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At that time, I thought to myself, it’s not bad, such an unpopular film , At least someone made a MV for it, and it did it beautifully. The director himself is a background in commercials/MV, and the film made into a MV is also particularly impressed. Later, I was so happy to find the trailer for this film, but the trailer was really boring. How long can you see that the feature film of a movie is better than the trailer? Here is an example.
I think the MV and the trailer represent two views on this film. Some people see their own things from it, while others see a collection of beautiful images. There is nothing wrong with this, but the most important thing is to have one's own opinions. There are also films that other people like very much. How do I look at how to play, and find the unpopular films that have special meaning to me is the right way. I watched it at the end of December, and immediately praised it as my favorite movie I saw in 2012. Of course, it may also be a recency effect. But the good movies I saw during that period are not few, and several of them may remain high in my life list for a long time. So I am so fond of this film and I am willing to write a long review for it, but it can only be said that it is because of personal reasons.
The first meeting was
on the day Alexandria met Roy for the first time. She hid in the corridor outside the room. The scene outside the room was printed on the cool mint green wall through the keyhole. In the golden halo of honey, there were inverted people and horses. The colors here are fantastic, pure and extremely sweet, which is the upside-down dream that Roy is about to take her into. She closed her eyes and saw in Roy's casual narrative that Alexander the Great was walking alone in the ruins of the wall at dusk. This paragraph laid the foundation for the narrative style of the story-Roy's low voice-over and Alexandria's wild imagination, just like wanting Using Beethoven's symphony to match Dalí's surreal style pictures, there is a certain grotesque and magnificent beauty in the disharmony.
The acquaintance of the two is like a fall that happened to each of them, it seems that it is just another unintentional loss of fate. The little girl Alexandria wrote a note, trying to throw it to the beautiful nurse Evelyn, but the note fell into the wrong place. There are many images of falling in the film, good or bad, always a wonderful arrangement of God, leading the plot to the end of the writing. In fact, the track has already been paved, and the composition is closed. It is a careful presupposition of formalism, just to pretend to meet unexpectedly at the moment of intersection.
Roy's story opens with: "Did you know that Alexander is also waiting for a message? He is lost. He is separated from his army and is about to die." This sentence is just a confession, maybe he didn't even think about it. The following is a portrayal of Roy's own mood and current situation. The story is half-hearted, and Alexander, who is at the end of his life, is Roy's imagination. (One small detail is that Roy told Alexandria that Alexander's horse had died in the war; and in reality, Roy experienced a set accident, and there was also a horse's death.) The
story is very short. Alexander the Great is in desperate situation. It was easy to get him a helmet of water, but Alexander poured the water into the sand to show justice. The little girl was confused, and asked why he didn't divide the water one by one. Roy couldn't answer it. Without a reason for the behavior, the plot couldn't be established.
Some people are confused about the meaning of this paragraph in the whole film, because apart from the small detail of the helmet holding water, this story seems to have no connection with other texts. I think the story of this hemiplegia is to lay the foundation for the mode of acquaintance and communication and the film's performance of the story. The second is to confess the obvious differences in the two people's personalities-Roy has a rather solitary perfectionism in his body, a yearning for apocalyptic heroes and an epic tragic ending. If it can't be achieved, then they will die together. Therefore, he is pessimistic and will go his own way. The little girl’s thinking is simple and flexible, always the clearness of ice and the brightness of orange (in the film she is connected with the image of ice and orange many times), and the shadow under the sun is like the image of a revolving lantern, always imaginative Nourishment.
So to explain with the theory of classic drama, if Roy is the protagonist, then Alexandria is the opponent. Roy couldn't make Alexandria understand his despair in Alexandria's encounter, so he later used a more complete story to present her. In the second story, they really started the competition of their respective forces, leading the audience to the climax of the last half hour.
Roy the man
I think Roy would this person is very interesting. As far as the first weather is concerned, he is a typical depression, introverted and unstable like it will collapse into a black hole at any time. Wearing a loose white linen shirt and lying on the hospital bed all day long, his melancholy and desolate appearance is also like a romantic poet who is destined to die young. It’s no wonder that even his old colleagues have to say to him: "You are not suitable for the entertainment industry, you are suitable for studying."
Roy is emotionally unstable, but he is very restrained. He can also be quite gentle and beautiful. There is a small plot that Alexandria lied to him in order to hear the story. He was very angry when he found out, but the way of revenge was to kill several people in his story. This shows the person's habitual passive resistance and turning to self-attack. Especially not long after, he immediately apologized to the little girl for his gaffe, and the anger directed at others turned into self-blame. The restraint and suppression of negative emotions made him good at gentle and resolute self-hatred.
This provided an explanation for his suicidal impulse like a decisive battle. There are many negative events in life, he obviously feels more profoundly than others, but he deliberately hides it. His anger may have been caused for a long time, and the paralysis and the rejection of his girlfriend are just the last straw. How circumstances affect the creation of a person, and how to explain the inherent loneliness, he can't analyze it, and he can always show it to you. That is the second story he and Alexandria weave together, the dark and destined direction under the bright colors, if things are both good and bad, all he encounters is the bad one.
In fact, Roy and Alexandria are both people with stories. The film’s handling of the past is to show the grandeur of the dream, but we can always notice that Roy is not visited and favored by his parents and brothers. The old man who came to comfort him was a stuntman with the same disability, and his encouragement was somewhat self-pity and self-pumping. He also doesn't communicate with patients. The only person who can get close to him is a 5-year-old girl, because the little girl can't hurt him.
In addition, Roy's love is also a gesture of looking up devoutly. His lover is not so much a star, but a goddess. It is the filling of his beliefs. In the old photos, the two were smiling and embracing each other, or they had once been in love. It looks beautiful, but it won't be too perfect. Because of the extreme unequal status, it can only cause one party's sincerity and fear and the other party's exhaustion. In the story, when he meets the woman he likes, the first thing the masked man does is to put on a mask, just like Roy in reality takes risks in order to attract the attention of female stars, it is essentially a denial of himself. He felt that if he was just himself, it would not be likable. Why does a person have such distorted thoughts, what exactly would Roy's family and childhood be like? This kind of plot hidden behind the text is actually very interesting to think about. We will recommend cognitive therapy for him. laugh.
Also pay attention to the story Roy told by the way. His story (originally) is chaste and decisive, love is the poetic beauty of love at first sight and the rupture of death rather than surrender, full of various pre-qualification, inevitability and absoluteness. The heroes in his story have their own heavy pasts, but they always have to sympathize with each other after meeting, because they are all the same persistent people, and don't mind rushing to a huge death for a butterfly. This is a profile of the main value orientation of the male protagonist.
In addition, the actor Lee Pace, who plays Roy, is very beautiful. Although he is tall, a face with a sharp chin and slap is very feminine in some angles. Before filming The Fall, he also played a role of a transgender dancer who was indistinguishable from the male and female. I don't know if Tarsem Singh came to him by coincidence, or he fell in love with his femininity.
Little girl Alexandria
Roy's space is self-contained, and the enclosed space surrounded by soft cloth is as depressed and calm as him. However, she liked him, ran to him if she had nothing to do, put herself in his line, and even liked him more than Evelyn, the beautiful nurse who has been taking care of herself. Perhaps even a child can perceive that he has gradually laid out his soul's trump card in the extension of the story.
In Roy's epic story, the protagonist Masked Man was originally based on Alexandra's father, and he spoke with a grunting accent. Alexandra said that Dad was dead and asked the Masked Man to speak like Roy. From this scene, the masked man turned his face and took off his mask, revealing Roy's (jun) face.
This symbol has two meanings. One is that Roy has subconsciously gradually projected herself into the story from then on, and the other is that Alexandra psychologically projects the image of her father onto Roy, which gives rise to a vague and ambiguous attachment.
It is very interesting to study this. Alexandra was 5 years old at this time. At this time, the child was in the sexual budding stage described by Freud, and what needed to be resolved was the famous Oedipus complex (the little girl corresponds to the Electra complex). But her father died on this joint. At this time, she met Roy, who was gentle and melancholy, surrounded by an atmosphere of deja vu death. At this time, the obedient man had never left his hospital bed, but he led her to a vast outside world with high mountains and flowing water. It was as if Alice was destined to get lost for Mr. Rabbit, Wendy would also linger on Peter Pan's island, and the little girl was eagerly waiting for an opportunity to be lost, which was a inevitability in her growth.
There is a kind of pan-Freudism readily available in the film industry. The Electra complex appears very common, but it is generally handled implicitly. Like the killer Ang and Qi Tan, there are not many who expressly show that little girls are in love with adult men. Generally speaking, it is for the purpose of dividing the role into the other, creating a marginal situation or aesthetic strangeness. And in the fall, such taboo emotional processing is worthy of aftertaste, like a marigold by the doorstep in the morning mist waiting to be discovered, neither obscured to nowhere, but also not clear enough to be visible. On the contrary, it is very pure and unopened.
In Roy's epic story, there is no heroine in the first half, and there is no sign of this woman. That day, Alexandria saw nurse Evelyn put red lipstick on her cheeks in front of the mirror, and couldn't help boasting that she was beautiful. Evelyn put a little lipstick on her too, and took her to the mirror to look at it together. This picture is actually a metaphor for the awakening of Alexandria's feminine consciousness. The image of a woman and a girl in the mirror merged together, using the same tube of lipstick.
Then when the little girl stole morphine for Roy, she met a woman who had lost her beloved son. The woman squeezed the little feet of the child's corpse, making him wake up with a hoarse, otherwise "they will chop you off and cut you open." Alexandria cried, undoubtedly thinking of pinching Roy's toe, but Roy didn't feel it. Roy and the image of death are the first to have a conscious connection, and this makes Roy and Alexandria's father one more similar.
What's interesting is that the heroine appeared in Roy's story, with the face of Evelyn, which is actually a condensed image of Roy's ex-girlfriend, nurse Evelyn, and Alexandria. After listening to this story, Alexandria drew a pink heart in a painting. This section shows the conversation between her mother and the doctor. The color of the lens is deserted and blue-green, and it is the clean and cold breath of pills and alcohol in the hospital. The soft pink color of the crayons is a very contrasting color, but a close-up is used. Later, she gave the painting to Roy, saying that she hoped that she would never be better, so that she could stay with Roy forever.
Alexandria looked forward to the two kissing in the story, but Roy wanted a cruel ending. Roy swallowed all the medicines of patient Walter and was about to fall asleep, and the story began to lose control, presenting the misty, jumping and distorted dreams. The scenes in this section also have that kind of illusory beauty, the inexplicable and addictive music and artistic conception like the beauty in a dream. He originally wanted to let the story end in a desperate situation, but Alexandria was unhappy, and jumped out to rescue the people in trouble. The identity in her story is the masked man's daughter.
Roy fell asleep at this moment and didn't even have the energy to question her assertion. Alexandria said, wake up, this is not the time to sleep. But no matter how she called for harassment, Roy remained awake. So she touched Roy's face and kissed again and again. There was a (probably) borrowed shot, and she kissed Roy's lips directly. This is not simply the little girl's attachment to his father.
Has Alexandria's hazy love gradually awakened? Before that, she was very attached to Roy. She always ran to his hospital bed, leaned on him to listen to stories, and shared the sacrament bread he had stolen. The little girl's mood was sealed in a treasure box and carefully tied with a bow. I was afraid that she didn't know the value, so she didn't dare to give it away rashly, so she had to keep hiding.
The next day, she looked in the mirror and used lipstick to draw the American neon butterfly from Roy's story on her belly. The femininity of the lipstick is combined with the symbol of the cocoon of the butterfly. Looking back at the still childish Alexandria from the mirror, she may already be a young girl in love.
The ending
Although he might not have guessed that he will live until the story is finished, Roy's ending for the story is completely annihilated, which he decided early on. Whenever a story has two possible directions, he always chooses the worse one. Therefore, the heroes failed to protect their loved ones, failed to intercept their rivals in the carriage, failed to hold a happy wedding, even if they traveled through thousands of rivers and mountains, they could not but their long-cherished wish for revenge, and finally they could no longer save themselves. Life. Life is a constant loss, and we will eventually fail. This is Roy's belief. His despair swept across the army high above, not half a piece of sacrament bread can be redeemed.
Earlier Alexandria asked, why couldn’t Alexander the Great succumb a little and just pour off the water a little bit? How should Roy explain, this is how he looks at things. Despair cannot be explained, it can always be felt. Alexandria cried and asked, why did you kill everyone. He said that my story cannot have a happy ending. The problem has always been him. The source of his psychological control is outward, he thinks he can control not many things, and he can't even touch a bottle of the medicine he wants. It's better not to have such a life.
Revenge, revenge, each in the story harbors deep hatred, swears not to give up until the goal is reached, and sacrifices himself in order to protect something. He said: "You never knew me at all, I am a coward, I am a liar, I have never taken a vow. It’s not right here).” Roy has always been gentle with the outside world, at the cost of hating himself deeply and taking everything as he deserves.
I think the climax part is very exciting, Roy is all about suing himself, and Alexandria is all about redemption. Roy said that this is my story, and Alexandria said that this is also my story. The two people competed for the right to speak in the text, and they both couldn't make a sound. Alexandria said dad don't die, dad stood up, Roy said, but I can't stand up anymore.
The pun meaning of this sentence is really shocking.
In the end, Roy changed the ending for Alexandria. Since he tried his best to defeat the hatred of himself, at least she could still use his gentleness towards the world.
Later, everyone in the hospital watched the film that Roy participated in. Playing the violin, everyone was laughing happily, and Roy saw himself falling from the bridge, and the atmosphere grew tense. But everything in the camera, the protagonist is safe, and everything in the world is safe. Everyone was still smiling, Roy also relaxed, and found that after facing many things, he was not as terrible as he imagined, and the world would not be alarmed. Alexandria emphasized to him the betrayal and untrustworthiness of his girlfriend over and over again before, and at first he didn't listen to it. But in the end perhaps he finally realized that reality is not as pure and perfect as his wish, and that he has to rely on his own strength to survive.
General comment
In the fall into this movie, the imitation and deformation between reality, the story, and the movie (in which Roy participated) creates a sense of subtle interaction and unevenness, and the two narrative powers of Roy and Alexandria in the story are also Chasing and entwining each other is like a competition between the two parts in a fugue, thus intertwining a complex and scattered beauty. However, this also makes the interpretation of the film difficult. Our favorite films often have a firm stand and simple themes, and it is easy to find reasons for moving. However, after falling into the theater, it is said that many people don't know how to evaluate, because they don't know whether the ending is happy or sad.
Its embarrassment lies in its ambiguity. However, I think that its beauty is also due to this, just as the chaos resuscitated and died in seven days. In the untransformed world, there is actually no need to break the spirit. I have always felt that the way oriental people feel the world is close to the skin and sensual. Even if the tightest tulle is put on the tightest veil, they can still be felt in general. This movie gave me the feeling that the director worked hard to paint full of flowers, moon and birds on the surface of the lantern silk. It was verified that the candle was still burning in it, but not everyone could find it. So some people criticized it for being beautiful and detrimental to its meaning.
Beauty is of course the most significant feature of this movie. Many people who don't understand or don't like this movie will also recognize the beauty of this movie. The beauty is permeated from the composition, color, rhythm and soundtrack, but what is interesting is that the opening and ending of the film all use the second movement of Beethoven’s seventh symphony, and the overall art design of the film pays tribute to Dali’s many references. work. The combination of the solemnity of classical music and the surrealist pictures creates a sense of grand absurdity.
I like Roy's story very much, but this story is arbitrary, there is no absolute moral and strict counterpoint, so it is more suitable to experience with feelings. This kind of reminds me of Jiang Wen’s sun rising as usual. The two films are dreamy, beautiful and magnificent. They both make me cry and I don’t know what to say. Because moving cannot withstand the scrutiny of absolute logic, it’s more like An original subconscious resonance.
Gu left and right nonsense,
I don't know whether the ending of this film is a sublimation of the theme or it leads the audience astray.
The most important thing for me in this movie is the struggle between Roy and Alexandria. It is a very private and tense state, so it is not surprising that someone can't simply experience it. Originally, this film was destined to be sidetracked. It did not promote the mainstream values of freedom and democracy, and did not lay out a critical or praiseworthy position. It just tried its best to tell a war between two people and thousands of troops in the air. In the film, there are both the sadness of the adult world and the unsolved sadness. However, in reality, everything is uncorrupted, and no one deliberately criticizes anything. This gives the story a bright and full color like a fairy tale, but On the contrary, it is difficult to apply a simple formula to interpret. Therefore, its epic temperament is idyllic. The magnificence of time and space is not created through crowded tactics, but through large panoramic shots, saturated colors, jumping editing, and superb dissolving, so the world is vast and simple and lonely, always with dreams. Trance. Such outbursts and deaths could have run through, but the final sigh brought the audience to the reality. So it is easy for us to mistakenly think that we have found a port of interpretation, but forget that the dream itself does not actually need to start.
I thought and thought, in fact, the ending is still very strong, at least I was shocked and sat until the subtitles were finished. However, when compared with the overall style of the movie, I still feel that it is off the beaten track. Of course, I have had this problem with my writing since I was a child, and I was reluctant to collect it at the end for sublimation, so I can understand it very much. But I still have to criticize, so as not to be suspected of being left behind.
Another point to be criticized is that the little girl bite off more than half of the sacrament bread, but more than half of what she put on Roy's lips. Probably because the child is not easy to talk about the scene, the camera will not make up. I watched the tidbits. The director clearly has a lot of feathers. The scene where the Masked Man was drowned torture Lee Pace was quite miserable...
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