When many senior movie fans with unique tastes are still obsessed with the retro charm aesthetic styles in the two controversial works of last year, "The Wind and Wind" and "Sting Heart", everyone seems to have overlooked the other inheritor. Dario Argento's mantle, in terms of aesthetic style, is closest to Peter Strickland, the British director of the Italian "Leader Movies" of the 1970s. The director seems to have always been fond of cult themes, or ordinary and common themes can show weird cult meanings under his lens. The previous two works "Cult Studio" and "Duke Butterfly Love Flower" both So it is. If "Cult Recording Studio" is a big fuss about sound (telling the work of a sound engineer dubbing a cult film), then this new film will bring a strong impact to the audience in terms of visual color.
The film tells the story of two murders caused by a beautiful red dress that was discounted for the seasons, which claimed four lives. The film is divided into two parts, the first is about the black woman and his son, and the other is the washing machine maintenance engineer and his girlfriend. There is no direct connection between the characters in the two stories, they are all connected by this life-threatening red dress. This horror and horror theme includes the crude and violent bloody scenes of the 90s Hong Kong films, the mysterious sexual suggestion (the silk of the skirt), and the nonsensical humor (washing machine). However, the artistic modeling, color light, and soundtrack have a unique style. At the beginning, a few static photos and voice-overs were used to predict the key plot of the whole story, which made people see the director's strong author consciousness. The weird movements and obscure conversations of the salesgirls interacting with customers, the unbelievable plots of the salespersons and managers after the store is closed, and the fashion models full of erotic metaphors, can't help being creepy. In contrast, the theme of the film is relatively simple and straightforward, pointing at the endless materialism and consumerism caused by the troubles of human mind and body. However, too many stylistic methods, overwhelming symbolic images, and actors' exaggerated and confusing interpretations gradually weakened the original sharp criticism. The author's style completely overwhelmed the narrative logic, and eventually became a veritable cult film. .
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