Periodic rococo
——"The Story of My Wife"·Literature
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The fun of this film, in addition to the beautiful vision, should probably be the Japanese artistic color that permeates the film. Japanese literature and art have a perverted honesty and contradictory exaggeration, naturally presenting the concealed parts of life and unnaturally presenting the straight parts of life, and the mischievous sense of comedy thus constituted is particularly evident in their Sensitivity to death and loneliness. In this atmosphere of death and loneliness, life and friendship are constructed: the more dead, the more vigor and vitality; the more lonely, the more friendship should flourish. In such a contradictory way, there is a joy of dark humor. Only in such a dark humor can we face the sins of history and the evils of human nature with composure.
In "The Story of My Wife", the more silent it is, the more alive it is, which is shown in the fact that Peach and Strawberry cover up the meaninglessness of their lives with their own enthusiasm. Peach finds value with her passion for the Rococo lifestyle, Strawberry gives herself meaning by joining a motorcycle rampage group, and both Rococo and rampage appear to be alive, which is an appearance. Taozi has been an almost indifferent to ruthless person since she was a child. It seems contradictory that a person like her would be obsessed with rococo clothing when she was a girl. However, the attitude represented by rococo style is generally indifferent. Just a happy zeal for self. Peach's values are indifferent hedonism, a kind of individualized pre-romanticism. As a girl, she would say, "It takes more courage to grasp happiness than to endure pain", which is simply a sophistry from an objective point of view. This attitude is clearly Rococo, separating the subjectivity of the ego from the objectivity of the outside, and makes the pleasure of the ego high and the anxiety of the outside inferior.
"Saving ups and downs to accumulate life experience is bad." In this attitude hides a soft and dead personality, and loneliness is its natural result. Taozi is also at ease. She will say, "Man is a solitary animal, a person is born, a person thinks, and a person dies." What a free speech! But peach and strawberry have a friendship unconsciously. They have their own similarities, and it can be said that the reason for their friendship is that they see themselves in each other. They are equally alive to cover up meaninglessness, equally flexible, and have a similar loneliness inside. In other words, their hearts fit together. When Strawberry is faced with a trivial threat, Peaches camaraderie to rescue her, and such an event becomes an opportunity for them to rediscover their meaning. What a gratifying ending. However, this should not be a joke.
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The Rococo way of life (Rococo style) means flashy and shallow hedonism, but it is deeply embedded in the pursuit of human society. What the Rococo has is the subjective model of the ideal society, immersed in the yearning for pleasure, ignoring the external or evil that exists or may exist. Rococo life is the social health state that people yearn for. On the other hand, in the sense that it is an incurable pursuit, it is actually a disease that people try, a disease that is deeply rooted. Rococo may become a reality in certain eras, such as the era when the French Rococo art flourished or the so-called prosperous era in the history of the Celestial Dynasty, but it will not be preserved as a stable and unchanging order of life. "Life is fundamentally imperfect and intolerable, and it is constantly striving to recreate the order of life in new forms" (in "The Mental Condition of the Times"). These refurbished forms are typologically classified as Rococo. In this sense, "constantly trying to recreate" means that Rococo, as an ingrained and desired pattern of life, recurs periodically.
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