When I first saw this movie six months ago, I was taken aback. It was my first time watching a Lars Von Trier movie, especially before I saw a female addict.
There are many masters in the history of film, but Lars von Trier can be called a genius. The so-called ghost, I understand it is that the methods and skills that others have been studying for years are easily mastered by him. After the methods and techniques were mastered by him, they became the tools for him to express his unique thinking. The genius is not the slave of the method but the master of the method.
Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang in Chinese painting and Hieronymus Bosch in Western painting are typical representatives of this kind of ghost. In "I Made This House" I saw a talented and thoughtful director. Lars Fonti is not the director with the best sense of camera, but he must be the most knowledgeable creator. Literature, architecture, art, music, drama, philosophy, natural history are omnipotent and omnipotent. It is even more commendable that he can skillfully combine fishing and female protagonist travel among female addicts, and skillfully combine Nazis and corrupt art such as "brewing ice wine" in "This House Is Made By Me". This kind of sophistication is comparable to the role of corruption as a social lubricant in "The Bee's Prophecy" written by the British ghost writer Mandeville in the 17th century.
Later, I gradually started to get in touch with Lars Fonti's other films, only to discover that he could also make very touching films such as "Dancer in the Dark" and "Dog Town". The movie "Dog Town" is the perfect attempt at a fusion of theater and cinema. "This house is made by me" is an extension and upgrade of Lars Fonti's speculative film "Female Addict", which more unscrupulously interspersed with animation, documentaries, paintings, documents and more multimedia teaching methods. Explain the special image of the dark scene under the lights.
At the same time, I have to admit that the genius director is also very good at sophistry, defending Nazis, justifying murder, offending the audience, and he interspersed a large number of genital scenes among female addicts, the same as SM scenes. Like the dialogues arranged in Female Addicts, "I Made This House" also arranges dialogues between The Killer and Virgil: The Wise Men of the Ancient Roman Poet of the same name. He also inserted image metaphors such as winemaking to justify his extreme ideas. Lars Fonti is an outlier in a century of cinematic history. There are many film masters who can tell stories and use camera language to tell stories, and there is only one who is good at using film language sophistry.
Lars Fonti's serious storytelling films like Dancer in the Dark and Dogtown are not as brilliant as "derailed" sophistry films like "I Made This House". Just as Duchamp used the urinal to interrogate art, Larsfonte uses "I made this house" to subvert the audience's thinking and subvert the meaning of the film itself.
"This house is made by me" is very uncomfortable to watch the movie. First, the audience feels a strong visual and intellectual impact. Physiologically uncomfortable. The killer also used the superiority of film history and art history to crush the audience. Second, a large number of different professional vocabulary. I have never seen a director who loves to drop his bookbag so much. For the first time in my life, I strongly recommend watching a movie to see the resources translated by the subtitle group, not going to the theater. If you are not as knowledgeable as a director, don't go to the theater to listen to raw meat and make yourself humiliated. Third, after watching it, I still have to struggle with how to refute the director.
Yet this experience is absolutely necessary and unique. No one has given you such a movie viewing experience, only Larsfonte.
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