Stories can be used as a pastime, and stories can also be used as an endorsement. If something has a story, then it grabs the audience's attention. Sometimes, it is not enough to measure something purely from a technical point of view, and when the technical means are all the same, the cultural difference may be the difference itself. However, cultural differences are not a one-size-fits-all standard, and at this time, who tells the story and who has the ability to tell the story determines the future and fate of an unrelated thing.
Today, I recommend the film "Red Violin" to you, which is a work that allows the story to endorse it. The 17th-century violin maker, in memory of his wife, smeared blood on the violin, so that this ordinary violin added a lot of "sparkles", and since then, this violin has traveled to several people and several eras, and in each era, the violin has left its own story, and this story itself has built the legend of this violin.
"The Red Violin" itself is a story told for the sake of telling a story, and if there is any connection between these stories, then the tarot cards that are strung together in this film can be said to be a kind of threading the needle. This tarot card outlines five stories for the violin, and each story is actually full of a history of blood and tears, which together add a lot to the mystery of the violin. As for why the violin has increased mystery, and even what is the use of it, the final auction of the film seems to have told the audience why the story should be told, and why it should go to great lengths to combine the story with the violin.
That's right, it's for value, it's for material value.
For the auction, it will not let go of any content that can increase its value, these contents can be stories, or history, no matter what kind of content, as long as it can be linked to the goods being auctioned, it will have a lot of value for the goods themselves. Of course, we can say that this is an endorsement of the violin's own value, but what is the ultimate destination of this endorsement? This may be a topic worth studying.
Returning to the original logic of this film, the purpose of using these stories to connect the history of the violin is not to simply outline the legendary experience of the violin, but more to endorse the final result. And how does art itself reflect its value? If it is really like the path that the creator of this film has laid before, the final destination of this violin should be in the hands of a person who truly loves him that cannot be measured by material things, and yet the film ends up sending it to the auction house. In the end, he is still value-oriented, and such a value-oriented is loaded on something that cannot be measured by value, which is a bit ironic.
What do we want to get? What do we want to say? What do we want to say? This purpose is important, and the only thing that is not important is the story, when the audience focuses too much on the story, they ignore not only the story behind the story, but also the utility of the story itself.
For this violin, the utility of the story itself is more to add material value to the existing violin, without which the violin itself would lose its value. But what good are these stories if the violin's existence is measured only by value?
On the one hand, art is called priceless, and on the other hand, it is sold by all kinds of people, and when we sell it, we are still willing to do our own thing in the name of art. And this sale has nothing to do with those who really know him, and for this violin the seventeenth century the people who made him did not receive any profit, nor did the people who had lost their lives for him, and those who had worked so hard to keep it did not. But they did give, and their efforts were not directly related to the benefits of the violin, and the people who ultimately got the benefits did not add a sixth possibility to this story about the violin.
The art of hypocrisy itself does not exist to show some kind of ability beyond ordinary people, more often, what he wants to show is the process, and there is not much storytelling about the controllable result itself. Because it's all part of the deal, and as in this film, when we focus too much on these five stories, we seem to forget that this is the end result in itself—the auction house is just a part of the story, and it doesn't mean much else.
So, when the audience shouted and praised those who dedicated their lives to the arts, we still endorsed the higher price of the violin that was auctioned off, and in the end, we gained a touching story, and the auctioneer gained more money, which is called a win-win situation.
Therefore, when art is sold at a price, the artistry of art is the most neglected one, and the expensive art we advocate is undoubtedly a passive participant measured by money. Real art has never been neglected by us, because it does not produce much value in itself, just like the people in these five stories, they are all people who understand art, but they do not have a good future in the process of combining with art, which is perhaps more artistic than the auction house.
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Hello and goodbye