I watched the movie "Coriolanus" starring Ralph Fiennes in my freshman year. I really didn’t understand the slurred Shakespearean dialogue. After watching for half an hour, I finally gave up. After that, I found it out several times. Keep watching. It may also be because of too young age. Even in the clouds and mists that I read scripts with familiar plots such as "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet"... One day this year, when I was reading a book in the library, I suddenly thought of this movie on a whim. Find out the movie and watch it again. As the last tragedy written by Shakespeare, the story took place in ancient Rome. General Matthews was awarded the title of "Coriolanus" for his martial arts, but he was exiled by Rome because of his contempt for democracy and arrogance. Then he took refuge in a foreign country and attacked Rome. Persuaded by his mother, he concluded a treaty with Rome and was subsequently executed by a foreigner. This is a typical tragic figure. When I was in high school, I wrote the short story "The Mist". Based on the subsequent influence of the Second Middle East War, I created the British aristocratic soldier Steven. He was proud and lonely, trying to restore the glory of the British Empire to the past, facilitate the war, and was ruined. , Committed suicide and died. It is quite similar to the image of Coriolanus. The expression of the movie lens almost has a certain ambiguity. Just like the handsome aristocratic teenager Reinhardt stabbed himself with his lover's pearl-encrusted dagger, I saw Coriolanus in front of the camera dying in the arms of a lifelong rival, his face covered with blood. The opponent pierced his heart with a dagger, hugged him, kissed him. The handsome Ralph Vannes, even with a shaved head, black tattoos and muscles, is still beautiful and fragile. He has a certain nervous look in his eyes, which always leads people out of the play. The violence aesthetics in the play is a different form of fascist violence aesthetics. The latter can be traced back to Rome, with brilliant military phalanx and buildings, while the former is ambiguous and seems to be a variant of ancient Greek tragedy, but There is the sluggishness of the mist on the island-Japan and the United Kingdom, the inner psychology of these two nations are close. When the incomparably pure Madame Butterfly, Qiao Qiaosang, personally ended her life, we felt the pride of life, the pride of being insulted, and the Coriolanus-like character insisted on a certain extremely unreasonable principle. Can be called arrogance. He has an ambiguous relationship with his confidant and rival for life. They express their passion in eager language, it seems that they are excluded from the world, only their two hearts are talking.
"Coriolanus" movie poster. In 2009, Ralph Vannes is powerful, but after all he is not suitable to play a Roman. His pale face and nervous and sensitive expression are the mask of the British aristocracy. Just like the gloomy man in "The English Patient". He is also not suitable to play Lawrence of Arabia, such a weak and civilian intellectual. He should be the governor of Sudan Gordon, the colonial general who upholds his own righteousness and killings, or the times are more advanced, those Charlie and Henrys in Shakespeare's writings, wearing royal robes and holding swords. As a Nazi German officer, he was the worst choice. He transformed the mechanized genocide of modernity into the ingenious art of the rulers of the classical era, which not only confuses the audience, but also inadvertently refined the Nazi proposition. This kind of "elegance" was originally the dust on the spider webs in the corners of the times, and it was not glorious, but it was obsessed by some people, but it embodies the most terrible part of elitism. The arrogant elite built a tomb for himself, lay down in the sarcophagus, and carved his own injustice on the tombstone, while the descendants stopped here, read carefully, and tried to open the coffin to awaken the sleeping ghost.
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