For a few days, the image has been lingering in my mind like a nightmare. I know that when I just watched the movie, my thoughts were chaotic, my sanity was gone, and there was no way to think normally. This movie is indeed as everyone said, after watching it, it is enough to leave you alone on the balcony and retching. Two roars, the kind of despair that can't even squeeze out the tears.
I think I’ve chosen the movies that I download later, and I usually enter the role and follow the plot. After watching, I calm down and analyze some of the inspirations from the movie. Of course, I will also analyze the shortcomings and narrowness of the movie from the other side. . This is the reason why none of the well-recognized movies can get 10 points after watching almost one hundred well-recognized movies. There will always be places where people feel that the plot setting is far-fetched, and the contradictions lead to a bit of brain damage, or the story development is too one-sided, such as Shawshank’s salvation is recognized as a great movie. However, the dark side of the prison is completely erased. It is inspirational, but it has lost the foundation of reality. If you go to "Midnight Express" again, everything in "Shaw" will appear. Too idealistic, so all kinds of shortcomings are too numerous to enumerate. I generally judge a movie based on the principles of empirical aesthetics, such as the unity of sociality and typicality of the work, the unity of form and content, whether the work can restore and reflect reality, whether the author’s attitude when creating art works is sincere, etc. I also judge classical music according to this standard. After all, the reason why Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is so famous is that it restores the tangled and hysterical tragic beauty without any modification, especially under Liht’s fingers, a unique Russian style. The breath of style is also so breathtaking.
Watch this movie again. Do you think it is rare for a drug addict to die? Certainly not, it is so common, breeding in every dirty corner of society. Think about it, everyone. Looking back, people who sat with the same teacher and studied more than ten years ago, how different their lives are now, some are as the film says---endless depravity, some are well-behaved, some Live a decent life, some are poor but still don’t forget to help others...
The director can shoot such an ordinary story so breathtaking, making its effect so direct, concise, crisp, and profound. Video, music, performance, editing, parallel montage, story line, the director led his team to the extreme, and he constantly makes you feel that this is the tragedy happening around you, although it is about the story of drug addicts, but Darren always makes you think that this addict-like escape from everything is the epitome of sentient beings in an era. In this way, the film really goes beyond a specific and personalized story, and rises to the life of people. The direct complaint of the state, the director is complaining of the loss of courage to face life and the disappearance of a noble faith, replaced by unprecedented fantasy and confusion. The desire has reached the point where he cannot control himself. The director is complaining of a social value and The loss of moral orientation.
I personally think that Marrion is the most shocking character in the whole film. When the great irony continues from the middle of the film to the extremely disgusting party at the end, you will understand the ultimate meaning of "depravity", and you have no such depravity. The way to put the fault completely on her alone, how her and Harry's love was crushed by drugs will definitely make you feel so sorry for it.
It is a frank film that directly exposes the hidden and helplessly dirty reality, spreads out the pain in the dark, and carefully examines their black texture. Its purpose is only to guide. Let us seek an answer: how strange, unreasonable, or horrible the world is moving. And this purpose is not excessive. However, the rating department felt that the final stage was a bit too demanding to be processed before it was released. The director did not disappoint. Imagine that if the last shot is deleted, the shocking effect of the film will suddenly decrease at the speed of free fall.
In any case, this film made me feel that I saw a real movie that can be called a movie, just as I used to have time chasing stars when I was in junior high school, and I also liked Nicholas Tse, Leehom Wang and others. However, when you really listen to the works of classical music masters, you suddenly realize that what you heard before is absolutely a waste of your life. Ten thousand reasons why pop music is rubbish!!)
It brings me a kind of passion and vitality, that is, a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of matter will bring a kind of pleasure in the ultimate sense, and will no longer be covered with the tangled veil that cannot be seen clearly. Sometimes we need clarity, It needs to be completely truthful. It fully meets my aesthetic standards, and I am also fascinated by the way the director handles the film. It even subverted my previous concept: movies cannot have the broad abstraction of music, applicable to any time, any place, and any state. After watching this movie, I was wrong. The profound and accusation that went straight to the bones can almost be compared with the symphony of Chopin’s Polonez, Rachmaninov’s Second Steel Association, and Tchaikovsky’s sympathy. Every time a person comes quietly in the dark night, accumulate strength, and the sound of the piano that touches the keys like Li Hete's steel hits your heart, constantly alerting you: In this slightly dirty world, live cleanly!
"Either they are burned out by the "vitality" brought by false imagination, or they are hurting themselves in cold loneliness. They are deprived of reality. This makes people think that in every corner of this city, countless people are being desire or Driven by expectation, he rushed to the left and right, abandoned everything, including himself, and was inevitably troubled by fear and anxiety. But people are often addicted to these fears and anxiety, as well as the pain caused by these unstable things, and put it away Seen as an inevitable way to achieve hope or expectation...As a "subverting traditional film", its subversive performance is that it doubts the two basic living conditions of human beings, hope and indulge-in an uncontrollable situation Under the circumstances, the addiction to expectations and desires is dangerous, just like addiction to drugs. It involves three cross-contradictory problems: the contradiction between reality and dream, the contradiction between sobriety and indulge, the contradiction between body and spirit. One situation, They think that they have found their direction and goal in life, and are obsessed with the process of reaching this goal, forgetting reality, until they lose everything. Expecting to promote the illusion of dreams to inflate and soar, but often only with a sound of divination, both dreams and illusions disappear. ; Another situation, the pursuit of endless physical enjoyment, thinking that it can make one's life more fulfilling, is actually paying the price of body and dignity to exchange trivial things. But at the moment of exchange, we have forgotten everything about ourselves: "We are broken, and only exist for some other brokenness. "They thought they could get endless in this kind of mental illusion and physical enjoyment, but they did not get the real fulfillment and true response from reality in these hopes and satisfactions...What is the situation of despair? Exhausting everything to get, but getting it is not what I imagined, and the beauty that once was no longer exists, even after the dream is gone, the cruel mockery of reality continues. Despair and sadness are linked together, in loss After everything, everything they got laughed at their infatuation and expectation and their blind and weak self in anticipation. People love something so much that they throw their lives in them, give their lives to these dreams, and look forward to them. They bring happiness and comfort to themselves. However, they did not make the particles of life full and round, on the contrary, they squeezed and crushed the meaning and value of life under people's willingness and instruction, and exiled them to the empty space. The wilderness makes them hesitate and lose their homes. This is the real tragedy—not just "woke up from the dream, but there is no way to go", even "woke up from the dream, but don't know where they are"
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