The Dead Remember (Eight Film Masters Outside Hollywood)

Author: Jia Xiaowei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The image of a man on the cross, completed by great directors, makes it hard to sleep. Their universal awareness of the human condition gives us a profound glimpse when facing ourselves. None of the eight film masters attempt to portray people in natural disasters like the Titanic. The disasters they see are in everyone's lives, under the tables and chairs, in life itself. They remove the love myth attached to the shipwreck, so they remain trapped on the Titanic, still knocking there today. Film is the only lighthouse that has risen high in the world of 20th-century art, ever higher, elusive. The wind at the top of the tower bears more and more, and the night grows darker. — Jia Xiaowei
This book discusses eight European film masters who generally resist the power of Hollywood. They focus on the condition of humanity today and offer profound interpretations of contemporary inescapable issues. Bergman explores the existence of God, Tarkovsky concerns himself with faith, Fellini speaks of the nihilism of life and the good and evil of humanity, Antonioni studies the emotional problems of contemporary people, Pasolini curses the evil of life. Together, they sound the alarm for "humans are dying," painting a true portrait of humanity beneath the carnival and clamor of the times.