I was also bluffed by "The Bottom of Silver Lake" at first.
The overwhelming mystery allusions, religious intertexts, movie eggs, nostalgic eggs, plus the steam-wave temperament of drunken gold fans, and the development of a nervous and cruel god... everything shows the extraordinary features of this movie. . When I first read that, I call it "the film industry's" Gravity's Rainbow "" .
It doesn't matter if you haven't read "The Rainbow of Gravitation". Next time, we will find an opportunity to talk about this wonderful book that made countless people kneel down and read it.
But after a while, I came back to my senses, "The Bottom of the Silver Lake" didn't seem to be so unpredictable. Although there are many dreamlike and absurd brain holes and symbols in it, it's just...that's all? It's not even as impressive as those horrible tastes, violent elements and primitive excitement.
When I recalled those barking girls and supernatural female killers wearing owl masks, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized: What Hermeticism, Western Esotericism, New Socialist expressions... are all nonsense! This is a story about mortals wanting to become immortals.
What did "The Bottom of Silver Lake" say?
Fetish waste, Sam almost went to bed with his female neighbor who had been peeping, but the female neighbor disappeared the next day. He took the only photo left by the female neighbor and looked for her all over Los Angeles. In the process, I discovered another set of game rules under the city tabletop, and then met all kinds of people and many weird things happened. Finally, after he knew the truth about the "Living World" , he returned to his neighbor's house.
That's it. Putting aside those uncaused and fruitless ghosts, "The Bottom of Silver Lake" is a road movie that doesn't drive.
But don’t you find this introduction very familiar? If Sam is replaced by a traverser, isn't this just an old web post about urban repair? The rest of the online novels, wearing Zhang Andro Garfield's skin, went to Cannes? No wonder Cannes is dying.
Think about it, there is another set of rules under the surface of Los Angeles. The few real power holders will use the information revealed in the operation of everything to abandon the flesh and pursue the true godhood-this is actually a world of comprehension in a certain city. , A few real bigwigs will use their understanding of the "Great Way" to pursue real ascension-isn't it the same?
The dog killer in the movie, the old composer who delivers mysterious messages, the pervert who eats the same kind every day, the secret suicide found in the comics, the sexy and dangerous owl kiss, the party animal that talks into a dog, and is hidden in the ancient cereal The map of Zelda, the King of Tramps, Meteor Garden in the box... these are the elements that people talk about, if they are replaced by magic repair, Buddhism, barbarians, private detectives, monster killers, beasts, and the villains in cigarette boxes. The book, the ten bag elders of the beggars, the Bada Hutong... is it not mysterious at all?
In fact, it is the same thing. The filming is so psychedelic and bizarre, because I trust the director to tell the story. That's it.
Don’t you see, the last big boss in Los Angeles still wants to be free from the flesh and become the true god? Isn't this what we mean by shattering the void and becoming immortal? That is to say, the rotten "Harmony of Heaven and Man" and "Comprehensive Realm", this pretends to be really big.
After disenchantment, it looks better
The analogy I mentioned above is actually to de-enchant "The Bottom of Silver Lake". Only by acknowledging that this is a superficial vaporwave movie can we appreciate its real beauty. Yes, I think "The Bottom of the Silver Lake" is pretty good-looking, especially tacky.
First of all, "The Bottom of Silver Lake" does not end . The film's conspiracy theory about the straight man's death house is very straightforward, without a little hidden tuck. So when the fantasy and blurred plot hits, we can easily grasp the perspective: this is Sam's perspective, without a trace of deep meaning. That's why it's cool: "Living World" is really as filthy as he (us) thinks. Great!
Secondly, although the film is true and false when it is fake, it satisfies reality very well . Using a knife as a metaphor, although "The Bottom of Silver Lake" does not hurt the American reality deeply, it is strong in that the knife is fast and dense, and there are a pile of scars if you don't pay attention. Although it is not fatal, it is bloody on the ground. For the general public, it is inevitable.
For example, those rich people at the top are finally prisoners of nihilism; then what is the meaning of all the money and pleasure that they are pursuing? This kind of question is not profound, but it is still very powerful to shout out.
The last thing that makes me most happy is that the B-level film once again deceived the literary and artistic youths grandiosely. There must be a bunch of people talking about proper nouns and over-interpreting it in Latin, but forgetting the experience of the composer in the film: You can get information, but you don't know how to use it.
To put it bluntly, one of the purposes of this film is to guide nerds to Mobike and exaggeration.
Can such a funny and malicious B-level movie look bad? Flat state of mind, in order to blend into the video halls or sloshing small sites curiosity of mind to watch this video, boring place jump in the past, is the most correct, shattered mosaic gesture.
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