The first film Dolan watched was the first half an hour of "I Killed My Mom". He was defeated by the boring and lengthy mother-child dialogue and clicked the pause button, and forgot to continue it after a long time.
Xavier Dolan has been Cannes' darling from beginning to end, from 19 to 27 years old. His self-style is too strong, sensitive and passionate, and his way of looking at the world and himself is very unique. He likes to use slow motion and filters, and likes soft light. He is the kind of person who desires warmth and love, even if he is relatively relative. As far as his narcissism is concerned, I think his way of expression is not excessive. It is even distressing.
He makes people jealous, age, talent, beauty or luck, and he is not perfect, such as his hands with ugly nails. It was a failure.
But he always makes me feel good. When he raises the corner of his mouth and laughs, he is very lyrical when he cries. He smokes, his sadness, his sadness, his tolerance, his rebellion, and his cleverness. Not pretentious, it is himself.
After having all his film sources for more than a year, I chose to watch his new film "Just the End of the World". He no longer plays the leading role and is not obsessed with filming his own stories, but he sees the world and the way he reconciles with the world. It's still Dolan's aesthetics.
People who like Duolan will especially like it, like everything, like colors, like the soundtrack, even if it’s MV and PPT-like pictures, even if the temperament is very close to Wong Kar-wai, even if you see a lot of people from this young director, such as sometimes beautiful The picture will think of Jim Jamush, and the large amount of dialogue reminds me of the old man Woody Allen. Of course people who don't like him don't like him at all.
After watching "Just the End of the World", I felt a little dizzy as an airplane on the sky, silent blue, strong shadows, and fantastic flashbacks. Behind the constant defocusing and defocusing, there are many contradictions, a lot of sorrows, and a lot of helplessness. Very calm and desperate.
"I am just like this world, this world will not change"
"They are like this world, they will not change"
I was hit in the heart by the song "Home Is A Scarred Place", and watched two of his films in succession. One was followed by "I Killed My Mother" and the other "Fantasy Love". It is his second feature film "Fantasy Love" who wants to say something and even writes a long comment.
What I like very much is that Quebec, Canada is a French-speaking place, although it is not very pure. Therefore, any film of Dolan always has French romance and lyricism.
The story of the trio is really not new, since Truffaut’s "Ancestor and Occupy" has been a classic many years ago. The relationship of three people always involves the contradiction between friendship and love, ambiguous and complicated, and emotions will deteriorate. Dolan’s threesome is because of his gay complex, two similar but different feelings of heterosexuality and homosexuality are concentrated in one object. We seem to expect drama from the beginning, like a good deed, to see who Nicholas will choose in the end. Francis was still Mary, but in the end they all let us down. He didn't love anyone.
There is always a time when the secret love is broken. The three of them have been in the same frame many times, dining, sleeping, gathering, and outing, and they are intimate. Jealousy and Little Bibi were surging between Francis and Mary, close friends.
Dolan is good at portraying the emotions of the characters in details, constantly comparing the appearances of the two when they meet Nicholas, dressing, and full of expectations.
In terms of their feelings for Nicholas, I prefer the way of playing Francis' Dolan.
Careful, overjoyed, reserved, forbearance, and reconciliation.
I like him, pretending to be a chance encounter, and bought him Audrey Hepburn's picture album as a surprise for him;
Like him, pay attention to his every move;
I like him. When asked what kind of person he likes, the boy with blond curly hair and brown eyes is his first reaction;
Like him, I can't help myself to masturbate with his clothes in the morning;
Like him, crazy "fight" with Mary in the woods in the country
I like him, holding the phone and hesitating, I don’t know how to speak;
Like him, I went to the convenience store to buy a pack of marshmallows, and carefully swallowed the soft bite as he taught him;
I really like the paragraph of marshmallows. As shown in the picture above, Nicholas dropped a lot of marshmallows on his head. At this time, he looks like a classic beautiful boy in Greek sculpture. This is fantasy love.
The two express love in different ways. A woman writes letters and borrows other people’s poems. She also pretends to have sent it wrong and can’t help asking what would happen if it was sent to you. However, Nicholas didn’t care at all. In fact, she still did. Not as important as the boiling water on his stove.
The man will go to him directly, but still cautiously and implicitly express, and finally ask him, if you met such a person, what would you do? In fact, Nicholas seemed helpless and as if he had already seen through and said: "Why do you think I am a comrade?"
Later, I understood what the tattoos on the back of Francis and the marks on the wall under the bathroom mirror meant. Every time I was rejected by a person, I made a mark. He said that this sentence is very light, but when I add another stroke with a pen, how much does it mean? The weight of the pain.
Never got it, never got it.
"It's not uncommon to encounter love or sex, it's rare to encounter understanding"
Both Francis and Mary have sex in their respective emotional relationships, but that is not love. Nothing is more desperate than possible to impossible.
"Fantasy Love" is interspersed with a large number of group interviews, men and women, heterosexual homosexuals who cross boundaries are talking about their love but not the story. In this, I like the story of this woman the most, how much like myself.
We are all stupid human beings who have always been good at using imagination to love others, and almost lost ourselves.
And the love story about Musse and George Sand is another story.
In fact, I think "Fantasy Love" can end in the scene where the two are under umbrella like Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love".
There is an aftertaste, the meaning is still unfinished, and it is full of sorrow.
Who knew that one year later?
A year later, like an ironic footnote, the three met again in a bar or some party. However, the friendship between Francis and Mary was even closer. They looked at Nicholas' embarrassment in a nonchalant manner.
Francis's howling and beating seemed to be a cover-up and an emotional exposure: love disappeared before being forgotten.
Fortunately, at this party, I saw the people who appeared in the previous group interviews. Everyone seemed to forget the pain of love and reveled in their own way.
It seems to celebrate one's forgetting, or not loving.
It's true or false, and the person involved knows whether it is warm or cold.
Why do people always like to use their imagination to love others? Fancy that the other person is in love as equally as oneself.
Fantasy is of course deadly.
But there is no way out, only fantasy is also helpless.
As Muse said at the beginning: "Love transcends reason and becomes the only truth."
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