Luca Guadagnino's 2018 edition of "The Wind and Wind", the film is very charming, grotesque and alternative, strong feminist color, bloody violence, brutal and sexy. In addition, you need to understand the historical background of the time, otherwise you will not understand what the film is about. As a horror movie, the plot of 152 minutes is quite long. The plot is uniquely woven against the background of Berlin in the 1970s, focusing on boldly portraying feminism , despising the rights of men at the time, and vaguely remembering a group of witches bewitching the police, taking off their police pants and mocking male genital organs. In addition, the film also portrays the war at the time, from the political instability in East Berlin and West Berlin to show the depression of the terrorist background. As many modern art do, there is nothing more terrifying than reality if you take reality out. Using reality to increase the audience's sense of horror for this film greatly exaggerates the depressive atmosphere of the film.
Director Luca Guadagnino is talented and has a wealth of filming experience. In 2009, his stunning film "I Am Love" was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film; in 2015, "Holiday Surprise", which he collaborated with Tilda Swinton, was nominated for the first time in the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival; and Based on the novel of the same name, "Call Me by Your Name", after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2017, it caused a huge response and received rave reviews. It won the 90th Academy Award for Best Picture. Nominate. Under the enthusiasm of Italy, Guadagnino interweaves pastoral customs, music, art and literature to compose a youth pastoral that transcends gender.
Luca Guadagnino’s remake of the old version of "Golden Wind" has his unique insights. This "Golden Wind" ignores the traditional narrative logic for visual shock. Guadagnino also includes Argento. The gorgeous neon slash is discarded and replaced by the gloom of Berlin in winter. The result is far less effective than Argento's hypnotic effect, but this new version still has some dark charms.
I personally think that if we compare the old and new versions of "The Wind and Wind", this movie will win. In terms of plot, the old version no longer fits the aesthetic point of view of today's society. In 18 years, "The Wind and Wind" focused on men's contempt for women, and described women's fantasy dreams as a nervous nightmare. In this movie, even a terrifying group of witches is not as bad as the people's moral corruption during the Holocaust. But the film somewhat strengthened the moral aspect, weakened the human nature and the horror elements in the world that we cannot explain clearly. Therefore, "The Wind and Wind" complicates a simplified horror scene to make it deeper and more meaningful, thus completing the most bizarre art performance this year. The bloody scenes in the film are also more realistic and realistic, and the oath to the soul is also more unique, making it a completely absurd alternative film.
The witchcraft in the film is a spiritual force derived from nature, female power and ritual. Dance is the source of rituals, primitive, ritual, and quite deadly. In the end, the film gave us unforgettable blood and internal organs, and gave us a feeling of horror and weirdness. The core content of the film is charming, dark, pornographic, terrifying, and punitive.
In other words, the new version of "The Wind and Wind" is a discussion of human psychology and political society . Turning a horror film into a literary film, a drama that reflects reality, and tends to be more of a film like "Schindler's List", but the film itself is still a complete horror film, which is also Lowering the sense of terror, putting morality and feminism at the top of the film. If you don't read it a few times, you won't have a deep understanding of "The Wind and Wind".
The new version of "Wind Wind gusts" is 2 hours and 32 minutes, while the original version is 1 hour and 38 minutes. The new version adds a lot of horror and political elements to the original, making the whole film a bit scattered, not as simple and clear as the original. If you know this video very well, you will feel more.
The old version of the movie tells the story of a young American dancer, Susie, who came to a long-established ballet academy in Germany to study. As a result, she encountered a series of mysterious incidents in the school, and the female students were murdered bloody and brutally... Susie discovered that this school was originally the base camp of a group of witches, and she would be the next victim! In the end, Susie killed the Black Witch and escaped from the devil's den.
The new edition tells the story of the American girl Susie Barney, a young dancer who learned modern dance from the legendary choreographer Mrs. Blank at the iconic Tanz Academy in Berlin. Mrs. Blank is an energetic disciple of the mysterious Helena Marcos, the founder of the academy. However, it was not long before we realized that Tanz Academy was run by an immortal witch group, looking for suitable students to sacrifice to revive their founder. He is said to be a thousand-year-old demon known as Mother of sighs.
The plot seems to be similar, but the new version does not have the elegance of the original, and the plot description is scattered, making it difficult to guess the film. From terrorists to the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in Palestine, political elements appear from time to time to mark the plot as repressive. The film also describes the Holocaust, the aversion of psychotherapy, feminism, and religious fanaticism. It seems complicated and profound, but in fact it is all fur, which has no deeper meaning. This also makes the film not as good as the original, or even not as good as the original. .
The film revolves around a few dance scenes. I honestly don’t appreciate this kind of art. It doesn’t feel like dancing but like fighting (it doesn’t mean to belittle, I just won’t appreciate it). The film also talks about treating art with love. The entire dance company is a family. Perform with your own feelings, don't fix it at one point. In the film, artistic vision and political factors are intertwined, and it can be said that art has become politics. In this era of political chaos, horror movies are undoubtedly a frivolous concept, which has formed a group of people who would feel vulgar when it comes to horror movies. I hate such people!
In addition, the film also loudly promoted the need for men to believe in women, strengthened the female community, and showed a naked political color. I watched the movie twice plus the comments on the movie, which made me understand this "Wind Wind". I personally hate that watching movies requires relevant professional knowledge.
At the end, two key figures discuss the Holocaust and World War II, as well as the guilt and shame of acting or inaction during those years. Immediately the director switched the lens to the current era, and the bright colors finally filled the picture. A seemingly happy family spent an afternoon in a country house. In addition, the lens zooms in on the heart carved on the side of the house with the initials "A+J" inside . It literally means "Anke and Joseph", but in fact it has a deeper explanation: "Aryans + Jews".
This movie is an alternative literaryism plus an explosive grotesque horror, which makes most viewers unable to accept this aesthetic.
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