Interstellar

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Author: Not weak Weiwei (from Douban)

Source: https://movie.douban.com/review/13632624/

Ang Lee's attitude in this work is undoubtedly conservative, revealing a calm compromise in both external mirror movement and deep ideology. The Civil War (considered from a certain angle or artistic level) is a material enough to discuss justice and injustice, and the exploitation and redemption of freedom. However, under the lens of Ang Lee, the angular concept is blurred. He does not focus on the absolute concept of victory or defeat or social concept, but examines this "extraterritorial movement" from the perspective of the Eastern Doctrine of the Mean-not so much a war to fill the power gap, but rather a carnival rebellion caused by the imbalance of power and freedom in the system. Therefore,

From the beginning of the film, this balance of pure objectification justice was destroyed. Jake played by Tobey Maguire was born out of regular development, but was born in Germany but grew up in the southern land of the United States, which made his perceptual concept of "compatriots" override the rigid social laws symbolizing the historical process. The universal opinion is dispelled by emotional subjectivity, thus the individual will disengages and awakens from the bone of the times with absolute control, and reaches its climax in the scene of the invasion of the Northern Army in the dark night. Here, the generation of self-consciousness is a kind of alternative "humanistic care", which gives up the universal love in the world and chooses to explore its own irrational assumptions, even by means of killing in the end. Interestingly, this kind of selfish humanistic care met his friend, Holt played by ——Jeffrey Wright, who is also a special person: he is regarded as a slave in the south, but he does not agree with the label of being a class prisoner, and he is a black man who lives and dies with his brotherly master. However, even though both of them have obvious rebellious spirit, compared with the former, the latter's struggle comes from the humiliation of reality. Jake's bullet is an accusation of fate, while Holt's loyalty is a rebellion against society. This difference also caused the disharmony when they first met, but it eventually disappeared into the curious joy when they read the intercepted Northern Army letters together, because for them, it is tantamount to walking into other people's world and understanding the external truth. Until the end, Jake chose marriage, Holt chose separation, and the two souls with different clouds and mud became former comrades forever.

In terms of mirror movement, Ang Lee skillfully uses the moving direction of objects to highlight the conservative will. The moving roots of objects in several outdoor moving lenses are all entered from the right (as shown in the figure). "Right" represents the slow, gradual and thoughtful development wrapped by Eastern philosophy. It is like a steady outsider, observing everything and knowing everything well, but there is no targeted argument, but

Standing in the distance with eyes, it seems to acquiesce in everything. There may be many people who don't think that Ang Lee is an author and director, but think that the subtle spread and transplantation of such cultural heritage-rooted in English movies with Oriental unique ideas and thinking-is his most precious "authorship", and Riding with the Devil perfectly explains this point: substituting the identity cognition as an Oriental into the western art category, and explaining the times with different cultural backgrounds with the restraint and forbearance of bystanders.

John Locke said in "On the Government": "Anyone who wants to take away the freedom of anyone in that state in a natural state must be assumed to have an attempt to take away everything else, because freedom is the foundation of everything else." Apart from justice, all actions under the war are the exploitation of free will, and the pursuers of power are willing to fall into Satan's prisoner, plundering the bottom line requirement of being human at will. The sword cuts the flesh with blood, and money eats away at the soul. In the wild smoke and weeds, the generation of self-awareness is so precious. "No matter which side you take refuge in, it's dangerous, but the people between the north and the south are the most dangerous." They are wise men honed under the dangerous situation of being greedy for profit, brave men who dare to ride with the devil who is guilty of serious crimes, and rush to the misty hell, where there is a tomb of freedom with few seeds left.