-dedicated to the movie "the Doors"
Chen Hongguo,
I would like to thank Oliver Stone, who has kept the band "doors" and its lead singer Jim forever with a powerful image Morrison's soul; I want to thank Jim Morrison even more. He used music that penetrates time and space to open the eternal door for us to get rid of the shackles and lead to freedom.
But all this has paid a heavy price. Between time and space, between day and night, between dream and reality, between love and hate, between good and evil, between life and death, between salvation and injury, between roar and Staggered in silence, staggered in pain and bliss, staggered in obedience and rebellion, staggered in drunkenness and sobriety, staggered in passion and reason, staggered in calling for humanity and destroying conscience, staggered between endless doors and doors . People don't know where to stay, and when they find a harbor where they can dock, they realize that everything is exhausted. This is the price, an extremely heavy price.
This is of course the brilliance created by Morrison and his "doors" band, and it is the brand of blood and tears they have put on the door of the times. In the 1960s, it was an era of madness, an era of both decadence and agitation, a revolutionary legend developed to its peak, and then it began to bid farewell to the era of revolution. In this era, people feel the confusion of their hearts from the social turmoil. People have discovered the deception of politics on themselves and try to reject the door of politics. People look for and walk into the door of art, and use art to express their despair and prove it. The existence of life, to achieve the struggle against the system.
This is catharsis, release, and even more the awakening of self-consciousness. And Morrison and his "doors" band is an exciting chapter in the symphony of this era.
Stone is a master of storytelling. Before officially entering Morrison’s gate, he seemed to want us to make full preparations. He knew that the music was still reverberating, especially when we fell into darkness; he knew that Morrison experienced birth, alive and death after the vicissitudes of life; He asked for us, after entering the gate of heaven, is the world there as beautiful as here?
In 1949, Morrison, who was only 5 years old at the time, saw a car accident. His young eyes witnessed death and despair. A bloody soul flew towards him, which became an eternal wound engraved on him. Years later, he said: "Let me tell you what it is to be heartache, and the despair of losing God. Wandering, wandering in a desperate night, there, far in the sky, there are no stars, and here, we are intoxicated. "
From then on, he began to wander in his heart. He longs for doors, how can there be no doors in this world? But he didn't want to delay his search for a door, just as he said to his girlfriend Pamela for the first time, coming in through the door was a waste of time. Need to have a door, but do not want to stay, life is so anxious.
When Morrison and his college classmates were watching a documentary about Hitler’s victory, some people thought that the film had no political ethics. Jim replied: “You should use art to enrich yourself.” Is it the solution to resist political madness with artistic madness? The answer? Just as Nietzsche quoted in the documentary: "All great things are covered with a terrible veil at the beginning, so that people can remember them and remember them with a human heart." Is the logic of politics and the logic of art both? Is it the same thing? Do things that fight against destruction also come at the cost of destruction?
Morrison is tired of the old things. He doesn't know whether the excitement is what his girlfriend calls "experience, freedom, love, now" or pain. Yes, he said that he has seen death, so he can feel rebirth only when he experiences pain. It was pain, not beauty, that made him reborn.
From then on he began the process of breaking the old things. He uses music and rock as weapons to declare war. He wants to smash the door of the system to burn his soul. Only by burning can we put aside all worries. By the way, this is a poem he once dedicated to Pamela; by the way,
the main song of the doors band is "Ignite My Heart".
The song is the return of the lost, the comfort of the injury. "Let us swim to the moon, let us swim up against the current, rush to the night. The city is asleep. Let us bathe in the river of love, this is our time. Stay by the ocean and gallop in our moonlight." Such a sweet and quiet song is a testimony of return and comfort. However, there are too few such songs. More songs make people more lost and hurt more deeply.
The name of the band is called "doors". But Morrison said that it is not the "door of the soul" as Huxley refers to, but the "door of perception" as described by William Blake. He explained: "When the door representing perception is purified, things will appear. Out of their original appearance." Is there any difference between the door of perception and the door of the soul? Do I have to wait until the door of the soul burns before touching the door of perception?
The door is not only hiding, but also attacking. Morrison repeatedly sings "Break the shackles and reach the other shore": "In your arms I find an island; in your eyes I see a kingdom. Arms lock us; eyes deceive us . Break through the shackles and reach the other shore. Come on, let it happen, week after week, day after day, hour after hour, the door is deep and wide, breaking the shackles, reaching the other shore."
But this door has no end. , There is no extreme. If you use catharsis to express rebellion, then you will eventually be bound by the object of the rebellion. I saw an escalation in the fight. The music changes from gentle to rapid, from low to high, from expressing life to hoarseness. In the end, the impact of music and soundtrack is not exciting enough, what can I do? Relying on alcoholism, drug abuse, chaos, the metaphor of the door, the metaphor of the snake, and the physical movements on the stage, until you strip yourself out and take yourself out, whether you are physically or mentally. The soul hangs naked in this way. However, when all the means of suppressing evil with evil have been exhausted, I still feel blocked and isolated from the world. The darkness is endless.
He is against the system, but the system is omnipresent. He opposed the harm of the system to people and the father of an admiral. In his opinion, his father was one of the chief criminals of the Vietnam War and a direct symbol of the ugly system. But his life is already flowing with the blood of the system, how can he rebel? The machinery of the system is scattered in every corner of society, including the impact of the business and money system on the band’s survival. The social and ethical system he was in crisis finally fought back. He was charged with obscene behavior, public alcoholism, profanity, and nudity in public, and was sentenced to prison. Performances in various places have been cancelled, radio stations no longer broadcast songs, and the media have turned against them.
Morrison was a door in itself, a door that was unconstrained for him. He is interested in chaotic and disorderly things, in love, death, travel, and rebellion, especially in things that don't make sense. He wants to use his physical practice to prove that the door is the power between silence and explosion, the catcher that burns the soul, the passage to the unknown world, the experience of going deep into the world in which he lives, and the true test of the tolerance of reality. The door puts us in it. Morrison shouted a slogan for this, that is, "No Limits, No Laws." He is proud of being a member of the gate.
After vigorous resistance after another, he chose to leave. He crossed the ocean and came to Paris. The noisy world is gone, and the long-awaited death finally comes. Morrison fell asleep quietly in the bathtub in Paris in 1971. Maybe he didn't find what he wanted to fight for, but in the process, he permanently left the footprints of his life. "Reaper made us become angels and gave us wings," he said.
Morrison proved the failure of this method of rebellion with the most powerful personal rebellion method. While striving for a space for personal autonomy, freedom and independence, he constantly used extreme experiences and actions to drown out all the voices of freedom, being hurt, and involuntarily hurting others, without compromise, hurting both sides, just like "opening one". A door, and another door closed." Both personal craziness and institutional craziness were originally based on the same logic, forming a relationship of complicity, a suicidal complicity. However, when these two kinds of madness have been performed to the extreme, so that future generations can finally be enlightened, do we see the experience and lessons, and see the value of this tragic failure? Today, it has been 40 years since the 1960s. It is the brilliant light that erupted from the crazy performances of that era and individuals that gave us the opportunity to see through this door all the sunlight and shadows it presents. We recognize the price that human beings pay for freedom and civilization, so we have reason to expect today's life to be happier than that time.
This is the glorious memory left to us in the 1960s. It is the fire bird of the soul that Morrison and his doors band released for us. We look up at their figures floating towards the sky, knowing what farewell is, what is going out of the past, out of that era-whether it is with them or in our country. We should cherish the hard-won and precious peace, and we should know how to achieve individuality and passion in the process of caring for the system attentively. We still retain the madness and ideals of the mind, but no longer at the cost of mutual destruction, because the system is our lingering ghost, and our constant presence. Therefore, we are not to smash it, but to change our footsteps, change our image, and let the shadow of the system dance with our bodies freely.
It is in this sense that Morrison and his doors band have achieved greatness and eternity.
Let us commemorate everything that was paid for with the price of life. Let us miss that door deeply.
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