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A flame is burning beside him across the iron fence. When Marcelo sits down, will he cast a shadow on the wall behind him? When he turns his head, will he see his shadow? The cast shadow is seen only when you turn your head, but facing the camera, the shadow has escaped from the camera. As a kind of nothingness, in the possibility of seeing and not seeing, the shadow has actually become a kind of deconstruction. The presence.
Seeing, as if it was an objective existence, he saw someone on the street driving a motorcycle dragging the head of the Mussolini statue to celebrate the victory, and he saw the group of people in the corridor walking by holding a banner, "I want to see How did the dictatorship collapse?” Marcelo said to his wife Juliana when he went out, he was indeed a witness when the fascists came to an end, and he saw the man who was talking about eating cat meat, in that sentence In the reminder of "Madame Butterfly", he found that the old man had sodomized his Reno when he was 13 years old, so he saw a fascist who castrated his desires, "Are you still alive?" and he said. Staying in Reno’s clothes, yelled: "What were you doing on March 25, 1917? Where were you on October 15, 1938?" When Reno fled in horror, Marcelo announced again: "He killed politics. Crime, killed the professor, killed the professor's wife, he is gay, he is a Nazi!" Then he saw the blind friend Italo standing in front of him, "You are also a Nazi!"
He saw Reno, saw Italo, saw and protested. When Marcelo named them Nazis and fascists, he seemed to see them as shadows projected in this society in this way. Just like when facing Professor Luca, he said that the essay he was going to write was about Plato's shadow fables. Luca said to him: "They regard the illusion as reality, and they are both Plato's prisoners." He named after seeing the shadow. Shadow, Marcelo saw the two people who brought him into it at the last moments of the fall of the fascist regime, and named them after seeing them, but when he called them Nazis, could he get out of here? ——Get away and become the invisible self. But the moment you sit down, when you face the camera and don’t see the shadow, it doesn’t mean that the shadow doesn’t exist. Marcelo finally turned around, leaving behind the shadow that he could not remove in an invisible and visible way. In the depths of the image, the depths of history, and the depths of self-life.
Why does Marcelo look back? This meaningful looking back is like a ritual to one's life in being unable to escape the identity of the "comrade"-the fire is burning, not only projecting the reality of becoming a "Prisoner of Plato", but also reflecting the whole life. Unable to escape the fate of fate. This fate has long been annotated by the anti-fascist Professor Luca: “The resistance of the exile eventually became a fascist.” Before Marcelo became a member of the Italian Fascist organization, he was indeed an “exile”. "The exile", and this exile is the reality of being castrated: when he was a child, he was always punished by his father. Marcelo, who lived in violence, became an oppressed child, and his father became his lingering shadow of violence. , Even if he went to visit his father in a mental hospital several years later, his father Antonio still wrote "slaughter and melancholy" on the paper; when he was 13 years old, after being bullied by his classmates, he got in the car in Reno. After two people playing in the sun, Reno took him to a room and showed him a Mauser gun. Then, while singing the song "Madame Butterfly", Reno touched his face, his body, and He was pressed down, and Marcelo got up in horror. With the door locked, he opened the window, and finally took the gun, towards the wall, towards Reno, and shot frantically. Nuo fell in a pool of blood, and Marcelo, who had rescued himself with a gun, seemed to have lost his virginity. God closed a door, but opened a window. For Marcelo, who is not religious, he has already lost his virginity. After becoming a fascist, he began to confess to the priest, "I think sodomy is a more serious crime than murder."
A paradox has arisen. Being sodomized is the victim and the victim of the castration of desire, but he shot Reno with a gun that symbolizes male desire, protecting himself and finally accomplishing another kind of harm; atheism lets He did not believe in God but believed in the Nazis, but after a few years he had to face the pastor's confession. The confession without religious belief is just to find a kind of relief, "I want to create a new life." But, one kind has already been. How does the castrated life build a new life after injury? The shadow of his father's violence, his mother's lustful life, and Reno's physical desires all became the reasons for Marcelo's exile, and all of these eventually made him a fascist. Joining fascism has become a paradox for him. He joined the organization under the introduction of his friend Italo, but Italo is a blind man, a blind man with different shoes on his left and right feet, but he is hanging Musso At the party with the portrait of Rini, Italo said to Marcelo: “Normal people are people who are similar to themselves, and we are two individuals of the same kind.” The blind person is like being castrated, but Yi Tallo thinks that he is a normal person, that is, a normal person of the same kind, so when he allows Marcelo to join the entire organization, in a sense, he cancels the individual attributes of whether he is a blind person or a victim of violence, and becomes One kind.
Class is confirmation, and class is also escape. Marcelo became an exile, and the exile became a Nazi in resistance. In the shadow fable that the professor said, Marcelo is "Plato's prisoner", but the sense of repentance makes He wants to be an atonement person, a person eager to build a new life, "I want to be forgiven by society, and I must make compensation for society, and my job is to eliminate subversives." To build his new life, get Social forgiveness, Marcelo’s self-breakthrough fell into a deeper trap, and even became a fellow who couldn’t find himself. The pastor said: "Normal means getting married." A 13-year-old sodomized child, a 18-year-old man who slept with a prostitute, a subordinate who saw a woman with a scar on her face in the Nazi minister's office, and a mother and a housekeeper. How could Herom's adulterous son lead a normal life?
There was a woman beside him, Juliana, a woman who loved him and wanted to marry him, but Marcelo said, “She was only used for sex and cooking.” She was castrated by male desire, and the woman was in love. In front of him is just a tool for making love and cooking. Why is this normal? And Juliana experienced an abnormal life like that, “When he was 15 years old, he grabbed my breasts and rubbed them fiercely, and he did what he wanted to do.” A 60-year-old activist just took possession of it. With Juliana, the 15-year-old memory was mixed with the desire to be occupied, but this kind of injury eventually became a kind of abnormality. A few years later, Juliana became Marcelo’s wife, and they went to Paris. While sitting on the train on her honeymoon, when Juliana talked about this past without sadness, she seemed to be immersed in some kind of injury, undressing her clothes, closing her eyes, the red glow of the sunset outside and the evolution of the sky The azure blue color formed an atmosphere of enjoyment, and in Juliana’s narration mixed with desire, Marcelo imitated memory, also grabbed her breasts and stroked her body, as if he He became the 60-year-old activist, and became the owner of his wife.
Is this the normal life Marcelo wants? Is this the whole reason for being a Nazi? The shadow of childhood has not been eliminated, but has become a shadow of reality, and the former victims have become perpetrators of violence. Marcelo's honeymoon in Paris was only a plan of factual assassination, with the goal of anti-fascist professor Luca. When Marcelo found Luca in the name of a student, the "Plato's Cave" they talked about in the study was more like a metaphor for reality: the window was closed and opened, and the room became dark and penetrated. So Marcelo really saw his shadow on the wall-Luca had known that he was a fascist, so this projected shadow became a prisoner of the Nazis, but for Marcelo, Like Italo, he is already a blind person in this reality. He cannot see his own fall, cannot see his own sins, cannot see that he has lost his destiny after becoming a similar person, just like Luca said. , This is just an illusion, but in the end it has become a reality for wanting to build a new life.
However, as a blind fellow of the same class, Marcelo opened his eyes limitedly. He really saw himself in reality because he fell in love with Luca’s wife Anna, an intellectual and an elegant temperament. A woman who gave him a feeling of love, and Anna fell in love with him, even if she knew he was a fascist killer who came to assassinate her husband, even if she said in front of Marcelo: "You make me sick." But She took off her clothes anyway and hugged him tightly. For Marcelo at that moment, it was like seeing a sacred light. Love did not make a woman a tool for cooking and making love, but made him feel that he saw a miracle. After Juliana complained that he had not had sex after coming to Paris, he already knew what he wanted.
But the shadow is still there, how can love become pure? Between the fascists and the anti-fascists, love is nothing but a shadow. Even when Marcelo saw Anna for the first time, he thought of the woman with scars he saw in the minister’s office, scars There is an eternal mark on the beautiful face, just like the shadow of Marcelo’s heart. When she becomes an external projection, the Anna in front of her is destined to become a wounded woman, and Marcelo said to her: "I I have seen a woman like you. She is a prostitute." "Prostitute" became a name for her potential identity. As this shadow gradually expanded, it eventually covered Marcelo's so-called normal life: pretending to be without leaving. The special commissioner of Marcelo’s full-time driver Magan Rojani reminded that Marcelo must implement his plan to come to Paris. In the woods on a foggy day, Luca’s car was blocked by a car that rushed out. Luca got off. The car checked the situation, and several fascists sprang out of the woods. They stabbed Luca to death with a dagger. Anna in the car witnessed all this. When she saw her husband was brutally assassinated, she asked Marcelo for help. Marcelo was always looking at her coldly while sitting in the car. Through the glass, Anna outside knocked on the car window and shouted for help, while Marcelo inside remained motionless. Finally, in his indifferent gaze, Anna fell down. In the woods covered with dead leaves.
Perhaps for Marcelo, he had hesitated, had been impulsive, as long as he opened the car door, as long as he protected Anna, as long as he shot those who came to assassinate with his own gun, maybe he could turn back and become a real rebel , Maybe he could never be a "prisoner in the cave", but he remained motionless, watching the love disappear in front of him, and even in the process of being called a "coward", he was not only a witness, but also a complete murder The fellow-he became blind like Italo, not dare to see, escaping in the obscured reality. And this is Marcelo’s real destiny: after being hurt, he became a rebel, and the resistance turned himself into a prisoner of Plato. After the massacre, he turned a blind eye; and when the fascist regime fell, he Think of Reno and Italo as Nazis, and even hope to see the collapse of autocracy.
He pretended not to see when he should have seen it, and when he should not have seen it, he became a witness without blinking. During the whole process, when he became a part of the shadow, Marcelo had never seen himself. Of course, in a life where there is only cooking and sex, even if the lovely daughter is in front of him, the world is just a quagmire for him, and even if the fascist government collapses, in a world full of Plato’s prisoners, In the reality of shadows, everyone is a blind person, everyone is of the same kind: the same kind is in the same way, the same kind goes with the flow, the same kind revels in the same kind, and the same kind can’t see myself, "I had a dream, I went to Switzerland, I 'S eyes are blind..."
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