"Knife in the Water"
1. A single scene plus three people will make a good movie.
2. The guy wants one person to lead two people away: When a character behaves childishly and very childishly, the audience will immediately like him.
Touching the pot with your hands, and then skipping meals, is very pitiful, so the audience immediately empathizes.
Having a charming female body is a great way to keep the audience focused.
The ship stranded by the river, the pouring rain, the force of nature added too much to the movie.
The beginning and the end are looped together, resulting in a rigorous structure.
study notes:
In the movie, the knife is just a fake suspense. The real suspense should be the completion of betrayal. This suspenseful change of reality and fictitiousness can already see Polanski's outstanding talent in structuring films and revealing people's psychology.
The jazz-style music in the movie is a highlight. It is combined with the plot, which makes people feel that Polanski is born an American Polish director, but very close to the Hitchcock style.
Polanski has made the struggle for power more intense through multiple position changes. The wife was in the driver's seat at the beginning, and the husband gestured to stop and exchange seats. A simple position exchange showed that the marriage was in harmony. When a college student intercepted it. The husband’s authority, he yelled at him, his wife sympathized with the college students and said nothing, the husband was jealous, ready to show off his strength, and at the same time revealed the crisis of his own authority. The husband invited to board the ship was in the foreground, and the college students were in the background. The two showed From overhead and upward angles, the college student said that his switchblade can only cut bushes and is useless in the water, reflecting his weakness. He boringly used the knife to sew his nails and threw it on the wall without any chance of intervention. Most of the pages are casual, but with wind and wind, sun and rain, picnics and bikinis, tillers and cables are metaphorical traction and control, the tension of the drama is slowly tightened, and the wife slowly releases emotional signals to college students, and the strength of the knife is also The moment the wind pulled the rope of the useless sail announced the old sailor's sexual frustration, but the college student's victory was meaningless, because the woman discovered that he was only inheriting the arrogance of her husband.
Powerful debut, almost covering the most skilled structures and themes of the mellow age: the undercurrent of three people in a closed space, the mutual seduction and confrontation of the relationship between the sexes, the see-saw process of intrusion and counterattack between adults and young people, the hypocrisy of the middle-class marriage relationship And fragility, these thin masks shattered at the moment the knife entered the water; a meaningful blank ending.
A good director only does one thing in his life-perfecting his debut.
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