It is a pleasure to feel another life in another world in the real world, so I revisited the movie Beyond.
When I first heard this name, I felt that this film was to create a great society that was detached from reality and materialistic, so I secretly looked forward to it.
But after reading it, we will find that the real detachment is to be detached from yourself, from reality, to embrace your true self in the muddy world and to be truly invincible.
The film was directed by Tony Kaye. In his own words: "I like to pay attention to major social issues in the film, and" Beyond "tells and discusses educational issues. These issues that I pay attention to in the film can be regarded as major issues or moral issues.
Besides education, Beyond is also a family movie, in which the leading actor and three leading ladies are all looking for a kind of affection. In fact, for a person, family is everything, the whole of life and the hope of the future. "
? The original name of the film Separation is translated as "Separation", which separates life into education, family and self-salvation. It can also be called "pulling away". When people pull away from these elements that run through our lives, we will find out what runs through our lives. What can we learn from it? When we deeply understand and benefit from it, then this is "detachment". This is also the signal that the director wants to convey to the audience-barbaric growth and self-redemption.
Henry Bart, the hero of the film, witnessed his abnormal grandfather's aggression against his mother, which directly led to his reluctance to establish contact with others and his withdrawn personality. The identity of the male substitute teacher also reveals that a short and quick separation can keep him detached.
The first time men and women met was on the bus where the man came home from work. At that time, the man witnessed the depravity of a 19-year-old girl. In his heart, he hated the failure of the educational mechanism and lamented the ignorance and self-love of girls. He took her home, took her in, redeemed her, and redeemed himself in getting along.
? And his female student, Sasha, is a girl with great artistic talent, but she is laughed at by other students because of her physical problems. At the same time, her works were not understood by her father and were severely criticized. At this time, the man gave her comfort, but after the man refused her hug, she went to the other extreme and committed suicide by taking poison. For Sasha, this briefly divorced her from reality, but at the same time rejected her barbaric growth.
? As a male prop, the blackboard appears many times in the movie, just like a paragraph written on the blackboard at the beginning of the movie: "I have never felt so deeply that my soul is so far away from me, but my existence is so dependent on this world." -albert camus. This sentence of Camus directly points out the theme of the film. This film is about the presentation and thinking of "existentialism", which contains four propositions: freedom, loneliness, anxiety and the value of existence.
There is also a very important prop-notebook. Henry devoted himself to the ocean of literature because of his tragic childhood experience, and even sent notebooks to grandpa, Sasha and girls as an adult to keep a diary. Because in his view, the world is absurd and human beings are anxious. This is a kind of dialogue and self-reflection between the present self and the former self, a kind of self-redemption, a kind of temporary detachment from real life, and a search for the true self.
The film mainly uses three colors, red, black and white, and three styles are interspersed among them, creating an absurd and strange irony. After getting off the bus, the background wall where men and women get together is a whole piece of red, which is warm only when they have strong vitality, while the two men are dressed in black and hidden in the dark, like a black python sticking out its tongue.
The blackboard is black, the chalk is white, and the black-and-white lines in Sasha's works alternate between indifference and purity, as if silently accusing the dark world and telling the world that this world is not black or white, and it has always been a gray area. The key is whether we can understand it, then get rid of it and learn to grow.
In fact, this film is not a cure in the traditional sense. It does the opposite. From the dark series of the protagonist's childhood, family, education, self-redemption and growth, it shows the audience an adult world whose life or spirit is not easy.
But if the world is not as beautiful as we think, it is certainly not as bad as we think. Bai Luomei once said: "What we see every day is a bustling stream of people, but it is actually just a scene."
Then why should we care too much in prison? We should regard this once-only life as a kind of practice. We practice meditation in this reverse journey, which is self-help, to save a real "me", and then let this meditation take us out of the road of life, bury what we lost, cherish what we gained, and then stand up again and rush to the right path.