AND NEVER HAVE I FELT SO DEEPLY AT ON AND THE SAME TIME. SO DETACHED FROM MYSELF AND SO PRESENT IN THE WORLD. (My soul is so far away from me, and my existence is so real.) ）
—Albert Camus
Maybe each of us has this doubt, the soul that we set, the person we want to be so far away from ourselves, and every moment of every day, our life, our existence is so real.
Detachment: Separation, detachment, apathy, the detachment of outsiders
"That, don't let too many people in..." Henry Brate (Adrian Brody) turns to the camera and says to me outside the camera, Henry's face changing angles in dim light. This passage appears uninterruptedly in the film in a similar self-portrait and self-complaint technique, as a kind of documentary commentary, he explores, doubts, and shows his heart.
The film, which premiered in France in February 2012, was translated as Detachment. Starring Adrian Brody is best known for starring in director Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" in 2003, in which he played a Jewish pianist and won several awards for best actor at the 75th Academy Awards.
Lonely and distant, he is well interpreted by this high-nosed, eyebrow-raising Adrian Brody.
The film tells the story of Henry, a substitute teacher, who is assigned to a part-time literature course in a public school that is on the verge of closure, mixed with troubled students. The other people in the film, both students and teachers, are trapped in the predicament of their own lives. The protagonist Henry himself also has a lot of problems, the suicide of his mother in childhood, his grandfather suffering from Alzheimer's disease, just as he said that there was no one in his childhood who helped him understand this complex and changeable world, he just grew up alone. Perhaps it was this experience that made him more aware and understanding of the equally lonely, indifferent people around him.
The film's director Tony Kaye uses documentary techniques to tell us fragmentary sad stories that happened to different people, compared with the same education-themed films "Confessions", "Diary of a Freelance Writer", "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" and other works, "Detachment" does not present a complete ending. The film collects fragments of everyone's lives, the process of intersection between the two is not a smooth one-shot, everyone has experienced the stages of temptation, questioning, acceptance and separation, short eye contact, short non-segment language, together create a cold and lonely, cold and real atmosphere.
The film conveys it very naturally. There was no touch, no lamentation, no accusation, but living us inside.
The tone of this film is gloomy, but only in the black land can more beautiful flowers bloom. The heavier the status quo, the more hopeful life can be.
There are all kinds of characters in the film: Meredith, who is troubled by obesity and is not recognized by her parents, but has a rich imagination and unique artistic talent; Doris (Liu Yuling), who endures students' disregard for life, wastes her life to do all kinds of things out of the ordinary, and is tired of adjusting various problems between school and parents; Sheaboldt," who uses her "humor" to solve those foul-mouthed and scantily dressed students while taking medicine; Henry's grandfather, who has always been guilty but has always let himself forget The schoolgirl whose marriage career is crumbling; the teachers who are afraid of spending the weekend alone and aimlessly...
They share common characteristics: neglect and neglect, apathy and indifference.
Like the little boy who abused the cat answered: I feel trapped like the cat.
The scene in the film that impressed me the most was a scene in which a teacher stood alone in the playground, after school, and the crowd came and went. With a bag at his feet and his hands pulling on the court net, he stood alone, leaned back or bowed his head in the face of people coming and going.
This picture first appears in Meridian's lens, a black-and-white photograph, tired, helpless, heavy, and depressed like a cut diamond-shaped module forming a cold and desolate face.
The second time Henry passed by and asked "you alright?" The answer was a surprised "you see me?" You see me standing here?” After getting a positive answer, almost relieved, he said, Oh my God, I seem to have reconnected with the world, thank you.
No matter how loud the teacher sat down in the classroom, no one paid any attention, and when he returned home, his wife stared intently at the TV to watch the eight o'clock file, and the son held the computer and played alone, and his unanswered "Hi" was like a satire, floating in the air, and even the air ignored him.
Everyone's life has their own problems and things to deal with. Those difficulties, problems, we pack them up, we take them home at night, and we take them out during the day. It's been carried on until it's solved, until it can't be solved.
Whenever you realize that you are sailing alone, helpless, adrift, and when you feel that you have crushed the straw of the last line of psychological defense, you also lose your sense of security. How many people, like the people in the film, wander at night, stay outside, smoke a cigarette, and stay for a while. We have no home, life will always ignore our needs, we are still alone after all.
"I've tried, and no matter what we do, we're going to have some difficulties. Sometimes we do better than others, sometimes we don't do that well, and sometimes we can't even make a place for others in our hearts. ”
The fat girl committed suicide, in the despair of loneliness and indifference, in the despair of black and white.
In the quiet of the campus, the teachers waiting for the arrival of parents...
Some stories end, and some continue in unpredictable directions.
As the Buddhist saying goes, only experience can lead to detachment.
Suffering haunts us like a devil, and we can't hide from it, we can't shake it off, and we can only overcome it by experiencing it.
We have no choice but to experience.
In the film, Henry doesn't want to talk about the past, he wants to disconnect from that "past".
He was polite, gentle, and seemed to be smiling in silence forever. This single substitute teacher, when the teacher's selfishness is to be able to better control their emotions, so we see that when the first class, in the face of the student's provocation and sword confrontation, he is always not in a hurry, with a smile and says, "I can't provide you with a certain emotion that you damage." He also said that in fact, he did not need to teach seriously, but only to maintain order in the classroom. But maybe he understands the anger, the uneasiness, the loneliness of the students... So he unconsciously approached the students and got the recognition in his own way. Of course, we can also see his anger and sadness.
He lived in a simple apartment with only a table by the window and a piece of furniture that was both a sofa and a bed, and the decoration and furnishings could not be simpler. His life is like his apartment, and the fragile and short-lived connection with the world will be cut off at any time. Until I met a young prostitute named Erica.
The first encounter, tentatively questioned, broke up unhappily; the second time Henry took her home and gave her a tenderness and love. Instead of guessing whether Henry was initially compassion or what, they lived together for a while, as if they had some kind of intimate connection with the world, accompanied each other, survived hardships, and shared that loneliness and uneasiness. But not like Leon and Lori in "That Killer Is Not Too Cold", Henry eventually sent Erica away.
Life is good, love is good, unforeseen and can not be expected, but in the desperate life, there is always something, what we care about, will bloom in the sunshine with one or two small flowers. The fat girl who commits suicide has her own artistic love, and Erica meets Henry like a light in the dark...
At the end, Henry and Erica embrace in the warm sun, their faces hidden in the splendor of the backlight. Past and present merge with each other.
For more than an hour and a half, I was enveloped in an atmosphere of indifference and coldness. Like an invisible cage, trapping my soul. I thought about the words in the film over and over again.
Everyone is trapped in a lonely time and space, in the circumstances of life, we are always facing problems and choices. We walk on our backs on these questions, and this long experience can only be walked out if we have experienced it first.
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Finally, in the midst of desolation, Henry read Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of usher house:
During the whole of a dull,dark soundless day
On a long day in the autumn that was dull, gray and silent
In the autumn of that year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in heaven
Heavy clouds hung above the heavenly dome
I had been passing alone on the horse's back
I rode alone
Through the Singularly,dreary tract in the country
Walk through this gloomy, exotic country land
and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on
Eventually, when night falls
Within the view of melancholy House of Usher
The cold scenery of Escher House unfolded before my eyes
I know not how it was
I haven't seen it in the past
But with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit
But with just a glimpse of Fang Cai, some unbearable gloom permeated my heart
I looked upon the scene before me the simple landscape features of the domain
I looked at the sparse scenery around the mansion
Upon the bleak walls,upon the white trunks of decayed trees
The walls were deserted, and the decaying trees were covered in white
With the utter depression souls
My soul was speechless
There was an iciness
My heart is cooling
A sinking.
sink
A sickening of the heart
Shows a weak pathology