In "Orphée", the director projects his own story on the protagonist of the poet. This film full of metaphysical thinking focuses on propositions such as death, life, creation, etc. Jean Cocteau uses his best at dreamlike lens language to shape the two worlds inside and outside the mirror. The princess in the film represents death. This image is as famous as the death god in Bergman's "Seventh Seal".
"Orphée" is Cocteau’s self-portrait of the artist and a reflexive view of art under the guise of a poet. He used and deconstructed the story of the classic ancient Greek myth "Orphée and Ulydis". The mythological characters were transformed into modern characters. , Cocteau gave him the character traits of many people he met in reality. Many scenes in the illusory space of the movie are performed in the way of stage rehearsal, with obvious characteristics of "screen structure". "Orphée" integrates all kinds of incredible images into an expressionist style, presenting a different kind of poetry. The protagonist Orphée has a state of madness towards art, while rebirth is the spread of works by poets or artists. However, in the film, the "death and rebirth" of the work conflicts with the "death and rebirth" of his wife. This is also the place where Gu Keduo, a poet and artist with multiple identities, reflects
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"Orphée" is a representative experimental film work of surrealist magical themes, whether it is from the twists and turns of the story content, or from the magnificent and peculiar expression of the image, just like Rimbaud's poetry, it is psychedelic and crazy. The director brings the audience into a psychedelic world with magnificent colors. The film is full of Rimbaud style poetry. The director uses surreal lens language to reinterpret a story of Western classical mythology. The protagonist Orphée's imagination to travel to another world through the mirror. The symbolic role of the mirror in the film. The poet is used as a carrier to cross the world. The dreamy and fluid unconscious way of telling is obvious. The theme touches death, poetry, self-recognition, and regeneration. With Rimbaud's surrealism color
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