However, in any case, how can I understand the subtleties of this movie when I was a child? The house of games reminds me of Robert Bresson. Although recalling Bresson in an American thriller is indeed an inappropriate and rather cynic approach, but, to get back to the subject, this is firstly due to the style of the film. Cool color processing, flashing faces and gestures in the dark, and minimalist style of director (it does not emphasize either montage or long shots, but in accordance with the subtle changes in the eyes and gestures of the characters Arranging the length, editing and transition of each lens, etc.) have to be reminiscent of Bresson.
What's more, the house of games, like Bresson's great work "The Thief," transforms the immoral behavior in the eyes of ordinary people into a kind of exquisite human art. Probing, hiding, blocking, and revealing, behavior has become the irreplaceable protagonist of the film. Here, I would like to say that this film is not a character study film about women, but a "acting as a character" in the sense of Agamben. A movie of behavior”; here, I think it’s already outdated and worthless to explore the meaning of this female identity. We should see that in the movie, the hands, arms, fingers, and knuckles have been surpassed. The category of subject control/out of control, and self-contained, has become a bridge to bridge the gap between fiction and reality, and between art and reality.
Here, the action does not mean going to war, driving a car to hit a helicopter like Bruce Willis, but means making full use of every minute change in every subtle movement to make every rhythm, speed, and light. Even the grammar of the movie is presented to the audience in a full gesture. Here, less is more, and more comes from less.
I personally feel that it would be superfluous to use Freud's theory to analyze this movie, because originally David Mamet, as a talented man who turned from a writer to a director, knew Freud well. Originally, this film was about Freud. A tentative interpretation of German various theories, and it needs to be emphasized that his interpretation can be described as dripping, and it is much better than many university professors.
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