One sleepy afternoon, I watched a movie for three hours. As it turns out, some movies are as effective as sedatives in assisting sleep, such as the works of Godard, Bergman and other masters. There is no intention to belittle the master here, only that personal qualities determine the scope of preferences. Fortunately, this film can't let me sleep, and it keeps a certain degree of pressure on my adrenal gland from beginning to end, which has to be said to be a kind of destruction in disguise.
When I met pacino in junior high school, he and Johnny Depp played a gangster role in Donnie blasco. At this time, he was old and his edges and corners became less distinct, but his superb acting skills made him far overshadow Depp, and film critics began to call him an old opera bone. Of all the comments I have heard, only Morgan Freeman deserves this honor.
This film is a remake of Hawkes' classic The Scarface Man, adapted by Oliver Si Tong, and is a typical Hollywood gangster epic. Al Pacino vividly depicts a refugee from Cuba and a gangster who later wandered in the underground society of Miami, USA. It is no exaggeration to say that it is no exaggeration to describe the admiration of young people in North America and even Europe, especially college students, for the hero Tony montana in the film. In the North American poster market, pacino's various shapes in Scarface have sold the most every year for 20 years. The most famous thing is that he said "say hello to my little friend" while holding a submachine gun and a cigar. His whole face was distorted by extreme hatred, anger and loss of reason. People imitate his various shapes in the film and talk about him with relish, even without letting go of any detail.
I don't want to talk too much about Al Pacino's film skills and acting skills here. I just want to give us a perceptual understanding of paranoid characters through the analysis of Tony played by pacino.
Tony's paranoia can be explained by the absolute dominance of will.
This is the embodiment of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's philosophical thoughts. The world is only the appearance of will, and only the will of power can dominate everything. Tony firmly believes that rights can bring everything, but the arrival of rights is entirely due to its powerful, self-centered, full of desires and infinitely expanding personal will system. We perceive the energy of will all the time. Like staying up late. Even if you have a strong body like Schwarzenegger, without the support of will, you are just a beautiful empty shell. It is not difficult to understand how a weak person like me survived the long night before handing in the design.
Tony's life is under the control of this self-contained will. He can face the Colombian chainsaw and spray his dog blood on his head. He can ignore the boss's instructions and sign a much bigger contract with SOSA than the boss wants, just because he thinks it will be better. He can go after the boss Frank's woman in private, because he thinks he is bolder than Frank, and only he deserves her. He can kill a policeman who wants to collect money from himself without care, because he thinks that the only person who dares to show off his power to Tony montana is death. He is a madman in the eyes of others, and he has done everything that others dare not do. He got the money he wanted, the position he wanted, and the woman he wanted. Don't forget that he started out as a Cuban political prisoner.
This success has been shrouded in the shadow of destruction. His paranoia doomed him to be a tragic figure. His paranoia drove away the woman he loved. In fact, the beginning of this relationship is full of Tony's personal color. Perhaps the charm of a woman conquered Tony when he first met her, but all Tony needed was a symbol of power and wealth. The loss of fertility caused by women's long-term drug abuse has become the fuse of all this. The scene of quarreling in a high-end restaurant is a classic part of the film, where Tony vents all kinds of repressed dissatisfaction, which is based on the contradiction between his personal worldview and the world. Tony began to think about what the fuck is a person's life for, eating, drinking, sleeping, and then paunchy at the age of 50, but these are just complaints, just like his complaints about various news on TV, which are thoughtless, short and powerless. When the woman left angrily because she couldn't stand Tony's verbal attacks any longer, everything turned into a farce. Tony then accused the diners from the upper class of saying, you need me, so you call me a bad person. You just lie and cover up, but I always tell the truth, even when I lie. Tony's strong self-values are vividly reflected here. His deformed feelings for his sister prompted him to kill Manny, his best friend in his life, although he didn't trust him completely because he only believed in himself. Manny's death had a strong shock to him, but all this became an irreversible ending, just like boarding a high-speed train, and the destination had already been decided.
As the people around him left one by one, Tony came to an end. He died under "the world is yours", just as he began to succeed under the background of this sentence, full of drama.
When watching this movie, I remembered another character, La Motta, an Italian boxer played by De Niro in Angry Bull. Similar characters, similar lives, similar endings, but La Motta is not dead.
Paranoia is a typical mental illness. Philosophers, artists and war maniacs who rely on talent and pride have more or less similar symptoms. Schopenhauer is a typical example. He didn't trust anyone all his life and refused to go to the barber's shop because he was afraid that the barber's knife would be near his neck and he would take the gun with him when he slept. When I was teaching at the University of Berlin, I was confident that I would arrange courses at the same time as the famous Hegel at that time. As a result, I can only face the empty seats in the audience.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the outcome of paranoia is unfortunate, but it is only defined by what ordinary people call a happy life standard. Their achievements are often unimaginable to others, and their contribution to mankind cannot be distinguished only by good or bad. As Tony said, we need him and them.
Jin Jide's film The Temptation of an Empty Room shows another end of paranoia-the victory of paranoia. The hero's endless desire in prison and his determination to live with the heroine touched God and the audience, making us feel that the ending of the film is no longer absurd, but will be the best ending.
Is paranoia a victory or a failure? Is it big or small? Is it obscene or noble? I believe there is no need to give an answer. It is the existence of various things that leads to the multipolarization of the world and the richness of culture. When we judge from our own values, we might as well be more tolerant.