Chapter 558

Zhu men stinks of wine and meat, and the road is frozen to death.

This used to be the miserable situation of the people in the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty. In the contemporary society, people can hardly see such a miserable situation. Lanli is not an innocent and worldly rich man. He knows that there are still countless people in Africa who are suffering from hunger and cold. In the Middle East, there are still countless people who are struggling to survive under the fire of war. Even in the United States, there is a strong polarization between the rich and the poor, and the scene in the slums is a mess.

However, Lan Li never believed that he would see the pictures in Du Fu's poems with his own eyes.

Two days before "detached" officially started shooting, lanli saw the prostitute again and she died. Dead at the entrance of a dark alley, the garbage can is just two steps away, flies and stray dogs are swimming beside the bodies, and even wet mice can be seen running around. But no one is interested.

Lanli dials "911" and informs the police to deal with it. The tragedy comes to an end. What's more chilling is that this is not an exception. Even in the bustling New York, this situation is still on every day.

In a trance, lanli seemed to see the nurse, the broken and self-care nurse, the helpless and tearful nurse, the exhausted and tortured nurse, the nurse shivering under Henry's severe condemnation. In her, he saw Henry, so familiar with that deep despair and rigid numbness.

Henry is a weak person, and the nurse is also a weak person, but the two weak people are still hurting each other: she ignored her grandfather's request and let the patients who suffered from the disease continue to sink; Ignoring her fatigue and heaviness, he let out all his anger. Two weak people, but on each other's scarred bodies, poke one wound after another.

In the nurse's body, Henry not only saw himself, but also saw the group of students in the school, Meredith, Sara, and the students who stubbornly resisted life but were bruised.

They are all the weak in life, or in other words, they are all the deserters of God.

In this terrible society, there is no hope, no hope at all. The cruel reality is devouring their vitality and soul bit by bit. Some people try to resist, some try to escape, some try to struggle, some try to vent, some try to accept

But in the end, it doesn't matter, because they can't see the exit. Even if they accept it dejectedly, they are still suffering from bitterness, pain and sadness. Life will not be easier. No one knows where the destination is, and no one knows whether he can stick to the destination. He can only live like a walking corpse.

Even Henry himself. He is deceiving himself, giving the children a little hope, expecting them to reach the end, but he is not willing to shoulder the responsibility. Whenever the relationship gets closer, he runs away in a panic. Just in such a despicable and shameful way, he reminds himself that he is still alive, not a zombie, or at least a purposeful one.

But tonight, all the masks were torn. He saw the weakness of his grandfather, the pushing and shoving of the nursing workers, the darkness of the society, and the endless dark night. The inner displacement and helplessness dragged his ankle into the abyss bit by bit, and his mood collapsed, completely collapsed.

He hated himself, his life, his society and even more his life. Life is really too long, the lack of courage to die, and the lack of motivation to live, every day of life is like suffering. So the identity of teachers, this layer of camouflage, is still meaningful?

Lanli's steps stopped. He understood. He finally understood.

despair. This is the core of the play, not sadness or pain, but despair, the despair of grandfather, the despair of society, the despair of education, and the despair of oneself. That kind of despair broke out from the inside out and released the pain that had been repressed in his heart for a long time. The collapse of crying was not only because of sadness, but also because even the last illusion that maintained the illusion of normal life was shattered. The cruel reality invaded him, and the overwhelming despair completely broke his mood.

Because of my grandfather, because of nursing workers, because of students, 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 NV was serving a drunken drunkard without any cover. In this way, she appeared in front of him, just like the absurd comedy of Italy, cruel and ironic, cold and joking, showing the social ruin and darkness bloody in front of Henry.

That dark desperation hit Henry's soul quickly, fiercely, accurately and abruptly. All the sadness stopped suddenly, all the tears stopped suddenly, and the broken soul became almost breathless. Then, he calmed down again, looking at all these things in front of him in a numb, stiff and mindless way. Fatal despair, even pain, has begun to fail.

Throughout the context of the whole play, before this night, Henry has always maintained a relatively positive attitude, once again into the teaching work of the new school, met Sarah, met Meredith, within his ability, he once again tried to use education to guide those students in dire straits.

But this time the despair was like a heavy fist, rousing him with one go. This makes him start to re-examine his own useless work. He realizes that he has been fragmented, and even he can't redeem himself. How can he redeem others? Therefore, he began to quietly distance himself. The only reason why he didn't leave was that he lacked the courage to end himself, so he repeated the previous cycle like a walking corpse, and continued to live in pain, suffering and inertia.

After that, we can see that Henry always keeps a distance from Meredith. Even in front of Meredith's desperate cry for help, he curls up in his shell like a tortoise; In the face of Erica's initiative, Henry passively gives help, just can't bear to provide an eaves. Then he makes three rules with Erica and deliberately keeps a distance from each other. After getting along with each other, he realizes that the two people have established contact, and Henry cuts off in time, finds the government's rescue agency and takes Erica away.

It was a turning point, but not because Henry met Erica. But because Henry really tasted the despair, the despair of despair. The kind of desperation in which there is no possibility in the whole dark society.

From the perspective of performance, the effect will not be different, because the context of performance is the same; But from the origin of the performance, it is very different.

Lan Li's performance just now is based on the explosion of emotion, which comes from the weakness and embarrassment of her grandfather, the guilt and sadness after scolding the nurse, and the darkness and coldness of her mother in her memory. The loneliness and loneliness of homelessness led to the collapse of crying. This is similar to the performance of Adrian Brodie, but it is also the performance that Langley tried to change.

The right performance should be based on the torture of despair.

He realized that he was deceiving himself, about his grandfather, about his mother, about his nurse, about his school, and about society. That kind of desperation is like a heavy fist. It smashes all the masks and protections and shows its most vulnerable and real side. It suppresses the emotion so hard that it can't control itself.

All emotions are derived from despair, the kind of distress and suffocation trapped in the social reality, the kind of helplessness and heavy pressure in the reality of life, detonated all emotions.

At the end of despair, he saw Erica. The former self, the self who suffered from social torture, the self who walked alone in the dark life, the self who lost confidence in life because of despair... This not only connects Erica and Henry's emotion, but also connects Erica's appearance time with the whole core of the play, It reflects the dilemma of education and the disaster of society.

In other words, the play is a part that makes the emotional transfer and ideological sublimation of the whole play coherent. After that, Henry's indifference, rejection and even cruelty to Erica can be found, which makes the core of the story complete and profound.

From the professional standpoint of academic school, the context of performance is different.

Before that, the context of lanli's performance was "sadness more sadness despair numbness". Such a performance has enough levels, with clear and in place emotions, but it lacks a clear main line, and can not go further into the theme.

After sorting out his thoughts, lanli's performance context should be "despair and remorse - pain and soberness - numbness and suffering". Following this main line, it can further develop into "alienation and indifference of self-protection, sadness still begins to show slowly and irresistibly". In short, on the bus, emotion has undergone earth shaking changes, And leaving the bus, the whole person's temperament and state have changed.

The main line of the whole performance and the script complement each other, and conform to the director's ideas, further explore the depth of the core theme, and truly make the film complete. This is what Langley has been striving for, which is different from the previous version of Adrian, to interpret Tony's intention, and to interpret the story by role according to Langley's own ideas.

This is the last piece of the puzzle! At the same time, it is also the most important one!