In the suspense movie "Disappearing Her", Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" has appeared many times, what is the meaning?
Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" appears repeatedly in the film, which is a metaphor for the fate of the character Li Muzi, which was her original love, but also about her love, and pointed to her fatalistic ending.
"Starry Sky" is Li Muzi's favorite painting, and it is also the pattern behind the T-shirt that He Fei wore when Li Muzi and He Fei met.
He Fei fell in love with Li Muzi at first sight, and then began a passionate pursuit. They went to see Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" exhibition together, and Li Muzi thought that although He Fei did not understand painting techniques, this did not prevent him from having a deep understanding of Van Gogh's paintings.
"Starry Sky" can be said to be a painting that makes Li Muzi and He Fei bond and fall in love, and it is the starting point of their love. It is also because of He Fei's understanding of the painting "Starry Sky" that Li Muzi has a good impression of He Fei and feels particularly close. How easy is it for an introverted girl to break her defenses and become in love with a clean boy who shares your love?
And what kind of painting is "Starry Sky"?
The painting shows a village, and above the village is the starry sky that occupies two-thirds of the frame.
The starry sky adopts a dark blue tone, using different levels of blue such as dark blue and light blue, and bright colors such as white, lemon yellow, and bright yellow.
Large and small whirlpools have formed above the starry sky, rotating and curling nebulae, bright yellow moons, twinkling stars, making the entire starry sky full of movement, whirlpools spinning, undercurrents surging.
Van Gogh completed this painting in 1889 in a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy, France.
At that time, Van Gogh had broken with Gauguin, cut off his right ear, and was sent to a mental hospital.
In the early hours of the morning, he saw the village through the window and the starry sky above it.
In a letter to his brother, Van Gogh wrote: "I have to admit that I don't know anything about the stars, but I start dreaming as soon as I see the stars, just as I start dreaming as soon as I see the black dots on a map representing towns and villages." Just as we can take a car to Thanascón or Rouen, we can take the death train to the stars. To the stars, to the eternal night of art, where there are only endless dreams, the splendor never falls. ”
There are high-intensity distorted black lines in the painting, straight into the starry sky, showing Van Gogh's restless emotions at that time, the despair and pain experienced in his heart.
At the same time, there are bright and brilliant starry sky, different levels of blue, bright yellow moon and stars, representing hope and vitality.
Bright from darkness, hope born from despair.
He Fei told Li Muzi that not only is there a starry sky above our heads and above the firmament, but there is also a starry sky at the bottom of the sea, and there will be a chance to take her to see the starry sky under the sea in the future.
(There are spoilers below, watch carefully)
After marriage, Li Muzi found that He Fei was a gambler, and the gambling sex did not change, she was disappointed for a while, thought about divorce, and later He Fei vowed to quit gambling, when Li Muzi found out that she was pregnant with a baby.
He Fei proposed to take Li Muzi to see the starry sky under the sea on their first wedding anniversary to fulfill his promise.
Li Muzi's heart rekindled hope.
He Fei later really took her deep into the sea and saw the starry sky under the sea, and that beautiful scene became the last picture Li Muzi saw in this life.
Li Muzi was married to He Fei because of "Starry Sky", and also died under the starry sky under the sea.
Riding the death train, she went above the stars and saw the darkest side of human nature.
The man she loves in her life, the father of her fetus, takes her deep into the sea, witnesses Van Gogh's most beautiful starry sky, and imprisons her in a death cage with his own hands.
"Starry Sky" contains Li Muzi's love and pain, despair and hope, initial longing and final desperation.
"Starry sky" contains the twisted desires and divided hearts, and under the starry sky, hides the unfathomable depths of the human heart and the darkest moments of human nature.