"Dancers in the Darkness" is the final installment in director Lars' 2000 conscience trilogy following "Idiots" and "Breaking the Waves." Conscience is only two words, but there is too much content to be written. Through the second film, the director conveyed to us some helplessness, the helplessness of the disadvantaged. Conscience--sometimes it doesn't save anything.
Shaman, who dances in the dark:
I really like Bjork's performance in this movie. She plays Shaman with amblyopia, and her expression is always illusory and real. She lives half in the real society and half in the music daydreams made by herself. She can't see the world clearly, but in her heart she can I saw a beautiful sight that no one else could see. The most classic is the daydream next to the train. Bjork's ghostly and ethereal high-pitched part breaks through the shadows and goes straight to the cloudy night. It is very shocking and has a feeling of going around the beam for three days.
The heroine Shaman has disabled eyes and is poor. She fled from the Czech Republic to the United States and used tireless work in exchange for a meager salary to treat her son's eye disease. She is weak both physically and materially. , as humble as a mayfly. But her inner world is strong and optimistic, full of love for life and happiness. She loves music, singing, and tap dancing. Any rhythm around her can make her feel happy and fluttering. She is living with real pain and happiness. . And yet it was such a simple and strong woman who fell victim to my Bill's escapism! When I watched her walk the last 107 steps in the prison, my tears couldn't stop, and my headache was splitting! Life, such a fresh and tenacious life, began to despair after this hundred and seven steps, began to fear, began to be paralyzed and even hysterical. I held the corner of the sofa tightly, struggling to breathe. The director was very cruel. He showed the details of the execution in front of the audience without any modification. Before I could cover my eyes with my hands, Shaman had already been dropped in the air, and Bjork's ending sound of "last song" was still echoing in the sky above the prison cell. , everything has returned to silence, but Shaman hangs there quietly, no longer singing.
This moment is true darkness, no dancers, no singing, no drums, just endless sadness.
I can't stop crying, the world has already given her darkness, why should I take away her humble life? !
Bill, the underdog of human nature:
Shaman and Bill in the film are two completely contrasting characters. Bill is a policeman, tall, with a decent career, a beautiful wife and a seemingly wealthy life. But he couldn't bear the blow of bankruptcy. He didn't know how to face the financial difficulties. What was even more outrageous was that he didn't even have the courage to kill himself to escape reality. to avoid the predicament. The frailty of human nature he shows is simply astounding! And this is precisely the portrayal of most people in real life. How many such Bills are there around us? ! Conscience, among these people, is nothing but rhetoric to hide the ugliness of human nature.
A glimmer of love:
Shef is a truck driver who has always liked Shaman. Another life that also lives in the most strata, but persistently pursues love. He knew that when Shaman was about to be hanged, he held the phone and cried with another headache. The gleam of love must also be annihilated behind the horizon. The little love that Shaman asked for will follow Shaman's life soon. ended and came to an end early. The world is so cruel, when he takes back a thing, he takes it back in sets without pity. We all sigh and sigh for Shaman's death, and who cares where Shav's love goes? How could the humble life be so inconspicuous, together with their love, just like a bunch of dried up cornflowers, just thrown into an inconspicuous corner by fate.
Cathy, Eternal Donkeyskin Princess:
Catherine Deneuve, a well-known French actress, plays the role of the female car foreman, Catherine Deneuve. Her elegant deer-like eyes make her vulgar and lowly dressed, unable to conceal her noble temperament. No matter how you look at it, Catherine, who wears a headscarf and does rough work all day, doesn't look like a foreman. She still feels that the charm of the President's wife and the donkey-skin princess is endlessly exuding. It should be said that her acting skills are not very good, and she did not successfully create the image of a working woman in a stratum society, but this does not reduce my love for her. Sometimes the inner temperament cannot be completely concealed by acting skills. It is completely impossible for Audrey Hepburn to successfully play Qiu Ju, so what's the big deal.
Shaking and dizzy sadness:
Another feature of this film is that it was filmed with a hand-held DV, so the processing of the lens is very rough, and there are few cuts and cuts, and the DV is dizzy between the characters. of turning around. In the first few scenes, I felt sick like I was motion sickness. I don't like the director's fake documentary effect, it's a bit hypocritical. I think the audience should be moved by the collision of humanity revealed behind the story, not by the use of a few different shots. The form doesn't matter, it's the content that matters.
This dizzy sadness makes one feel sick, with symptoms similar to a cold.
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