Morton Hunt, the author of "Affair" Morton Hunt Morton
Hunter's words are undoubtedly enlightening for the understanding of "The Wall".
Alan Pike, the director of "The Lost Wall", is obviously deeply influenced by Western Christian culture. In the animation of the film, various images such as the shame leaf in the Garden of Eden and the poisonous snake suddenly appearing in the Lost Wall are used to express the influence on the rise of the 70s and 80s. Of feminist dissatisfaction.
There are two basic female archetypes in the western male cultural tradition: one is Eve and the other is the Virgin. After the female ancestor Eve of mankind was bewitched by the snake, she ate the fruit that God forbidden to eat, and let the male ancestor Adam also eat the fruit of wisdom. This caused mankind to be eventually expelled from the Garden of Eden and bear original sin for generations. In this story, women are the scourge of trouble. She has two basic characteristics: one is that she herself is easily deceived by Satan and easy to embark on the path of evil; the other is that she has an influence on men and can make innocent men go astray.
The animation FLASH in the film is exactly the two basic characteristics of Eve. After PINK fell to the ground in frustration after the phone call, the film inserted an animation: Two lustful flowers attracted each other and slowly approached. It is easy to think of the male and female genitalia, and then it is the demonstration of the whole process of intercourse between men and women. However, the director made a clear exaggeration here. The flower that symbolizes the female genitalia seems to be bewitched by Satan, and suddenly swells and swallows the symbol. Flowers of male genitals. This scene obviously demonizes women, elevating women's erotic status from object to subject. Some people may feel inexplicable about this scene. In fact, throughout the film, the female characters in "The Wall" are full of evil qualities. PINK's mother is almost sickly doting on him, and the teacher and wife force her husband to swallow it hard to swallow. His meals, PINK's wife's infidelity to him, and the snake turning into a woman in the end of the movie are actually Eve's clones, which magnify Eve's various vicious bodies.
For an ordinary man, the two most important women in his life should be her mother and wife. This is especially true for PINK in the film. He lost his father since he was a child, and his mother is his only support. But when we hear: "Mom will make all your nightmares come true, mom will make you feel all her fears, mom will let you hide under her wings... mom will help you pick all your girlfriends, mom I won’t let anyone hurt you, and my mother won’t let anyone dirty you. "Can we still believe that this is just maternal love?" PINK has become an object, a victim and accessory of desire. When the song "Mother" was played in the movie, several paragraphs of PINK's marriage life were inserted, implying that the mother's words were like a curse, and they also imprinted their marital life. And with the progress of the film, we finally saw PINK betrayed by his wife! As stated at the beginning of this article, when the hope of seeking the meaning of life from lust is also destroyed, PINK is also completely destroyed. Just like the naked man in the end of the movie, he was born naked from his mother into this world, and eventually he was naked and swallowed by women, plunged into endless darkness!
Fundamentally speaking, the setting of the female image of Eve expresses men's fear of some destructive factors of human nature itself, and also expresses men's thinking of blaming women for such terrifying destructive power. This kind of fear and thinking of imputation has a long history, and has formed a series of strong, fierce, violent, greedy and lustful female images in the history of Western literature. This type of women is also referred to by some scholars as the "wife" type women in male texts. The emergence of "wife" type women in "The Lost Wall" is not only a continuation of the traditional text, but has its own characteristics of the times. The sexual liberation movement in the 1960s swept the West and led to the rise of feminism. And reached the peak of promoting female subjectivity in the late 70s and early 80s. But it should be noted that "liberation" is not necessarily a good word; it can be the release of the old shackles of sexual repression, or the new shackles of desire and consumption. "Subjectivity" is not necessarily the greater truth; it can be the personality reconstruction of the oppressed individual, or it can be synonymous with soloism. Alan Parker put forward his own opinions at this time, which undoubtedly poured cold water on those self-righteous feminism.
Finally, I would like to quote the futuristic manifesto as the conclusion of the article:
"For the futurists, to despise women means to despise the fascinating women... despise the depraved eroticism, despise the tragic style of prodigal sons, and despise those who are understood to be caught in the net of romantic emotions and lustful desires. That kind of love, because this kind of love will hinder a man’s advancement, will stifle him and entangle him, and prevent him from becoming a man of indomitable power."
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