Works: "Perfume", "Lola Run",
"The Matrix I", "The Matrix II" and "The Matrix III"
seem to be gone.
By the way, the Wachowskis are also the screenwriters of V for Vendetta.
So after reading the six stories of "Cloud Atlas", I can still deeply feel the imprint of their three styles.
Let's talk about the Wachowskis first, the core ideas of the "Matrix" series and "V for Vendetta" are: Fight, fight.
Whether it is the people of Neo, Zion or V or Ivy, they are all fighting for freedom, justice, truth and even humanity, they use 1% VS 99%, just like the clone Xingmei in "Cloud Atlas" said, for To declare the truth to the world, she cannot hide, she must stand up, even in death (can't remember the original text, to the effect).
Almost every story in "Cloud Atlas" is said to "absolutely never surrender to violence and crime", lawyers and black slaves, gay composers, publishers of Fei Yue Nursing Homes, female reporters who do not compromise with the powerful, can't have self-consciousness The oppressed clones and the last few survivors of human civilization, in addition to having comet birthmarks, another very important point is that they are all ordinary people, and their wishes could not be more simple: lawyers Looking forward to going home, black slaves hope to earn money with their own hands, composers hope that their works can retain copyright, and their homosexual identity can be accepted by the world, and publishers can’t accept personal freedom even if they pay off their debts. The younger brother is bound. Of course, the female reporter hopes that she can understand the truth that the public should know. Although clones are clones, they should have their own consciousness instead of tools and recycled food. Human civilization has been destroyed, but as long as there is one person If there is human nature, there will be no compromise with the cannibalistic beast. . . . But for various reasons or reasons, they are classified into the 1%, and they are oppressed by 99%. Are vulnerable groups, who do not know the truth, and who have a bad background, must they be oppressed and cannot have a sense of freedom?
Self-awakening is always the first step in resistance. I can't help but think of Neo in "The Matrix". Before his self-awareness awakened, he was just an ordinary person, a programmer, who gradually grew from a cowardly and insecure person to The One. Oracle said, can he become The One? One, all by his own choice. V of "V for Vendetta" is also such a person. He was selected as the subject of an experiment, reborn from the ashes in a premeditated fire, and through his own struggles and meticulous revenge plan, he finally became V, Summoning thousands of living Vs with his death, the revolution finally succeeded. In the eyes of the Wachowskis, being the 1% is not scary, what is scary is that you don't believe that your choices can bring you the results you seek, you are a coward, you are not self-conscious, you are wrong It doesn't matter who is involved, what matters is whether you are willing to take a step forward to fight for your own rights, even if this step requires your own life.
In addition, Buddhist reincarnation, cause and effect, etc. have also been widely used in these films. Each story in "Cloud Atlas" seems to be independent, but in fact, there has always been a subtle connection. This connection can basically be determined to be cause and effect. Including the retribution of good and evil, equality of all living beings, fate and fate, etc. Similarly, "The Matrix" spends a lot of space in narrating, expressing, and deducing the role of cause and effect from oracle, smith, neo and other people, "V for Vendetta" Here, he deeply analyzed and excavated the reasons in his heart around V's identity and purpose. Through the lines and language forms of these films, it can be seen that the director is strengthening the audience's understanding of these concepts in each film. Impressions, from dictation to fragments flashing back to the present, are directly displayed in the six-path reincarnation of a person with hundreds of years of history.
Talk about Tom Tykwer again. Originally, there is another film of his "The Princess and the Knight" in the archive today. If I watch this first and then "Cloud Atlas", maybe this article can have more nutritional insights. About Tekway, I Really know too little.
I have watched "Lola Run" twice, and the first time I was only amazed at the structure of the whole film, so I was a little mentally prepared for the way "Cloud Atlas" edited the six stories in parallel, although this time it became It was changed after a few minutes, but it was still within the acceptable and memorized range. The second time, a certain teacher in the class watched it as he gave 15 minutes and 5 minutes, so he added some ideas, including every time Laura wakes up and races against time, every time she chooses and re-plans, every time she wakes up The butterfly effect of the choice, even twenty minutes that seems to be as long as forty minutes, and the god-like reason behind it - love, because Lola loves her boyfriend so much, so she can use her mind to make herself again (Every red memory is a metaphor for the energy of love), all of this makes me admire the idea of Tikwei, he is accurate to the second to calculate this redemption plan full of love, time is a number, time can be Still, as long as my love comes back.
However, in another "Perfume", the word "love" is not mentioned at all. Greno is a cold-blooded person who doesn't understand love and the warmth of the world. In order to achieve his own goals, he will not hesitate to kill people for incense, but it is interesting that the director is in the opening ten scenes. In a few minutes, he used a very dark humor to describe the tragic and low growth process of this killer. In the last ten minutes, he fascinated the world with the peerless perfume made by this killer. Grenor also shed indescribable tears and ended with his own flesh being eaten as a curtain call. However, how could he with a sensitive sense of smell not respond to the pheromones of desire? It can only be said that Greno's "love" attribute was erased at a very early stage. He calmly killed people and made incense rationally. It was not until the last peerless perfume that he reawakened his desire for desire and love, but it was too late. , the inability to redeem.
In "Cloud Atlas", love also influences people's decision to stand up and resist. The love in the gay story is not only the reason for their resistance, but also an important event in the latter story that infects future generations. The love of cloned Xingmei and Zhang Haizhu is also her The reason for daring to stand up and release resistance is that two pairs of people in the six stories eventually fall in love. The fate of reincarnation and the chemical reaction and butterfly effect after falling in love are also to redeem themselves, redeem the soul, and liberate the soul.
Ps
1. Director Lana Wachowski is a typical example of liberating himself.
2. When I was watching the movie, the woman next to me said that the director was saving too much money, so many stories did not find more actors, relying on such poor makeup skills. Khan, I want to say that if you change too many actors, can you know who's reincarnation. I really appreciate the male-to-female-to-male design that appears in the film Reincarnation. Originally, gender cannot be reincarnated.
3. A few days ago, I suddenly missed "The Matrix", so I watched it again. Every time I watched it, I could get a new feeling. I admired the director's ideological prediction and plot line design. Research is strongly recommended.
4. Xingmei said, "The paradise I imagined is to open a door, and he is waiting for me behind the door." Then he suddenly remembered that Neo in "The Matrix" asked for a choice after seeing Architect, he did not hesitate to use The door rocketed open to save Trinity.
5. The most prominent performance of all actors in each reincarnation is that the double eyelid becomes single eyelid, the single eyelid becomes double eyelid, and the small nose becomes a big nose. When I recognize it, I feel very happy.
6. A colleague who watched the movie before said that "Cloud Atlas" is incomparable, but when I saw the ending of each story, I was almost moved to tears, but it didn't flow. I like gays, The story of clones and flying over a nursing home.
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