The beauty of the main character Cheng Dieyi is directly reflected in his artistic performance, which is exquisite and unsurpassed.
According to Yuan Si-ye he is both male and female.
It was the beauty of his temperament: All the sensitivity, tenderness, intelligence, delicacy, vulnerability, even a little jealousy and selfishness born of love, mixed with male fortitude, perseverance, silence, introverted, and tolerance.
On a deeper level, the beauty of Cheng Dieyi is reflected in his devotion to his belief and dream, and his courage to practice.
The film succeeds in shaping the beauty of Cheng Dieyi, unleashing the immense power he possesses, and then destroying the life that carries it.
Hegel’s theory says that when a limited form of external sensibility can not sustain a strong inner spirit, it is bound to distort or even destroy.
The powerful tragic effect of the film Farewell My Concubine is mainly due to the suffering, frustrations and final destruction of the life of the character.
In that era of lack of faith, people were like wandering wanderers who can not find their homes. A lack of faith in life is bound to be lead to insecurity and fear.
โWhat you promise me is a lifetime! Missing a year, a month, a day, an hour, is not a lifetime!โ
If he was not born in such chaotic times, perhaps he could have found a place for this infatuation, perhaps he could have remained pure until his death, perhaps he could have sung for a lifetime.
Which character or scene do you like best in this movie? Have you seen any other work of Chen Kaige?
Recently, my friends have been talking up the movie Joker.
After the movie, many people that watched it have been heard to copy the catchphrase in the movie “justice is never late”. Others simply full into a state of dispassion and silence.
In the movie, the Joker wants to expose and laugh at is the ugliness of human nature.
Today, I will analyze the four laughs that Joaquin Phoenix exhibits in this film.
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In this film, Arthur’s (the Joker) laugh is full of meaning throughout.
There are four types, each represents a different state of mind.
Once Arthur took the bus, looking out of the window, feeling sad, he feels that life is hopeless.
At that moment, there was a black child in front of him, teasing him, pouting, with a serious expression, it was very cute.
Arthur laughed, so he made faces to amuse the child.
The child was amused and Arthur was happy.
Although this scene is very short, I felt the warmth between these people.
The child was innocent, and Arthur, like the child, was simple and eager to be happy.
However it’s not that simple.
The mother of the child sitting next to him turned and said, please don’t bother my child.
I think everyone can relate to a similar situation in their own lives of kindness that isn’t reciprocated๏ผ
Arthur was so affected by this experience that he began to laugh wildly.
The sound echoed in the bus.
It was sharp and terrifying.
All the passengers on the bus tried to distance themselves from Arthur.
This is Arthur’s second laugh, which is pathological, because he has a unique mental illness, and when he gets excited, he can’t help but laugh, completely out of control.
It was an agonizing laugh, a sort of physical torture.
The third laugh, the psychological one, can be understood as an ordinary sneer. It was a forced smile to hide his pain and try to express indifference.
It was a smile of the utmost helplessness, ironic, dark, and sad. His ego was damaged.
The fourth kind of laugh is from the depths of the soul, self-confident, perverted, expressing pleasure from dark situations.
It was a release from depression, a bloodthirsty pleasure more exciting than earthly pleasure.
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