Create magic in decay
——The movie "Trainspotting"
Some people say that "Trainspotting" is a kind of youth culture that can only be perceived in movies. It is like a psychedelic train of youth driven by rock music, dupin, and sex. A group of young people are wantonly sinking and degenerating in this "spiritual utopia", trying to create magic in decay.
"Corruption is a form, referring to a form that is on the verge of death, and "turning decay into magic" means "turning" the ephemeral, fleeting, tangible, material, and finite things into intangibles , lasting, spiritual things." - This sentence is too suitable to describe Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting", and even through the screen shaking, you can feel his image like being Infused with hallucinogenic drugs, it exudes a decadent and decadent atmosphere, and then falls into ecstasy, subverting and destroying everything traditional. Those young people who have been abandoned by society can only feel that their existence does not need any meaning in the carnival of drugs and sex. Instead of passively choosing life, it is better to give up the right to choose. "The reason? There is no reason. As long as there is heroin, what reason is there?"
The film is filled with a lot of drug use scenes, all kinds of swear words in an English accent, crime, violence, and laziness are also staged layer by layer. Drug use - whether it is smoking, scalding, sniffing, or oral administration, injection, the most exaggerated is the capsule-type drugs stuffed into the rectum, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of drugs. The carnival of drugs and sex has even been endowed with a sense of the times, a continuation of the postmodernism in which the turmoil in the West in the 1960s and the proliferation of hippies, counterculture and sexual liberation thoughts. In such a context, drug use seems to have become a very beautiful thing, because it means rebelling against authority, breaking order, and breaking free from bondage. This behavior at the cost of freedom is full of the beauty of freedom.
If the film is a high dose of psychedelics, then its soundtrack is the needle that slowly feeds the dose into your bloodstream. Only the fusion of video and music can create such a wonderful feeling of "Feeling so high, high in deep". The opening song "Lust For Life", the drumming music with a strong sense of movement and the various "choose" of Mike's rushing run, like a cynical desperado, facing the ridicule full of desire for life. When Mike got into the toilet of "Scotland's worst toilet", he scolded that the realistic rock music was silent, replaced by blurred and dreamy light music, and "turned the dirtiest toilet in Scotland alive into Walden Pond". The other end of the toilet leads to the azure underwater world. After hallucination, passing through the dirty toilet is a return to real life, a migration towards the mother and heaven. The film is like a carnival of British rock and sex and drugs. It is the music that is simple to the extreme, tragic but warm, psychedelic and pure. Only then can we glimpse the world beyond those images.
A philosophy professor of Wuhan University once said simply and rudely: Classicism is concerned with: what is true? Modernism is concerned with: what works? Postmodernism is concerned with: what is coolest? This British postmodern psychedelic train interprets the word "cool" very well.
The camera position is constantly changing. It follows the characters, constantly changing the perspective, or simulating the viewpoint of objects, and even falling down with the characters. With the cooperation of fast editing, it has a unique flavor. Parody has also become a manifestation of the director's style. In the scene of Shiba's interview, it revealed the solemnity of Kubrick's trial in "A Clockwork Orange". At the center point, the colors are bright and collide, giving people a sense of discomfort. This kind of tribute fragment does not continue its core, but the context of Jiajie to post-modernism, through formal imitation and deconstruction, it forms the inner fun of joking and ridicule.
"Viewpoint Mimicry" - makes the hallucinations of this drug addiction even more fascinating. After the drug-addicted Mike injected subcutaneously, there was a pilot shot inside the syringe. The blood penetrated into the yellow liquid, and was quickly squeezed into the body by the syringe. Mike fell into a psychedelic void in an instant. Here, the sinking body is used to simulate the post-psychedelic perspective, looking at the miniature visual space like a frog in a well. The edge of the world wrapped in the red carpet is confusing (Mike): What kind of world is this. I even doubt that the director had a drug experience to come up with such an idea. The other part is replaced by Mike from the point of view of being forced to detox. A series of fantasies follow like a nightmare, the dead child is approaching little by little, the random characters get into the bed, and the accelerated time is as sluggish as a frozen Mike. The effects of addiction and detoxification are the same, the same madness, confusion, hysteria, and the end of depravity, followed by destruction.
Danny Boyle creates a bizarre world in decaying images, but the entrance is like the toilet that went into film history, and we need to find that magic in a dirty reality full of shit and urine mixture.
——(2017, 12, 1)
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