(A lot of spoilers enter carefully)
In a classic Dutch weather (aka rainy and continuous overcast wind gusts), I watched the 2018 remake of "Overcast Wind gusts":
1. I'm really lunatic and want to watch Italian movies in the Netherlands-I thought it was just a little bit of German, French, and Italian lines. As a result, 30% of the time was confused with the German of Dutch subtitles, and 10% of the time was guessing what the English with a strong German accent was saying.
And the witch Mrs. White was like our (Belgium) international law teacher. When she talked about it, she suddenly started to talk about French is a superior lanaguage. Then Mrs. Witch started to talk to the hostess in French. Meow?
2. A summary of the story: In the 1970s, Pina Bausch opened a modern dance troupe in Berlin, Germany, in partnership with a liar to practice black magic to continue the life of the liar, but the liar awakened the demon that was replaced by his impostor and was killed in seconds.
Director, tell me that setting Mme Blanc as a big smoke gun really has nothing to do with Pina Bausch?
Of course this is my baseless inference. On the one hand, several sections of Wenders's "Pina" gave me quite a frightening feeling. On the other hand, I heard that most people who learn dance rely on smoking to relieve their mental stress, including Bausch himself.
3. Master Thom Yorke's soundtrack is really awesome. Although I always feel the same as the head of the radio, it is very sad, from the beginning to the end. On the contrary, the strong electronic soundtrack of the original goblin band is more terrifying.
4. The director pulled a bunch of backgrounds from Germany and the United States in the 1970s. From the strong depravity of the large rural area of Ohio in the United States, to the recurring terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (aka Baader-Meinhof) and its assassinations in movies. And the feminist metaphor of the 1970s.
The result is that the film wants to express too much and too scattered, but it lacks a coherent argument. As a result, the horror film itself is not very scary, but more like a thriller with a strong background. For example, at the beginning of the long passage in the big rural area of Ohio, does it actually have little to do with the overall plot?
The point of horror lies mainly in the super-modern dance-but the choreography in the movie is estimated to be far ahead of the movie's epoch setting? The opening dance is called Volk (the people), is it to imply something by Jungian theory?
About Nazi ballet dancers is another very interesting topic. Except for a handful of dancers in the history of the Third Reich, the attitude towards modern dance is basically considered to be "degenerate art / Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate art / Entartete Kunst). For in-depth understanding, please refer to Hitler's Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich, by Lillian Karina & Marion Kant.
5. In addition to Pian Bausch, Tilda Swinton not only played an invisible old woman deceiving her children, but also played a 70-year-old German man to play a psychologist, really naughty (see picture above). Where Lutz Ebersdorf, Ebers = Swine, dorf = Town.
6. It has little to do with the old version of the plot. The story moved from the small town of Freiburg to the metropolis of East and West Berlin. It has nothing to do with the old version except for the character's name and the original setting. The old version has a higher picture contrast, while the new version has a grayish Western European deep winter atmosphere most of the time. Anyone who has stayed there knows how depressing it is not to see the sun.
One point that the new version is far superior to the old version is the choreography. The dance element in the old version is more of a soft and erotic hint. The torturing and killing of beautiful girls is an element of lead movies. In fact, the old version of the Chinese dance school as a gathering place for witches is confusing to some people.
In the new version, dance has become a part of language and rituals, and at the same time bears the role of promoting the plot. The heroine relied on dance after dance to awaken the demons in her body.
7. This movie has easter eggs after the subtitles are rolled. The easter egg is the awakened heroine drawing a symbol on your face. This spell seems to be the same one that forced the doctor to forget everything in the last chapter.
Probably many loose clues will be strung together in a possible sequel. The old version was made into a trilogy of goddesses getting worse and worse. Maybe the new version will get better and better?
If there is a sequel, I am still looking forward to it!
The old version of the heroine Jessica Harper plays the deceased wife of the psychologist Josef in the new version. The first thing Harper did after agreeing to participate in the new work was to enroll in a German school-she lied to the crew to say that she could speak German. It is said that the biggest challenge to Harper in the new version is to walk backwards while chatting with her husband in German with an accent.
Generally speaking, for viewers who have watched the old version, watching the movie is a process of constantly looking forward to being broken. This is at least an interesting movie.
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Highlights: art, choreography, music, camera.
Disadvantages: The plot is loose.
Conclusion: The narrative of the new version of the movie shows the director's ambition. Art director, choreography and music all make people enjoy the process of watching the movie very much. Excessive German and Dutch subtitles make people play. And in the end, the director used too many clues, and the clues simply disappeared in the end.
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Uncle Yorke had already written the theme song before the filming started.
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