1 "Never look away, the real thing is beautiful"
Set in 1937 to 1966, The Masterless begins with Elizabeth appearing in the Munich ArtHaus Art Gallery with Kurt Jr., where the docent "instills" the "great German purity of art." In fact, this is just a political appendage that has lost its "freedom."
Elizabeth said, "The real thing is beautiful." Soon the museum exhibited a series of degenerate works of art with "negative teaching materials." In the face of the narrator's mocking tone, in the face of power, Elizabeth can only say to her favorite works, "I like this painting." "
The film tells the audience with the help of Elizabeth that art should come from the real feelings of the creator, because the truth is beautiful, and if art is kidnapped by politics and bound by realism, then the creator is only a tool to express the "great head".
Elizabeth was playing the piano naked at home, tapping her head with an ashtray just to make a high-pitched la, and little Kurt was just silently watching it all, he was a bystander, accepting the artistic enlightenment that Elizabeth had brought him, mixed with irony.
Elizabeth, convicted of mental illness, was forcibly sterilized or treated as a "worthless life."
Professor Ziband, as an obstetrician and gynecologist, was given the right to adjudicate and sign Elizabeth's sterilization documents, and at this moment, the pen in his hand became his murderous sword.
Elizabeth begged the professor for forgiveness, and even wiped her tears from her shoes with a handkerchief and threw them in the trash.
The authorities identified the degenerate artists, fantasists, and even expressionists as a group of "germany's most vulnerable people." It is necessary to make the Mongols and "freaks" clear, so as to get "racial optimization".
The family visits Elizabeth in the hospital and learns that she has been transferred, at which point the film uses parallel presentations, with two brothers on the battlefield dying in the snow in the woods, while Elizabeth is sent to the gas chambers, naked with a group of "psychopaths".
Little Kurt came to the courtyard at night and saw the fighter planes flying in the sky, dropping countless foil strips, and the air was filled with a feeling of "chilling".
This is the "Nazi Germany period" that the film shows the audience, and it is also the first act of the film.
2 Clamped free will
The second act is Kurt as a teenager, when Germany is defeated, and Kurt lives with his parents in East Germany.
Here's a clip of a colonel's wife giving birth, and because the fetal position is not right, the doctor can only reach directly into the womb with his hand to remove the child. The child is lifted high. "To save one person is to save the whole world".
Is human nature going to wake up? Maybe not, people still can't really get free.
The professor in the class lectured the students about Pablo. Picasso, who aims to educate students not to be unsapologetic formalism, is said by the professor to be an innovator and at the same time a "negative teaching material" for "degenerate" art. So he said: If the mind is full of "me", "me", "me", it will only lead to tragedy. This is wrong, conceited, and depraved.
I remember the film "Egon Schiller: Death and the Maiden", Schiller was imprisoned for creating erotic paintings, but he shouted for art in court, "This is the art of eroticism"! He was a true artist, and courage and a firm stand were the driving force behind free art.
Kurt, who grew up working in a printing house, later began to study realist painting at the art academy, and in the studio, each time stood a pair of men and women, holding sickles, ears of wheat and axes, and the students joked with restraint.
After graduation, he painted murals in the lobby, which could only revolve around the theme of praising great leaders and people. This kind of work is not creation, just meaningless mechanical labor.
True art is still asleep, and it is dangerous if controversial creations emerge.
Kurt goes with his classmates to get a pencil, meets Elizabeth, evokes memories of his aunt, asks Elizabeth if she has any other name, and she tells him that her family calls her Ellie.
The two fell in love at first sight and soon married, but they never expected that Ellie was Professor Zibband, the murderer of Elizabeth. He was a firm believer in the theory of "good races". So he objected to his daughter being with Kurt, who was "inferior to genetics", and performed an abortion on Hua's pregnant daughter.
Doctors were supposed to save lives, but Zippon became the executioner of innocent lives.
3 Flee to West Germany
At the end of the second act, Kurt's father hangs himself at home, and Kurt's perceived inferior genes stem from his father's initial criticism of joining the Nazis and abandoning his job as a teacher. However, when East Germany was occupied by Soviet Russia, as a defeated Nazi, an intellectual, he still tried to defend his dignity, but he could not get rid of the "inferior gene", defended himself, and finally chose to hang himself.
Kurt then fled with his wife to West Germany, where he was instructed to apply to enter Düsself and became exposed to modern art. The scene here is completely different from that of East Germany, where artists create with stickers, paint all over the body, and even cut the canvas with a knife. Sprinkle paint on canvas at will, paint with feet, and so on.
Their West German professor Antonius. Van Witton was described by the students as a person who did not pay attention to others, and later in the office the professor told Kurt his second request, absolutely not to expect. Don't expect him to pay attention to you. Only you know if you're the right fit or not.
"Independent thinking", "meaningless", "free". This is the intention that the professor wants to convey.
The professor's remarks in the classroom and his remarks in the classroom attracted applause from the students, and he was named after the famous German engraving artist Wilhelm Vladimir. Lembrook, for example. He was an expressionist sculptor, and his artwork showed what was born to be.
That is, "don't choose, definitely don't choose any political party, choose art".
Only in art is freedom not an illusion. He then burned paintings of two politicians in class. At this moment, only with me as the center, only when I am "God", can I truly create art. Art is inherently a very personal thing. If people like it, it is lucky to be happy.
When the students were asked what they had learned, Kurt said the lottery number, which caused a lot of laughter. He then explained that the lotto number is meaningless, but if only the winning number is the one, it has meaning when read out of the mouth, and even produces beauty.
After experiencing the very different artistic atmosphere in West Germany, he began to make many senseless attempts, such as cracking the canvas to let the red paint flow out, pouring ink into the canvas, wrapping the statue in wet newspaper, and so on.
In 1996, with the help of his classmates, Colt opened his own painting exhibition, and it was this time that he developed his own unique painting style. Use projections to copy photos to paint. In his paintings. It is not difficult for the audience to see Kurt's inner restraint on "trauma".
And the paintings of Elizabeth and the childhood Kurt, the Nazi Party, Dr. Zibband, airplanes, and war are all vague. He knew the truth, as opposed to the Sith's denunciation of the "murderer." He only uses art to express himself in trauma, and when the work is shown to people, the truth is no longer important and meaningless.
Because only what is true is harmonious, and every real content is harmonious and sincere. He did not complain, did not specify who became a particular thing in his paintings, but only expressed the truth. Obviously, this is a triumph of free art
Maybe all this has been a vague memory since he was little Kurt, but who said that the pain was not there. At the end of the film, he walks through the parking lot and asks the driver to press the whistle. He stood in front of the car, closed his eyes and listened to the high-pitched La from the whistle.