Film, as a special art carrier, has had attributes that ordinary art carriers do not have since its birth. Some people think that film is a vehicle for expressing the creativity of directors, while others have discovered the mystery of publicity. Any kind of carrier, a carrier that can convey information, has some propaganda role to varying degrees.
When the film was first invented, it was initially shown to everyone some words, turning the words on the original books into video materials for the audience, and then gradually turning to recording simple images. It can be seen that the film has some publicity record function.
In the past hundred years of its development, we have gradually become accustomed to movies, and in today's society, we are more inclined to entertainment for movies, and forget the recording and display function of movies.
However, looking at the directors and films that have left traces in the long river of history, it is not difficult to find that the original role of publicity records has not been forgotten. When we see entertainment stories from some old movies, the meaning of those records is also found little by little, and the original film and television works or any documentary works finally have the role of describing the core points of the times, such as the film "Rogopag" that I want to recommend to you today.
This is a collection of four short films produced by four famous Italian directors in the last century, and the name of this film is taken from Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini and Gregoredi, and when they are combined, the name of the film is also there. The film tells four short stories, "Flight Attendant", "Paris Nuclear Explosion", "Soft Cheese" and "Purchasing Power".
Of course, if you look at it from the current point of view, these are four ironic little stories, but from the original point of view, or from the perspective of history, these four small stories without exception do not reflect a social reality under the historical conditions at that time.
"Flight Attendant" mainly says that the source of people's imagination of unknown objects is only based on their own understanding and imagination. In other words, we expect a opposite sex to meet with ourselves, and when we see this ideal opposite sex appear, we will use our own set of values to apply this opposite sex, and finally measure it to come to a conclusion.
Is he or she the person we're looking for? For the likes of others, we judge with our own value scale, and we use our own value scale to judge the dislike of others. As for what is the root of liking or hating? Nobody cares.
Using a self-righteous way as a magic weapon for contact with the whole society or people was a habitual way of thinking at that time. However, these four directors are all Western directors, and the social reality they see is also a reflection of the current social situation in the West. Does this mean that they are also deeply resistant to the coldness and hypocrisy of this capitalist social system?
"The Paris Nuclear Explosion" brings the focus to the anxiety of urban people. Because of the anxiety caused by his wife's suspicions, a man has always put himself in a state of anxiety, on the one hand, a skeptical attitude towards any of his wife's actions.
On the other hand, there is a special desire for his wife, he wants to be his wife's unique love, but in fact, whenever his wife expresses her love, he always looks like a refusal. Desire and rejection became a false proposition, and he let himself be entangled in it.
Soft Cheese is a mockery of religion. The film and television practitioners who work in the author's group performance work have always been in a state of exhaustion, in the play he plays a noble person who is crucified, but in life, he plays a low-level person who is called to drink anytime and anywhere.
He was often so hungry that he didn't have enough to eat and didn't have time to get something to eat. One day, when he painstakingly exchanged a dog for soft cheese. Then because of overeating, he died unexpectedly in the process of acting. It's ironic because the director, at the outset, says he would love for someone to die to make his play full of publicity. When the end came, we were dumbfounded.
The last story is called "Purchasing Power," which is about the prevalence of consumerism when people's daily lives were always in a state of being led by the nose. No one feels that they can be satisfied just by what they have in front of them.
In fact, people have been in a very unsatisfied state. Who is the initiator of this state, naturally consumerism, consumerism never cares about what people really need? When the inventory needs to be cleared, consumerism will always put forward some new consumption views in a timely manner, and eventually prompt consumers to purchase behavior.
And these new consumer views are indeed very funny now. Whether it is the upgrading of existing products brought about by consumption upgrades, or the artificial panic that reaches the core selling points and attractiveness of existing products, these are actually very funny.
Consumers may be complacent about puncturing this hilarious hoax for a while, but in fact, you will one day be fooled again, because when capitalism takes control of society as a whole, you have no ability to resist.
These four directors have very different styles, and what they finally present to us is a picture of all beings at that time, and these spearheads actually point to one point, that is, capitalism. Therefore, if you want to understand the social situation at that time, watching a movie is a good opportunity.
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