Man is born free, but he is always in chains. He who thinks he is the master of all things is more a slave than everything else.
- Rousseau
Naked words, naked marriage, zero social, Dink and other words, clearly reveal the rebellious psychology and desire of contemporary young people to dominate themselves, and try to jump out of the comfort zone.
Is there really absolute freedom?
No, man is the sum of social relations, forever deep in the center of the vortex of desire. Perhaps, the French film "The Phantom of Freedom" can be deeply deconstructed for you.
At first, Napoleon wielded his sword to occupy Spain, and the enslaved people could only roar "free to get out of the egg".
The story unfolds – their freedom is an illusion.
The scene switches naturally, and Napoleon is actually a historical allusion in the mouth of the nanny.
On the other side, next to the slide, the two girls, induced by uncle Strange, get a set of pictures that "cannot be shown to others".
In the blink of an eye, the girl handed it over to her mother. The woman and the man began a discussion, and also reprimanded the girl for it, as if hiding some huge secret.
The next second, a group of landscape paintings, the elegant Triumphal Arch Sacré Coeur Church, is crowned with disgusting and evil adjectives.
At night, the man began to lose sleep, and a series of strange events occurred: a chicken came in, the mysterious woman blew out the candle, the postman dropped a letter, and the ostrich slipped away under his eyes.
He thought it was a dream mirror, but the next day he had an envelope in his hand and had to go to a psychiatrist.
At this time, the nurse in the clinic took a leave of absence to go home because of his seriously ill father. At midnight on a rainstorm, she stayed at a hotel.
She met three priests, prayed for her father together, and played cards and drank wine while performing Divine operations.
The next day, she picked up the professor who was going to teach at the police station.
The professors seemed to have stumbled into the kindergarten, and the policemen not only wrote insulting words on the chalkboard, but also put nails on the chairs.
The professor had no choice but to invite the regimental commander, and only he could calm the childish them.
Although the lecture went smoothly, only two policemen were left, and he told a story about visiting relatives and friends.
On that day, they dressed unusually formally.
At the dinner table, they sat on the toilet, which was supposed to be a chair, and talked loudly on the side of the toilet.
Then a little girl said she was hungry. The professor immediately lifted his pants and went to a separate single room, which was actually a bathroom place to eat.
The police officer went on duty after listening to the professor's lecture and met a driver who was busy going to the hospital.
After arriving at the hospital, the driver was diagnosed with cancer. Enraged, he slapped the doctor.
When he got home, his wife informed him that his daughter was missing, and they hurried to the school to look for someone.
At school, the daughter timidly called out to her mother, but she stopped her from "adults talking, children don't interject."
So, the driver went to the police station to report the case, and the director only questioned his daughter the whole time, guessing that the little girl was unmarried.
After issuing a city-wide search order, the driver and his wife returned home with their daughter.
There is a shoemaker outside the police station, working while petting the dog at the guest's feet.
He sighed leisurely, "Those bastards who abuse animals should be thrown into the sea." ”
After saying this, he stood on the tall building of Mombanas and carried a gun to hunt and kill passers-by.
He was sentenced to death, and after the verdict was pronounced, he was released in court, and reporters flocked to him and instantly became a star.
Over there, the director found the driver's daughter. During the communication period, he left and went to the restaurant to meet a friend.
His sister, who was lying in the coffin, suddenly called him and asked for a story from the grave.
He went to the appointment as scheduled, but was arrested by the police for desecrating the grave. After the confession, he was escorted to see the director.
The two directors looked at each other and smiled, and went to the zoo together.
Hundreds of beasts roared in unison, and the background was the sound of gunfire.
The ostrich looked into the camera, mixed with the roar of "Down with Freedom."
The end of the play.
Absurd, nonsensical, crazy, funny, confused... Perhaps the first impression of many people. Strangely behaved humans, wild birds and beasts, this all-encompassing narrative pattern can even be summed up in one sentence - a serious nonsense.
Children can't look at landscape photos given by strangers, are accused of shouting hunger at the dinner table, talk about poetry and far away when they go to the toilet, eat a delicious meal in the bathroom, hand out good people cards to bad people, the priest's robe is full of dirty thoughts, the police are like preschoolers, open their eyes and talk nonsense...
Everything is the opposite of reality, and the worldview will not collapse, but the outlook on life will have to be reshaped. This is the great charm of the surreal genre: the never-ending jumps.
Time has whisked away the dust of history, and "The Phantom of Freedom", released in 1974, is the director's art and ideas shining.
Luis Buñuel is a national treasure director and the father of surrealist cinema. His film footprints began in A Dog of Andalus, and doubts about human nature seem to have begun at that time.
His definition was "the love of dreams and the interest in their content, the most important common denominator of all Surrealists." ”
Therefore, he did not pursue the film's set and technique to the extreme, and his portrayal goal was limited to people.
The people in the film seem to have no connection, but they closely pass on the story, interlocking, one after another like a trap in the air, inducing us to jump in: the content of the letter? The secret of my sister's death?
Then borrow the sense of déjà vu that the world is sometimes intertwined and sometimes broken, and boldly excavates the subconscious at the psychological level and the inferiority in human nature.
In The Phantom of Freedom, he denounces the hypocrisy of the middle class and the morality of a gentleman; our superficial desire for freedom, but in fact it is an ostrich-style escape of inaction, exile from others; or an allusion to the dark side of institutions, religion, law, education, and politics.
It is not difficult to find that the plot of the film is outside the rational and legal framework, and metaphor and irony are its eternal main themes.
Human beings seem to be random, but in fact they are bound by various dogmas, which is superficial freedom; if they live in chaos and disorder under rules, based on hurting others, this is a false freedom.
If the trade-offs are not made, freedom will eventually become an illusion, a prisoner.
Art can really be contagious.
Ironically, as early as Chaplin's silent film era, it was used to the fullest. It is still one of the usual techniques used in movies today, and its charm is that it separates the illusory world from reality at the same time, and at the same time, in an unbelievable way, it prys the shackles attached to us or our thoughts.
"Lobster", with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes freshness, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the title of the film was also translated as "Singles Zoo".
In the fictional near-future society, the protagonist David comes to the hotel and informs others that his brother is a dog.
The hotel receptionist went on to explain: According to the regulations, singles must find a partner within 45 days, allowing bisexuality.
Otherwise, it would become an animal and be exiled, and David decisively chose the lobster.
Single is guilty. Following this idea, David's hands are tied, there are boring educational lessons, the chime alarm clock in the room, the insulting sexual comfort... All of this highlights the importance of spouses.
Masturbation, teasing, and flirting are not allowed, and disobedience must be punished.
If you do not meet the most primitive state, you can become a hunter and hunt down singles who are wandering outside the window to prolong the period of being a man.
David joins the lonely queue, but encounters true love, and the rules in the jungle change again.
They forbade free love.
From primitive people to rebels, there is a ridiculous paradox - single people have no value to speak of, only partners are the best way to return.
There is a spiritual core in "The Phantom of Freedom" and "The Lobster": dystopia. Redrawing the extreme world, the conflict between desire and human nature comes in a plain tone, domination is not necessarily unified, quiet does not represent pleasure, and criticism is even greater.
Dystopias signal the annihilation of the light of idealism, and human beings are gradually reduced to free and social appendages. It coldly raises the question: Why do more and more people want to escape from the loyal city of marriage? It is not that we do not have enough love, but that we are too anxious to draw and resist foreign enemies, trying to break some kind of balance, and a peaceful world is quietly brewing new crises.
In the movie, there are also artistic techniques of human-animal consciousness exchange. For example, "Donkey Gets Water", which originally meant a donkey, but embodied as a real person.
At first glance, Happy Twist is produced and thought to be a light comedy.
In 1942, the golden age of education, several important figures appeared: coppersmith, Pei Kuishan, Zhou Tienan, commissioner, American sponsor, Zhang Yiman, Sun Jia, daughter of Principal Sun, and the wife of the coppersmith.
President Sun adheres to an ideal: to change the greed, stupidity, weakness and selfishness of chinese peasants.
Although life is poor, there are talk and laughter, and occasionally drive a car.
Until the special commissioner of the Education Bureau came to inspect and asked to listen to Mr. Lu Deshui's class by name.
The school fell into an inexplicable panic. At this time, Zhang Yiman took the initiative to ask the "pajamas" coppersmith, successfully mixed it up, and also obtained a sponsorship fund provided by foreign countries.
Two months later, the commissioner visited again with the British philanthropists, and neither Lu Deshui nor the coppersmith were present.
When she was at a loss, the coppersmith's wife came to the door to find stubble.
The cuts are constant, and the rationalization is still messy. Zhang Yiman became a "slut" among other people, and the village was destroyed by out-of-control lies.
In fact, the real identity of "Lu Deshui" is a donkey, and the original meaning of fiction is to get an extra salary to improve life.
Cloaked in the cloak of comedy, the perfect thing is laughed and destroyed to the audience, we often call it "black humor", a kind of desperate humor, the space for questioning in the contradiction of crying and laughing, and the high-level aesthetic in irony.
Donkey Got Water did.
Greed, lust, cowardice, arrogance... Step by step, dig into the distorted and deformed gray areas of human nature.
The most tragic character in the film is Zhang Yiman, an absolute liberal, sexually open-minded, no-interest appeal, but lost to the so-called intellectuals and male rights. With a positive label, you still can't live this life well. Disappointment can not find an outlet for catharsis, perhaps can only use laughter to cover up the trepidation and uneasiness in their hearts, and slowly reconcile with life.
"Clockwork Orange" tells the story of the innocent teenager Alis who likes to listen to Beethoven's symphony rape and kill women, the government through experimental transformation to make him change from evil, but the surrounding also wear colored glasses to see him, and even some people want to restore his original temperament - human nature is evil.
Jackie of the Daughter Nation, the Republic of Bubuuni is a feminist state that pursues polyandry. Men uniformly wear faceless blouses, do home cooks, magic realism and inversion of the cart before the horse, is their anger at the world.
"Put Grandma in the Fridge", the story of the Italian nibbling on the old. Claudia is an art restorer, and when the company went bankrupt, she chose to freeze her deceased grandmother in the refrigerator for a little pension. Lies have no boundaries and allow corpses to melt in the sun.
In District 9, refugees from aliens are taken in by humans and isolated in "District 9". After more than 20 years of breeding, the number of aliens has surged, conflicts have continued, mysterious fluids have been infected during migration, and humans have slowly become the appearance of aliens...
"The Art of Watching Movies" said: In a play, if the irony is one after another, it may not be as simple as rhetoric, but intended to convey the author's values. The author may want to imply that life is just a ridiculous game. This situation is somewhat "advanced", and we can call it "cosmic irony".
Whether it is divorced from reality or not, comedy is wrapped in the shell of tragedy, the movie is not a savior, it can only let people "see", silently firing signal flares: wake up, this society can not be worse, let it rampage, will inevitably push each other into the abyss. Only by constantly changing and no longer following the rules will the world be given true freedom.