But "If..." adopts a relaxed tone, abandoning the compact plot, and the description of violence is not particularly heavy. Outside of the main line of resistance, the director casually shows the life of the students in the boarding school. Mike and his old friends Wallace and Johnny took advantage of the school ball game to walk on the street, playing the shadowless sword and other scenes are probably to pay tribute to "Four Hundred Strikes" and "Happy Together" (Antoni version): Youth is freedom! Based on his personal experience and real scenes, the director invites real students in the school to be "promotions" to show the phenomenon of power relations on campus in a realistic way. There is both authoritarian pervasiveness and the pleasure of secretly committing crimes. The relaxed and humorous tone has developed, but it has become surrealism. Mike and his old friend skipped school to the coffee shop, and forced a kiss of the girl who was watching the shop, but got a wild "counterattack." It was obviously a sexual fantasy. Inserting the naked embracing and biting scenes just made the words clearer. The girl seems to be Mike's alter ego instead of a real person, suggesting that her inner wildness is released. So she would appear unreasonably when Mike was punished to clean up the school basement, and there would be a box of munitions in the basement-who put it in? The answer may be the same as the video tape in Michael Haneke's Hidden, from the director's own "crossing" sex... ( full text http://wp.me/p8iPwg-hlw )
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