Yinxiang sent from Cannes http://cinephilia.net/57559 Rating: ★★ (site publication system, four-star perfect score)
Probably the main competition in the second half of Cannes hit the street one after another, especially after being depressed by "Rodin", and the early stage of "Good Times" was not strong enough, which led to the direct burst of reputation and reputation of "Double Lover" in the evening media. . My impression of the scene is pretty good, but the more I thought about it after the screening, the more I discussed it, the more problems I found. To be honest, this film certainly cannot be compared with the two highest careers of Ou Yong's career, "Entering the Hall" and "Bamitu", but it is also better than such as "Ricky" and "Chasing Love in Heaven". As a psychological suspense film, the weather in the layout stage is very good. The problem is mainly in Trick and the answer. To be more caustic, it almost fell to the level of domestic Internet universities in these two places...
The film tells that the former model Chloe was treated by the psychiatrist Paul because of a physiologically unexplainable stomachache. After the two became in love, Paul terminated the treatment and pursued Chloe; Chloe also found Chloe after the two moved together. New job at the Museum of Contemporary Art, but Chloe feels distressed because Paul does not want to talk about his past. One day Chloe saw a man who resembled Paul on the street, who was also a practicing psychologist; Chloe pretended to be a patient and went to make an appointment for treatment. It turned out that he was Paul's twin brother Louis. Chloe became entangled between the two brothers, and was extremely satisfied during sex with Louis, and even became pregnant with Louis's child. As Louis's desire for control grew stronger, and Paul proposed to her, Chloe finally dug up the brothers' past after some persecution: Louis was jealous that Paul had pretended to be him to pursue and rape her then girlfriend Sander. pull. In the end, Chloe couldn't bear the threat from Louis, and came to Louis' clinic with a gun, only to find that Paul was there. Chloe, who could not distinguish the two brothers, shot one of them and fell to the ground and was sent off. be hospitalized. Then it was the moment to witness the miracle: it turned out that everything was because Chloe absorbed the embryos of identical twin sisters, and Paul had no brothers at all. The so-called twin brother Louis and the sexual relationship with him all came from... Chloe Because I am the fantasies or delusions of homosexual twins...
This plot is simply... "Reference" or the domestically produced network is of great standard. It is simply a way to the various twisted materialistic explanations that Chinese screenwriters have come up with after being forced into a nervous breakdown by the censorship system. First of all, the Trick of this homosexual twin is very pitted-of course the inspiration for this film itself comes from an American eighteenth-line thriller short story "Lives of the Twins, by Joyce Carol Oates"-fortunately the drama is upside-down It’s a bit interesting to project Chloe’s own homosexual twins as a mirror image of her boyfriend Paul and his evil twin brother (but the twin brothers are simply too old-fashioned), with the emphasis on the audiovisual structure and setting. It also fits well, but the main problem is to use delusions to answer. In fact, it is not self-justified. The front shots were too realistic (although full of mirror images, dreams and psychoanalysis), which caused the latter to not be compiled at all. Even if the level of "Black Swan" has not been reached, there is no need to mention "The House of No Ma"-this is the root reason why the more I think about it out of the theater, the more something is wrong.
But regardless of the cheating ending, there are still many points in front of the film. Audiovisually, I feel that this film is quite influenced by Nicholas Winding Refn. Not only is the extremely emotionally guided and atmospherically rendered music resembling "Desperate Driving" and "Neon Demon", even Chloe is in the Museum of Contemporary Art. The exaggerated space here is also somewhat similar in visual concept to "Neon Demon". This style of music and photography is not Ou Jong's usual style, but for him it is a kind of self-breakthrough.
The second is the various sex scenes of the film, resting in the context of the so-called "French neo-extremism" film (this genre includes Ou Jong, Claire Denis, Catlin Brea, Gaspar Noe, Bruno Dumont Et al.) The scale is not too big. One of the “delusional 3Ps” is still an old stalk of Ou Rong’s "Under the Sand", but it is worth mentioning that Ou Rong’s queer status is quite in the sex scene. There are some passages used to express "diversity of sexual behavior" and "fluidity of sexuality". For example, in Chloe’s delusion, the two brothers kissed and touched each other when they had sex with her (typically gay) For example, Chloe puts on the dildo purchased from the sex shop and performed it on Paul (beep—), at least at this moment Chloe is temporarily transgender into a male. At least five thousand words can be discussed here, because the main plot of the whole film is Chloe’s rich and varied sexual fantasies...
The third is the use of mirror images in the film. In several places, multiple mirror images are even used (especially the lobby and interior decoration of the Louis Clinic); and the mirror images on the setting also correspond to the various mirror relationships in the drama, such as Ke The process and dialogue between Roy and Paul and Louis during the first treatment. Another example is that in Chloe’s delusion, Paul’s ex-girlfriend Sandra, actually existed in her body for more than 20 years and caused her stomach pain. A mirror projection of the twin sister's embryo.
There are quite a few things that can be made more interesting, but the problem with Ou Rong’s values is... directly to "Sandra’s mother" (does she exist? Or is she delusional? But it should be delusional. Yeah...) swearing at Chloe’s behavior of "want to have a double sexual relationship with the twins" (the original word is "little bitch" hahaha), and let Louis point out whether it is "Sandra" is still Chloe, who actually enjoys this kind of double sex and is responsible for it-if the explanation at the end of the film is true, these are all guilt and self-torture from Chloe's delusion, remove the pathology The reason (similar twins) is not to say, at least in terms of values, this attitude of even managing sexual fantasies is obviously a very conservative and Taoist expression of women’s body and sex, "You are wrong to think so." . The problem is that after filming so many seemingly large-scale sex scenes, and finally pathologicalizing it, and adding a conservative moral preaching, isn't this a kind of self-rebellion?
Fortunately, the male and female protagonists in the film performed well. Marion Wackert, who starred in "Flowers and Moons", has a short hair style that faintly resembles Juliet Binoche when he was young; The boy in "" has grown up all the way into the uncle in this film, and his acting skills have become more and more exquisite. It is always very challenging to play two roles by one person, and the scale of this drama is not small. This time, Ou Rong is indeed a sudden change in his style, but he really...I thinks of several of his highly subjective works, such as the wife’s unforgettable feelings for her missing husband in “Under the Sand” and “Pool Murder”. The novelist's creation, and even "Into the Hall" itself are discussing meta-narrative issues. In fact, they are very cleverly handled, and the aftertaste is quite wonderful. "Two-sided Lover" is really too much after waking up from the theater.
This is only the discussion of the drama and the values. I have not yet begun to explore the (usually excessive) social orientation of sex and violence in the "French neo-extremism"-yes this film does not point to anything, it It is a closed "sex thriller" (the term used in the "Guardian" film review, sexual thriller). Although it is really possible to go online for ideological analysis (of course, you can take the stalks of Eastern and Western Europe in "Veronica's Double Life" at your fingertips, let alone one swallowed and absorbed the other, and now there are adverse reactions; don't forget The heroine was born in 1991...), but as Ou Rong wishes, let it hang.
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