Dolan is definitely the first choice for people to envy and hate. Not only does he have the appearance and temperament of a deadly person, but more importantly, he also has amazing film talent. From his debut work "I Killed My Mother", he has already seen his extraordinary and outstanding personality charm and creative talent. His work is not a mainstream Hollywood commercial film, nor is it a purely realistic European literature and art. The film instead expresses the problems in reality through avant-garde fashionable and distinctive image style, revealing a gorgeous and extremely artistic style, gorgeous and full of infinite charm.
"Fantasy Love" also tells a very simple and easy to understand story. A man and a woman fell in love with a man at the same time. Although the plot can be summarized in one sentence, the focus of this film is that the man and the woman are due to the same man. After being deeply attracted and infatuated, how to struggle and entangle in the temptation and grievance of lust. Although they all have a fire of lust burning in their hearts. However, he was shackled by the shyness of being unrequited as the opposite sex and the scruples of being unrequited as the same sex, forming an emotionally tangled and depressing sense of contradiction.
However, when the thin layer of paper that was finally set up between the three of them was pierced, and each revealed their inner emotions and intentions, it was discovered that the previous blind obsession was nothing more than a futile impulse. A year later, the two were still intoxicated in laughter and laughter, but what was unexpectedly reasonable was that in the end, both of them were caught in the same erotic temptation at the same time.
Compared with the debut film "I Killed My Mom", I personally feel that this movie is a bit inferior in terms of content and fullness. Although there are several monologues of passersby in the film, it is also in a kind of Emotional distress and hurt people seem to have strengthened the emotional contradiction and melancholy atmosphere that the director wants to express, but it is contradictory in thoughts and concepts between mother and child in "I Killed My Mother". Compared with the conflict, the sharpness that came out later makes this movie a bit more ordinary. For the criticism and reflection of social reality, there is no debut novel that is as strong and bold. But the film's use and control of color and rhythm have made up for the thinness and emptiness of the plot.
Although it still continues the previous image style, it is also mixed with many avant-garde and unconventional image characteristics of the New Wave period, but the exquisite and gorgeous picture, the interspersion of several slow motions, and the perfect combination of elegant retro soundtracks, People are unconsciously intoxicated in this audio-visual feast, as if they are enjoying a documentary about modern avant-garde and elegant retro art, especially some erotic dramas in the film, set off by the monotone and the elegance of the cello. The soundtrack, coupled with slow motion, presents a very stylish, elegant, romantic and wonderful body art, which makes people linger.
On the other hand, for the heroine in the film’s dress that resembles Anna, or the bold movement of warm and monotone colors that resemble Godard's style (refer to the movie "A Woman Is a Woman"), it still resembles the behavior of General Wong Kar-wai. And emotions are expressed in slow motion. People who love it will praise it as a great tribute, but people who are unhappy will question it and claim that it is an intentional imitation. But in my opinion, this is exactly what it is. Lan is the most fascinating and the place where he can best reflect his own potential and skills.
Why do many people think that he is a sudden emergence of a'genius'? That's because he has a very clear, accurate and profound understanding and experience of the contradictions, sensitivity and taboos arising from the existence of his special identity in reality, coupled with his sophisticated and mature control of images, completely in line with his reality. Age is not proportional. And the most rare thing is that he can integrate the styles of some masters and incorporate his own knowledge and attitude towards reality, which is an innovation in itself. The most important thing is that he still has a lot of time, enough for him to absorb more experience and inspiration in the experience and study, so as to create more unique shining points of Dolan style.
In expressing desire and the fantasy generated by desire, Dolan also vividly showed it through some details and novel techniques. For example, through sex with others and constant smoking to relieve the distress and grief of being eroded by desire and unable to possess the love object; constantly absorb the residual body odor from clothes to satisfy one's growing desires; through frequent switching of the camera at parties The combination of some simple line abstract paintings vividly shows their fantasy; and the dreamy scenes that appeared after eating marshmallows in the supermarket are all appropriate to show that the hearts of Dolan and the heroine in the film are strong and irrepressible. The desires, and these fragments also fully demonstrate Dolan's thoughtful and innovative side.
The strongest point of the temptation to highlight the erotic desire in the film is also the climax of the complete disintegration of the psychological defense line established to resist the increasing desire. It is the gradual alienation and jealousy between friends, especially in the film Dolan and the heroine. In the scene of wrestling in the woods, the two fought, and friendship and lust instantly lost the balance. However, after the relationship was intensified, the two also courageously and frankly expressed their constantly suppressed emotions, which became the turning point of the film. The two also learned that the "flower boy" who had been obsessed with games every day had no interest in him at all. Then the friendship facing crisis was repaired, and the two reunited after being sober.
In my opinion, as far as this movie is concerned, fantasy is actually a kind of beautiful and self-satisfied illusory mood driven by infinite desire and thirst for someone. But in many cases, whenever you want to turn this fantasy into reality, it is often shattered by the cruel impermanence of reality and instantly turned into bubbles. But joy or sorrow is a kind of hope and motivation for life, and human beings have a passion for eroticism. Desires and obsessions will continue instinctively.
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