After reading it, the feeling is: too charming

Darian 2022-01-12 08:01:29

In the preface of the script, the screenwriter said that
there are two kinds of people who watch this film.

One is that they want to see something
and find the film obscure and the

other is that they don’t hold any expectations
and just follow the director’s lens. Watching
is also a special kind of viewing experience.

I belong to the second kind.

In fact, it’s like the heroine.
Either you believe that she didn’t meet this man last year
or believe that what the man said is true
and decide to go with him.

I just believe it.

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Extended Reading
  • Eunice 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    In true stream of consciousness works, the confusion, ambiguity, jumps, and lacks in the narrative are all based on the perspective of the whole film to simulate human memory, thinking and assumptions, so the uncertain diversity presented is also the human psychology. The form of activity and ideological concepts, the core of the de-plot and non-story script is to explain what is true; compared with this film, those Hollywood science fiction films with similar themes are as plain as realist films.

  • Eunice 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    For the first 20 minutes, I thought I would scold you as an idiot, so I hit a star and turned it off to sleep. Surprisingly, it looks good. Works that challenge the way of thinking, reading habits, and even emotional engagement. Multiple deconstructions of time, memory, and narrative. The text outside the image makes the film more open, and memory, imagination, reality and fiction blur the boundaries between each other. It is more like a reproduction of the conception and birth process of a novel. It's not a brain-burning thing, it's just a matter of habit and patience.

Last Year at Marienbad quotes

  • [X wanders through the hotel's corridors cataloging items he sees]

    X: Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps. Steps, one after the other. Glass objects, objects still intact, empty glasses. A glass that falls, three, two, one, zero. Glass partition, letters.

  • X: I must have you alive. Alive, as you have already been every evening, for weeks, for months.

    A: I have never stayed so long anywhere.

    X: Yes, I know. I don't care. For days and days. Why don't you still want to remember anything?

    A: You're raving! I'm tired, leave me alone!