An analysis of the image of a madman in paradise movies

The movie Paradise Cinema is a film history and personal memory. In the history of Chinese and foreign movies, you can often see some crazy or stupid characters. But "madman" is by no means an image that appears easily or casually. They usually have some special meanings. For example, the British movie Jane? The crazy woman in love, the madman in the German movie Tin Drum, the clown in the Japanese movie Chaos, and Ophelia in the English movie Hamlet ... In the Paradise Cinema, the madman who often shouts "The square is mine" also has unusual symbolic significance.

The "square" was originally a public place for everyone, but the madman tried to monopolize it and drive people away. When everyone was sad that the old cinema was destroyed by the fire, the madman jumped and laughed in the crowd and shouted, "Haha, it's all burned out, so we can't watch movies." A madman is an arrogant and evil dictator who stands on the opposite side of the people, but his "dictatorship" is powerless and will eventually be swept into the dustbin of history by the people. The director's several appearances of the madman are handled like this:

When the madman first appeared, he suddenly appeared in front of the camera. He became the foreground of the picture and the others in the square became the background. In contrast, the image of a madman is powerful. However, his situation soon took a turn for the worse. On the screen, the madman turned and ran to the background, and his area on the screen quickly changed from big to small. The kind of power he represents seems to be nothing more than a hollow. Another appearance was when people gathered in the square to watch a movie, and laughter woke up a madman sleeping on a platform. He stood up and shouted, "The square is mine." At this time, the composition of the picture is: the madman is at the top of the picture and the crowd is at the bottom of the picture. Crazy people seem to be up there. However, the next picture is: the madman is in the background, the crowd is in the foreground, the madman is caught in the gap of the crowd, and the status of the madman has dropped again.

In the scene where the decadent "New Paradise Cinema" was blown up, the madman reappeared (in human history, the evil power will probably never disappear), but this time his power seemed to decline even more: he dragged a garbage bag through the crowd and muttered, "The square is mine, the square is mine." Nobody talks to him. When he walked forward, the street was crowded with cars, and he had to go around among them.

A nostalgic work of emotional course.