Chemistry, biology, and physics study the laws of the world and break through the boundaries of nature; psychology, sociology, and neuroscience study human and society, control human behavior, and grasp human life.
The development of science makes people believe that there are solutions to all problems, that hard work can overcome obstacles, and that reviewing history can avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. In the face of criminals, we pursue the reasons why they became criminals; in the face of social problems, we denounce and put a "responsible" hat on a certain party.
Pursuit of wrongdoing and accountability are the keys to "social progress", and Buddhist inaction has become a coward who has been "eroded" by Confucianism.
Affected by it, modern literary and artistic works have produced a large number of works that shoot social movements, expose social problems, and pursue the causes of social problems. Last year's "Liberty Square", "120 BPM", "Big Buddha Plus" and so on.
Among them, there are many works with novel forms, unique angles, and interesting and amazing plots. I like the ruthless banter of "Liberty Square" very much. Compared to Chronic, The Raven, A Day in the Life, The Big World, and the Foxtrot I'm watching today, they're more like essays published in magazines expressing their opinions, like philosophers Written "On the Middle Class and the Dilemma of Art", "On the Dilemma of the Bottom People", "On Homosexuality Equal Rights", not literary works.
Books are often divided into "useful" and "useless" categories. Fiction, prose, and poetry are often seen as sentimental and useless, and books that teach knowledge and talk about ideas are seen as profound and contributing. I like Alice Munro's novels very much. Her novels depict the plight of women and attribute the characters' experiences to the impermanence of life, so as to reflect the helplessness of people. This is much more beautiful than discussing "patriarchal repression" in the tone of the thesis.
Movies are probably the same. Art should have a beautiful existence, it should transcend social constraints, and pursue the cause and effect of social problems. That is not art, that is politics.
Sairen Weibo wrote:
During this period of time, I will focus on watching some new works by young foreign directors. As far as the films I have watched so far, although the styles are different, they are all about the situation of some people with personality disorders trying to embrace the world. There are encounters everywhere, and there are handshakes. Obviously, the former is easier to express than the latter, and it is easier to form tension, so that the image is not trapped in the narrative net. Compared with the works of young Chinese directors, they do not blindly slap the ass of the current politics and the system for the failure of communication, but attribute it to themselves or their unpredictable fate. What Li Zongsheng sang: It is impossible to imagine, what is your life, the ultimate dilemma that you will not change the medicine even if you change the soup.
In this sense, our field of vision is too narrow. I thought I was speaking, but I actually joined the chorus early. Mistaking commonality for individuality, mistaking puffiness for abundance, and forcibly equating grumbling with insight.
Attributing the result to oneself and the unpredictable fate, the combination of beauty and truth is the highest realm of literary and artistic works.
"Foxtrot" made me break my understanding of previous film works, and it also made me more convinced of what is a good film and what is a mediocre film.
The movie tells a simple truth: no matter how you go, you will eventually return to the starting point.
As for the technique of the film, I am amazed at how messy it is, it explains everything that can't be explained. In general, the film is divided into three acts. The protagonist Feldman does not appear in the thirty-minute second act, but it is in this segment that his character becomes full. In the first half, although the chronological order is not broken, the director's simplification (with no hints and explanations for the development of the plot) is still confusing. When you understand what the director is talking about, you realize how great the director did in the first half.
Relying on the suspense deliberately created by the director, the audience has the patience to wait for the fog in the first half of the movie to stick to the end and enter the director's heart. This suspenseful atmosphere is not only created by the minimalist treatment of the script, but also created by the carefully polished picture composition, emotional music and elements in the scene. For example, in the painting that appears at the beginning, the orderly squares are superimposed to form a chaotic pattern, which implies the twists and turns of the story, as well as the theme - a chaotic life.
This is how Foxtrot is explained in the film: it is a dance, and the dance is very simple. Front, front; right, stop; back, back; left stop. Repeated dance steps are like life, no matter where you go, you always return to the same starting point. No matter how much Feldman repents, even if he dies because of it, it can't change his mother's insanity because he traded his family bible for a girl magazine, and it can't change his child dying because of him in a car accident dodging a camel he didn't know about .
The repeated tragedies caused by letting humanity unleash are decided when the first step is taken.
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