Intro: "it's still the same young man making films"
1. References:
* Image: films, texts from a book, videos, paintings, statues
* Sound: music, songs, narrator's V.O., lines from films, news, cartoon
2. Themes:
* Tableaus: 1) Remakes; 2) ?; 3) Flowers/rails/trains (supposedly a means of communication); 4) Spirit of Laws; 5) Central Area
* Ending in silent dance
* The nature of film
* Film's function being "remaining the appearance" of the filming object
* Characters in film tell lies
* Violence
* Soldiers juxtaposed with animals
* Accompanied by representation of sexuality
* Sequence of images of killing (in various forms)
* Victory≠end of war
* Train (symbol of modernity) going over body
* Sex juxtaposed with laugh; face of orgasm before death
* Violence in presenting and calm in presentaiton
* Politics:
* Gap between the wealthy/powerful and the poor: "the innocent pay for the guilty";
* "under Western eyes"
* "Money is the most important"
* "Pleasure of obeying"
* 红卫兵?
* "Everything done in Europe is done by the Europe" 自相残杀
* Something is wrong with the law; the effectiveness of ruling
* "I prefer poor people because they are the defeated"; "the poor will save the world"
* The richest waste and endanger the environment; the poorest have no access to resources and protest
* The Arabs, Dofa; the people use bombs against the government; "I'm with the bomb"; violence used against violence is acceptable
* Ruling requires brutal movements (related to Violence)
* "We are never sad enough for the world to be better"
* Art:
* The transformation of survival means is called art
* Thirst for the words than the images
* Training of thoughts turning into dream
* The interrelation between melody and arrangement
* Dream of being Faust
3. Cinematic techniques:
* Color: either black-and-white or strong contrast/saturation colors; overexposure
* Blurring of background
* Sound
* Image overlapping
* Zooming in and out with the alternation in scale
* 用静态图片的快速（鬼畜）表现机关枪扫射
* 帧化，慢速运动，显示器故障效果
* Long take, fixed camera, different characters seen respective through window along with the moving of the train
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