Books and movies present different images. Books implant characters into your imagination, while movies place characters into actors’ roles, and the emotions they inspire are also different. This medium enters the outermost level of the tragedy of Oedipus Rex, which is only the entrance to my perception of the aesthetic text.
And what allows me to really feel the tragedy of Oedipus the King is its content, and this is the so-called rhetorical layer of the aesthetic text. Through its sound effects, tone, film rhythm, and the vivid performance of the actors, I am connected with Oedipus. The tragic fate of King Puss was face to face. Director Pasolini did not copy the original work to the big screen. He added the background of the industrial revolution era. From the first feature of the film, he laid the foundation for its tragedy. The keynote is that the mother who picked up the child and breast-feeding should be full of happiness, but the mother here is full of resentment and even resentment, and the background music turned out to be a revolutionary march, the theme of fighting against fate. It is obvious, and when the plot enters the barren sand and gravel land of ancient Greece, the king Oedipus is discarded into the wilderness, and the background music changes to a long, mournful murmur, or a high-pitched but harsh flute. The yellow city-state, the city residents dressed in white or black, is always creating a kind of helpless resentment. Regarding fate, we can only spread our hands and admit that "this is fate"? What impresses me the most is that King Oedipus couldn't accept his fate from the Temple of Apollo. He chose to escape, and was lost at the crossroads on the edge of the boundary stone of Tibei. The dazzling sunlight made him lose his way. , he didn't know where he came from and where he was going. He covered his eyes again and again, struggling between accepting fate or not. Death seemed to be imminent, and at this time, he encountered a humiliating Man, he first fled, and then he went mad and killed those who insulted him. And when the actor recites the lines of Oedipus the King in a hysterical tone, it feels like a tight string that doesn't know when it will be snapped, and everything stops abruptly, it is a dense squeeze The pressure is suffocating, like a knife across your heart, you will die if you take a breath. The tragic atmosphere is everywhere, and even if it is music with joyful plot jumps, the picture is still dark and lifeless.
All these images make the tragedy of murdering a father and marrying a mother even more shocking, and it also makes the viewer enter the imagery layer faster. I can't use an accurate word to describe the feeling of watching this film, except that it is complicated. I can't accept that the tragedy of fate begins with the compassion of a kind person, and I can't bear that it became a matter of course by accidentally killing my father in a fight, and I can't bear that it became a fact because of the heroic justice and wisdom of King Oedipus , why did he accidentally kill his father, why did he return to Tibei, why did the queen be his mother, and the word "unfortunately" is not the force majeure of fate? King Oedipus wanted to escape by leaving, but he still walked into the trap of fate step by step. In the film, King Oedipus held his knife in one hand and covered his crying eyes with the other, shouting and running all the way, he will The knife stretched out to the irresistible fate, but he was turned against the first army by fate. In the end, after learning the truth, he returned to the palace, walked into his room, and saw his mother, or his beloved. The woman hanged to death, he tore off her clothes, and felt that the body was as dazzling as the dazzling sun on the day of the murder. He just accepted, the phrase "this is your destiny" heard in the temple of Apollo, this is his destiny.
Different times have different fates and tragedies. Oedipus cannot escape the shackles of theology, and the film combines the industrial revolution era, and finally brought the blind Oedipus to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Smoking factories, cold pipes, the age of capitalism, what is the father who kills what the mother rapes? And what about us? What kind of tragic fate will our age encounter?
After watching the movie, it is heavy, the sharp blade in my chest cannot be removed for a long time, and I have been in a state of irritability, depression and anxiety. I seem to be able to understand the theme and meaning of the movie, but I cannot accurately convey it. It was like walking into a foggy forest. Killing one's father and marrying one's mother is an ethical tragedy, a predicted tragedy, and a tragedy of the times. Each of us will be more or less shrouded in the fate of the current era. Indifference, suspicion and distrust, crisis of belief, etc. Sometimes I believe that the word "destined" is magical, but I don't believe that anyone is destined to be a tragedy, no one can predict, you will There are many things that can be changed by people's subjective initiative in meeting who and what they do, or because I am still young, maybe I should try to add a little more comedy atmosphere to my life where tragedy may occur. Regardless of whether you have to sigh "this is fate" at the end!
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