Suspense movie "Disappearing Her": Devilish details are hidden in Van Gogh's paintings

In the suspense film "Disappearing Her", a large number of Van Gogh's paintings appeared.

Van Gogh's famous paintings, on the one hand, support the visual effects and artistic quality of the entire work.

On the other hand, a clever fusion is formed with the plot, metaphorically and alluding to the motives and destinies of the characters.

When He Fei and Li Muzi first met, He Fei saved Li Muzi, who was about to drown, and taught her the action of underwater rescue, which did not trigger Li Muzi's active communication.

Until He Fei left, Li Muzi saw the starry sky pattern on the back of his T-shirt and stopped him.

The first thing Li Muzi said to He Fei was "You also like the starry sky?" ”

Van Gogh and his painting "Starry Sky" play a role in the story of He Fei and Li Muzi,

Two people with very different life trajectories have a seemingly deeper connection after a chance encounter.

He Fei knew Li Muzi's interest and knew how to reach Li Muzi's inner world.

During his pursuit of Li Muzi, he used the detail of the starry sky many times.

For example, he told Li Muzi, do you know that you can also see the starry sky at the bottom of the sea? I'll take you to see it when I have a chance.

Text Li Muzi at night: Look at the sky, the starry sky at this moment is so beautiful...

When they first met, they bonded because of "Starry Sky", why not use the beauty of the starry sky to create romance and please Li Muzi, and at the end of their story, why not use the starry sky as bait to send Li Muzi to a dead end.

In this movie, "Starry Sky" is not only a prop, a set, but also a metaphor, an important design that promotes the plot from beginning to end.

What kind of painting is "Starry Sky"?

The painting depicts a peaceful village, above which is a 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.

Van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother:

"I have to admit, I don't know anything about the stars, but I start dreaming as soon as I see them, just as I start dreaming as soon as I see the black dots on the 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. ”

The starry sky he painted, with the black lines of high-intensity twisted cypress trees, straight into the starry sky, showing Van Gogh's restless mood 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.

Li Muzi loves Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" the most.

She met He Fei at a time when she had just lost her parents and was experiencing the darkest moment of her life.

He Fei's appearance, for her, is not a bright light shining into her world in the darkness.

Why not chase Li Muzi's timing, when Li Muzi experienced trauma and emotional vulnerability, which is why he was able to get his hands so quickly.

The scene where he confessed to Li Muzi that he owed gambling debts was an endless golden wheat field.

This corresponds to another painting by Van Gogh, The Reaper in the Rye.

In the painting, a farmer with a crooked sickle in his hand rushes towards Mai Lang, with the momentum of sharpening his knife towards pigs and sheep.

The metaphors and hints here are very obvious, why not study Li Muzi's preferences and pursue Li Muzi hard, and finally succeed, come here, and it will be his harvest season.

Under He Fei's sincere disguise, Li Muzi easily believed him, and took out a bank card to He Fei to let him pay off his gambling debts.

Why not the "reaper in the wheatfield".

Not long after marriage, Li Muzi found that He Fei's gambling sex did not change and owed more gambling debts, she was very disappointed for a while, thought about divorce, and drafted a divorce agreement.

Later, He Fei vowed to quit gambling again, when Li Muzi found out that he 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 and fulfill his original promise.

Li Muzi's heart rekindled hope.

He Fei really took her to see 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 loved in her life, the father of her fetus, took her deep into the sea, allowing her to witness the most beautiful starry sky at the bottom of the sea, and at the same time imprisoned her in the cage of death with her own hands.

The starry sky contains Li Muzi's love and pain, despair and hope, initial longing and final desperation.

The starry sky contains distorted desires and sinister intentions, and under the starry sky, hides the unfathomable depths of the human heart and the darkest moments of human nature.

Speaking of the beginning, Li Muzi asked He Fei, "You also like the starry sky?" He Fei didn't answer positively whether he liked it or didn't like it.

What he said was: "Van Gogh, a successful loser, so am I." ”

He thinks he, like Van Gogh, is a successful loser.

It is easy to understand that Van Gogh was a successful loser, because Van Gogh's genius was not recognized during his lifetime, lived a very miserable life, became famous after his death, became famous, and his paintings were worth a lot.

But to say that he is not a successful loser is a bit puzzling.

He Fei once said to Chen Mai: "From the moment I was born, I was a failure. ”

But where did he succeed?

Here is actually what he thinks he is, he is a gambler, and the gambler has some kind of arrogant conceit in his bones.

He doesn't get along well in real life, squanders his life energy in gambling, experiences some kind of thrill of losing everything or winning a lot of money.

The gambler's self-perception is disordered, and he may be flooded with wild emotions in his heart, and in this addictive behavior, he repeatedly experiences the ups and downs of emotions, great sorrows and joys.

How can a gambler deal with himself?

In the film, there is such a scene, why not stand in front of a self-portrait of Van Gogh and stare for a long time.

He substituted his situation for Van Gogh because he felt that Van Gogh's real life was a failure and his spirit was crazy, and he did the same.

When he is once again cornered with huge gambling debts, he slides into the deeper abyss of human nature and the darker darkness.

His madness, darkness and guilt became the cluster of black and furious cypress trees in Van Gogh's "Starry Sky" that soared straight to the sky.

At first sight, Li Muzi regarded He Fei as the bright twinkling light of the stars, illuminating the dark world she fell into due to the death of her parents.

As a result, he personally created a deeper darkness and despair, and this time her life was completely submerged by this darkness.

"A successful loser", why not think too highly of himself, he is just a crazy loser.