Film ---Lust For Life
The movie I have watched is about
an artist’s life. He is a famous artist Vincent Van Gogh---Lust for Life. I
chose to watch his movie because I was so curious about his life and the ways
that how he live.
This movie is about Van Gogh. He tried
to find something to do and help people. First he wants to be a pastor, but the
members of the church don’t think he is qualified to be a pastor because he has
to look at written paper while he is preaching. At that time, people compare
his father with him, and finally one of the members gives him a chance to go to
a place in the southbound of France. Because the condition is so bad in that
place, he gives all his clothes to the people and his bed, so he sleeps in the
hays like bed (nest). He often writes to his brother Theo. One time he is sick,
and doesn’t write to his brother. He brother goes to that place and looks for
him. He tells Theo “a man idol because he doesn’t want to do anything, and the
man who is idol because he doesn’t know what to do”. He goes back home and
lives with his parent. He starts to learn to draw, and he writes to Theo that
he has found something in his life that he really wants to do it. He also asks
Theo sent him more drawing supplies to him. His live is quite peaceful there,
but when Cousin Kay visits them in summer, he loves her, but she doesn’t. He
kisses her without her permission, and she goes but home. He wants to know the
reason why Kay doesn’t love him, so he goes to Kay’s house. He burns his hand
with the candles to threaten Kay to see him, but when he hears her parents say
that she doesn’t love him then he leave. In logically, he can’t maintain himself, how
he can maintain her and her son. He goes to a bar nearby, and then he meets a
woman---Christine, who is lonely sits next to him in the next table. He gives
his drink to her with his change, and he goes to that woman’s house because she
wants to take care of his burned hand. They live together and with a little
baby, in that time he has a home and not feel lonely. He goes to his Cousin mur’s
house and show him his art works to him, he also wants to see how cousin
paints, but cousin sent him home with a set of paints and cost with a little
money. When he goes to show cousin him art works again, cousin always has many
excuses to not see. However, his happiness is not last long, they argue about
money because he doesn’t work but paints. He uses most of the money to but his
paints, and no money for food. She decides to leave him on that day when he
goes back home to see his father whom is sick. After that, he goes to Paris
with Theo. Theo arranges for him to see many artists because he wants to leans
about color. He even visits Georges Seurat, who is painting the “A Sunday
afternoon”. Theo can’t sent his paintings yet, and recommends him to show his
work to Paul Guaguin. They talk about the idea and styles of painting and
become very good friends. Guaguin mentions the best place to draw is Arles. He always
paints, but he also drinks a lot in the bar. People think he is abnormal, because
he goes out to pain in windy days. He feels loneness there, and he asks for
Guanguin for many times with Theo. Theo helps him and gets Guanguin to go to
Arles. He is so happy to see Guanguin, and he arranges a room for Guanguin with
some paintings of sunflowers. They are good friends, but they also argue. One
day when they argue, he is gets in his nerves while Guanguin left the house. He
follows Guanguin with a shaver in him hand, and tries to hurt Guanguin. However,
he cuts his left ear instead to hurt Guanguin when he reaches home. He lays
down in the bed til breeding to unconscious. Policemen are there while Guanguin
return home. One of the policemen asks him some questions, and then Guanguin
left. The people ridicule him in front of his house. He ends up in the asylum. He
paints several paintings there, but when he has seizures, and then he discharge
from the asylum living with his brother in Paris. He kills himself in the Wheatfield
while he has finished his last painting--- “Crows Over a Wheatfield”
Even though his life is so sad and uneasy,
he still continues to paint. People don’t understand him. He feels lonely most
of the time, and he can’t have an intimate relationship with women because he
can’t maintain a family and his spent every penny about paintings and drinks. He
has a good heart, and the way how he helps other people while he is preaching. When
he is sick, Theo offers him to stay in Paris with Theo, but he refuse because
of his sickness. He is also a frustrated, arguable and impulses man. I am sorry
for his life with sympathy. I cried at the end of stage of his life. What a
pity.
