What is the meaning of life?
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What is the meaning of life?
I believe this question has troubled many people. The editor has been eager to know for a while, and even bought Hu Shi's masterpiece: "What is the Meaning of Life".
The master said in the book: "The meaning of life is all found and created by each individual: noble, despicable, noble, filthy, useful, useless... all depend on one's own actions ."
Well, Mr. Hu is an activist, but I always feel that this answer does not answer my confusion.
What is the meaning of life?
I got answers to my questions from Mind Game .
This video makes me want to shout "amazing!"
The film tells the story of the cowardly young cartoonist Xi being killed by the gangster. After God forced him to watch the process of his own death, he was unwilling and beat God with amazing perseverance to be resurrected. After being reborn, he relied on the developed sphincter to fight against the murderer, and then escaped with his first love and his sister to enter the whale's abdomen, encountering an old man who had been imprisoned for 30 years, and finally experienced the beauty of life in the unique life of the four... .... the story (yes, the story is so complicated and nonsensical) .
The whole film is full of dark humor, death is everywhere in the film, everyone is dancing beside the gallows of death, and it is this setting that makes you laugh out loud. It all comes down to the talent of the director, after all whether a story is funny or not depends on the way the director tells it.
The key to this approach is the director's use of "postmodern" discourse.
1. Irregular lines and actions
The gang came to look for trouble. During the murder, the gang member Xiao A suddenly raised his gun at another member, Xiao B, and asked him to say "shit and pee dick" ten times, otherwise he would shoot and kill him.
God transforms into various forms, and even becomes a sumo wrestler to tell the protagonist Nishi his identity.
Xi's soul was forced by God for no reason, and watched his own death repeatedly and fancyly.
Gangsters can run as fast as a speeding car!
Character action logic ? Common sense ?
It doesn't work in this video !
2. Unique image performance
The image of the film is very exaggerated, and even many bean friends gave up this masterpiece because of the image, which is a pity. After all, in this film, the image itself is the key to this film becoming a masterpiece.
sudden realism
The collage style of reality + manga breaks the whole manga world on the one hand. The sudden and forced intervention of reality has produced a special alienation effect. On the one hand, we cannot enter the world of comics (because of the inconsistent styles), and on the other hand, because of the comics itself, the short-lived realistic pictures cannot make us back to reality. The audience seeks meaning in the mezzanine.
Exaggerated colors and lines
The picture is a visual representation of the inner feeling of the protagonist. For example, when showing the sex scene between Xi and the first love girl Mi, the film is more like a post-modern painting. The exaggerated colors, lines and metaphors are full of vitality, showing Xi's abundant emotions for Mi during the sex. Emotions and emotions become the main body of the picture, and this may be the most unique sex scene I have ever seen.
Multi-image style collage
It can be exaggerated to say that the images of the film are very fashionable, with the interface style of the pixel world, the post-modern oil painting style, and the style of American hero animation... Various styles make up this film, which is very post-modern. Modern collage style.
3. The jump in time and space
In the film, time is mentioned everywhere, and time is hidden everywhere. The past and the present are mixed together, and the space jumps back and forth. The director deconstructs the meaning of time and space.
Using psychological activities to jump, for example, in the clip of Xi rubbing Mi's feet, through Xi's psychological activities, we jump to the past time and space, see Xi and Mi's love, jump to the future parallel time and space, and see Xi propose to Mi, The two are together.
At the end of the film, Xi jumped out of the belly of the whale, and in front of Xi’s eyes began to flash the life that the characters who appeared in the film may have after making different choices. At this time, time and space are meaningless, just different people. The superposition of life fragments in different time and space.
Time and space are no longer important to people. What really matters is choice. People's subjective initiative is infinitely magnified, and the content of time and space is different because of people's choices.
4. Deconstruction · Selection
The whole film reflects a sense of Sartre deconstruction .
"Existence precedes essence"
In Sartre's view, human beings fall into this world like a seed by chance. There is no essence to speak of, only existence. To establish one's own essence, one must prove it through one's own actions. Man is nothing but the result of his own actions.
"This is just a documentary about your death, and I am the director," said God and the protagonist Xi in the film. Documentaries have objectivity (in a certain sense) , God cannot set people up, and people do not have a priori essence. West is cowardly into the dead end? Or fight against gangsters and struggle to survive? Whether Mi married her fiancé or eloped with Xi... The character reflects the meaning of character and existence in the actions she chooses.
"Freedom of choice"
God is dead, people are free in this world, and people are free to choose their actions. This is because people's choices have neither any innate pattern nor the guidance of God, nor can they rely on the judgment of others. People are the only commanders of their own actions, but they should be responsible for their own actions.
In the film, God has different forms due to West's imagination, so what does the real God look like? Does it exist? Or is God just a creature of the West? God only lives in the consciousness of the protagonist, and the film affirms the role of human beings and indirectly shows the death of God.
"Choices" fill the film, and different choices lead to different outcomes. The protagonist Xi chose to be cowardly, which brought the ending of being shot, and chose to fight back, which brought endless escape; gang member A chose to get off the car and entered the tavern, faced with shooting his companion, chose to get off the car to the train station, and eloped with his girlfriend success......
"The world is absurd"
People came into this world by accident, and faced with the objective outside world that was changing rapidly, without lithium, without order, purely accidental, chaotic, and unreasonable, people felt restricted and hindered everywhere. In this vast world, people can't control their own destiny, people can only feel nausea and vomiting.
Xi asked God why he was born, God answered him, I made you just on a whim; Xi was drinking with a girl he had a crush on in a tavern, and was shot to death by an unknown gangster; the fleeing Xi was swallowed by a whale... ...The film is full of absurdity, and the protagonist struggles to move forward in the absurdity.
The film exudes a Sartre-style postmodern atmosphere, whether it is the collapse of logic and reason in the story, the collage of image styles on the screen, the jumping accumulation of time and space... The world is being deconstructed, God is sentenced to death, and people choose Emphasizes subjective initiative.
People exist because of choices, and the meaning of life is reflected in one choice after another.
Yuasa Masaki
I have to mention the director of this film Masaaki Yuasa at the end . You may not have heard of this name, so you should have heard of "Crayon Shin-chan" and "Cherry Maruko" ...... Yes, you guessed it right, he participated in the production of them...I didn't see the shadow of Xiaoxin and Xiaomaruzi in the movie, did you see it? Private message discussions are welcome.
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