What are the interesting settings in Beloved?

There is no doubt that Beloved is very entertaining, but it is still "Lance Moss". The film dates back to18th century England, and the story is taken from the real event between Duchess Sarah Churchill and Queen Anne. Strangely, unlike most orthodox English court dramas, the primitive etiquette and political laws of the upper class are marginalized, and movies are replaced by mysterious stories, which is a strange and absurd love triangle under a power system structure. Absurdity is the primary consideration for Lance Moss to construct the character survival system. Sartre wrote in Nausea: "Enough." Lance Moss uses a large number of wide-angle lenses, fisheye lenses and low-angle back shots to create a grotesque and alienated atmosphere, thus creating an endless twisted space in a semi-closed state. To put it bluntly, it is an attempt to expose the futility of "living" through excessive "existence". Abigail's continuous falls, Queen Anne's emotional riots and abnormal games in the court all tell the absurdity and boredom of "existence".

Finally, To Kill a Sacred Deer by Lance Moss directly developed the absurd theme of existence to the extreme, so that it was labeled as an "air story". In To Kill a Sacred Deer, Steven's family fell into strange diseases one after another, and the solution was to kill one of them. This setting faces a logical fault, but after all, it conforms to Lance Moss's "view of existence". Existence itself is illogical. It is a divided system, independent of the "ID" and drifting away from the world. On the contrary, the sense of loneliness in Beloved is based on the division of the two systems, namely "being" and "id", even though it is a little warm when expressing their disharmony: loneliness becomes an abstract concept, which is attached to the "id" and cannot be eliminated by the existence of "being". Existence itself is not controlled by will, it is in a state of fading and changing, connecting the present and the past; The ID is static, placed in an overhead state, and often attacked by emptiness in the confrontation with the turmoil of existence, because it is difficult to grasp all the appearances (existence) in the world, and the latter has come and gone. I think this is the cornerstone of Lance Moss's films.

The film revolves around a closed power struggle group composed of Queen Anne, Duchess Maboud and Abigail. On the surface, it's a love triangle. In fact, it is not only alluding to the fragility of life, but also praising its absurdity. Queen Anne holds power, but she can't escape her weakness: dependence on Sarah. Her love for Sarah is fierce and extreme, even at the expense of "power transfer" in exchange for control of Sarah. But such people are often very painful, because love is not free, and Sarah's love for Queen Anne is extremely unreliable. Power has become the transformation condition of love. Even if the queen is willful, it coincides with Sartre's "such freedom is a bit like death" in essence. No matter how heroic love is, the individual's survival is still fettered by bloated, declining and parting. When too many people habitually use "love" to point out the so-called "way out" of survival, Ransmos holds high the banner of existentialism, lets individuals return to existence itself, and points out that it is futile to seek salvation in the face of the fighting state of trapped animals. He tirelessly gave new meaning to meaningless actions and language, and imposed his personal will on illusory existence, thus exploring a unique way of survival.

The deep meaning of using self-will can be understood as "resistance". Obviously, Lance Moss inherited Camus' thought. Abigail's appearance aggravated the sense of imbalance and existence, and also made the battle against loneliness and vanity more intense. This vicious character was endowed with a tragic fate from the beginning. We didn't smell Abigail's ruthlessness until Abigail declared sovereignty through precise blasting in the shooting confrontation with Sarah. Such viciousness was given the meaning of resistance by Lance Moss: a woman who tried to break through her own tragedy had the tenacity of life. Abigail approached Anne and took up this position as a senior company, but Anne mistakenly thought that she had met the true feelings and took this opportunity to demonstrate to Sarah. When the exiled Sarah stood at the window, she saw decades of collapse; On the other hand, the images of Rabbit, Abigail and Princess Anne are constantly overlapping, suggesting that existence is the ultimate proposition with a sense of horror. Abigail seems to be a winner's gesture and an uninvited guest who succeeds in a trick, but in fact she will never fall into the abnormal love of Queen Anne and can't turn over. Poor Queen Anne finally got a bunch of happy bubbles.

All the shots fit Camus's "Midwinter, I finally know that I have an invincible summer". When you realize that you can't change your life through your behavior, it is the moment when your "self" becomes an "outsider" in your life.

Another special design in Beloved reinforces this sense of powerlessness. In Lance Moss's previous works, almost all the characters lived in an indifferent "Musso" state, living inside the wall and passively accepting the adventures outside the wall. However, the characters in Beloved do not fight against existence with a "alive" negative attitude, but pursue power and love in the form of behavior. Unlike David in Lobster and the little daughter in Dog's Tooth, they are forced to live in a twisted system. On the contrary, these three talents are the founders of the survival system. Furthermore, these three people created the illusion of existence with their own strength. Milan Kundera once defined happiness as the desire for repetition. Repetition is an illusion of existence. The years we experienced with Sarah gave Queen Anne a false illusion that it was true happiness, and finally the long journey on the journey of "love" accelerated the collapse of happiness.

By the way, I tend to say whether the countess really loves Anne. After decades of companionship, it is human nature to get used to falling in love. For Anne's sake, the countess will also stop her from eating dessert (and Abigail is basically conniving at Anne). Of course, this kind of love has nothing to do with the spark of love. In essence, her "love" for Anne is misplaced from Anne's love for her. The former kind of love is more inclined to the satisfaction of power desire and charity care in saturated state. Annie is really sympathetic, and even you will feel heartache for her, because in a way, she is the purest. Only she struggled in the ruins of love. She doesn't care about power at all. Power is a way, not an end.

So what is existence? Lance Moss sneered at this discussion. For him, openness is the truth of individual existence. Instead of looking for it, it is better to give life meaning in chaos, whether it is love or sadness, or it has nothing to do with emotion. Existence is just a floating substance. The point is not what it is, but whether it can be "what it is". The subtlety of blackmail is that we all need to face up to the shallowness of existence.

Lance Moss ended a two-hour absurd game about existence with a sad ending. In this contest between love and power, popularity is like a spell, and no one can do it.