Speaking of Jean-Pierre Gennet, everyone will immediately think of "Angel Loves the Beauty" filmed by him. The color of comedy in the film, plenty of light and shadow and the dream and romantic storyline make the audience eat a bite of honey. Sugar also made the whole world know that strange Emily. And this is not the whole style of Renei, even less than half of his full imagination. Many viewers don’t know that he once built another small city before this film. This small city is facing the sea, drifting, and full of metal. Texture and fog, this is Renai's another movie "The Night of Lost Souls", a fantasy city that truly belongs to him.
Everything happened in a small fantasy city facing the sea, where the mist was still invisible during the day. A strange doctor Geller, because he could not dream and accelerate aging, in order to relieve his pain, he decided to kidnap children and steal their dreams, but the kidnapped children only have nightmares; on the other hand, Ah Yi, who was born and strong, was originally there. On the corner of the amusement park, after his brother was kidnapped by the doctor, he embarked on an adventure to find his brother. On the way, they met the little girl "Breadcrumbs" from the orphan thieves unit. The two rescued Ah Yi’s brother and all his brothers. Kidnapped child.
The seemingly simple plot becomes fantasy and full of drama under the combination of Rene.
This is a dystopian-themed steampunk-style pioneering fantasy movie. Even today, its shooting methods and film connotations are still advanced.
Compared with the well-known "Angels Love Beauty", "The Night of Lost Souls" is more like a sculpture carefully carved inside the heat. All the sweet sunshine and laughter are not traced in this movie. This is not a movie. It seems that there is a city in the daytime. The director did not use bright colors and rich lens language. The entire screen showed a wet gloomy feeling soaked in green liquid, and a large number of shots were directly attached to the face of the actor, like The fisheye stretches and deforms the face of the actor, making the story more plastic.
The children are sitting in the room with blackboards and desks, but what they teach is stealing knowledge; in the weird "True Eyes" organization, everyone wears mechanical instruments instead of eyes, and detects them through flare guns. Voices from the outside world; the speeches of the leaders of the church are passionate, infectious and symbolic, but they are very Hitler; the weird towers are all surrounded by mines, and you can never pass through without a map; sticky and dirty dark green The sea is like the Dublin Bay described by James Joyce in "Ulysses" by Buck Mulley: "The sea of snot and green. The sea that makes the testicles tighten." The
director has always been keen on the film. China creates an island-like dystopian society. Compared with the real society full of sunshine and sweet dreams, here is extremely cold, without future and hope, even dreams, people will accelerate the rate of aging.
And this is just a reflection of the real society. On the surface, it is full of peace, but inside it is full of uncontrollable ills. Class contradictions, shortage of resources, crime...The human spirit has not been truly free in a highly developed society.
But even in such a depressing environment, Renei still continues to tell us fairy tales, and still creates some corners for us to sleep in this chaotic environment, so that people caught in steel and cold air are always full of people. In order to understand the taste of people, including all villains, they are also different from the bad guys in the traditional sense. They try to dress up as Santa Claus, hoping to play with the children in exchange for their goodwill and trust. Compared with the children sitting at the dining table and silent on the bed, all the great talents in the film are more like children with upside-down bodies.
For example, the lines of the six clones telling stories for the strange doctors exudes an amazing fairy tale atmosphere:
at that moment, the snails suddenly began to dance...
and then took off their shells and used them as loudspeakers to announce the start
of the concert. down, all the snails are off their shell
and then as a megaphone to announce the beginning of the concert
and silly shark with catfish bones bounced xylophone
walrus with a sperm whale's suspenders, played the harp Jews
ocean As blue as the sky and as blue
as the South Pacific
And I don’t know if I am flying in the sky or swimming on the seabed.
I swear it’s
just a few words that make me tremble . The cold steel shelf around it seems to be wrapped in syrup in an instant, and the sun reappears. This is exactly the ultimate meaning of Renei's spare no effort to shape the entire fantasy world, using dreams as a primer to implicitly bring us new hope in the cold reality.
Those who have dreams are the happiest, but those who don’t have dreams will accelerate aging; although they are in a dystopian society, as long as they have dreams, they can temporarily forget the noise and trivial matters in the dark, and will not fall into reality again. Can't extricate himself from the distress.
"As people grow up, dreams become the only door to the beautiful world of childhood." Because of this, dreams are also so important that they can rebuild the wider world that people want.
Renei once said with a grin: "Since the New Wave, movies have mostly been about a couple arguing over trivial matters. I prefer to shoot some positive stories."
So he created this kind of seemingly scary but bright and upward. The fairy tale films, whether adults or children, will like to feel fear and find their own fun.
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