The film is estimated to be the most vigorous, explosive, and exotic movie that Fat Brother has seen recently, with the imprint of a highly recognizable director's personal style.
"Inferior Love" is "weird" from the film's tone, theme, and character design!
Some elements that are rarely seen in film genres, including narrative methods, have been fused and reconstructed by the director, exuding a strong post-modern aesthetic characteristic.
The opening of the film throws the audience into a surreal scene without any anticipation and preparation. The heroine Arlen, who was designated as a "second class person", was instantly thrown into the endless desert enclosed by Texas.
Being separated and abandoned, the heroine was enveloped in helpless and confused emotions from the beginning.
The crisis soon came, and the heroine's life was hit hard. She was captured by the cannibals. Become their plate Chinese food.
There was almost no line in the first 10 minutes of the film. Except for the painful cry of the heroine Arlen because of the amputation.
The cannibal woman gave Arlen anesthetic very skillfully, sawing off her forearm and her calf, all selected the right part of her body.
The cannibal's method of stopping the bleeding is also crude and simple, directly pressing the bottom of the soup pot against Arlen's wound, forcibly coagulating the blood, and Arlen has already passed out at this time.
When she woke up at night, she saw her broken body, and now she really became "second" and others. But Arlen was inherently unyielding and had tenacity in his heart.
She cleverly deceived the cannibal woman, stunned her, and escaped from this hell on earth by a scooter.
But outside with the desert and yellow sand, the high temperature and heat waves, she moved with difficulty on a skateboard, and there were already crows waiting for her to die by her side.
At this time, a tramp like a messenger sent by God to rescue her, using a supermarket cart, took her to a small utopian town called "Comfort" in the last days.
This city is hidden in this extra-legal place separated by the United States, housing "second-class people" exiled by the government.
A few months later, Arlen became a strange woman who lacked an arm and walked on a prosthetic leg. She yearns for the completeness of the body, and uses the double shadow effect of the mirror to treat the woman's arm in the poster as her imagined body.
Although there is no nuisance from cannibals, the desolate and closed city named Comfortable suffocates her. She was lost again.
On the other side, the strong ogre man played by Jason Momoa is slaughtering the newly caught woman, cooking for his daughter, and patiently painting her portrait.
One of them lives in the ruins of the crash wreck, where cannibals who are madly obsessed with their bodies gather;
one who has been lost in gathering freaks, the leader is a small utopian town called "comfort" who madly pursues reproduction worship .
The two did not expect that their future will meet unexpectedly.
Arlen suddenly decided to take revenge one day and left the "comfort" zone with a pistol. When approaching the cannibal gathering place, he ran into a cannibal woman and killed her. The little girl beside her was a strong cannibal man. Daughter.
She took the little girl away. The brawny man began his search.
After a night of intoxication, Arlen once again left the place of comfort and met a strong man of cannibals in the lonely desert...
the experience the two have shared since then, the subtle bits and pieces. Let Arlen let go of hatred and prejudice against cannibals.
The strong man of the cannibal found his daughter with the help of Arlen. The three finally gathered in this no-owner land, welcoming a new future... The
whole story looks weird and rebellious, but in fact it is in the film After the integration of the elements, you can still see the familiar elements of the genre.
For example, the film has a lot of parody of Western films, as well as tattoos on characters, electronic music scores, highly saturated neon colors, beautiful models, LSD, broken arms, dismemberment...
These seemingly non-mainstream subcultural elements were grafted into the mainstream culture by the film's female director Anna Lily Amipur, mixing them with indescribable chemical effects.
In the story, Arlen is dragging a prosthesis, wearing yellow shorts with a smile, and only half of his right arm is left on his upper body. This weird character design has a strange sense of beauty.
Female director Anna Lily Amipur talked about her film at the Venice Film Festival and described it in one sentence: In my brain, there is only blood, flesh and a steady stream of inspiration.
The Iranian-American director who received attention with "The Girl Returning Alone at Night" is very fascinated by the performance of "alien" in film and television works. The film tells the vampire genre of Iranian girls looking for prey at night. s story.
But it is not the kind of traditional vampire film with a sense of nostalgia and history as the main body. The overall tone is strange and sexy, and the temperament is small, but it is extraordinarily charming.
In this film of her "Inferior Love", it is completely an upgrade of the "different vision" in the previous film. Not only does the lens adopt a large number of contrasting tones, but also pay more attention to metaphors on the subject.
The heroine leaves the "comfortable" desert to risk revenge.
In "Comfortably", Keanu Reeves plays a fertility maniac who uses drugs and money to control local men and women.
There is also the Wanderer played by Jim Carrey, who does not have a single line, but itself has a lot of symbolic signs.
In "comfortably", the American flag being pieced together by an incompetent
boy ... These recurring metaphors are completely an expression of the anxiety of the American subcultural groups and small groups excluded from the mainstream.
The country does not care about these people, separates them, allows them to fend for themselves there, and let them worship the weak and the strong, and exercise the law of the jungle in an uncivilized environment.
The world view design of "second class", the desert of Texas separated by the division, the woman who lost arms and legs, all these designs are a kind of rebellious presentation of the dissidents under the mainstream culture.
The use of these metaphors in the film is extremely restrained and requires the audience to take the initiative to understand. How much pleasure and pleasure the film can bring to you as much as you can recognize.
Personality, society and history are intertwined in the metaphors and white space of the film, giving "Poor Quality Love" a stronger cultural context and an almost epic temperament.
"Inferior Love" also cherishes ink as gold in its lines, although it doesn't say much, but it's every word. In terms of rhythm and story, the lines of the whole film may not exceed 100 sentences. More often, it is an action or a look of the character that drives the plot.
For example, at the end of the anti-climax movie, there is no stimulating high-intensity conflict, but three people, the heroine, the little girl, the brawny cannibal, sitting together and roasting rabbits to eat, the camera slowly pulls back, from the close-up of the heroine to the third From the perspective of people, we clearly see the changes in the expressions of the three of them.
Women and men have more exchanges in their eyes, their emotions are relaxed, and there are more ambiguous fireworks. It was getting dark, and they were enjoying a sumptuous dinner as if they were family members.
"Poor Quality Love" is certainly not popular, but it is enough to ignite the enthusiasm of some people and trigger its pursuit. The vigor and innovation of the film will one day be affirmed.
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