Mang Hongchen, nowhere to find a friend

Ruthe 2022-04-24 06:01:01

People treat me as a monster and I am very happy.
Aida said.

I take this sentence as the key to understanding Jane Campion’s work.
I have only seen two works by this female director, and the other is "Angels at My Table". I love this woman because I heard my own voice in her work.

If you have been ugly, withdrawn, neurotic, and incompatible with everything around you since you were a child,
if you write poetry like a fool, but no one wants to write an article, and you still don’t repent,
if you love those useless things, I It only refers to art, but obsessed with nothing.
If the manuscript you wrote is still discarded like waste paper, if you are suspected of reading pornographic books for a Picasso painting collection,
if you are stubborn with a tear. Can't drop.

Then you understand this film, I mean myself.

Why? Why are you different from others, most people? Why are you always immersed in your own world indifferent to the outside world?
This is the greatest sin.

One of my leaders hates me very much. In fact, I am a nerd in my work. I neither share gossip nor join any small gangs. I have never conflicted with anyone. Why does he hate me so much?
At first I was puzzled. It turned out that my difference offended him. I was immersed in my own world. He regarded him as a kind of contempt for him.

So you will be rejected by everyone. This is punishment.


Ada's dumbness is like Elizabeth in Bergman's mask, which is symbolic. She expressed the inability to communicate in a secular state, a state that can only fit with a spiritual understanding. It was a poetic, deep, unspeakable communication.

Only the illiterate understood his voice, and only this rough man could conquer this thin woman who was as strong as Jane Eyre. Harvey Kate is my favorite actor. I like his maturity and vicissitudes. Only such a man who can understand her loves her.

When Niman’s beautiful melody sounds in the scene of Ada being chased and chopped by her husband, you will be shocked by the director’s typical Anglo-Saxon imbalanced aesthetics. Will feel a kind of tearing, even crazy.

Hitchcock said that an elegant British female teacher in a taxi would suddenly unbutton your pants. This is a typical suspense. Such a weak woman looks so pale, but she has the same passion as a fire, as tough as an oak tree, and hides such a fierce soul under such an ordinary appearance.

Music is the most unspeakable of all art forms. Remember that there is a chapter in John Christopher's book called Burning Thorns. Writing about an affair between a woman named Ana and Christopher started from music. There is no better way to see a person's character in the world than music. You just need to say what music you like and I will know who you are.

Ada's new life was due to the piano entering the sea, and she began to talk because of ---
love.

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The Piano quotes

  • Ada: I have told you the story of your father many many times.

    Flora: Oh, tell me again! Was he a teacher?

    Ada: Yes.

    Flora: How did you speak to him?

    Ada: I didn't need to speak. I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet.

    Flora: Why didn't you get married?

    Ada: He became frightened and stopped listening.

  • [first lines]

    Ada: The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - -but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - -not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband writes that my muteness does not bother him - and hark this! He says, "God loves dumb creatures, so why not I?" 'Twere good he had God's patience, for silence affects everyone in the end. The strange thing is, I don't think myself silent. That is because of my piano. I shall miss it on the journey.