The Shanghai Film Festival opened, and I also went into the cinema to relive the biographical film "Rodin's Lover" that I watched at home ten years ago. The film tells the story of Camille Claude, a talented female sculptor (but she is better known as Rodin's student and lover) in Paris, France at the end of the nineteenth century. From the early days of his youth, to the fiery love and tragic entanglement with Rodin, and finally on the road of independent creation, he became increasingly crazy and was locked in a lunatic asylum for a lifetime. When I watched this movie ten years ago, I was still reading, and watching some literary and artistic movies was just to add to the conversation, or it could be said to be a more superficial check-in behavior. At that time, the understanding of this film with limited life experience was only "too hot and pure love can't be tolerated by the world, only death and madness can be accommodated". However, a good movie is like a book that is often read and new. Under the current experience, I have a further understanding of this movie. This movie is not only about the concept of love between men and women or the social background at that time. Under the limitations of women, a deeper meaning is that "the importance of an independent personality is far greater than the talent and the foundation that enables one to be independent." And the sculptural effect of faith on people. Rodin's lover's own talent is enough to make her stand out. Her works of art do not lack vitality and understanding of life. She is even Rodin's muse in the period of exhaustion of inspiration, not a person who cannot survive without material support from a lover. woman. Camille also actively opened her own studio after leaving Rodin, taking new work orders and preparing her own works for exhibition. It is not a woman who has nothing to do without a man. Why would she fall into the madhouse by her family? What happens next? The fundamental reason is that she lacks an independent personality, and her vitality is attached to Rodin. After leaving Rodin, she reflected her resentment against this relationship in her sculptures, as if it were a silent accusation. Her works are not. Described as a haggard old woman, is torn up. What Rodin said after seeing her works completely drove her into the abyss: "I create works for life, but you create for death! You will always be a third-rate sculptor." Because of the lack of independent personality, she Unable to make a real justification for the meaning of his work, he fell into alcoholism, decadence, isolation and self-imposed exile. I believe that a person with a really strong heart will not doubt his ideals and original intentions because of other people's words, even if that person used to be his closest person or mentor. She doesn't want herself to be regarded by the world as the other and the second sex (such as the label of Rodin's ex), but her inner cognition of herself is still the other and the second sex, which is contradictory and tragic The root is that the love that I used to understand was too deep turned out to be so superficial. The film also mentions faith, with multiple references to Camille's refusal to go to Mass as an artist, identifying herself as an atheist. She believes that life is life itself, self-will is the only master, and her brother Paul is also her most loyal supporter. One day, after she left Rodin, she went back to find her brother Paul, and found that Paul's eyes became gentle and strange. Paul said that he joined the Catholic Church and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hoping to be a poet of faith. Camille, on the other hand, was convinced that religious beliefs could not coexist with poets; she drifted away from her younger brother. Without the support of her beliefs, she is like a torn rag doll after the blow. She lacks the self-healing and positive centripetal force brought by her beliefs. Her works are always vulnerable, contradictory and tearing. Not acknowledging that tragedy does have its valuable artistic value, but her understanding of life is always a little narrow due to the lack of belief, lacking great right and wrong and great love, and naturally she cannot rank among the top art masters. This is one of the reasons for her tragedy. Written on 2019.6.18
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