Birth of tragedy

Ni uses the god of the sun and the god of wine to compare the two ways of human art activities, the god of the sun represents all the illusion of art activities, all the beauty of the surface. It can be used as a contrast between those dark or light, gorgeous or plain images on film, are those moments that remind us of countless times. And the Dionysian represents a state of ecstasy, a reproduction of the most primitive impulse, which is perhaps the ultimate form of art. The film, as a kind of art, is naturally the product of this so-called madness, and naturally possesses all the characteristics of the Dionysian.

Dionysian art is primitive, which is closer to the essence of art. It can be said that it is the activity of the human subconscious, the subconscious thoughts repressed by morality, which will enter your dreams in the middle of the night through conversion, or the expression of art. We can be sure that the images that appear in the film are a combination of our memories and illusions, and that the violent and erotic thoughts that have been hidden in our subconscious mind come to us so easily and openly, whether you have the courage to admit it or not, that you are familiar with them.

Violence and eroticism in movies provide modern people with a way to balance desire and morality. From this perspective, it is not a kind of poison, but a kind of natural guidance. Or it shows the essence of human nature itself. So this is the meaning of the existence of film, according to Freud's words: film is the desire itself, but also the tool to control the desire. Violence and eroticism are among the most primitive and hidden desires, and the most in need of elimination.

We all live in the realm of morality and are bound by it, but morality sometimes represents hypocrisy and asceticism. The highest art is above morality, I am God. When we step out of the moral sphere and see ourselves and others in the air with God's eyes, and see the moral and immoral things happening on earth, everything changes. We are no longer moral slaves but moral masters. And to escape from the so-called morality does not mean to go to its opposite, on the contrary, when you have the ability to dominate morality, you will find that the original state of the world is not morality, but fraternity.

With a kind of love to see the good or ugly people in the story, there is the possibility of creating art, there is the possibility of film. So to look at violence and eroticism in movies through a moral lens or beyond the moral lens through an aesthetic lens, that's the key.

Killing and making love are the most primitive totems of human beings, belonging to the memory of childhood. We can't forget the scenes of teenagers fighting in the streets in the Heat of the Sun, or the black and white scenes full of guns, blood and music in The Godfather, because we still have the feral Wolf in our bones, we still have the desire to conquer ourselves and others, killing is a black but close to us dream, and making love is a kind of unspeakable enjoyment.

I don't want to talk too much about porn and art-house movies in this article, because there's so much to talk about. Suffice it to say that sex is only one part of love, and that it is only when we feel more and more separated from love and the loneliness of finding true love that we give more thought to it. Most erotic films are a vehicle for such a topic, and the purpose of erotic films is not only to attract the audience, but also to turn from sex to the desire for love, which is what a good erotic film does.

Pure violence and eroticism are Dionysian expressions. They are art. However, they will bring people to the double edge of beauty and death, because not everyone will have the vision of universal love, when morality meets the movie, it is either the destruction of the movie or the degradation of the viewer. Because after all, we live in a world of moral censorship, and the unconscious mind is supposed to be repressed most of the time.

We can secretly masturbate while watching a movie, but we can't kill and rape after watching it.