, painting and reality, and it is amazingly perfect.
The post-modern skull assembly during the operation, the paper-cutting collage art during the visit to the United States, the "King Kong Digo" in the U.S. made the Empire State Building and the decline of the "King Kong Digo" from the Empire State Building after the failure of Digo's mural painting in the United States. All of his surrealism reflects the director's love for Frida and his passion and inspiration. As for the combination of painting and reality, it is more beautiful and poetic: a tragic slow-motion car accident, a window that walks down from the picture to a wedding, and snow in New York, with Frida's long skirt floating on the window. . Cut your hair when your heart is broken, and the person in the mirror draws the person in the picture. She grew wings in the flames of her death, and finally lost her broken body, hunting and taking off...
But unfortunately, it seems that this artistic technique cannot be appreciated by European filmmakers, so in major European film festivals, this The movie basically came home empty-handed. It’s just that the charm of art can’t be proved by just a few awards. Whether it’s because of the charm of this legendary woman or the splendor of the movie, generation after generation of moviegoers are like the waves behind the Yangtze River, and no one can hide this woman from this movie. Love.
Frida is like a carrier for the soul of a suffering hero. Through his disturbing painting and expression of his own world, he shows the outside world a strange and most authentic inner world of people. Her paintings are fascinated with magical light. Like her, she always refuses fashion clothes and always wears Mexican costumes all her life. She is like a Mexican colored porcelain, with beautiful and lively decorations and colorful and dazzling colors, but it is destined to be shattered, but it is nectar that flows out when it is broken.
Shanghai
, January 18, 2006
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