Chapter 48 under shell (2)

As she spoke, she made a strange movement of swinging her hands back and forth. "Do you know the names of those two cats?" I repeated. "The female cat's name is Kitty, but I don't know the male cat's name," she said. A drop of cold sweat trickled down my spine at record speed. "Is it Levin?" I hinted. "Yes," she said to me, "that's the name, Levin. How did you know it?" She frowned. "Could it be that revolutionary?" "No," I said, "that revolutionary is called Lenin. Levin is the hero of a great Russian novel. Kitty is his beloved woman."

"He changed all the doors," continued Manuela, who did not whet her appetite for the Great Russian Novel, "and now the doors can slide, really, you have to believe me, it's much more convenient." Now, I wonder to myself why we don't make the door the same as his, so that we can get more space and be less noisy." She was right.More than once, Manuela's generalizations have struck me with admiration.But these few unremarkable remarks also aroused in me a subtle emotion which is closely connected with two other causes. 4. Interruption and continuation These two reasons are also related to Mr. Ozu's films.

The first reason lies in the sliding door itself.As early as when I was watching the movie "The Taste of Chazuke", I was very interested in the living space of the Japanese and the sliding doors that can slide gently on invisible tracks without cutting off the space.Because, when we open a door.We actually changed our space in a narrow way. First, we will touch the door, and then push the door open with uneven proportions.If we think about it, there is nothing uglier than opening a door.If viewed from the room where the door is located, the door looks like a fault zone, or a provincial obstacle that destroys the overall sense of space.If viewed from the adjoining room, the door appeared to form a hollow, opening a wide and stupid crack and disappearing into the otherwise unbroken wall.In both cases, the door interferes with the sense of spaciousness and serves no other purpose than that of passage, which would be replaced by other means.The sliding door avoids obstacles and beautifies the space, not only does not change the balance of the space, but also deforms the space.When the sliding door is pulled open, the two spaces communicate with each other without offending each other.When the sliding doors are closed, each space is fully restored.Neither division nor convergence needs to be overstepped.If pushing a door, which is closely related to our lives, is a series of actions of picking locks, then pulling a door is a silent walk in life.

"You're right," I said to Manuela, "it's really convenient and there's no noise." The second reason comes from associations. Sliding doors remind me of women's feet.In Mr. Ozu's movies, we can't count how many times there are scenes like sliding doors, entering houses, and taking off shoes.Women, especially women, have a remarkable talent for these movements.They entered the house, slid the door open along with the wall, and took two small steps lightly and quickly, so that they came to the raised space that they thought was the living room. They took off their shoes without bending over to untie their shoelaces. The countertop made a smooth and elegant stop and turn movement.Their skirts fluttered slightly, and the knees that were slightly bent because they stepped on the stage were so dynamic and precise, and their bodies effortlessly drew a semicircle with this step, which continued in strange intermittent steps. Take small steps, as if your ankles are tied with a rope.But generally, the fetters of movement give a feeling of restraint, the incomprehensible jerky little steps that imprint the stamp of art on the feet of the walking women.

When we move, that is to say, we Westerners, because of the influence of our culture, we always try to penetrate the real meaning of life in the coherent movement conceived: unobstructed efficiency, symbolic flow performance and The continuation of life force is the guarantee of all success.Here the hunting leopard is our standard; all the movements are so harmoniously blended that we simply cannot distinguish what follows, the run of the beast is for us the only and long symbol of the fulfillment of life's fulfillment.But when Japanese women with their small steps break the powerful display of natural movement, when we see the unnatural scene, we may feel the pain of the soul being ravaged, in fact, on the contrary, we will produce a kind of A strange bliss, as if a partition would bring ecstasy, and a grain of sand would bring noble beauty.In the desecration of the sacred rhythm of life, in the restriction of action, we find examples of art.

Then, what was intended to continue is pushed out of nature, what originally intended to continue, because of its discontinuity, on the one hand becomes a traitor to nature, on the other hand becomes more noticeable, the action creates aesthetic creation. Because art is life, just accompanied by another rhythm.Ten Deep Thoughts grammar Consciousness that's the way to beauty