"It: not content to be just A Good Film - but, rather, A Great Film. And, on certain levels , maybe even An Important Film."
Stop it, I'd better write my own film review first before watching it.
I have to admit that I was so excited after watching this movie last night, and I felt wholeheartedly that I might have witnessed the dazzling cross-domain video works and even cultural phenomena that are about to be left in history. A few subversive points, record them so as not to write and forget, try not to spoil them.
Visual images: decadent aesthetics;
shooting methods: sci-fi films in the form of documentary information films;
content connotation: rare tolerance of the state of the world It is not messy, simile metaphors a profound mess, but it serves the story clues well (it’s hard to tell who serves whom).
Advertising: more vague than G2 beverages, with fake and true , and at the same time the shooting technique and the tone of the image, hat goes off to Marc Weinstock! (Sony's co-president of worldwide theatrical marketing)
As early as N months ago, the publicity of District 9 had already begun on the streets of Los Angeles. Without people realizing it, an old poster was affixed to the construction site and various ruined walls. There was a red circle on the poster. There was no word except the silhouette of the humanoid monster who couldn’t see what it was. . Two months ago, the top of the building, the side of the bus station, and the roadside benches were painted with this red circle and silhouette, and they wrote "Bus Bench for Humans Only", "Alert! Non-human seen in the vicinity" !" Report non-human to a certain hotline. It was in the clouds and mist. When I saw it for the first time, I was really surprised because I didn't wake up. After TRAILER came out, it felt like a sci-fi movie, or a worm-shaped alien, and old-fashioned, right? The movie was stunned by surprise at the beginning of the movie. It turns out that TRAILER's vulgarity is also the painstaking effort of MARKETING.
I don't have much research on decadence aesthetics, and I talk about how to connect the expansion to decadence. For a long time, we have been too accustomed to seeing the barren flies and mosquitoes in the last short segment of the international news on the news network. The dying children have their eyes wide open. The rain of guns and bullets and the figures of children digging through the garbage dump, and of course the black people in the American slums selling drugs and guns in the movie, the tired faces of prostitutes; and what we can’t see, the black coal mines and black brick kilns on our own land. The severed limbs and immature faces inside were mixed with thick black tears from soot; what's more, the witches burned to death in Europe, the blacks who were lynched and castrated in the United States, the Indians who were driven to extinction, the Chinese and Vietnamese in the Far East War , Cambodians in the Khmer Rouge. . .
On this azure planet, evil is happening every day. No one knows when it started and has never stopped. All these images are deeply imprinted in the grooves of our brains, starting from the moment we touch the world. But we forgot. We surrendered to something called Compassion Fatigue, so we turned a blind eye and were indifferent.
But when the barbed wire and high walls of District 9 appeared on the screen, Prawn (a human nickname given to alien refugees), a scrawny and ragged figure appeared on the screen, and all the above images found their own shadows. All the above images began to roll in my mind.
Prawn's silhouette resembles the famous picture of a naked little girl running with open arms and crying in the Vietnam War. I even suspect that their prototype is a Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. Unable to communicate in strange enough language, incomprehensible culture, every civilian is in danger. Terribly thin, procrastinating, the sick man in the Far East, the Americans look at them like another creature, Non-Human. We have not played such a role. The beginning of the film is a big "Non-Human is banned" ! "Chinese and dogs are not allowed inside.
All the human speeches and expressions interviewed, what our government worker-male protagonist said to the camera, various tricks requiring signatures, exchange of cheap cat food for weapons, ridicule, contempt, and cold-blooded comments about self-righteousness.
"They are very difficult. "Communication",
"Their IQ is very low and the people's style is strong",
"We should be as careful as possible when we talk to them",
"Aha, you see this is very interesting (Pull out a glass bottle from a creature, and the creature howls in pain One beep), do you want to take it back for souvenirs?",
"Go back, you bad shrimps!"
Is it familiar, too familiar, similar plots and dialogues, all the time in our TV news channel Repeated tirelessly, D9 is almost equivalent to splicing news films into a hodgepodge, forming such a hopeless, filthy, and sinful refugee camp. A SYMBOLIC IMAGE OF HUMAN EVIL. I
also wanted to write about Copley’s delicate transformation (remarkable acting), the symmetry between human nature and animal nature, the transformation of barriers and "others", etc.,
but what I don’t want to write is What human interests rise to the consensus of the universe, because this film tells the story of mankind completely.
Tired of writing, let's write this first today.
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