The End of the World and the Cold Wonderland

Cristian 2021-10-13 13:05:49



After I watched the super-bad subtitled half of "Shameless Bastard" on the Internet, I didn't give up, but I wandered around again, and finally found a version with very good subtitles. I might just forget to change to someone else’s work, but I started with Quentin’s film from the "Pulp Fiction" of the year, and I have not missed a single one, and I have never felt disappointed, so it belongs to the specific list of the must-see level in my heart. List. There are not many people on this list, and one of them is Uncle Takeno Kitano whose facial expression is always as stiff as botox. The films of these two men are both beautiful and violent. They look strange and violent. Many girls don’t like them because they don’t like violence, but I like it, so I watch it every time. When their movies are cool, they also wonder if they are violent. After watching "Inglourious Basterds", I chatted with my third cousin, and the third cousin comforted me and said, I believe you are not because of it. It's only for violence. This comforted me even more embarrassed. The beauty of violence and the beauty of violence are all beauty that takes violence as a carrier. No matter how beautiful the shot is, it cannot be separated from violence. Who wants to say that watching Quentin's films but not buying the violent accounts he sells is the same as watching Japanese MAO films with a critical spirit.



Because of the beauty, even part of the violence is acceptable. Looking at it from a different value, it is because Quentin’s works have always been too violent, so some viewers cannot accept it as too violent, and even if it is beautifully shot, it is invisible, or even unforgivable. I belong to the former, artistic determinism. Others belong to the latter kind, moral determinists. After "Shameless Bastard" was released, a girl I knew who was known for her "elegance" suddenly declared that she could accept Quentin from this movie. I don't think it was because she suddenly changed her values, but because Hitler should die, the Nazis should die, and it's not an exaggeration to treat them bloody. American writer Menken once said: Every normal person will spit into his palm from time to time, raise the black flag, and cut the throat of others. So in fact, Quentin has not changed, and the vindicators have not changed, but this movie happens to be politically cut to an extremely correct point, so violence has become acceptable to those who could not accept it before. It can be seen how interesting human nature is. "People never chang, People lie." Well, maybe Dr house makes a lot of sense. However, the "elegant" lady I mentioned earlier will certainly not realize that because of Quentin's movie, she is a liar on the issue of violent tendencies. It's not for others, but for myself.



To pierce the emperor's new outfit, I think this is definitely not what Quentin wants to do. Compared to the clever kid in the emperor's new clothes, Quentin is just a naughty boy, and movies are just a tool for him and the world to talk nonsense. You know this is one of the important reasons I have always liked him, that is, in addition to beauty and violence, Quentin always has a straightforward and very stubborn temperament when he treats the world. Killing is not Ding Li Lang. A chaotic spear is just crackling and hacking. It’s a plan. It’s called a prank. Everyone is playing cool and handsome, rushing all the way through unreliable ways. Who can live and die, in the end, he had no choice but to Rely on God's blessing. Kitano also loves to be so messy, holding his guns and shooting each other, and then damn it, bury it, and the next day the sun comes out, it is still the blue sea and blue sky, the world is beautiful. Everyone wrestled in circles on the beach. So I remembered the name of the novel by Haruki Murakami, "The End of the World and Cold Wonderland". I haven't actually read this novel. But I have always liked the name of this book. Now I think it is really simple and accurate to describe a movie like "Inglourious Basterds".



Not only beautiful, but as beautiful as a fairy tale, not only violent, but also as violent as a fairy tale. I think maybe this is the real fascination of "Inglourious Basterds". The heinous Nazis actually shouted BINGO when the strategy succeeded. At that moment, I thought of the Smurf’s Gorgon, and Hitler was watching a movie. At that time, I was killed by random guns. Everyone knows that this is something that has never happened in history, but everyone hopes that it has happened. When I saw this scene, I was simply overjoyed. I thought Quentin, you kid would dare You are so nonsense. At that moment, the movie became a fairy tale for adults, every witch would be executed, and the evil stepmother would be killed. The Nazis should engrave the Nazi shame on his forehead. Many adults will laugh at it as naive. Is this also art? But we are just like children, we all watched very happily, so happy. Watching this scene is more like a Bakhtin-style doomsday carnival than seeing violence.



In fact, if you have read those folk fairy tales that have not been adapted and cleaned, you will know that the big bad wolf did not eat Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, but made her grandma dinner for Little Red Riding Hood to eat. Cinderella was once eaten by the prince. Abandoned and almost fed the poisonous snake. In fairy tales, there must not only be a fixed segment where the princess and prince will live happily ever since, but there must also be a description of the bad guys' final death. In fact, all primitive fairy tales that have not been morally modified are beautiful and violent. Yes, this is what human nature is. And Superman and Spider-Man, they are so beautiful, they are gods, not humans. As for those inexplicably popping out to explain what film is, the arrow points to who is the general, etc., to Quentin, it is really trivial. It's carnival time. How to play instead of play? I love to play like this, can you control it? People like Quentin are people who want to spend their whole life on a carnival. In fact, the films he made have always been very Bakhtin, which is not acceptable to many Chinese audiences, because the Chinese have always lived very well, we have never had a carnival, so when I saw Quentin in the first place, there were many people. I can’t understand it, it’s weird, why is it so messy, what is this thing? However, after several years of online group carnivals, everyone seems to have some feeling now. From this point of view, I think Quentin’s movies are liked more. This does not mean that Quentin has liberated anything. On the contrary, it is because the Chinese people’s carnival spirit has been partially liberated. Have fun in Quentin's movies. I think this is a good thing.



By the way, as a woman, I like Quentin in my heart because he never discriminates against women in his movies. I think this is a lot of people who have not noticed at all. They only see the violence in his movies, but in fact, from "Pulp Fiction" to "Shameless Bastard", the women in Quentin's movies are always so Cool, beautiful, decisive, smart, and sexy. He has never devalued the image of women in any of his films. From this, I personally summarize the four essential elements of Quentin's movies, beauty, violence, goddess, and carnival-like world experience. Quentin used these four elements to create an absurd fairy tale. You know it's fake, but it's so fake that you will be in a momentary trance about how real the world is. At this moment, even for a moment, you will be in a trance, the depression, imprisonment, and dullness of those ordinary days, They are also absurd and untrue. And we are Chuang Sheng waking up from a dream. Maybe in the next second, we will end all nightmares and return to the world of butterflies.



When the carnival ends in the morning, standing on the street where you go to work every day, mixing into the bustling crowd, recalling yesterday, maybe, at the end of the world, there will be a cold wonderland.







Note: Bakhtin’s Carnival Culture When



Bakhtin talked about carnival and carnival culture in the Middle Ages, he pointed out the major European cities in the late Middle Ages (such as Rome, Napoli, Venice, Paris, Lyon, Nuremberg, Cologne, etc.), In total, there are about three months (sometimes more) each year, leading a full carnival life. He said: "It may be said (of course, under certain premises) that people in the Middle Ages seem to lead two kinds of life: a regular, very serious and frowning life, a life subject to a strict hierarchical order. A life full of fear, dogma, reverence, and piety; the other is a free and comfortable life like a carnival square, full of dualistic laughter, full of blasphemy and distortion of all sacred things, full of all things with everyone Feel free to communicate. Both types of life are recognized, but there are strict time boundaries between each other." He particularly emphasized, "If you do not consider the mutual replacement of these two life and thinking systems (the conventional system and the carnival system) With mutual exclusion, it is impossible to correctly understand the characteristics of people's cultural consciousness in the Middle Ages, and it is impossible to clarify many phenomena in medieval literature."[1]

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  • Laurine 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    Quentin can shoot World War II so humorously, and Quentin can shoot Hitler to death like this, and Quentin has no other people.

Inglourious Basterds quotes

  • Lt. Aldo Raine: [Aldo shoots Hans' driver Hermann, and gives Utivich a knife] Scalp Hermann.

    Col. Hans Landa: Are you mad? What have you done? I made a deal with your general for that man's life!

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, they made that deal, but they don't give a fuck about him. They need you.

    Col. Hans Landa: You'll be shot for this!

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before.

  • Col. Hans Landa: Wait for the crème.