Monotonous politics vs. sexual tension

Ebony 2021-12-22 08:01:38

According to the report, the news director Xie Zhiwei has quite criticized the historical and political discourses of "The Wall of the Wall." After watching the movie, I partly agreed with him. But the problem is not the ineffective criticism of the Kuomintang’s rule or the avoidance of the 28th and 28th, but the poor interpretation of this part. When the revolutionary ideals are just talk on the grass, the police intelligence personnel are all like cardboards without flesh and blood. The protagonist kneels and chants revolutionary songs with tears, and it doesn’t hurt.

In contrast, the tension between "Sex" and "Moral" of "Wall Night" far exceeds political and historical acumen. From the moment when the bride Huang Caiyi married You Anshun, who was reduced to a political prisoner by participating in a reading club, the hidden corner of the scene was intended to bring out a peeping angle. Hidden in the wall is the Japanese teacher Yumyama Seihiko who led the book club. His revolutionary feelings are not fermented in the movie; on the contrary, the closeness of the newlyweds amplifies his loneliness and needs. Inside and outside the wall, the appearance and the inside of people, "The Wall" does not have the high-level skills of "Tibetan Disturbance" in the Czech movie "Differing Ways", but it reminds me of Wang Xianchi 13 The taboo lust of "Abba's Lover" a year ago.

I was a little surprised that the director Lin Zhiru made the heroine take the initiative to take off her clothes one day on a whim. I didn’t give details about why this woman married a political prisoner. So from this action to the fact that she did not hesitate to give care and even physically comfort the revolutionaries in the wall, I can’t help but wonder: this is a kind of almost naive sympathy. ? Mother-of-the-earth giving? Or is it a release method that is almost isolated from the outside world?

Sexual "pleasure" is also a moral "transcendence." It made the female protagonist who discovered that she was pregnant fell into a state of panic all day long, and also made the revolutionaries who had been hiding for more than eight years unable to bear the torment and leave, and made the actor who had deliberately concealed him finally collapsed. Only then did the film really escape the level of "Nightmare". Although the revolutionaries witnessed the intercourse of husband and wife through the wall before, there were scenes resembling Japanese dancing and horrifying bites, but the film maintained a more realistic tone for most of the time, so although the final part shows the director's bold handwriting that blends reality and fantasy , It also tested the audience's acceptance and understanding of the characters that quickly fell into a state of madness.

If I want to find political power in this film, I am afraid that I will be defeated, because all the slogans and ideals are ultimately lost to the faintness of human nature. Lin Zhiru's experience of the times and the handling of location action scenes are either constrained by technology, funding, or deliberately evaded, rather monotonous. But when returning to a small and closed space, the battle between the lens and the angle of view, or the physical desires and moral scales, is even more impressive. It also made me wonder what taboos and secrets were told in the scenes that he cut off?

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Extended Reading
  • Skyla 2022-03-28 09:01:05

    Perfect character configuration, so that all metaphors and causality exist before the story happens. Because of this, I came into contact with Marquis Sade, and I can learn about the drama Marat/Sade, which is equally magical, putting the audience in a mental hospital, unable to distinguish between reality and virtuality. Literally translated as quill is more suitable than other free translations. It symbolizes freedom and is the weapon of the writer. Once deprived, he can only continue to write with blood and excrement, or he can only die.

  • Jalyn 2022-04-23 07:02:42

    How oppressive the West was back then and how open it is now is an extreme. Freud's theory of sexuality is based on human nature and the background of the times. When one's human nature is satisfied, he will not have so many "illnesses". In Chinese slang words, lewdness is like a demon beforehand, and saintly is like a Buddha afterward. How can a person devoutly believe in God if his basic physical needs are not met. When the libido is not satisfied, one becomes sick. The pursuit of happiness is the eternal principle of human beings.

Quills quotes

  • Coulmier: Listen to me Abbe and listen well. I've stared into the face of evil and I've lived to tell the tale and now, I beg you, for your sake, let me write it down.

  • Dr. Royer-Collard: Some men are beyond redemption.