#影视杂谈 #
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Cover image credit: Woody Allen Screenshot of the "Purple Rose of Cairo" movie
Why these
In 2021, I watched many new films and found many old classics. Of the 206 films labeled "seen," I've put together nine year-round inductions that I personally consider "good." The definition of "good" varies widely, and in the three-issue annual summary, I pay more attention to how the work is told. Some people divide books into fiction and non-fiction, arguing that fiction is essentially the same as entertainment. But I don't agree, at least dostoevsky's readers wouldn't think of reading The Crowd as entertainment. A good story, the touch of listening to it will also affect you for a long time in the future, and the image in the play becomes a real experience that remains in your heart after the screen is turned off, and you will jump out from time to time in the life of the living car and horse.
Wachowski said in Sense8 that we will find that the events we have experienced, the ideas we have thought about in our heads, the words we want to express but doubt, these are not lonely and nihilistic. Of the thousand and one ways of storytelling, I love the "telling my" one the most. Dreamers, different countries, fresh streets, different expressions. Like travel, the film offers "Me Elsewhere", jumping out from time to time to tickle its siblings.
01 Our Lady
Theme: Blasphemy and Faith
Madonna movie poster
Through forged miracles, the heroine, Bernadette, is revered as the Virgin.
Monastic garments loom on the chest, wooden statues of Jesus made into sex toys, and Bible hollows out boxes for hiding desires. It is entirely a story of the blasphemy of the Virgin Mary.
Stills from the Madonna movie
However, in the case of Bernadette, the female dean coveted money and demanded donations from the families of the girls who were admitted to the hospital. Clergy far away in Florence, living in luxury, with sexy maids, resented the roadside victims. This is also blasphemy.
As for the townspeople, when Bernadette had a miracle, they rushed to pay homage, and when Bernadette's crimes were exposed, they sent her to be burned at the stake.
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov has a very famous chapter called "The Patriarchs of Religion." It was a debate.
The Brothers Karamazov
He referred to a world in which the strong control the distribution of bread and make others obedient. In the name of God, they establish their authority and deceive people with miracles. From then on, people can only believe, and faith will have bread. There is no need to suffer freedom, no suffering to find faith, and no need to bear the price of freedom. That's why I recommend this movie. Because Bernadette conforms to her own desires and chooses freely, does not compromise with the world, and sees through the hypocrisy of religion.
The original author of this film reveals another layer of motivation for creation. In the context of religions at the time that women's sexuality was contrary to religious and natural laws, a virgin was involved in a same-sex storm. This is the director's satire of religion, of the so-called religious agents, and of the male world.
Europeans have long had a hard time accepting the fact that women are still attractive. Their view of human sexual relations is masculine – women will be attracted to men and men will be attracted to men. But a woman will never have lust for another woman for a long time.
From the original film "Misdeeds : A Nun of the Italian Renaissance"
02 "Unlucky Sex Crazy Yellow Film"
Theme: Reflection and Criticism
Movie poster for "Unlucky Sex Crazy Yellow Film"
The sex video of the unlucky egg of the year, the heroine and her boyfriend was leaked online. Even more unfortunately, she was a middle school teacher, a profession that was supposed to be an example.
Now, she faces group appeals from her parents.
Stills from the movie "Unlucky Sex Crazy Yellow Film"
The debate with parents is like our common online scolding war. Conspiracy theories, chauvinism, sexism, and pseudo-politics have emerged one after another. Debates are not logical and take sides. In the end, the director ends in a grotesque, insane way. The heroine becomes a sex girl and punishes everyone.
The reason for recommending this film is more that the director almost regretfully intends to let the audience establish reflection in some daily universal feelings.
For example, when we look at the term family, it's warmth, harmony and security, when in fact, 6 out of every 10 children in Romania suffer from domestic violence.
When the female teacher sends out the sex video, think about the reasons behind the incident, rather than projecting self-soothing imaginations. Why adult videos are exposed is a juvenile thing, why children are keen to browse adult websites and adults are keen to tell fairy tales. Behind social events there are anxieties and fears that are difficult for individuals to reach, and individuals disguised as collectives have an unshirkable responsibility. The retreat of cybersecurity, home and schooling, sending the audience's characters to the front of the stage, cleverly avoids the spiritual highlands where they should have made a difference.
03 Fragments of a Woman
Theme: What kind of identity is needed for individual liberation?
Shards of a Woman movie poster
Choosing to give birth at home, but facing the tragedy of sudden death of the baby as soon as it is born.
After the incident, the heroine continues to face work, partner and mother. The job position is occupied, the partner's communication fails, and the mother urges her to fight the lawsuit quickly.
There was no gap for her to think about the brief few seconds she had held her child.
At first, I thought that the fragments were fertility, marriage, and parent-child tearing a woman into painful pieces. Then I realized that the husband, the mother, the childbearing, the work, the children, all of which surround the protagonist and form part of life, but not all of them.
But the highly topical 30-minute birth shot isn't why I recommend it.
But in the courtroom at the end of the film, she chooses not to sue the midwife, can rationally judge that the child was not intentionally killed, and she should not transfer the pain of losing the child to others by accusing others of crimes.
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