Pot Helmet Creative Box recommends a music film to you today - "Labyrinth Wall".
The Wall of Mystery was released in France in May 1982
This film is one of the more offbeat films of Alan Parker and is unique in the Hollywood world. For 93 minutes, the entire film does not feature a single line of dialogue, nor does it have any plot threads that run through the whole. The film is just a constant switching of pictures, showing the inner world of the characters and the spiritual consciousness that the author intends to transmit in one shot after another. This prophetic grandiose work summarizes the general characteristics of Western society in that era, from the shadow of the Cold War, the educational crisis, the alienation of human nature to the horrors of the end, and reflects on the changes and destinations of human nature. ——Excerpt from "Mtime.com"
We thought we had everything in our hands
Since the film has no dialogue and plot, it is difficult to understand its meaning after watching it. This film was recommended by an elder who graduated from the department of Chinese of Peking University. When I watched it for the first time, I clearly remember falling asleep before reading it. It wasn't until a year after graduation that I was recommended by the elder again that I tried to watch it again.
After combining some of my own experiences and social environments, the content of the film gives me a lot of inspiration and reflection. Since then, I have watched it no less than 10 times at different stages and occasions, and each time I watched the film felt different, and the understanding would be deeper, which is definitely a film worth appreciating in depth. Now take out this film for a simple appreciation, but also want to do a stage of self-assessment and review.
A 1980s musical film, through the combination of animation and live-action, presents us with a super-stream of consciousness masterpiece, and metaphorically and expresses many contents that reflect human nature, emotion, society, education, war, etc. Here are just some of them, if it suits your appetite, it is recommended to find a video to see for yourself.
Strong anti-war sentiment and reflections on postwar effects
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist recalls his tragic childhood, when he was 5 or 6 years old, his father died because he participated in World War II, and the male protagonist who lost his father's love from childhood always felt the existence of his father through some ways, such as looking in the mirror after changing into his father's military uniform, letting strange men accompany him to play on the swing in the park, etc. This is the male protagonist's first understanding of war, and thus the disgust for war. Then, the film begins to appear eagles in phantom fighters, Hitler's Nazi image, tombstone crosses, battlefields, bloodshed, flowers withering into ghosts, etc., all of which render the horror and gore of war. This makes the male protagonist deeply into grief and thinking can not extricate himself, began to uncontrolled emotional catharsis, smashed the items in the house, fell backwards into the pool, floated on the water and struggled, the pool water turned red and so on. The imagery of these shots shows the male protagonist's anti-war sentiment, and is also a kind of anger at the psychological and physical damage caused to the male protagonist after the end of the war.
Change into your father's uniform
A rebellion against cramming (the destruction of humanity).
In the film, the male protagonist was reprimanded by his own teacher under the cramming education system because of his unique creation when he was a child. The film also uses animation to compare the campus to a factory, and each student who enters the factory is like a product produced, all labeled with a uniform and wearing a uniform uniform. After one set of harsh "mechanized assembly line" education in the factory, all students were domesticated into a unity, binding their thinking and changing their behavior. Instead, another live-action shot of students rushing out of school en masse, smashing tables and chairs, and burning books because they can't stand such domination and unfreedom. But because of the impulse to pay the price, the police in the nature of the rioters, force to catch the rebels, and finally failed. Cramming education is dehumanizing.
"Mechanized assembly line" education
Deep reflection on human nature
After the male protagonist performed in a black uniform, the plot of the film reached a climax. Who is responsible for the ugly side of human nature? Is the so-called justice real justice? Is what we see really as we see? At that moment we felt as if we were lost! In the film, the male protagonist's teacher severely punishes the students in the classroom, but at home he bows his eyebrows to his wife; people cheer and support their beliefs, but find that the representative of the faith is violent to himself; we think we have everything, but we don't find that we are still in the hands of others. A wall is formed, break through or accept!
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