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More and more voices are encouraging the public: "Be yourself", "Find yourself", "Bravely accept your true side". The question is, who are you?
In this information age, information outputs great value. We receive different perspectives from all directions: aesthetics built under consumer trends, experiencing the experiences of others in viewing and imagining, finding role models and directions in other people's voices and works... What is finally revealed in this environment is the "crowded" self, or the real self?
Such a philosophical question may be difficult for us to find a standard answer throughout our lives. But in the path of human beings constantly exploring themselves, there are always people who insist on and are fortunate to touch some truths about the "self". Today, I would like to talk to you about these film masters, writers and musicians and how they have shown their unique selves through their works and influenced generations of young people.
Looking back at the history of cinema in the 20th century, we can't bypass David Lynch.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing at the age of 34 for "The Elephant Man." In 1990, "My Heart Is Wild" won the Palme d'Or at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival. The suspenseful crime drama Twin Peaks aired on ABC and swept the country in a frenzy.
Mulholland Road
From painting to screen, director, actor, painter, musician, photographer, designer – david Lynch has always been a unique "dreamer" at Hollywood DreamWorks.
Lynch's works are autobiographical in nature. The artistic choices of his youth and the twists and turns of his early life have made his works have a "multiple personality" color.
"RubberHead"
The Elephant Man
At the heart of Lynch's work is the "weirdness," the completely wrapped, airtight weirdness. "Uncanny" is an aesthetic concept revealed by Freud to refer to a special form of horror that exists in literature and life, which he calls the horror that brings us back to the familiar things we used to know, that is, a seemingly harmless environmental space that is chaotic by the intrusion of aliens, which is a pattern that is often seen in Lynch's films (such as "Mulholland Road", "Blue Velvet", "Night's Panic").
David Lynch Body Photography Collection Nudes
Art provides Lynch with a path into dream psychoanalysis, and meditation has become his path of practice for nearly 40 years to dispel spiritual darkness and dive into the depths of consciousness.
Blue Velvet
"Only by lighting the lamp of pure consciousness and the light of self-control can we drive away negative energy." David Lynch switches and wanders between multiple identities, blurring boundaries and constructing his own complete universe: the self is the world.
There is a saying that all young people in the world who love to read will fall in love with Herman Hesse's books.
Hesse experienced two world wars in his life, suffered a serious mental crisis in middle age, and received Jung's psychoanalytic treatment. The writer, known as "the last knight of the German Romantics," spent his life searching for himself and exploring the way out of the human spiritual dilemma.
The contemporary German scholar Michels called Hesse "a writer who belongs forever to the younger generation" and "reads Hesse's writings often feel as if we are writing about ourselves, as if we have written all this ourselves." ”
Hesse's childhood self-awakening was extremely early, he wrote his first poem at the age of 7, and at the age of 13 he understood that he would either become a poet or nothing. His family was heavily religious, and Hesse himself was of German, French, Swiss and British descent. This diverse and open culture gave Hesse a lot of room for imagination and the possibility of exploration.
As a child, Hesse began to rebel, and he "escaped from the outside world and devoted himself to myself". His personality is introverted and intense. He saw shadows and sins lurking in the world of light, and he was terrified and trembling. He was reluctant to inherit the family tradition of being a priest, skipping school and committing suicide, so that his parents would not dare to interfere any longer.
Beginning at the age of 15, he earned a living on his own, traveled to different cities, worked as an apprentice, a bookstore clerk, and began his exploration of himself in a wandering way.
Literature is his main way of exploring himself and the world, and at the age of 18 he began to read a lot of domestic and foreign works. At the age of 22, he began to publish works one after another, gradually establishing the framework of his own world.
Works by Hermann Hesse
In his book Demian, Hesse writes: "For everyone, there is only one real duty: to find himself. Then hold on to it in your heart for the rest of your life, with all your heart, never stopping. ”
Tom Wiitz is an American musician and actor. His distinctive bass, as well as the absorption of elements of pre-rock music, make up his style. Wiez has also appeared in a number of films, including Jim Jarmusch's Outlaws. His score for From the Heart was nominated for an Academy Award.
"I love adventure songs, horrific crashes, evil and heroism, romantic wilds and mysterious songs. I always wanted to live in it and never wanted to come out. Despite his fascination with the atmosphere of decadence and depravity, Wiez arrives at artistic health. Wiitz is well-read and has a keen sense of contemporary pop culture.
Tom Wiitz started out as a doorman at nightclubs and later entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sentimental, absurd, bizarre, decadent, chaotic, underclass and wandering scenes... This was the inspiration for Weitz's creation.
He always seemed deeply melancholy, as if ready to sell his soul for a glass of whiskey; he was fascinated by the lower classes of society and devoted himself to documenting heartbreaking romances. Wiez's unique bass is always a thing to remember.
Tom Wiitz Music Album
The most fascinating thing about Weitz is the fusion of contradictions and changeable elements, and the continuous progress of creativity. Some critics say that Wiez "is a musician who is difficult to understand, at least from the looks of ugly or special" whether it is ugly or special.
In the 1980s, when many rock singers were lost or sunk, Wiez completed the construction of himself. He was obsessed with the atmosphere of decadence and depravity, but reached artistic health. He pulled the demon out of his soul, filled the hole in his heart, and built an entire auditory universe with one album after another.
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In what ways do you find yourself?