live to death

Rachael 2022-03-24 09:01:54

I have closed the web page for a long time, and the deep electric guitar sound is still circling in my mind. The music style is a good interpretation of the theme, a death journey
, and a lot of metaphors make it impossible to just look at the superficial information given by the director with a pure mentality.
The structure of the film and Dante "The Divine Comedy" is similar in the same way. At the beginning
, black was shot. From this moment on, he was already dead, but at the same time he was like a living person wandering in the woods and shooting police officers .
Can't go to hell so he lives and dies
black meets a different Indian nobody who is familiar with both the Native American world and western civilization. Two opposing cultural ideologies are blended in the body because black and his favorite British The poet of the same name helped him gratuitously.
This nobody was Virgil Dante, who led Dante through hell and purgatory. In his works, Dante called him a teacher.
Virgil was an ancient Roman poet and a pagan. Dante was a Catholic in the dogmatic social environment of the Middle Ages. Xia faintly rooted this rebellious spirit in the collision and fusion of church precepts and humanistic ideas in the work, which is similar to the relationship between indigenous culture and Western civilization
. The origin and destination can be interpreted as going to heaven, then the whole journey is a process of life and death. In the end, nobody and the killer both die. I think it means that black is free from the world.
In "The Divine Comedy", but Ding went through hell and purgatory to the center of the earth, but finally reached heaven as above so below

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  • Lurline 2021-12-10 08:01:25

    Machine Town is the distance of the train. The word comes from the root destiny. This is a western town reconstructed by expressionism, full of images of death and fatalism. In this virtual town, the paradigm of western film has been reversed. At the beginning, we can feel a constant repetition of the mechanical rhythm. The "mechanism" of the industrial revolution that was romanticized in the film is reduced to "mechanism". The drive track leading to destiny is running automatically. Teleport to another Machine-mechanical image. William Blake couldn't find meaning, but his identity found him. He saw himself in the wanted order, and was smeared with Indian paint by Nobody. Escape became a journey of the soul. Returning to the place where you were born means returning to nothingness. The movie is over, and we return to our original point-on the seats in the theater. "Li" reveals a certain Gnostic situation and makes us aware of the virtuality of our surroundings. , Just like the virtual setting and false night sky of the film.

  • Linnea 2021-12-10 08:01:25

    Western, barbaric, tobacco, liar, thief, little elk, metal bullet, white, Indian, poetry, god, canoe, pinto, paper rose, cannibal, buffalo, Philistine, soul, heart, bear, Blood, beans, bible, black people, puddles, bounties, dollars, wine, glasses, hats, crows, accountants, skeletons, sewing machines, capitalists, leather, fugitives, sea, tribes, totems, hunters, Cleveland, shotguns, pistols, The dead, the discourse stone, the teddy bear, the bonfire... an American Western film piled with many images, also has a strong road film style. In the west, where there are no rules and legal systems, barbarism and killing allowed the cowardly white people from "civilization" to grow up, and finally drift to the sea that symbolizes the belonging of the soul. The Indian "Nobody" is obsessed with letting the soul of a "dead person" drift. The meaning of occult and religion is extremely strong. In addition, reminiscent of "Pates" that I watched almost at the same time last year, it seems that Jia Muxu likes to quote poets and poems, and his own movie style is also very like poetry. The soundtrack is great. Kasuga Film Festival 3/10.

Dead Man quotes

  • Big George: What's a Philistine?

    Sally: Well, it's just a real dirty person.

  • Big George: By God, I'm hit. Lord have mercy. Burns like hellfire. You son of a bitch. I'm gonna have to kill somebody now.