After the "Macaroni Westerns" in Italy, the "Sukiyaki Westerns" in Japan and the "Bollywood Westerns" in India, another fresh film appeared at the Venice Film Festival. See "Dutch Westerns"-"Brimstone". It is a genre dream that Dutch director Martin Kohoven has always wanted to realize after he became famous in his famous work "Winter in Wartime". It also sets the background of the story in the wild west development of the United States in the 19th century, but has its own unique narration. Way.
At least from the perspective of the crew's composition, it really shouldn't be considered an American film. Except for the father and daughter protagonists Guy Pierce and Dakota Fanning who staged brutal rivals, the rest of the staff, director, screenwriter, producer, photography, editing, makeup, art, costume design, sound effects, composition, and excellent Most of the supporting roles are really Dutch, and the story is also about Dutch immigrants. Even in the filming, there was no western part of the United States at all. Instead, it was shot in Bennas in the only desert in Europe in Germany, Hungary, Austria, and Andalusia, Spain. Taken in this desert).
"Haunted Woman" has a causal flashback and re-sequence structure like "a rainstorm is approaching". The 150-minute film is almost neatly divided into four parts: Revelation, Exodus, Genesis and Retribution. In a desolate but harmonious town, the mute girl Liz and her family live happily. One day, like a missionary from hell, it evokes an intertwined perverted family relationship, escape journey, hurt and revenge. History of violence.
The story unfolds slowly from the perspective of women rarely seen in Western films. In the first paragraph of "Revelation", we can see that the dumb girl played by Dakota Fanning obviously has an ulterior secret. In the daily life in the farmhouse, the son often complains with dissatisfaction, "She is not me mother". The missionary came with the fire of revenge, and through the extremely graphic and extremely sadistic killings, this opening story is more like a well-made B-rated movie, like "The Ghost of the Underworld" and "The House of Thousand Corpses". The second episode "Exugu Ji" was before Liz lost her voice. At that time, she was a little girl named Joanna, who was unkempt and sold to a brothel by Guangdong immigrants, and caused a catastrophe in a barbaric society where men are inferior to women. This is the passage most like a traditional western movie, with the pursuit of pushing through the door and the duel of guns on the street.
The third paragraph "Genesis" returns to the origin of Joanna's life, the story of a Dutch immigrant's destruction under the dominance of a perverted father. This was supposed to be a heartbreaking and sad story, but the appearance of two familiar faces and supporting characters sparked laughter. Who made "Game of Thrones" so influential that the image of the new actor in the play was so frozen. Snow (Kit Harrington), who doesn’t understand anything, plays a refuge robber, and Aunt Red (Caris Van Holden), who doesn’t wear anything, becomes Joanna’s tragic mother. The fourth paragraph of "retribution" in the return to the right narrative time and space is short and clean. After the "wilder hunter"-style pursuit and counterattack, the characters with positive images have to be unfairly "retributed."
The whole film is a four-movement symphony with neat structure, smooth rhythm, moving melody and full of emotion. The determined main theme should have a more appropriate translation of the title from the religious meaning-Hell Burning Fire. Because in the "Bible", Fire and Brimstone refers to the wrath of God and the vivid descriptions of judgment day and eternal curse used by missionaries to encourage believers to repent.
At the end of the film, there was indeed a raging fire. Integrity and evil, God and the devil, seemed to be at the two ends of the flame, but the high temperature also burned everything around innocent people.
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