Out-of-control performance personality

Laverna 2022-02-21 08:01:53

(Originally published by Tencent Entertainment, written for the Venice Film Festival reporting period)
It is difficult to perform a good show with a high level; if you want to deliberately do a bad show, it is a super difficult thing to take the level to a higher level. The Greek movie "Alps" started with a crappy gymnastics and ended with a smooth gymnastics, completing a set of cyclical movements. As for how many points should be scored by the audience as judges of this gymnastic action, you have to try to set the extreme story scenes of the film. It depends on the acceptance of the multi-level performance space.

Following the turbulent "Bran Poetry", the rope gymnast jumped into the beginning of the film, absent-minded, clumsy, chaotic, and thread-flying. After the awkward and ugly ending, he said to his loving and scared coach: "I have to use pop music. As an accompaniment". To the end of the film, the soundtrack coach to meet the needs of the girl, after hearty, self-confidence overflowing, people rope one, perfect and accurate end, the girl ran out into the arms of the coach, "you are the best coach of the world."

And The female nurse who helped persuade the coach to use the popular soundtrack continued to sadly stayed and excited in her wishful thinking free exercise program, but no one cheered, and was even hit by an ambulance attendant who had an ambiguous relationship with her. Seeing blood sap resoundingly.

Ambulance attendants, female nurses, coaches and gymnasts have formed an informal underground operating company-Alps. The owner is an ambulance attendant nicknamed "Mont Blanc", all of whom are acting as the dead for the newly bereaved families To alleviate the great grief of the living. This company is very different from the 3T company that Chinese audiences are familiar with in "Stubborn Lord" and the "Good Dreams One-Day Tour" that is hilarious from "Party A and Party B". First, Alps operates without registration. Of course, the first time you visit Cosplay, you are free to give it away, and you are welcome to buy it. Secondly, this strange group of service providers for the dead are all part-timers and have a strong desire to perform. Never forget to understand the deceased’s money-saving preferences and details, especially which actor likes the most. Obviously, the desk preparation that Alps has to do is much more complicated.

Among the four employees, the most diligent one is the hospital female nurse. In a week, in addition to being on the right time of 9 to 5, I also rushed to different families of the deceased on different days. Either Hong Xing went out of the wall and lost his life with his lover, who wanted to play the scene of being caught and raped in bed for the widow’s wife; or the wife who had just died in the lamp business should call out in the sex "Don’t stop, don’t stop," It feels like being in heaven", "It's not Paradise, it's heaven", the client corrects; there is also a role that has the deepest experience in the play, the role of a tennis player that the old couple lost.

There was an exchange of father and mother, an old man carrying a schoolbag and wearing a tennis wristband, and talking about his favorite actor Jude Law again and again, and even to satisfy the old couple’s memories of their daughter’s last time, and kill the dead. The real boyfriend was brought back to sleep. There is a huge gap between professional performances in movies and amateur performances in plays. For such a weird and perverted film theme, it is necessary to present a deliberately bad performance level. Could it be that this is reaching out to the best actress And the original path?

Greek director Ougs Lansmos really prefers this extreme setting. The previous work "Dogtooth" is more closed and weird than the weird private groups in "Alps". In a mansion of a factory owner, parents deceived three children to say how terrible and dangerous the outside world is. Your brother died outside. You are only eligible to go out after you lose a certain tooth, and you cannot leave the car with your feet. Stepping on the ground, the parents cut off all possible information channels between the children and the outside world, until a certain role appears that completely destroys the utopian family. The closed space and limited roles also ensure the simplicity of conveying this dystopian political theme, making the audience feel tight and uncomfortable. The company of "Alps" is still a small paternalistic independent group. The female nurses of "excellent employees" have an endless and uncertain relationship with the outside world, but they are completely involved in the company's "business scope"-performance middle.

The Show Must Go on, even if the customer after the early adopters has been tirelessly suspending and ordering the guest, even if the female nurse who is seriously lacking in presence is knocked out of a dog, the director still makes her sadly magnify her unreasonable performance personality , But never find the tune suitable for his gymnastics.

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Extended Reading
  • Reymundo 2022-03-25 09:01:20

    It is more suitable to see it for yourself, because there will be no public laughter. In all respects, although the characters in the previous play are slightly weak, they can still be regarded as art treasures of the museum. The worship of the director comes from the heart. It's a crush full of sexual impulses and deep feelings.

  • Derick 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    The director's work of "Dog Tooth", I found that the director is quite individual, and the subject matter is different from people

Alps quotes

  • Gymnast: You're the best coach in the world. You are the king of coaches.

  • Stretcher-bearer: [speaking to the nurse] We're going to do a test. I'm going to use this object. If it doesn't change colour and stays white, then it automatically means you are competent and reliable, and can stay in our group. If it changes colour, there are two possibilities. First, it might turn blue. If it turns blue, then it automatically means that you are competent, but unreliable. Therefore? There's no therefore. It doesn't really matter if it turns blue. It's just something I said. The second and worst possible outcome is for this club to turn red. Which means automatically that you are too unreliable to and too incompetent to stay with us. Let's see.

    [He stares at the club for a long time. Its color does not change. Suddenly, he hits her over the head with the club]

    Stretcher-bearer: It changed. It turned red. I'm afraid you'll have to go.