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During the two years of my violent youth, I have been filled with some equally elusive belief Empty life.
At that time, I was extremely obsessed with Haizi and death. To me, the word "death" is obscure, hazy, beautiful, mysterious, such as fireworks across the shore, cuneiform writing, ancient incantations, and a light spit from the lips seems to rub out a coquettish bright flame. After thinking about it later, at that time, I was strong and strong because of my determination. I never feared anything, and I didn’t know how to compromise. The most terrifying thing is that I never felt a trace of shame in my heart, but instead blamed others for not understanding me. Because, in my heart, my beliefs and my thoughts are above everything else, and even my "person" can seem unimportant.
This idea, in fact, still exists in me today. Even as time fades away, those imprints remain clear and indelible on me.
Maybe everyone will have a different opinion, and for me, the proposition of this movie that appeals to me is also: what are we believing?
We are taught from childhood that our own personal interests can be sacrificed for the good of the country. We must make selfless dedication, work hard for the prosperity of the motherland, be loyal to the party, etc. There are many things in the world that cannot be asked why, but we just know that we must do it. Those in power tell us to be patriotic. In the final analysis, they want us to love the dynasty and the political party. However, once the regime is overthrown and a new political party appears, it will completely deny everything before, telling us that it was ignorance, how decadent, opaque and dark the dynasty was. And now we are the real peace and prosperity, the country is peaceful and the people are safe. After it has been like this, all generations look like one generation (this sentence comes from Liu Yu's prose collection).
Let's talk about movies.
A. Weisman's Personality Analysis
Weisman was a very good agent at the beginning, and the interrogator had a set of skills. After watching a performance, he concluded that the playwright Dreyman was "dishonest". He began to monitor, but was slowly infected by the life of the playwright and secretly helped him. From the beginning to the end, Weisman's image is extremely cold, he is unsmiling, his expression is serious, his eyes are sharp, and any clues can't escape his eyes. But such a "stone" was moved by a simple poem:
every day in September in the early autumn is melancholy.
Those straight small trees are facing the sky
like love, growing vigorously, with
a clear blue
sky With a cloud as white as cotton
and as long as you have faith in your heart,
it will never leave you.
I have no doubt that Weisman is an ideal person, a person who knows how to appreciate beauty. A truly strong person will understand the preciousness of fragility. The touching poems are often simple and straightforward, and the imagery is usually very simple, but such poems, which have been dyed by the inspiration of genius, and then arranged and combined with simple rhetoric, will be excited in the hearts that yearn for the light.
Weisman is also alone. There is a scene where he recruits prostitutes. It seems that this scene is irrelevant, but it is actually a hint from the director: he is alone and lacks relationships. Therefore, he can spend a lot of time to complete the espionage task of monitoring and eavesdropping on other people's lives. For him, it may not only be a kind of task, but also a kind of quest. In "Red", there is also a strange old man who likes to listen to the secrets of his neighbors. There is some overlap between these two images, but in the final analysis, they are too alienated from the crowd, but they are eager to communicate with people in their hearts, and they are too lonely.
I've always liked the stereotyped "old man" image that looks serious and even impersonal, because often they are the purest, kindest, and most humane people. I have seen this quote before: "Many people don't like arrogant people and feel that they are not easy to get along with. But I prefer to choose arrogant people as friends. Because people are arrogant, it is often because they have faith and integrity. , and people without faith, they can do anything. For proud people, you can see his bottom line, and you know what he disdains to do in many things. For those who are not proud, you don’t know where his lower limit is, and he has no lower limit. .” Weissman used to be a person who would do whatever he could to collect intelligence without a lower limit, but to a certain extent, he has always adhered to his bottom line, did his own thing well, and didn’t care about the rest. Conscientious and at the same time life is very mechanical, maybe he has never felt the true feelings between people, maybe the warmth in his concept is the few dozen minutes spent with prostitutes for a fee and for a short time. So when he heard Dleiman play the piano for his dead friend, he burst into tears. I believe that at this moment, the normal humanity that he had been suppressing in his heart began to gradually recover.
B. Dryman & Krista
I find this movie very human in large part because of these two people, especially the latter. If the change of attitude of the protagonist Weisman seems a bit far-fetched, then these two people can be said to be articulate and delicate. Dryman is a politically conscientious man, but at the same time he inevitably has some cowardice. At the beginning of the film, he is always in denial, emphasizing: "I don't know anything." Although he protested after his friend Yaska was blacklisted, it was still in the moderate category, and he shared with his friend Howard. Compared to Se, he is as docile as a sheep. And even such a person will still be suspected and will be revealed later by writing secret articles. Should it be said that the authorities are predictable? He really wasn't honest. In fact, I think this is what he was forced to do. Judging from his words and deeds at the beginning, although he was a little dissatisfied, he did not want to resist. It was the behavior of the entire National Security Bureau (he just saw the behavior of his friends) , which was not found against him at the time) to force his conscience to do something, and finally 'betray' out of control.
Krista should be said to be the character I sympathize with the most in the whole film, and also the most capricious person before and after. Krista is a person with pursuit, her belief is her art, for her artistic career , she first committed herself to the superior, and later betrayed her lover. Even so, I still feel sorry for her. There are two scenes where Krista takes a shower. One is when she gets out of the officer's car disheveled and goes into the bathroom. Going to take a bath, both of these two things betrayed Dryman. She curled up and showed a strong sense of insecurity. What I felt was that she was indeed selfish and wanted to protect herself. She has been swaying and betrayed herself. The body of her, will run back frantically because of the persuasion of Weisman, who is disguised as her audience, and decides to stay with Dryman. The end result doesn't really matter. She is so real, so human, and at the same time has a real brilliance. Her belief is art, and she can sacrifice everything for art. Such a person, the ending is also so tragic and tragic, it is destined to be hated.
From this we can see that in fact, they all went through a process of self-redemption. Dryman went from submissive to submissive and resisted. Christa struggled to get rid of contradictions and died. Weisman, who redeemed others and also himself, he Maybe also thanks to Dleiman, who gave him a new kind of note about love that he had never had in his life.
When I talk to some people, I have a deep sense of loss. There are actually similarities among my peers. Children much younger than me feel that our society is dark and corrupt. Many people believe that money can achieve everything, and Full of yearning for abroad. This kind of thinking is extreme and naive, and what makes me even more frightening is that those older than me, they are all college students or from famous universities, of course they are peaceful, and even begin to agree with all kinds of injustice, when those children have all kinds of When they complained, they always had a "come here" tone, with a mysterious and unpredictable smile, and felt that they were extremely childish. In the face of all kinds of ugliness, no one wants to change anything, just hope to get as good a position as possible for himself in this situation. Even if it doesn't work, accept it.
I like a sentence very much: I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. The implementation of democracy and freedom is of course dangerous. The crime rate in the United States has been rising year by year, but I think it is the life of such a calm, stagnant water that sees no waves. It is the real crisis. I'd rather trade my blood for freedom than let myself be a corpse.
I also hope that one day I can say that I believe in people, more than all nihilistic beliefs. In this way, this is not a complicity with the secular world, but a real broad-mindedness. Maybe I can achieve detachment. But now, I am still stumbling in the world, disillusioned with hope, afraid of crowds, unable to truly believe.
What is certain is that in the dusty history, how many times have we been deceived, how many times have we been "monitored", and lived in terror like the two in the film. But one day, the mask of the despot will be torn off, and perhaps what we once believed to be will prove to be absurd. The idea of controlling the people is always going to go bankrupt. The people are uncontrollable and uncontrollable. Just like the Marxist-Leninist saying that the people are the real driving force of historical development, the people will eventually judge those bloody and turbulent years. The merits and demerits of each person, the significance of a shocking historical event.
It won't waste those blood, and it won't forgive those mistakes lightly.
The belief we have, I hope, comes from genuine trust, and we can even believe in God and gods, regardless of any government or organization. In this way, even if there is totalitarianism, they can still be proud and ignore it. Faith is like a firm fulcrum, and it will never make people unrecognizable.
The ending of the film is very shocking, East Germany fell, Weisman finally lived at the bottom of society, but he was still so silent and so proud, when he said "this book is for me", my tears could not stop. Flow, a sonata for a good man. Yes, good people, great people.
Of course I know that no movie can fully guide our life, but through a good movie, you can get a glimpse of what we believe in together, determine the meaning of life, or make us doubt something, no longer Looking at the world so sharply and one-sidedly, maybe there is no end to the long, cold and dark tunnel, and fear almost destroys us, and in the end we will still climb out of the cave full of filth, the mud that smeared on your face and mine will not Again a mark of loneliness, but a shining sign of rebirth. We will still find little hope in those fallen ruins and rebuild the faith that once collapsed.
I hope that all beliefs can find their final destination from its exit. When the years erode the eyebrows and time whiten the temples, we can still feel that there is one thing and one belief, and it is worth believing so deeply.
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