The Dark Side of Spielberg, based on real-life experiences from ``The Fabelmans''

Synopsis of "The Fabelmans"

Sammy Fableman, a young boy who has fallen in love with movies since his first visit to the movie theater, picks up an 8mm camera and becomes a chronicler of his family's vacations and travels, creating films starring his sister and friends. Sammy's mother, an artist, supports him, but his father, a scientist, thinks it's a dishonest hobby. Meanwhile, the family moves to the west, and various events there change Sammy's future.

Index

• The violence hidden within
• broken family
• Session on ZOOM
• A "special film" for Spielberg

The violence hidden within

"The Fabelmans" (22) begins with a scene in which a young boy named Sammy goes to the cinema with his parents to watch " The Greatest Show on Earth " (52) directed by Cecil B. DeMille. On the way home, his mother asks him, "Which part was the most interesting?" but Sammy is so distracted that he can't even reply.

Most of the sequences in "The Fabelmans" are autobiographical works based on Steven Spielberg's own memories, and this episode is also based on his own experiences. What is particularly interesting is that the scene that fascinated Sammy Spielberg the most was the "CRUSH" (collision) between a train and a car. He was obsessed with the "CRUSH", begged for a toy train, and recreated the collision with his own hands. Then, with an 8mm film camera given to him by his mother, he repeatedly brought the "CRUSH" back to life on the screen.

Come to think of it, there was a scene like this in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). When his son, who is terrible at math, asks him a question about fractions, the protagonist Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) runs a toy train and asks him a quiz: "How far do you need to move the train to prevent a collision?" In the end, the trains collide, but at that moment his son shows a happy smile. Spielberg repeats his childhood Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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According to the dictionary, "CRUSH" also means to crush, crush, or destroy. It is the overwhelming violence of forcing others to submit. Steven Spielberg confesses at the beginning of the film that he has been intoxicated with violence since he was a child.

And the highlight of the film is the locker room scene at the end. Sammy captures the image of Logan, the popular boy in the class, on film in an overwhelmingly beautiful way. However, Logan is shocked by how overly "beautiful" he looks. What is shown there is not his true self, but an illusion. Logan slams his head on the locker and bursts into tears. And at that moment, Sammy understands that the medium of video can become a lethal weapon that can hurt people.

In a sense, the film "The Fabelmans" is a film that captures the process in which the protagonist, a boy, discovers the violence hidden within himself and becomes aware of the violence of the media known as video. It is the story of a man who is fascinated and driven mad by "CRUSH". There is no sense of exhilaration like in " Cinema Paradiso " (1988). As an autobiographical film by the world's greatest director, it is an extremely unique production.

broken family