PULP refers to cheap magazines with crude content and poor paper. The film "Pulp Fiction" is the condensed and essence of all this kind of vulgarity. Although it is also one of the vulgarity, it is a very special "Pulp Fiction" about vulgarity with a halo.
The film "Low" deserves repeated admiration and recollection. It is some innovative things in this film. At the end of the film, I actually had the feeling of time and space reversal when I watched "Superman" and "Future Warrior" for the first time. The narrative, photography, and editing techniques are things that I don’t understand or are familiar with. Because of this, I really did some serious work, made up my homework, and tried to understand some terms when I knew it. "Point shooting technique", "circular narrative structure" and the "linear space-time concept" considered to be subverted by the director of the film are these distinctive narratives and shooting methods that make the development of the story like a wild horse, as if to think. So, all the stories develop arbitrarily with thoughts, and they are naturally grouped together, and the ordinary stories have an alternative taste.
But in terms of content, the film "Low" definitely intends to carry the vulgarity to the end. It has vulgar language, trivial and long dialogue, and swear words throughout the film. It has the vulgarity of sex, drugs and gang storylines, and it is also shocking. The blood (violence) is arrogant and vulgar in the screen. Whether the film is many stories or the implicit meaning of these stories, audiences are commonplace. The director deliberately reduced the content of the film to vulgarity, and only the theme of the film remains " The word "vulgar".
Some comments say that the film consists of three stories, is there only three stories? What about the couple who sells drugs, the female driver who drives the taxi, and the Mr. Wolf who helps deal with the corpse... "The post-modern splicing of "Pulp Fiction" has reached the level of a carnival. Rescue the mistress of the gang boss, Mi Yashi, the plot of drawing a shot on her chest comes from Marquez’s "One Hundred Years of Solitude": Before committing suicide, Colonel Oreno ordered the doctor to find a mark on his chest that made him die happy and accurate. Tarantino I also said: I copied every play, copied it and then mixed them together... I copied it everywhere, and great artists always copied it." (Excerpt from Cheng Qingsong's "Postmodernist Movies") The piecemeal content makes the storyline vast and all-encompassing, and the ambiguous attitude of neither praise nor derogation makes the theme of the movie obscure, and it does not even matter what the theme is but just to express vulgarity. The extremes of things must be reversed, and the director deliberately crafted the "vulgar" to make the film intriguing and a long aftertaste.
At this point, I don’t feel confident anymore. Is Quentin Tarantino’s painstaking preparation and processing just vulgar? Are this movie and these common movie stories vulgar?
In "A Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu was surprised: really eggplant? Sister Feng said: "You take the eggplant that has just come down, remove the skin, just clean the meat, cut it into dices, deep-fry it with chicken, and then use chicken breasts and fragrant fungi, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, and dried spiced tofu. All the dried fruits of various colors are cut into cubes, simmered in chicken broth, sesame oil is collected, and tank oil is added for mixing, and then placed in a porcelain jar and sealed tightly. Take it out when you want to eat and mix it with fried chicken feet." Eggplants have such complicated processing. No wonder Grandma Liu shook his head and said, "My Buddha! There are more than ten chickens to match him. It's a strange smell."
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