last time I watched "The Blair Witch Project", I was slightly shocked. This week, the teacher let us watch the classic "Heart" in Cult Film, also known as "The Wicker Man". If everyone was silent last time because of terror, this time it was because of watching Ekland's naked dance to lure the virgin policeman next door. This is another confrontational relationship between Abject and Fetish.
Most people will find this film disturbing, because there are countless sex worship and nudity scenes in the film. The British generally don't take the route like Pasolini and Ballas, but with the melodious Scottish folk songs, they feel simple and poetic. Especially the group sex in the cemetery at night, hazy and dreamy. If it is given to an Italian director of the same period to shoot, it must be as wild and animalistic as "Sodom" or "Caligula".
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British have always liked to study such things as gods and gods. JG Frazer's "The Golden Bough" (The Golden Bough) is a book that studies witchcraft and ancient religions. I haven't read it yet. I once saw the MM of the Department of Sociology of his alma mater holding it in his hand, just like a book of Ci Hai. When I saw it so thick, I became interested. The irony is that the stronger the Christian power, the greater the power of paganism. The demonology in "The Ninth Gate" and the cult in this film are all representatives of anti-Christian. The problem is that religion came into being much later than witchcraft and cult. Why not say that Christianity is anti-witchcraft and anti-cult?
This goes back to the discussion about invaders and non-civil society in the last class. JMCoetzee's famous work "Waiting for the Barbarians" is actually about this question: The different definitions of barbarism and civilization in different societies are often contradictory. In this film, the concepts of paganism and orthodoxy are also diametrically opposed to believers of different religions. We often say that we are open-minded, but what is open-minded? Just like Lord questioning the police, do you understand the true definition of sarcrifice? For open-minded people, how to understand human sacrifice?
The "oppositional gaze" when watching a movie is what we call empathy in our lives. It is actually very difficult, because what we call understanding is the understanding of the bystander, and we use our existing logic to analyze motivation and behavior. However, Should the culture of cult, cult, or other non-mainstream society really be explained by logic?
The analysis can't move. .
In a nutshell, I sincerely hope that Hollywood will not do such a "dongshi emulation" thing anymore. Is there any point in buying other people's scripts? Spend two million to buy Wenders's "Under the Sky in Berlin", which is just like a little love movie. Then I bought the copyright of "Hearts". The American version of "Hearts" has not been read, so I won't comment on it, and I don't want to watch it if I listen to the storyline. Also, please stop picking up these remakes that were drowned by saliva. My memory of you in "Face/Off" is all blurred.
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