Pulling life - reality, fantasy and inner kaleidoscope

Vincent 2022-07-11 23:18:53

Whether it's a matter of looks or temperament, movies starring Ellen Page are always a little unbalanced to watch—whether it's Hard Candy's kinky kid, Juno's unwed mother, or The Tracey Fragments (Tracey's) A disqualified high school student in the World of Fragments)... Her childish face and evil eyes, and her small figure in a hoodie, seem to symbolize the coming of misfortune.

Tris wrapped her naked body in a shower curtain, got on the bus, and went to find her brother. The missing brother
thought he was a dog.
Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts and step into the frenzied world of Triss now . Tris has a lot of problems: at home, her dad is nasty, and her mother is a good drinker; at school,
both male and female classmates are fierce, just because she has a flat chest. She has a boyfriend and a psychiatrist, but the most reliable
turned out to be the most poisonous. A teenage nightmare. Ellen Page flipped the girl's heart and shocked the
audience . The cult film director McDonald spent nine months performing the magic of editing, cutting the picture
and adding punk music, and writing the subjective rhythm of the girl.

We have no way of knowing whether Tracey is insane or not, but her loneliness and helplessness on the screen is invisible. She said "Two retards shouldn't have kids, oh no, that's me", she said "there should've been abuses" to make things worse and it never happened to her. All the helplessness is so powerless, she is dissatisfied, but there is no real reason to justify the dissatisfaction and anger.

The younger brother has a problem with IQ, so she trained him as a dog to play with everything; the younger brother simply loves her, and he gave her a neck tie for her birthday to make her happy. However, she abandoned her brother for the boy she liked. After being toyed with and abandoned, she found that her brother disappeared. She regretted that she hated herself but couldn't put her guilt on the boy she liked. When she went home to face her incompetent parents, she knew that she couldn't collapse yet.

Even in school, she is not lovable and popular, and even the object of bullying. He was so small that he had no ability to resist, so he had to submit to his anger to the bottom of his heart, dreaming about the sun god every day. No family, friends or loved ones can get it, and there is no one else in her world but herself. So only her own voice echoed in the air all the time, not "you are delusional" as the psychiatrist said, she just wanted to imagine beautiful things to make life easier.

She couldn't escape the devastated reality, and the sweet imaginary world became her only shelter. The reality is cruel and there is no kindness at all, and she still struggles with all her strength. She is not schizophrenic, but the whole world is forcing her to go to a dead end. Everyone robbed her of her happiness with all her hands and her life left her with nothing - no dignity, no love, loss of personal value, when you have nothing, not even something to lose, naturally you can't stop. . So in the end, she was wrapped in a blanket and couldn't see anything, and muttered "No one can stop me" repeatedly like a ghost.

Although no one physically hurt Tracey (after all, she wasn't actually beaten with a belt by her father or raped by a stranger), everyone's mental damage left an indelible mark on her. Zero's love turned out to be just a tool to vent her desires; she couldn't find her brother to hang up the phone and hoped for her mother's forgiveness, but she was ruthlessly hung up and abandoned by her mother; the psychiatrist didn't help her, and even put a label on her that she was drug-free salvageable). Tris's world is a fragment, all thanks to everyone's indifference and cruelty.

However, all these troubled kid encounters do not constitute a great and moving story. Treating them in ordinary ways will only appear ordinary. Therefore, Bruce McDonald cut Tracey's life into small pieces and reversed the order. Coexisting with the inner world on the screen, the real and the fake are also real, and the audience's eyes and hearts are confused like a kaleidoscope. "My name is Tracey Berkowitz, 15, just a normal girl who hates herself." The story begins with her monologue on the bus -- a journey that begins within her, Bruce's patchwork that allows viewers to see Tracey's world inside and out.

The editing effect of the huge project is just right, and what is even more instructive is that the director even cut the voice into small pieces, so that the picture and the plot are well-matched. In addition, the soundtrack of Broken Social Scene's songs also strengthens the narrative effect, making up for the weakness of the lack of storytelling. Some people say that The Tracey Fragments is like the extended version of the music video of Broken Social Scene's gray-gray-blue-blue, but I think the two seem to find the perfect match for the other half. Without each other, they seem to have never been complete.

Tracey's world is in pieces like snowflakes, and with the last scene of the first snow, the audience's heart is as low as the gray sky. Everything seems to be trapped in her heart, in her sentence "how'd you know what's real, what's not when the whole world is inside you head, cos what's made up is pretty much better than what's real anyway".


Background Music: Superconnected – Broken Social Scene

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The Tracey Fragments quotes

  • Tracey Berkowitz: I have this condition. It makes me want to kill and fuck all the time. But lucky for us it's intermission.

  • Tracey Berkowitz: You know, that really isn't my fault. I absolutely one hundred percent had to run away. Because my parents are like a couple of Helen Kellers. All they do is feel.