I really like the "vacation" movies made by Director Gua, whether it's "Holiday Surprise" or "Please call me by your name". Seeing that he was going to remake "The Wind and Wind", I was surprised how he would remake such a movie. For this reason, he also went to watch the old version of "The Wind and Wind." The old version of "The Wind and Wind" was actually a bit surprised in the performance. The old version should be remembered by the movie's use of color and music. Seeing Guaduo's "Wind Wind Array" preview, you will find that he has eliminated the old version of the color and adopted a more somber tone. The most interesting thing about the trailer is that it has imitated the works of many female performance artists. This time, the B frame of the movie has risen many steps, and the expectation value has exploded. Reminiscent of the ME TOO movement in recent years, you will probably know why the director will make such a film that reflects the theme of feminist awakening.
However, this film is not as good as I expected. Seeing the evaluation at the Venice Film Festival, it would be a bipolar movie. I thought I would be the group of people I like, but this movie seems to be much more "superficial" than I thought.
I just talked about the color tone. In fact, this color tone is my favorite. The gray and cold color tone is also in line with the spy atmosphere of the Eastern and Western Germany. Of course, this is also a deliberately worn effect. The color of the whole film easily reminds me of the same spy-themed movie "The Potmaker, Tailor, Soldier, and Spy". It is also the background of the Cold War period. All the colors are covered with a layer of high-grade gray, which makes the movie look special and high-grade. And restraint. And the cold lens language of this film also reminds me of Thomas Alfredson’s other movie "No Entry, No Entry", which also uses cool and restrained shots to depict horror and horror, and finally With a touch of warm story.
This film taught me a lot of pioneer female artists.
Blanc's image directly refers to Pina Bausch, and Tilda Swinton is still a good interpretation of this dancer. Some of the montage flashbacks of "Evil" images in it refer to the works of pioneering female performance artists such as Francesca Woodman, Ana Mendieta, and Claude Cahun. But Gua Dao did not explore the meaning of it, but only used them graphically in the flashback screens, graphically these works, let them be called the expression of horror. Of course, it is no problem to use these pictures to express the theme of the story from the "witching", but it is like a violent thing, but it has been piled up graphically, which has a terrifying effect, and has no other meaning.
The film has also been interspersed with the broadcasts of the current situation of the two Germanys, about the Red Army faction, the Lufthansa hijacking incident, and the historical problems of the Nazi concentration camp. But these feelings are only reminding time and playing a background role, and are not closely integrated with the intended expression of the story. Like the works of avant-garde female artists used above, they only serve as a display and stacking function, but do not actually refer to them.
And when watching the film, I was very uncomfortable to watch the parallel editing of several dances and the story. As soon as the background sound came up, it was cut to the parallel story. I felt that the fluency of the dance was greatly interrupted. . In short, the editing of the two dances did not shock me too much. And the last climax, in the blood-red sacrifice, also felt chaotic, and the shot was not sinister enough, only felt as if it was blurred by the bass.
It may be that my expectations for this film are too great, and the gap in the end is a bit big. But this is not a bad-looking film. I don't know if it is because of commercial relations. Many things are not bold, thorough, and evil enough, so in the end I feel that this is just a very ordinary work.
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