BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis’ controversial work in 2001, translated into Chinese as "Forbidden Love in the Army", but it fits the theme more closely than "The Pain of Lovers". Denis Lavant, the pristine Shimbashi lover, plays the jealous lieutenant. Because he was dissatisfied with the commander's attention to the Russian recruits, he was dismissed from the army because of his dissatisfaction with the Russian recruits. In the end, a dance alone in the bar is the finishing touch, letting people see the clown performing a circus show for the sweetheart on the new bridge. ClaireDenis's lens was both stagnant and crazy, focusing on a group of French volunteers stationed in the East African colony as if out of focus. Soldiers and officers practice boringly every day, and occasionally build civil projects for local people. Each individual seems to have lost his soul, only mechanical obedience and follow-up. The opposite sex is rare, so the same sex attracts each other. ClaireDenis is also one of the few masters who use the YY lens to complete the psychological erotica. Those strong muscles in the exercises are more disturbing than the entangled carcass. But whether it’s YY or same-sex attraction, it’s not Claire Denis’s original intention. How to do self-struggle in a monotonous and non-human group is the essence. In short, this uncompromising boring film seriously hit someone's bad thoughts. Throughout the whole film, only the hapless Russian soldiers are bright.
From this, I thought of another thing that made my intestines regretful. N had a "Ten Days Before the War" a long time ago, which is a classic of Russian-style YY. The vocabulary of the lens is quite Sokorov's style, but it was a pity that the brain was flooded. It was returned to the owner of shop D before finishing reading it, and now it is gone.
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