Yinxiang from Cannes ht tp://cinephilia.net/57380
The original short story "Party Pickup Secrets" "Guide to Boys’ Party Hit-up Guide" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and was included in Neil Gaiman’s short story collection "Fragile Goods" (already in 2013 And in 2016, a simplified Chinese version was published respectively). This work directed by John Cameron Mitchell, director of "Rock Barbie" and "Sex Bus", has received high media attention early due to the participation of Eri Fanning and Nicole Kidman . But Neil Gaiman’s visit to Cannes on the red carpet was probably pure soy sauce, because of the relationship between this movie and the original... It’s probably only "The two boys met some seemingly foreign students on the party, but they were actually "Alien Girl" is the logline, and the film has been changed to three boys; the most brilliant punk music in the film, which occupies a huge space, only mentions one sentence in the original... "The alien's social system, costumes and music are entirely from the creation of the film team.
No matter what standard is used to measure it, this film can be considered very exciting. Although the title looks like a youth film or a sex comedy, it was turned into a mystery mixture of a flying punk music film and an open-minded science fiction film by the director . The story is set in the early years of the rise of punk music in the 1970s. Three fifteen-year-old middle school students were fascinated by punk music while youthful and restless; the three failed to pick up their sisters in a punk live show, and they made a mistake on their way home. Entered a strange party-later we learned that this was an event held by a group of aliens passing by the earth-and each got something: Enn took the alien girl Zan home, and the fat boy John was crazy. After the dance, he became fascinated by alien psychedelic music, and the handsome boy Vic was frightened by a lot of P after being burst by the alien girl Stella. The plot of the original book probably ends here. The main plot behind Zan is that Zan has obtained 48 hours of going out permission to experience and understand the punk culture under the leadership of Enn, looking for self-love and...pregnancy (!!!), and finally being punk. With the help of the punk legion led by Queen Boadicea, the subversion of the alien social system was completed. This story... Actually, it doesn't matter what the spoilers are. Anyone who has watched "Rock and Roll Barbie" can probably imagine how irritable Mitchell, who is a rock singer, can make the film. The play... It is equivalent to Neil Gaiman's beginning. If you want to analyze it carefully, the play of the film is a relatively novel attempt.
The film has a detailed reproduction of the suburbs of London, England in the 1970s, and has a good understanding of punk music and culture. For the hero of the film, punk means a free life and artistic expression that breaks all social norms and challenges all authority; in fact, punk music and culture still have a very clear representation system, such as hairstyles, Clothing, tattoos, graffiti, language, action... and some structural form in music.
In a sense, these have formed a kind of performative signifier system comparable to the two-dimensional culture, or another "ordinary person" (represented by Enn's mother in the film). The world" (expanded words are in the context of Jenkins...so forget it). The aliens have a strict social system and social rules, such as the level distinguished by color (I have to praise the punk style and the two-dimensional sense of the film, the strange latex clothes... on the red carpet Tuotuoer bombards all 18-line internet celebrities), futuristic psychedelic music and dances that resemble a cult ritual, bizarre sexual behavior, parent-teacher system and devouring offspring to sustain life The social organization form and so on-these are the so-called "setup" parts of science fiction or fantasy, of course, in Jenkins's words, it is also a "world".
The interesting thing about the play is that it is often the dialogue between the different logics of the three worlds, especially the punk world and the alien world as differences in different levels of the real world, and the protagonists of the film Enn and Zan Respectively in the cross plane of their respective worlds and punk worlds, and through a "god possession" punk live performance (Mitchell even directly filmed a MV here) achieved... a great harmony of life...
To be more specific, the film separates (in terms of the real world) and (in terms of itself) systematization of punk culture and alien culture, and then establishes a clear intertextuality between the two Relationship can be described as the leading work in the trend of the genre mix (in this case, science fiction films and musical films) . In terms of ideological criticism, it presents punk culture as a revolutionary and youthful utopian impulse in a sense, but it writes the alien culture that forms an intertextual relationship with it as a typical (about to die) Dystopian society, and the combination of the two (the great harmony of life completed by the hero and heroine in punk music) leads to a dilemma, and ultimately ends with imaginative comfort-the hero is no longer obsessed with Punk became a writer; and he and the heroine's descendants (...) returned to the earth from the endless wandering journey and came to him. To look at it this way, the film actually has a lot of vagueness and incompleteness, but compared with its own entertainment and viewing, it is actually not that important. The punk boy and the alien girl talked and laughed intensively. The punk queen played by Nicole Kidman and the punk girl of Ellie Fanning are the biggest selling point and the most enjoyable point of the whole film. As for science fiction... In fact, few people care about such complicated social settings. It is enough to understand that this is for intertextuality with punk culture and to create resistance to narrative actions. In fact, for the director, it is serious to shoot aliens with strange power-this is true punk!
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