Auditory fear

Agnes 2021-12-08 08:01:44

The tidy room was unreasonably clean, and Cole looked at it to see where there was a problem and the bug was hidden. When the blood-red water poured out of the toilet, I was really stunned! It turns out that Cole, who works in monitoring, has been monitored! He checked the room frantically, not letting go of every corner. The only remaining statue of the Virgin represents the last faith, but when no bugs were found anywhere, he could only tear the icon apart, but there was nothing left.
The floor was pried open, the wall peeling off, Cole slumped on the ground, playing the saxophone, lonely and helpless. He will be trapped in the ruins, living under the surveillance of others, and will never be liberated. At this moment, the looking down lens is slowly shaking, like the eyes of a monitor, patrolling carefully. But you will never find it, let alone see those omniscient eyes, invisible like God.
Coppola's anti-genre movies, like Apocalypse Now, made me bewildered. It's not without logic, but I always feel that something is wrong, and there is no such thing as the pleasure of watching movies. In some places, it's almost incomprehensible. Why did you win the Palme d'Or award? It is about the society that is being monitored everywhere. People no longer have any trust between them, trapped in their respective cages, and lonely to death.
The sound editing is indeed remarkable, creating a suspenseful and terrifying atmosphere, and in conjunction with the picture, it vividly conveys Cole's inner fear.
What always happens, and you don't know anything.
Coppola always uses images to convey his philosophical concepts, but isn't it better to use words?

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Extended Reading
  • Meggie 2021-12-08 08:01:44

    1. Reveal that modern technology's infinite push and pervasive penetration of people form a [dialog] relationship with [zoom] [cruel line]. 2. Meta-movie, the presentation of peeping and eavesdropping, the separation of sound and picture, the space outside the picture, can be called a textbook. 3. In the misty wasteland nightmare, in front of the bloody toilet, in the saxophone whispering from the demolition of the old house, loneliness and craziness hit the heart. 4. God whose name cannot be mentioned and the faith that has finally fallen. (9.5/10)

  • Braeden 2022-04-22 07:01:27

    9.5/10. ① It tells about a monitoring task of the monitoring expert male protagonist and how he was monitored by his employer. The film focuses on the male protagonist's moral guilt, alienation from the surrounding environment, and the resulting anxiety and irritability. ② A large number of environmental noises, the sound of the tape running, and the clear or unclear human voice recorded by the tape are used to render the male protagonist's anxiety, irritability, and alienation. For example, the male protagonist repeatedly listens to the eavesdropping content of the tape. ③ The eavesdropping content of the tapes and the saxophone soundtrack are used extensively to create a sound and picture that is both alienated and interconnected, such as the male protagonist sleeping with a prostitute (the prostitute later stole his tape) and the two endings; The content is produced in parallel with sound and picture, such as the scene where the man witnesses the murder in the hotel. ④Cool light, low-saturation toning, low-brightness male protagonists, and voyeuristic compositions (such as the high-angle panorama at the beginning and various framed compositions). ⑤ The rhythm of the movie is wrong, it is loose and loose for a while and compact, and it is not coherent enough.

The Conversation quotes

  • Ann: This conversation is over.

  • [last lines]

    Martin Stett: [on the phone] We know that you know, Mr. Caul. For your own sake, don't get involved any further. We'll be listening to you.

    [plays back recording of Harry playing saxophone]