The eccentric director who became famous in the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy (Shaun zombie, Hotstroke, End of the World) has disappointed fans a little this time. Leaving the Iron Triangle, the other two, Simon Peggy and Nick Frost, Edgar Wright's iconic British black humor and bad tastes were clearly neutralized by Hollywood, and the personal color was diluted a lot.
Even so, Edgar still made a drag racing cop movie different, and the highlight was the use of music. He made the whole movie seem to become the MTV skewer of music in the ear of the male protagonist Baby, and the plot and picture were seamlessly connected, allowing the audience to have an exciting drag racing journey with the music.
I like this setting, because the point I get is exactly the similarity between the male protagonist and me - a person with severe music dependence.
How to explain this pathology? Most people listen to music often to empty themselves, that is, they like to listen to music when there is nothing to do. People with severe music dependence are just the opposite, they need music to accompany them in everything they do, but they don't rely on music when they need to relax.
I am such a person, when driving, working, reading, code words must listen to music, if there is no music around when doing things, I will feel uncomfortable, and even have hand tremors, panic and other symptoms of addiction, until the music will gradually settle down. An absolutely silent environment is a work environment that I can't stand at all, it's only suitable for sleep.
People with severe music dependence have several classifications of music:
1. Mechanical music
This kind of music is to improve the efficiency of mechanical labor, and what they have in common is a strong sense of rhythm. It's like the kind of explosive music that Baby plays when they're racing or an accomplice heisting, and it's all about the rhythm.
Years ago, I was known as the fastest person in the unit, thanks to music. I'm used to playing fast-paced music like Michael Jackson and Jay Chou when drawing, and they make me feel like I'm hanging up, unconsciously soaring in my hand speed, entering a state of self-forgetfulness that can't stop once it's started.
This habit originated from the university era, when students rushed to design the course drawings, a public speaker was usually placed in the classroom for everyone to play music freely, and if I encountered a soft slow song, I would usually plug in headphones and turn on my Walkman to a set of fast songs, so that I would not be slowed down by the sound of silence.
Over time, some nerves and muscles in the body slowly began to adapt to the fit of the adjustment and music, as if a delicate machine must rely on a fixed mechanical rhythm to maintain its high-speed operation.
Since then, music has never left me.
2. Immersive music
This type of music is designed to create a reading atmosphere, does not emphasize the sense of rhythm, and focuses on melody, similar to theme music.
Since college, I've been frantically collecting soundtracks from tapes to CDs and MP3s to today's cloud. This became a significant portion of my college living expenses, and I owned a huge number of movie soundtrack CDs, even though most of them were pirated copies. Fortunately, I have now entered the era of digital sharing, which has saved me a lot of overhead and storage space.
The huge music library is used to match the small private library, which stems from the habit of reading books and listening to music. Due to my immersion and familiarity with pure music (film scores, new century music, post-shake, etc.), I am very good at the choice of books and music. What style of fiction matches what atmosphere of music, I have a fairly mature set of experience. The process of reading becomes as vivid as the movie, relying on the background music to play a foil role in it.
The so-called immersion is to emphasize the selflessness of reading and forget him. For me, music is like an IMAX screen and 3D glasses, but it doesn't affect the brightness of the movie.
3. Stimulating music
The nature of the work meant that I often had to do some creative thinking work, coupled with the hobby of having code words, so I had to match it with this third type of music.
When conceiving a plan or PPT framework, when I buried my head in code words, I used to come to a piece of background music that fits with it. Or majestic, smart jumping, or passionate, sad and mournful... The concert inspired me to write and write. The right musical atmosphere will drive yourself to a certain mood, experiencing the initial narrowness and confusion, the waves in the middle, the sudden opening of the climax, until the end of the calm. The mind seems to let it go, and as the music rides the wind and waves, the ups and downs are all involuntarily. The so-called next pen is like a god, and this wisp of "god" is the soul contained in the music.
Musical emotions are a catalyst for creative inspiration, and without its boost, I couldn't reach any other shore.
For patients with severe music dependence, music is a wall, used to isolate his insulation wall from emotions and things that have nothing to do with the periphery, and can create echoes and reverbs of emotional sublimation within the wall. Within this wall, thinking and action are highly integrated, which is the guarantee of efficiency improvement and the channel for the purification of thinking.
People with severe musical dependence are very paranoid at work and cannot tolerate changes in the musical environment and interference with others. Just as some people like to work in a quiet environment and cannot tolerate a single sound; I must work in an environment with proper music, without a trace of silence.
Baby in the movie is such a patient, he uses music to erect a wall of isolation, whether in work or life, maverick, silent. To try to enter his life, you must know how to use the key, that is, a piece of music that can open his heart, such as the heroine singing "Baby ooh baby, I love to call you baby..."
Is this a neuroticism? Maybe.
But if you ask me why I have to do this, I will say: It's ok, why not?