Recently, I found out that "Man Bites Dog" bought several years ago, the disc dealer is a famous brand disc dealer in the United States very early, and early disc fans should remember that the entire screening process was very smooth, and the recently bought discs were put on hold. Problems began to appear within a month. Nowadays, those disc dealers are changing faster and faster, D9 or D5, and the quality is not comparable to before. Some of my old disc collections are still very good now, but some new discs are quickly dying. In addition, the popularity of online BT downloads has also increased the choice of watching movies to a certain extent. If one day Internet movies can achieve the effect of DVD in all aspects, the historical mission of video discs may be over.
It took me so many years for "Man Biting Dog" to be blessed by me. It can be seen that too many beauties in the harem will also bury the classics. The study of Belgian students can play with violence in this way, which shows the status of independent thinking and creativity in European films. The probability of the killer appearing in the movie is getting higher and higher, which also proves the position of violence in the movie. The killer seems to be a profession far away from our lives, but in fact, as a profession, he actually lurks in our lives and is not found. We only know one or two through media reports, just as violence is always hidden in the dark corner of human nature.
Different directors have created a diversity of killers. In Wong Kar-wai's "Fallen Angels", Dawn is a killer just to make a living. When he meets love, he intends to switch careers, but the killer is given a romantic color. In Luc Besson's "The Killer Ang", a cold-blooded killer can become so warm and caring, even showing some kind of dullness in character. Quentin’s killer like Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction is full of philosophical speculation and recites the Bible in paragraphs. All the killers in the movie are far from our mindset, and their strange personalities show strange colors in these killers.
Bennott in "Man Bites a Dog" is far colder than the killer image in the previous films. He kills for money on the one hand and seems to pursue the pleasure of killing. Bennott’s targets are usually civilians. In order not to attract the attention of the media, his thinking is very rigorous. He can list all kinds of empirical sciences of killing. From children to dwarfs, from osteoporosis to density analysis. The film shoots Bennott's murder experience and life in the form of a pseudo-documentary. In the end, the photographer and the killer interacted and participated in the killing together. At first, the photographer just followed the record, but was later lured by the killer Bennott, from passively becoming his accomplice to actively enjoying it, as if saying that people are actually obsessed with violence and are easily induced. From the initial fear to enjoyment.
The killer Bennott is an interesting person. He seems to be very knowledgeable and has a wide range of art. When it comes to architectural styles and masters, he is familiar with many treasures. He is also good at music, loves painting, and often composes poetry. It is difficult to connect such a character with a cold-blooded killer, but in the film we seem to see a person walking back and forth between life and killing, without any conflict or contradiction between them, and they are completely integrated. Bennott enjoys killing and benefits from it. This is his favorite profession. From the explanation of the film, he can find that the filming was funded by himself. He is very happy to record his masterpiece and promote it.
There are diversified killer images in the movie or the director’s artistic processing. Instead of investigating the authenticity of the killer image, it is better to doubt the mindset of the human brain. The killer face in the movie is accustomed to the human brain to a large extent. After negation, this is not just about the cognition of the killer. In fact, in the cognition of most things, we have no way to obtain comprehensive information. Therefore, we can never see the true face of things, because people’s recognition Knowing is always one-sided and narrow, so there will always be someone who will say that it shouldn’t be like this when it comes to someone or something. In fact, it’s like this, but we didn’t see it, which brought surprises. What movies bring us is fresh, but what we don't actually understand is what we don't understand. Because of the partialization of our cognition, there is also a diversification in movies.
Text: Eyebrow Ruler
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