I don’t know when, the impression of the Nazis is not only a mustache, a hand-raising, a red cloth, a white round and a black swastika, but also black leather gloves and black stockings that are sexually provocative. When Martin, the protagonist of "Nazi Mania", appeared in black stockings and danced sexy on the old baron’s birthday celebration program, it seemed to reveal that he would later tell the story of the battle for power within the steel company family under the background of the Nazis. Continuously staged garbled scenes such as family killing, pedophilia, incest, etc. Another cross-dressing event appeared in the fourth and a half hour of the movie "Night of the Long Sword". The officers of the Nazi stormtroopers drank and sang endlessly, tearing the maid’s clothes in the chase, after the lustful and extravagant party. , They staggered into the room upstairs, took off their black silk, white velvet and brown military uniforms, all naked, and then fell asleep peacefully. They once said: They made Hitler what he is today. Then the Black SS surrounded and attacked them by sea and land, exploding flowers on them with bullets.
"Nazi Madness" is not complicated, it is nothing more than the insidious cunning within the family to eradicate dissidents and finally Nazification, thus showing the mutation and disintegration of the whole Germany. The contradictions within the family and the replacement of lions and leopards by jackals and coyotes are all plots that Visconti often displays. The narrative of referring to the country by family can be complicated and huge, and the momentum can also be magnificent. Nostalgia for the past and despair for the future can be a very strong temperament. The photography of Visconti’s films has always been gorgeous. The film was shrouded in obscene red, gloomy blue, and betrayal green. It was carried out slowly for two and a half hours under a sinister and decadent tone, but it was everywhere. crazy.
If there is a slightly peaceful scene, only the birthday party of the old baron will be the beginning, and even this only harmony is accompanied by another line of conspiracy, and finally is suddenly and brutally interrupted by the news of the arson of the Capitol. "Before the fire in the Reichstag was extinguished, the old Germans would be burned to ashes," said the SS. It was precisely that night that the old baron who was not close to Hitler was shot on his bed and became the first in a series of members to disappear from the family table, and became a broken link in the old German order. His children set off a bloody battle for power, and the cruel and cold-blooded dog biting the dog was actually nothing more than a pawn manipulation by the Third Reich. At first glance, the family members are fighting life and death, but the ones who really dominate and win are all supported by the Nazis. The Nazis have always used power and hatred to suppress their iron palms and carry out their incitement and manipulation.
However, even with the historical background as the intertextual text, the film length is reduced to two and a half hours, the ambition of "Nazi Madness" does not seem to be very big. Visconti’s focus has always been on degradation and destruction, but he exaggerated scenes of kisses with girls, gay gatherings, and mother-child incest, and even produced a psychedelic and sick atmosphere, which can be described as elegant and gloomy. He suspects that the so-called history is just a cover for his selfish desires, and what he wants to show or be fascinated by is the flow of pictures brought about by taboo scenes.
After all, this is also a high-value movie. Bogarde, a gentleman from a corrupt country, is a famous gay actor, and Helmut Grimm plays a handsome Devil SS officer. Of course I hate the intoxicating Aunt Rampling's eyes for too few scenes. The core role is the director’s lover Berger, who is regarded by Visconti as the incarnation of "demonic madness and depraved sex", which is a high-level generalization of the film.
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