company with the devil

I watched "Four Seasons Merchant" yesterday, and it actually tells the story of a fruit vendor. This cowardly man, his wife scolds him every day, his mother and his family look down on him, as if his existence is a shame for the whole family. The clown-like character Hans lived a life of ups and downs. He was blackmailed when he enlisted in the army as a young man. Although he won a moment of self-respect in front of prostitutes as a policeman, he lost his job and became a fruit vendor because of his humble status. Women also left him. Go, these setbacks made him desperate, and drinking was his only way of venting. He wandered the streets, homes and taverns in a daze. Due to an argument, he beat his wife after drinking. The woman was so angry that she left the house. Hans persuaded her. Unfortunately, she suffered a heart attack. When he was discharged from the hospital, the doctor reminded him not to do heavy physical work. He agreed with his wife to hire a helper. The dramatic thing was that Angel was hired by the man who had an affair with his wife, Aijia. Aijia was afraid that the two of them would be exposed and set up a bureau to fire him. He then meets Harry, his comrade-in-arms, who gradually takes his place in the family. Changes in economic conditions did not make him more respected. His mother just thought that Hans had a legitimate business at this time and would no longer embarrass the family. His brother-in-law promised him on the surface, but he still looked down on him in his heart. His sister supported him morally, but her words hurt him from different angles. After that, Hans became more and more melancholy and closed in on himself. He always stared out the window in a daze. He was completely desperate for life. In the bar, he respected the presence and important people in his life, and finally died suddenly.
It is said that the film "The Merchant of Four Seasons" comes from the true story of Fassbender's family, so Fassbender's mother marveled at his amazing memory after seeing this film. The original Hans was his uncle, and when he was pushing a cart to sell, no one in the family supported him spiritually. His parents were indifferent to Fassbender since he was a child. He didn't realize that loving and being loved is so important to people. When he was eight or nine years old, his divorced mother fell in love with a seventeen-year-old boy, who chose a fatherly way with Fassbender, which made him particularly distressed. Later, her mother married a man who was a teenage year older than her. He was full of malice towards Fassbender and even limited the time he could visit his mother. When the old man died in 1971, Fassbender was reborn, and it was at this time that he filmed his powerful work "Four Seasons Merchant".
We can't make a rational judgment on Fassbender, on the one hand, he was an alcoholic, drug addict, and bisexual. Before becoming famous, he worked as a prostitute in Cologne; on the other hand, during his 14 years in film, he made 25 feature films, 14 TV films and two documentaries. As a desperate person, he has made desperate movies, his life is fast, and his movies are usually completed in a few days to dozens of days. He was sexually active, and he tasted extreme pain and pleasure in both sexes.
The story between him and his lover is intricate, and some of the details are surprising. Fassbender is a person with complex personal contradictions. He is sometimes too shy and nervous to communicate with the actors, so he communicates through his assistants. During the filming process, he tried his best to attack the confidence of the actors. Some actors were forced to go crazy, but when they cried, he would try to comfort them. He and the actor Emma Herman also have a close relationship, the little secretary of the Automobile Association, who looks a lot like the young and tall Liz Rotter (Fassbender's mother). Fassbender treats her hard and soft, sometimes ruthless. Emma fell in love with Fassbender when he was directing her plays. She initially earned money to support Rosser (in charge of the housework) and Fassbender (write the script), and did her best to help him get a chance to get ahead. If he returns with merit, he has to bear Fassbender's rebuke. He also beat her regularly, in public and even in front of other actors. She committed suicide three times, once he ordered her to hand over all her possessions, cut ties with her, Emma swallowed a lot of sleeping pills, she lost consciousness, and Fassbender thought she was pretending and beat her again , when she was really found unconscious, she called an ambulance. When it comes to acting roles, he always makes Emma play women who are dominated and abused, and of course the role he gives his mother isn't much better.
In 1971, Fassbender married Ingrid. His purpose was not to live a stable life for the two of them as ordinary people imagined. On the one hand, he did this to make Emma sad, and on the other hand, to prove to his male lover that he could have one too. wife. Their marriage came to an end in less than a year, but Ingrid's role of being punished in life did not change. When he wanted to show off in front of his new boyfriend, Ingrid was the first victim. He even encouraged the staff to swim naked in the swimming pool. In order to please his new lover Salin, he asked two boys to cut Ingrid's hair with kitchen knives. Fassbender brought the eroticism of private life even to the studio, a brutal theater forever filled with blood and tears. That Sarin later became Fassbender's life focus. When he was favored, he accompanied him on vacation and enjoyed a luxurious and stable life. When the two were emotionally fading, they were even more hurt. Fassbender tried his best not to let him know where he was rehearsing. In order to meet Fassbender, Salin slashed three innocent people with a kitchen knife. After that, he fled in several countries and kept in touch with Fassbender. When he was short of money, he tried to ask him for help, but he was ruthlessly rejected. Sarin was later arrested and hanged himself in a southern French prison. About four years later Armin Mayer committed suicide by swallowing a drug overdose, Fassbender died suddenly in 1982 at the age of 36 from an overdose of drugs and sleeping pills, followed by his gay man Henry (who played two in "Sailor Quiller"). character) grief-stricken and hanged. These people throw away their life like a mineral water bottle because of their despair of life and their own tragic experience. Fassbender's outlook on life is permeated with the code words: restraint brings liberation, and terror is no more cruel than the fear of terror. Whether it is despair in death, or death in despair, there is no way to get rid of the chain of fate, the more you struggle, the tighter it will be.

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