The four are shocked by their skills, their brains are wide open, and the horses and horses are empty, like taking drugs. After watching the new work of great director John Cameron Mitchell-"How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (How to Talk to Girls at Parties), the hormones in the fat man's head continue to gush, and his soul swells, as if he is too high. , Was hollowed out of the body and needed to lie down for recuperation.
This talented director and screenwriter who has filmed amazing works such as "Rock Barbie", "Sex Bus", and "Rabbit Hole" once again gave out "God's Works" to fans. The original short story of "Secrets of Party Catch-up", "A Guide to Party Catch-ups for Boys," was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and was included in Neil Gaiman's collection of short stories "The Fragile". Hugo Award? Science fiction genre film? As a result, the focus of the title is "How to Pick Up Girls"! Yes, this is the small trick of the great god John Cameron Mitchell, the big killer.
He always constructs multi-layered texts in his works. It seems to be the love-hate collision between young people, youthful confusion, but once the shallow text is pierced, the body is exhausted, into the inside, deep into the muscles and bones, you will Discover the rich and eye-opening connotations.
"The Secret of Party Catch-up" is a youth growth film wrapped in science fiction elements. The social background is secretly exerted. The punk spirit leads the whole film. The call of love "a sword seals the throat", let the whole film help you take off with surging passion, and finally use it The magic of love makes you fall gently.
In the process of watching the film, the pleasure is like a torrent of rivers, like taking a big medicine; after watching it, it is sad and painful, as if an old illness has relapsed.
In the 1970s, three outrageous punk teenagers wandered around major underground clubs at night. In an accident, they came to a mysterious and glamorous independent villa.
I wanted to tease up my sisters with wine, catharsis, taste youthful sex, and use the meat forest wine pond to anesthetize the real distress. As a result, this weird and absurd party was actually held by a group of humanoid aliens.
Unable to strike up a conversation, but failed to tease the girl, but the protagonist Enn (played by Alex Sharp) fell in love with the innocent alien girl Zan (played by Elle Fanning) at first sight; Zan, who is very curious about the world, offered himself here In the last 48 hours, Enn was asked to take her to experience the real current society.
One is a 15-year-old deep punk patient. When true love comes, he immediately comes up;
One is an alien girl who doesn't know much about society and people, she has a lot of love and her motherhood shines;
They are all trying to play games and pull with their own social system. They all acted rebelliously during their adolescence, saying "no" to the people around them and the society around them!
In order to express this "de-collectivization" and "de-authoritative" individual free will, director John Cameron Mitchell introduced punk music as a symbolic element.
Punk, born in the mid-1970s, is a simple rock music derived from garage rock and pre-punk rock in the 1960s. It does not pay much attention to music skills, and is more inclined to a sharp stand of ideological emancipation and anti-mainstream.
The original "punk" did not have internal content, he was just a way of venting. At that time, the post-war Britain fell into a period of economic recession, all industries were dying, society was full of despair and dissatisfaction, young people were disappointed in the future, and the "punks" thus had behaviors that were incompatible with society. Punk has become one of their ways of vocalizing, and their purpose is only one, to let the society hear dissatisfaction, naked dissatisfaction. "Use my behavior, use the behavior I want to do, to resonate with the crowd."
The first act of "The Secrets of Party Hit Up" is an encounter, the second act is a social experience, and the third act is a choice; the first two acts of the film are extremely stunning and powerful. Nicole Kidman starred in the film as an underground punk queen, and her underground club became a catharsis and escape place for local young people.
At the climax of the second act, the dreamlike duet between the hero and the heroine is exactly the sound and picture representation of the person's ecstasy, disillusionment, and disillusionment. The lyrics of the two are also bold and arrogant, and the rebelliousness in their bones is both enviable and frightening.
What "Secrets of Party Hits Up" wants is the crazy and absurdity of punk. Against, against everything, even against humanity. Just like the love song of the hero and heroine in the film-the song of cannibalism, the body is cut out, the head is swallowed, and the soul is pierced. In the cathartic "cynicism", the film also constructed a special alien system, they are divided into the color of their costumes, soul, spirit, will, voice, sex, power. Their method of continuation is that the “teacher” teaches the “students” and the “parents” devour the “children”. They do not approve of unlimited continuation, but hope that they will die out in a controlled manner. The white-clothed old man will be the last person in their ethnic group and wait for others. After the department died, he would end his life on his own.
In the third act of the film, the heroine Zan, who has already loved to die, even has a "child", will choose between Enn and the ethnic group, whether to return to her world or stay in the human world. In "Secrets of Party Catch-up", this alien group is shaped strangely, both in terms of clothing and behavior, are standardized and collectivized, and are incompatible with the English suburbs where Enn lives.
Its function in the film is to conflict and contrast with Enn's real society and punk spirit. In the third act of the film, in order to rescue Zan, Enn begged the punk queen for help. A group of punk boys rushed into the alien’s villa, as if the French people rushed into the Bastille back then.
The difference is that the weapon of this group of punk patients is sound and music. The most interesting part is the scene where the punk queen played by Nicole Kidman talks with an alien representative of sex. The punk queen, who is already asexual, will naturally not be seduced by sex. Instead, he will caress the alien women, a large group of people. , Sat down to drink and talk, both sides put aside their rejection and guard, and reached a short-term reconciliation.
That layer of sugar that ruined life is something that angry youths do, called acrimony; compassion and suspicion coexist peacefully without denying each other, this kind of transparency is called desolation. In the film, Enn and punk fans consciously or unconsciously encounter desolation in the vision of the future under a specific social ideology. They escape and use catharsis instead of thinking.
It's like Enn loves his punk-spirited father, but the reality is that he left him when he was 10 years old; Zan asked in confusion, is this "freedom to do whatever you want"? Zan, who was awakened, was immediately frustrated and chaotic. No wonder Zan would say, "Your views are full of contradictions." Some viewers questioned that the effect of the third act of "The Secret of a Party Hit Up" was weakened and the rhythm was slowed down, but it was actually the director's reflection and compromise.
Because people cannot vent all their lives. We need to see the sentimentality of the end when we are full of vitality, and we need to imagine the temperance of exhaustion when there is excess emotion. That is the source of film and life thickness.
The theme of "The Secrets of Party Hit Up" is still growth, struggle and compromise in the face of established social rules, a contest between collectivist assimilation and individual freedom, and a choice to evade catharsis and head up. The emotional ending of "Secrets of Party Hit Up" gives all the answers.
Youth films can be made like this, which has already surpassed several levels in the mainland.
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