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"The dog in Andalusia is barking, who died?"
Long before self-proclaimed half-hearted fans, I knew that there was a movie called "An Andalu Dog". Probably when I was in high school, I set up a stall with a friend in a flea market to sell slashes, and glanced at the impression of an old movie and magazine at the stall.
It was not until I watched "Carla is a Dog" that the Andalu dog was not raised by Ge You. Over the years, my unreliable memory has confused these two dogs inexplicably, and there is no way to talk about the reason. At that time, the "breed" of which country the Andaru dog was, did not go deep, but corrected the distorted memory on the spot.
In March of this year, when looking at an old book entitled "Luis Bunuel" sent by a fan friend, "An Andalu Dog" was included, and I remembered the ephemeral memories of the past. Aroused the desire to watch movies, I immediately found Bunuel’s first movie dog, and brushed it twice with dumbfoundedness. After reading the book and many interpretations, the fog became a whole group. Mist...
In any case, I was half-hearted and I finally planted a flag on the top of the hill of surrealism movies. The good news is that the weak potential doubts about the Andalusian dog that I had caused by that glance were finally solved 18 years later.
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"1997 has passed, and I miss it very much."
Feng Xiaogang, who was Wang Shuo's chase with his mouth full of teeth back then, drew in his own cleverness while absorbing the nourishment of Wang Shuo, and connected one after another absurd reality, ironic warmth, and black and undistorted unit comedy. , The so-called good dream (Mongolia) day trip.
This Xiaomin’s daydream was the beginning of Feng Xiaogang raising his own banner on the shoulders of Beijing film humor, which is called Feng's humor. He showed the grassroots' little desires and little true feelings to the fullest, so that the public was moved in the belly of Ge Yous with a "poor" smile, and moistened their eyes.
Today, every time I see the concluding sentence of "Party A and Party B," I am inexplicably sad. Like many people, I often miss that era.
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"Passengers who go to 2046 have only one purpose, which is to retrieve lost memories. Because in 2046, everything will never change. No one knows if this is true, because no one has ever returned. I am the only one."
I have never watched "2046" in my memory, but I was surprised when I opened it. I actually saw it. Who erased the water chestnut in my memory? Sure enough, all memories are damp, and every passenger wants to go to a special place to wring out the water-filled memories. This kind of tone that fits with the temperament of the movie may be the only way to open it.
"2046" tells a love story between a man and several women. Living around 1967, Zhou Muyun (played by Tony Leung), the protagonist of Hong Kong during the riots, rented room 2047 in a hotel. He makes a living by writing. In order to bid farewell to the past and turn the emotional entanglements in life into words, he wrote "2046", a novel that takes the train to the future to retrieve memories.
The few years that appeared in the film are very eye-catching, as a strong political symbol, the expression is self-explanatory. Once again, Wong Kar-wai hides some hidden worries of Hong Kong people about the future of Hong Kong in his works. As we all know, 2047 is the unshakable limit of Hong Kong's one country, two systems for 50 years. Until the eve of the end of 2046, no one knows whether everything will continue and never change. Politics is as confusing as love affairs. As it is said in "2046": Love is time-sensitive. If we recognize it too early or too late, the result will not work.
1967, 1997, 2047, these ordinary year numbers are destined to be full of colors in Hong Kong. History always has the power to turn corruption into magic. Putting aside the political force, it is not difficult to find (God discovered) that they have also had amazing coincidences with the movie world.
Wong Kar-wai pre-paid 2047 (one country, two systems) to shoot "2046". In 1997 (the return of Hong Kong), Feng Xiaogang took off, and "Party A and Party B" opened the first year of the mainland Chinese New Year film. In 1967 (the Hong Kong riots), in faraway France, it was the year that Bunuel’s "Beauty in the Day" was released. Perhaps Zhou Muyun had watched it that year.
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"Wealth and boredom are his fault (to hang around in erotic and sensual places)."
One line of Luis Bunuel hits the key to the bourgeoisie-rich and leisure make people perverted. As a surrealist artist and born in the middle class, he has always spared no effort to use film works to output various expressions of class, religion, desire, morality and so on. If "Party A and Party B" is a day trip for the poor in mainland China, then "Day Beauty" is just a day trip of the bourgeois illusion.
"Beauty in the Day" tells an erotic story about a rich middle-class beautiful woman who cannot get her husband's sexual satisfaction, goes to an underground brothel to prostitution in pursuit of desire satisfaction, and encounters all kinds of weird sexual needs. The movie is composed of unit dramas in which the female protagonist Severina (Catherine Deneuve)'s original sexual impulses and abnormal sexual fantasies are connected to the clients of all kinds of evil tastes. It seems that all the strange desires that people can't realize in daily life are realized in dreams.
The female protagonist who first stepped into the brothel, hesitating between desire and morality, reluctantly gave in to the rough sex needs of wealthy clients. There were countless prostitutes and women, and like the Great General Yingda Realizing a Dream, they came to a military battle, and the Ge Yous were constantly rushing to deal with it.
The desire of the female protagonist who has been blinded by carnal desire is gradually escalating, and clients of various sexual and evil tastes follow one after another. Those who "purchased" the service consciously bought pleasure, while Feng Xiaogang realized the pleasure and fun while realizing the dreams of others. The establishment of this win-win situation allows daydreams to continue.
This lewd dream has been escalated repeatedly and the dreamer enjoys it. Rather than saying that "Party A and Party B" is the joy of petty citizens, after waking up from the dream, there is a sense of self in my heart; then "Day Beauty" is a tragedy of bourgeois spirit and flesh distortion, which is a step by step desire after great material abundance. Caused by distortion.
Through comparison, it is not difficult to find that although the two films have many similarities, such as service industry, dreaming, pleasure, buying fun, etc., strictly speaking, they still stem from my jokes and whims. After all, "Day Beauty" is still a typical Bunuel-style surreal movie. Through people's instinctive activities, dreams, and fantasy, it reflects the flow of people's life and the attributes of class desires behind them, thereby analyzing the complexity of the characters' subconsciousness. Mentality.
For the audience, this is a concise, smooth, elegant and fashionable atypical pornographic film. The heroine’s dress, conversation, temperament and other aspects are beautiful, but SM, equipment, voyeurism, sexual abuse, etc. are bold. A bit and escalating sexual content is also shown. Although the lens is implicit, it does not hinder the extension of the audience's fantasy.
On the one hand, the female protagonist's perversion in sensuality is getting more and more intense, on the other hand, her love for her husband is consistent. The soul and the flesh are stripped clean, it can be said that this is a tragedy of love. Noble lewdness (female protagonist), incompetent free and easy (husband), pure lust, absurd satisfaction... These menacing high contrasts are precisely the precise irony of the middle class.
At the end, the paralyzed husband "regains" health, the bell of the horse is gradually approaching, and the scene returns to the carriage on the road of Fontainebleau. It doesn't matter whether it comes or not. As long as the memory allows, they will miss it.
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