This is the most impressive part of "Only Love Forever", full of unexpected calm and gentleness. For vampires, gloves mean isolation from the human world. In this world full of "noise", pollution and "zombies" (the male protagonist describes human beings as zombies, meaning human numbness and depravity), taking off gloves is like a sacred ritual , and there is a trace of graceful lust, this couple who have seen the vicissitudes of life for hundreds of years has surpassed the indulgence of carnal desire, but they really have the essence of spiritual love.
A bland but unusual reunion of a separated vampire couple during their long separation is a staple of the film. The hero is in desolate Detroit, the heroine is in the ancient city of Tangier, Monaco, one goes to the hospital every night as a doctor with the outdated 40-year-old stethoscope to the hospital and trades blood with the doctor, and the other goes to a doctor named "One". "Thousands and One Nights" hookah shop and old friend to get fresh blood, this old friend is Shakespeare's "shadow writer", of course, no one intends to tell the truth.
Take back the blood, the blood of the healthiest human being that is rare in this era without being "contaminated", fill a small glass with a delicate wine glass, and sink into that soft mattress piled with Byzantine embroidered pillows or antique lutes Taste slowly, this is the taste of vampires.
To use vampire parody, it's fifteenth-century fashion. Taking a small sip, he immediately fell into a psychedelic orgasm. Vampires are never obsessed with sex and sensuality. The anxious sex scene in "Twilight"? What a joke, only blood is the only irresistible instinct.
This film is composed of countless such slow and intoxicating clips. The streets of the ancient city of Tangier under the night, the gorgeous but abandoned Michigan Theater in Detroit, have all been featured with tireless close-ups. As a literary film, the plot is of course indispensable. Simple to avoid, but this movie isn't boring. There is a small humor in series, and the male and female protagonists can only understand each other's teasing, cute and full of absurd whimsy, and there is a kind of soothing and poetic romance.
The two of them were curled up on the sofa in nightgowns and played chess leisurely with a popsicle frozen from RH negative blood, joking about their relationship with those legendary "great men" hundreds of years ago. The music quintet was given to Schubert, but he published it?" The man calmly said, "Yeah, but this is what I asked him to do, and I haven't given him the last chapter."
"I love listening to you make peace. What happened to Shelley when he was fooling around?"
"He's a bastard anyway." When the
house was powered off, the heroine greeted the vines in Portuguese, and the hero opened his frame that only existed in Nika. The cosmic dynamo in Gula Tesla's fantasy turned a short circuit problem that a vampire had to face. In order to deal with the human being killed by his sister, the two exchanged fearfully: Destruction of corpses in this era is really much harder than in the past. isn't it? ...
Because after living for hundreds of years, I have lost interest in sex, entertainment, and any noise, and I can only find solace in art and science to pass the time. Before the two meet, the heroine brings a suitcase Collected books of various languages, various eras, and the male protagonist made a new tune. Most of the time they met, they spent most of the time on the sofa, languidly drunk, until the blond, beautiful but full of danger and restless sister-in-law late at night. advent. Because of the willful behavior of the sister-in-law, the only human assistant died unexpectedly. The two had to throw the corpse and destroy the traces. When they returned to Tangier, they found that their old friend had died from drinking contaminated blood. The two decided to go to the rooftop and wait for death, but in the end they Couldn't give up the thirst for blood.
The combination of "Rocky" Tom Hiddleston and "The Snow Queen" Theda Swinton has a wonderful chemistry here, both of whom have a tired and pale haggard countenance but a pair of equally clear and eager children. Eyes, aging and youth, youth and vicissitudes can exist in two people at the same time, the almost white eyelashes and pale lips of the Snow Queen and the thin and pale body under the open robe of the student Dowson, they do nothing. , as long as you stand there like a vampire, tired and lazy, with the director's ingenious slow-rock soundtrack, from the weird voice at the beginning to the addictive Wanda Jackson's old song funnel of love, the hearts of all the audience follow The constantly turning title is intoxicated.
The fantasy about vampires is probably a projection of human’s desire for immortality. Although gods, ghosts, and spirits can also be immortal, only vampires live in the world and live with people, and live a life that is still similar to that of humans. Although he is no longer human, he has never left, so he naturally becomes a bystander of the world.
The director uses the image of a vampire to express a sense of loneliness and loneliness, and there seems to be a trace of disgust for human beings themselves. The two vampires still hold admiration and appreciation for the countless beautiful things that have happened in human history, while human beings themselves are polluting His body indulges himself into a "walking dead", which is the "zombie" that the male protagonist hates.
Let’s indulge, let’s have fun, maybe it’s because time is limited that we indulge in such superficial desires, when life becomes eternal, when prosperous cities are bustling and sparse, when civilization falls here and rises elsewhere, everything will be wiped out. Only art and science can be an outlet for eternal loneliness, and all this is worth sharing only with a true understanding lover, and no one else matters.
As an independent director who has played in movies and bands, and has always insisted on art films, loneliness was written into a poem, pondering in a man's charming voice, reflected in the eyes of his lover's baby.
View more about Only Lovers Left Alive reviews
