557 Darkness
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.
This was once a miserable situation among the people during the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty. In contemporary society, people can hardly see such a miserable situation. Renly is not an innocent and ignorant rich man. He knows that there are still countless people in Africa. People are facing the dilemma of hunger and cold. In the Middle East, there are still countless people struggling to survive under the flames of war. Even in the United States, there is a strong polarization between rich and poor. The scene in the slums is a mess..
However, Renly never believed that he would see the scenes in Du Fu's poems with his own eyes..
Two days before the filming of "Transcendence" officially started, Renly saw the prostitute again. She was dead. She died at the entrance of a dark alley, with a trash can just two steps away, surrounded by flies and stray dogs. The corpses were swimming around, and even wet rats could be seen running around. However, no one cared..
Renly dialed "911" and notified the police to come and deal with it. This human tragedy came to an end. What is even more chilling is that this is not an exception. Even in prosperous New York, this situation still happens every day. is being performed.
In a daze, Renly seemed to see the carer, the carer who was disintegrated and unable to take care of himself, the carer who was dazed and fragile with tears in his eyes, the carer who was exhausted and tortured, the carer who shivered under Henry's severe rebuke. The trembling nurse. In her, he saw Henry, the deep despair and stiff numbness that were so familiar..
Henry is weak, and the nurse is also weak, but the two weak people are still hurting each other: she ignores her grandfather's request and allows the patients who are suffering from the disease to continue to sink; he ignores her fatigue and heaviness, wantonly They vented all their anger. The two weak men opened wounds one after another on each other's scarred bodies..
In the caregiver, Henry not only saw himself, but also saw the group of students in the school, saw Meredith, saw Sarah, and saw those students who stubbornly resisted life but ended up with bruises all over their bodies..
They are all weak in life, or in other words, they are all abandoned by God.
In this terrible society, there is no hope, not even a trace. The cruel reality is swallowing up their vitality and soul bit by bit. Some people try to resist, some try to escape, and some People tried to struggle, some tried to vent, and some tried to accept it.……
But in the end, everything doesn't matter, because they can't see the exit. Even if they accept it dejectedly, the bitterness in their mouths, the pain in their stomachs, and the sadness in their hearts are still tormenting them severely, and life will not become worse. Easy. No one knows where the end point is, and no one knows whether they can persist to the end. They can only live like a zombie, living, just living..
Even Henry himself is like this. He is deceiving himself, giving those children a faint hope, expecting them to reach the finish line, but is unwilling to shoulder the responsibility. Whenever the relationship gets a little closer, he becomes embarrassed. He ran away. He just reminded himself in such a despicable and shameful way that he was still alive. He was not living as a walking corpse, but at least he was still living with a purpose..
But tonight, all the masks were torn apart. He saw the weakness of his grandfather, he saw the pushing and pushing of the caregiver, he saw the darkness of society, the endless night that he could never get out of. The displacement and isolation in his heart. Helpless, dragging his ankles and falling into the abyss little by little, his emotions collapsed like this, completely..
He hates himself, hates life, hates society... He hates living even more. Life is really too long. He lacks the courage to die and the motivation to live. Every day of his life is like suffering. So Is the identity of a teacher, this disguise, still meaningful?？
Renly's footsteps paused. He understood. He finally understood..
Despair. This is the core of this scene. It is not sadness or pain, but despair. Despair for my grandfather, despair for society, despair for education, and despair for myself. That kind of despair explodes from the inside out. He burst out, releasing the pain that had been suppressed deep in his heart for a long time, and crying like a collapse, not only because of sadness, but because even the last trace of illusion that maintained the illusion of normal life was shattered, cruel Reality invaded, and the overwhelming despair caused his emotions to completely fall apart..
Because of my grandfather, because of the caregiver, because of the student, because of myself, because of my mother, because of society, because of life.
At this moment of despair, Henry saw the scene on the bus: a prostitute was serving a drunken drunkard, without any cover, just unfolding before his eyes, like an Italian absurdity Comedy-like, cruel and ironic, cold and teasing, it bloodyly displays the dilapidation and darkness of society in front of Henry..
The dark despair hit Henry's soul quickly, hard, accurately and violently. All the sadness suddenly stopped, all the tears stopped abruptly, and the broken soul became dying and could hardly breathe. Then , he calmed down again, numbly, stiffly, and mindlessly, quietly looking at everything in front of him. With fatal despair, even the sense of pain has begun to fail..
Throughout the entire script, Henry had always maintained a relatively positive attitude before this night. He once again devoted himself to teaching in the new school, met Sarah, and got to know Meredith. Within the scope, we once again try to use education to guide those students who are in dire straits..
But this time the despair was like a heavy punch, waking him up in one fell swoop. This made him begin to re-examine his own futility. He realized that he was fragmented and that even he could not redeem himself, so how could he redeem others? As a result, he quietly began to distance himself. The reason why he did not leave was simply because he lacked the courage to commit suicide. So he repeated the previous cycle like a zombie, continuing to live painfully, tortured, and inertially..
It can be seen from the scenes after that that Henry always kept a distance from Meredith. Even in the face of Meredith's desperate cry for help, he curled up in his shell like a turtle; Erica took the initiative, and Henry passively helped. He just couldn't bear it and provided a roof over his head. Then he and Erica made an arrangement, deliberately keeping a distance from each other. After getting along gradually, they realized that the two of them had already After establishing contact, Henry cut off the connection in time, found the government rescue agency, and picked up Erica..
This is a turning point, but it is not because Henry met Erica. It is because Henry truly tastes despair, the despair of losing all hope. The kind of despair that cannot see any possibility in the entire dark society..
From a purely performance perspective, the effect will not be completely different, because the context of the performance is still the same; but from the origin of the performance, it is completely different..
Renly's performance just now was based on an outburst of emotions, coming from his grandfather's weakness and embarrassment, from his guilt and sadness after scolding the caregiver, and from the memory of his mother's darkness and coldness, the feeling of being homeless. The loneliness and loneliness of returning led to a breakdown in crying. This was similar to the performance of Adrian Brody in the previous life, but it was also a performance that Renly tried hard to change..
The right show should be based on the torment of despair.
He realized his self-deception, about his grandfather, about his mother, about the caregivers, about the school, and about the society. That kind of despair was like a heavy punch, ruthlessly breaking down all the masks and protections, revealing his most vulnerable, The most real side, the emotions are suppressed so hard and fierce that they can’t control themselves.
All emotions are derived from despair, the embarrassment and suffocation trapped in social reality, the helplessness and heaviness that is suppressed in the reality of life, which detonates all emotions..
At the end of his despair, he saw Erica's former self, the self who had been tortured by society, the self who walked alone in a dark life, the self who had lost confidence in life because of despair... This It not only connects the emotions of Erica and Henry, but also connects the time of Erica's appearance to the overall core of the script, reflecting the dilemma of education and social disaster..
In other words, this scene is the scene that connects the emotional transfer and ideological sublimation of the entire script. After this, Henry's indifference, rejection, and even cruelty to Erica can all be found, and clues can be found to make the story The core becomes complete and deep.
Analyzing it from an academic professional standpoint, the context of performance is different..
Before this, Renly's performance was "sadness - more sadness - despair - numbness". Such a performance has enough layers and clear emotions, but it lacks a clear main line and cannot further deepen the theme..
After sorting out his thoughts, the context of Renly's performance should be "despair and self-blame - pain and sobriety - numbness and suffering". Following this main line, it can be further developed into "self-protective alienation and indifference, sadness or inability to The restraint began to slowly emerge." To put it simply, on the bus, the emotions have experienced earth-shaking changes, and after leaving the bus, the whole person's temperament and state have also changed..
The main line of the entire performance complements the script, and follows the director's ideas to further explore the depth of the core theme and truly make the movie complete. This is what Renly has been pursuing hard, different from Adrian in the previous life. version, interpreting Tony's intentions, and interpreting the story with characters according to Renly's own ideas.
This is the last piece of the puzzle! It is also the most important piece！
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