Since the scope of watching movies is getting wider and wider, I really don't want to find a lot of reasons for myself to be happy by chance. The director of [Fish Tank], Andrea Arnold, I remember watching her short film [Bee] when I was buying a disc in Shanghai. Coincidentally, when [Fish Tank] was playing automatically on my DVD player, I saw It was the short film [Bee] I saw 2 years ago. In the same situation in the previous few times, I would have a great sense of satisfaction after watching the movie, and this time it was the same. The camera is so close to the heart of the characters, so wonderful, maybe only such a female director who focuses on female subjects can control it.
Interestingly, most of the families in Andrea Arnold's films are made up of women. [Fish Tank] The same is true. Arnold's way of shooting handheld has also continued. It is naturally unpretentious and full of the taste of life. It is also like when she chose the heroine, just like I met Michael Fassbender many times this year. The movie is normal, she actually met Katie Jarvis on the platform of the train station and chose her appearance in the movie, which is somewhat similar to Lou Ye's choice of Hao Lei to play [Summer Palace].
Like the whole family and even the whole community, Mia in a single-parent family is full of rebellion, disdain, and an indelible sense of inferiority in reality. She was almost in a state of exile, dropped out of school, drinking and dancing every day. The small world that belongs to her seems to be generally isolated from the ugliness that we don't see so often. When Connor appeared before her as her mother's lover, the image of a friendly man first appeared in her mind, which was probably That is how the fish first saw its owner through the fish tank. Gradually, she was attracted and began to show him what she thought was a great talent for dancing. Connor is not stingy with her compliments, and even offered to help her realize her dream of becoming a dancer. In her teenage mind, Connor was everything. She gradually showed a genuine smile and gradually began to open her heart to this relatively unfamiliar man. It's just that this is just her hallucination. When Connor had a relationship with her who was only 15 years old through Jiu Jin, Connor fled, and he already had a family.
Mia's pursuit and quest are instinctive, she needs Connor, the best man in her life. When she broke into Connor's home to discover that she had a wife and daughter, perhaps in a disillusionment or revenge, she seemed incontinent or on purpose, urinating on the room carpet. She was disappointed and resented. She kidnapped Connor's daughter and even threw it into the lake angrily. When the girl landed on the shore wet, she couldn't restrain her feelings and hugged the girl tightly because she had Connor's person was his own daughter, not her. After Connor found out the truth, he gave Mia a slap and completely smashed the virtual fish tank. At this time, she understood his cruelty, and she went to an interview for a female dancer, only to find out that it was just an adult strip club. Despair seemed to be the helplessness and despair she felt when she hit the ground after the fish tank shattered. The whole world seemed hopeless and she wanted to flee.
When parting, the dance of the three in the family vented a kind of helplessness and sadness. The sister who scolded her every day could not help but shed tears when she left. At this moment, maybe she is about to start again, or Just fall back into an unknown world.
Andrea Arnold's lens language is plain, abandoning the flashy that can penetrate into the heart of the characters, which can be found in the other short films of the CC Standard Collection Edition from beginning to end. In the face of films that attract audiences with visual effects and have no substantial story structure, [Fish Tank] is a superb work with unique personal style. Excellent directors do not show off the composition of the shots, but often deal with a unique mood and rhythm that fits the film. Sometimes it resonates with the pulse of the protagonist. !
Likewise, [Fish Tank]'s interpretation of men and women is profound and thought-provoking, women's psychological and physical dependence, men's animal nature thinking, conquest and control. All of this is hidden in the water where the sun can shine in a calm narrative, clear and obvious. I think what I like more than the exposition of girls becoming women is that its presentation of the individual world of women is a reflection of Mi Ya's, but also for his mother, maybe this is life, no matter what.
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