As early as two thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks knew that the earth was round by observing the moon. It is a pity that the Christians who replaced the ancient Greeks and Romans stupidly still believed that the earth is flat, until Magellan's circumnavigation proved that he did not fall at the end of the earth. The image of the upside-down of the world seems to have existed in the human mind for a long time, and the meanings are different, good and bad, but they all carry a bit of crazy and cynical subversion.
The American writer Hendrick Van Loon has a small hobby, which is to personally give himself paintings and illustrations, including the kind of irony and ridicule revealed in his text. He once painted a picture in which people in the northern hemisphere are standing on the earth, while people and trees in the southern hemisphere are falling one after another. The German poet Heine was indignant over the upside-down black and white in the world. His poem described a world where the dead walked with their heads and the dead drafted epitaphs for the living.
If you think about it carefully, the small things that are upside down and wrong in reality often happen, and the scenes presented are very weird, then you will find that the silent and serious world actually has sacks of cold humor.
Verdi’s famous opera "La Traviata" was brutally defeated by Waterloo at its premiere. It’s not because the opera is bad, but when a soprano weighing more than two hundred and sixty kilograms plays the dying, pale and fragile La Traviata, the effect is amazing-amazingly bad, the scene is like a comical Satire, not a touching love chapter. The innocent Verdi was lost to the overweight fat, and music could not save anything.
In the "Bible Story", God made Adam out of clay on the sixth day of creation, and Eve was created by taking a rib from Adam. After centuries of struggle, people are no longer satisfied with the stories and beliefs in books, but trace the common ancestor of mankind from a scientific perspective. The earliest origin of mankind has been upheld and overthrown countless times. Human beings keep exploring with a lot of doubts.
For a mother who is about to give birth, all she can determine is the sex of the child, and nothing else is known. What color he would like, fall in love with a man or a woman, and whether his character is cowardly or strong, only God knows.
Perhaps in the story, the Eden of love only exists between men and women, but when they were banished to the world, after so many years, love no longer belongs to men and women alone. Some people are not even satisfied with this innate gender, depriving God of the few options left. For this, God can't control it.
In his movie "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", John Cameron Mitchell directly sang, "When the earth was flat, humans had three genders. : A kind of like two men, sticking together back to back, they are called the sons of the sun; they are similar in appearance to the daughters of the earth, they are like two women, combined into one; then the children of the moon, half of them are the sun , Half of the earth. Half of the female, half of the male." The gods were jealous of human power, so they split them in half with thunder and lightning, turning them into lonely two-legged animals.
In fact, just as the earth is round, no one living on the other side of the earth will lose balance and fall into the universe. The upside-down world is just the other side of the world. Our reflection.
2. The Desert Demon Girl
"I have been through heaven, but I have never been to the depths of my soul." The
British pioneer filmmaker Derek Garman's film "Celebration" (Jubilee) has such a sentence, "As long as we listen If you get music, you won’t hear the loud noise of the world falling apart.” Does this explain the importance of music in the hearts of the few people who are struggling for their ideals and rights? Because music has no prejudice against beauty, it accommodates all kinds of emotional ups and downs and musical notes. Music does not change the melody due to the color of the listener's skin. Everyone can trust it and enjoy its beauty.
"Desert Demon" began with Charlene's famous song "I've never been to me" (I've never been to me), which belongs to a woman who has experienced vicissitudes of life: she traveled to the United States, visited Nice, France, and enjoyed it. Greek islands, living in thousands of lies, swaying wildly, accepting invitations from men, and squandering their time. She had passed through heaven, but she never found her heart's direction.
Mies, who is dressed up in glamour, tells his story in this song. He was also married and had children, but one day he suddenly found that he liked women's dresses and bright makeup better. He doesn't want to hurt anyone, he just wants to pursue the life he loves-to show the audience his favorite songs and his beauty under the lights of the club. But people's criticism and the desire and fear of the family made Mies gradually lose his way. With exhaustion and confusion, he embarked on a journey to the small desert city with his two friends Bernadette and Felicia. Driving an oversized bus, swaggering across the city.
In the desert they met aboriginals and residents of towns. Most of them stared at these three coquettishly dressed "women" with surprised eyes. Some people liked them, some hated them, and some hurt them. . Most of the time, they are silent and resolutely fight back when necessary. There are also times when they are powerless.
The scene that impressed me was that early in the morning, they were preparing to go on the road enthusiastically, only to find that the body of the bus was sprayed with bright red insulting words. Mies and Bernadette took off their sunglasses silently, but Felicia put on them. This seemingly inadvertent action also consciously or unconsciously portrayed the characters of these three people: Mies and Bernadette chose to face the cruelty of reality, while Felicia chose to escape quietly. This also gave her why she became addicted to it afterwards. The drug made a reasonable explanation.
In the face of humiliation and social pressure, they are already strong enough. There will always be many bitter moments. For example, friends do not want to admit that they know them in public, audiences in the audience do not appreciate their performances, some people throw water bottles at them to call them ladyboys, and they chase them by rascals. In this regard, they learn to understand, and then laughed, even if they would cry, they would be alive and kicking again the next day. Even if they are so strong and forbearing, they will still be hurt, just like the dazzling scarlet letters on the car from the incomprehension of the society.
It is a kind of pain deep in the soul, and it is also an unspeakable pain in many people's hearts. Longing to love and be loved.
The most beautiful picture in the movie is that whenever the bus is driving in the golden desert, Felicia wears sequined clothes and drags a long headscarf, blowing in the wind. The bus is like a whale with a long tail swimming in the water. . The sings of Verdi's opera "La Traviata" resounded in the sky, and the girl sang the love she was about to meet.
They are like birds of paradise on the hot rock, spreading their wings, exuding enthusiasm and vitality higher than the sunshine of the desert. Such a picture cannot be frozen with expensive frames, and endless vitality slowly overflows from the screen. The barren desert is therefore full of business.
[Paradise angered on the hot rock]
Third, tolerance
Human ignorance and tyranny seem to coexist. When humans began to believe in the gods in the dark, we began to pay the price for obeying these fictitious imaginations. In each era, each country has its own legislation and moral standards. Once someone touches this bottom line, they will be punished to varying degrees. When men fall in love with men and women fall in love with women, those God's laws and moral constraints will all run out to criticize.
Derek Garman, who has been fighting for the rights of the gay community all his life, can say, "Heterosexuality is not the rule and ruler of life, it is just more common than homosexuality." When this statement comes out, someone will follow and some will oppose it. We don’t need to follow the example of ancient Greek scholars in discussions for days and nights. No one will force you to accept or question. You can not understand and dismiss it, but you have to learn to be respectful and tolerant. Tolerance is not about swallowing your anger and reticence in everything, nor is it about smiling at the evil things of the wicked. What exactly is tolerance is also the core of Fan Loon's discussion in his book "Tolerance".
The twenty-sixth volume of Encyclopedia Britannica reads: "Tolerance (from the Latin word tolerare): Allowing others to have freedom of action and judgment, and patient and fair tolerance of opinions different from one's own or traditional views." As far back as ancient Greece, people have never had strict canon on truth and fallacy, and there is no creed. This idea is also reflected in their literature. Zeus, the ruler of the universe in "Homer's Epic", is grumpy, but reasonable, allowing jokes about him, and not taking himself and his rights too seriously.
In order to spread this tolerance, Socrates was slaughtered. In the book, Van Loon criticized the people of the church, and countless notorious events were brewed by the church. To put it simply, church members are people who insist on their beliefs. There is nothing wrong with this, but when they want to impose these beliefs on others and formulate golden rules and precepts, violators will be dragged to the torch and burned to death. So, sin also arises from this. They think that their God has been blasphemed, so they want to punish these people who do not know good or bad by God's order. However, Emperor Taibiliu once said, “If the God thinks that he must compensate for the loss he has suffered, he will certainly take care of himself.”
“Being forgiveness to others is forgiving to others . ” Not only did “Peace in Rome” be achieved, but also Applicable to today and today. When the people in the movie cast the rubbish and dirty words on the three innocent people, they are intolerant. How do other people's love, dressing, and dancing hurt their interests? Is it just visually intolerable?
In fact, there have always been campaigns to boycott homosexuality and verbal criticism. It is rare to see homosexual groups jumping out to resist attacking heterosexuals. In the movie too, I like the three "women" not because they are special or gay, nor out of sympathy, but because they love life, their enthusiasm and kindness to people, and their dissatisfaction with beauty. Pursue.
[The night is gradually covered, and the stars will be revealed]
Fourth, the morning star shines
"As a witness, I must write about the sadness of this era, but it is not to wipe your smiles. Please read the world I wrote between the lines Care and love, then, close the book and love! I hope you have a better future and love carefree. Please also remember that we have loved too. The night is gradually covered, and the stars will appear .
I live in love "-! • Derek Jarman
desert, every evening the sky will be filled with red, yellow and blue, like the sky prop up a colorful brocade curtain fragrance. They can finally take off their colorful shells and throw themselves into the embrace of nature, and the clouds are burning hot for them. Those lizards and small insects can put away the protective color against external damage, enjoy the tranquility brought by the dark night, and the clear strings of the moonlight.
At the end of her angry story, Hedwig found the other half who was cut off by Jupiter. He no longer looked at the world with one eye, but walked in the streets pure and intact, undisguised.
At the end of "Desert Enchantress", Mies finally returned home, standing in the crowd with Felicia singing the famous song of the ABBA band, overwhelming everyone. Bernadette found her love during the journey.
When the world is turned upside down, it seems impossible to be as usual, everything seems crazy, and the sun even rotates around the earth. Like Garman said, love, love carefree. The things that had been searched for appeared at the last moment, like morning stars shining.
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