Building pure white humanity out of corpses

Dillon 2022-04-24 07:01:16

Russ didn't create evil, he just described the instincts that exist naturally in human nature after removing moral and emotional constraints.

People who give this movie low marks either don't get used to Lars' narcissism or abstract movies or are brainwashed by so-called political correctness.

I still understand this film as a deconstruction of human nature. From the very beginning, the protagonist was tortured by an old woman and finally couldn’t bear to smash her to death with a jack. Later, he killed his wife and children and made the corpses of his children. To become a so-called perfect child, and to cut off the breasts of the woman you love to make a wallet, are in fact stripping away some unnatural existence in human nature. From the general social morality, to the family life pattern that people are accustomed to, to the suppression of desire in the name of love, etc., everything is to release the monster of human nature from its shackles.

In the play, Russ challenges God with his own wisdom through the protagonist, questioning the authority of the creator. Desperate to smash all the masks and disguises of human nature. In the end, a house was built out of corpses, which is called art. And this art may be understood as the most primitive, blank human nature. Our human nature is like a smeared piece of white paper, and we suddenly thought that if we teach a newborn baby that rotting corpses are beautiful from birth, maybe babies can grow into human beings different from us. (Similar to wolf child?)

The hell and heaven at the end of the movie are considered by many to be a failure, but from a postmodern perspective, it can also be seen as an indictment by Lass on the highly developed human material society that shields the happiness and happiness of human nature itself. In the end, the killer fell into the depths of hell. Rather than understanding Russ as bowing his head to the political correctness of Cannes, it is better to understand the killer's powerlessness and confusion in seeking the primitive happiness of the human mind in an overdeveloped modern society. Otherwise, why make this movie.

The film is also Ruth's best answer eight years after he was banned from Cannes for sympathizing with the Nazis. Maybe this movie has no positive value for most people in human society, but in terms of the depth and height of the movie itself, I think it deserves full marks.

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Extended Reading
  • Alden 2022-03-29 09:01:05

    While watching, I probably scolded Feng Tier a hundred times for being an idiot. My stomach was constantly stirring, and the first thing I woke up this morning was to pour out a pot of pork ribs stewed on New Year's Eve. Just like Von Trier didn't feel so surprised when he broke the rape and sexual harassment scandal, if it were revealed that he was a serial killer, I don't think he would raise his eyebrows, because you can't guess the extension of his art, where is the end. This film lets us know that instead of trying to defeat and convince evil with logic, you will find out how perfectly self-consistent and smooth how evil can be in a self-contained system. It even cites scriptures to prove its beauty and wisdom. If the purpose of being a human being is to keep “creating” = building a house of your own, with the materials you choose, and the structure you decide, the house is the meaning and the destination. Killing 100 people is used to relieve pain and create joy, but in the end, it can't match the pleasant rustling sound of the sickle across the wheat grass under the golden sunlight, the rhythmic calm between the breath and the breath. So, that is "Elysium".

  • Alisha 2022-03-23 09:02:32

    The student's work, Feng Thier's incel-like mentality and shooting perspective, which regards women as ants, caters to a person's psychology

The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Verge: Why are they always so stupid?

    Jack: Who's stupid?

    Verge: All the women you killed, strike me as seriously unintelligent.

    Jack: I've also killed men.

    Verge: But you only talk about the stupid women. Unless you think all women are stupid.

    Jack: Well, the stories I've told were selected at random, but...

    Verge: You feel superior to women and want to brag. It turns you on, doesn't it Jack?

    Jack: No, no. But women are easier, not physically, they're just easier to work with. More cooperative.

    Verge: To kill, you mean?

    Jack: If you like. Mr. Sophistication believes in that theory.

    Verge: So... Mr. Sophistication is the theoretician?

  • Jack: Verge?

    Verge: I'm here, Jack.

    [pause]

    Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.

    Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?