writes the text from the devil in the madhouse, and the inspiration of the forbidden Sade's frenzied emergence burns at the end of the quill, at the bottom of the inkwell.
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French poet Baudelaire said in his "Melancholy of Paris": "I know that the devil wants to set foot in the wilderness, in solitude, but murderous and lustful spirits find their place. But at the same time, I also feel that loneliness is sinister only for those idle and bohemian souls. They are full of lust and fantasies in solitude. "
George Bataille comments on Baudelaire's words: The meaning of life, or paradox, leads Baudelaire from poetic dissatisfaction to a constant sense of loss .
" How similar is Sa's devil evil text. As an earl, he could have been noble, but his writing of pornographic novels was dissatisfied by the authorities, banned by Napoleon, and sent a psychiatrist to restrain him. The quill and red ink were confiscated; but he used wine chicken bones to write on the sheets, and was confiscated again; he used blood as ink and glass as a pen to write novels on his own clothes and trousers. After being stripped, he was tortured and had his tongue cut off and locked in the cellar. In the cell, he was able to write long words on the stone wall with foul-smelling feces. In the dead silent asylum, a passion burst forth, breaking through the iron walls! In the enlightened days of the Middle Ages, lunatics were free to walk the streets; towards the end of the Middle Ages, lunatics were firmly controlled by power. However, madness and civilization are relative. The "madman" can see from the prison that this "civilized" outer world is an unreasonable lunatic asylum! Marquis's quill's narrative is a distant echo - in the long history of human beings, there are prophets of countless civilizations. In their lifetimes, they were regarded as lunatics, but after their death, they left eternal fame.
After Sade's death, his book was lifted. A large number of books were published, and the publisher was precisely his psychiatrist. Is it that sentence, those great writers were down and out in their lifetime, and a lot of people depended on him to get rich after death. In China, however, we don't talk about these and we discuss a lot.
The film has been banned by Napoleon since Sade wrote erotic novels, but in France, Napoleon himself is a romantic, not to mention the oil-headed and powdered ministers below. Josephine is also a romantic woman, including Napoleon's romantic woman. If he is romantic, what else does he forbid? A hypocrite is not ashamed of what he is doing, but he forbids the freedom of others, and it is precisely because of this that Sade sees the devil in society and the evil of human nature. This kind of oppression and restraint under thousands of years of history will lead to cultural perversion, human nature will become deformed, and the soul will become distorted. During the Renaissance, Western countries advocated the liberation of human nature and pursued freedom, and even religious beliefs were greatly changed. On the contrary, at that time, China was holding its feet high and propagating "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires". How strange! Sade's death was acknowledged, as was his work. But such a thing still cannot exist in China.
The West says that human nature is inherently evil, while China says that human nature is inherently good. The West praises the essence of kindness, but does not exclude the elements of evil. In fact, it is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong. There should be a scale.
In "The Quill", Malena was immersed in those stories, but she was still a virgin to death, and the lunatics in the madhouse were influenced by Sade's evil words and became evil itself, and the lunatic broke the law and killed Malena. The priest loves Marlene but dares not express it. His love is obscure, but he can only abstain and lash out because of his position as a priest. Malena's death shattered his faith. In the face of Thad's tongue being cut off and trapped in the cellar writing slow words with foul-smelling feces, he already felt the emptiness and powerlessness of his beliefs. In the end the priest became another Sade.
Faced with such a madman, we can't even think about it, and we can't understand Sade's stubbornness and strong perseverance. In fact, as far as Sade is concerned, the freedom of thought and speech he pursued in his artistic life, but his body is bound, but his soul is soaring in the sky. What we write usually has something called inspiration, and Sade's inspiration is like a demon, as if a hellish vision emerges before us, and if we don't express it, it will be swallowed by the demon. He has been writing all his crazy life, writing all the time, without any utilitarian purpose, just wanting to write, and if he doesn't write, he will die, and it will be extremely painful.
He said: Writing is like his breath and his heartbeat.
In order to release the hellish vision of the devil he saw before him, he wrote words from hell and burned himself like fire. On the tip of the quill pen and at the bottom of the ink pool, these words flow like water, as if a volcanic eruption is out of control, as if a thousand-year-old black bat travels through a dark cave, as if time and space are bent by the distorted air reddened by fire , like a heart-piercing roar in Vitas hell. The devil's writing drove him crazy, making him want to write words all over his clothes regardless of the amount of blood, making him want to write slow words on the stone wall of the cellar regardless of the pain of his body and the stench of stool. And all of this is that terrible inspiration, and this inspiration comes from society, from the distorted soul, from the deformed human nature. So some of the stories in his works are realized in reality. Someone even read his book and was eloped with a psychiatrist and a young architect.
The nude image of Sade in the film casts the eternal searing pain of an era, and that is the strong and weak cry from the gallows of freedom.
Sade said, "How can I be so easy to shut up? The longer I abuse me, the stronger my faith will be..."
This is the story of Sade's crazy pursuit of freedom in the movie "Quil" told today. Thank you for your wonderful story.
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