A sober observation of mental illness and violence-"Closed Island" still uses modernist masterpieces as the soundtrack

Melba 2022-01-25 08:01:29

A sober observation of mental illness and violence-"Closed Island" still uses modernist masterpieces to soundtrack



"the last gift God left you (talent) -,"
"What is it?"
"-It's violence."
The dialogue that the warden drove.

"I'm thinking, to live like a beast, or die like a good man?"-the last sentence in the movie.
And the last shot of the movie is the lighthouse-a lighthouse for partial orbital nerve cutting operations for mental patients.

The first half of the film was too depressing, so I watched it in batches. Because I like to watch each scene and lines carefully, which leads to a very deep feeling.

The policeman played by Leonardo DiCaprio enters the mental hospital in the opening scene. The garden is quiet during the day, but the camera captures a particularly depressing sense of fear. Those who wander in the garden are all the most severely aggressive psychopaths.

When DiCaprio entered the workshop of a German doctor, the soundtrack he chose was an extremely beautiful ensemble of the romantic period.
"Brhms' work?"

"No, it's Mahler," DiCaprio said.
As a master director, Martin Scorsese said: "Classic movies and beautiful music are my stimulants." In the impression he is a master of gangster movies and violent movies. Unexpectedly, he would shoot works of this kind of spiritual and psychological themes.

The soundtrack is music of modern techniques.
Can't be more familiar.
In the past, I have always mentioned seriously in the dialogue, in the modern music creation for many years, what are the forms of expression of commercial performances used? The answer is: horror films, thrillers, psychological films, ghost films and other soundtracks. And the effect is very good.
If you watch the new version of "The Exorcist", you will hear the most masterpieces of modern music appear. The movie is a horror movie, but when I watch it, I find that the music is very familiar. At the end of the credits, I found that it was so. The classic works analyzed at that time were all used for the soundtrack in the film.
I don’t know if Lutoslavsky and George Kram thought of this when they were alive. The post-war depressive works they created back then were later used in the soundtrack of horror films or cliff films in our time.

The theme of "The Confinement Island" is Pandletsky's work. Too familiar and depressing. It turned out that I still used the master's work to make the soundtrack.
Part of the music comes from the works of 20th-century modern music masters such as Pandretzky, Cage, Ligeti, but most of these music are discordant, sharp, manic and full of pain, just to highlight the breath of death in the film. . Martin said: "Pandretzky's "Pasakaria", this piece of music is very special, just to reflect the complex inner emotions of the protagonist Teddy in the film. If the audience enters the plot, start this mysterious with the actors in the film. Journey, then the music will always reverberate in your mind."
He knows music very well.
In this regard, only top directors can achieve such a high degree of discrimination. Their hearing and discrimination capabilities are very keen.
It takes a lot of time to choose quietly. It is definitely not a problem that can be distinguished in a moment.
For the soundtrack. I admire Martin Scorsese very much.


The translation problem of "Closed Island", if you watch online, the translation quality is very bad. So I downloaded it again and watched it again.
The use of Mahler + modern techniques, a perfect combination.
On one side is the most beautiful and most relaxing quartet. Mahler.
On one side, strings are in the sharpest and lowest range, which appear every time the protagonist thinks.
It also implies that he has been suffering from mental torture for a long time.

The scene shooting is very particular. Every picture is absolutely delicate. Cold depression. The colors and applications of all lenses are all bleak tones.
My friend told me that after seeing the scene in Building C, I felt uncomfortable.
But I looked at the lighthouse. I feel very concerned.
In the real scene, the lighthouse does have a certain depressive color in it.

When the ending subtitles came up, it turned out to be Martin Scorsese's work. No wonder it was so violent, nervous and bloody. Such a well-interpreted state of psychological distortion and paranoia.
The 67-year-old director is really extraordinary. Everything is in place. , There is no room for nerves to relax.
I asked the people in the audience, how do you feel after watching it? Almost all people of that age replied with a panic and depressed look: "I am very depressed, very depressed."
Then, this work is a success.
Martin Scorsese is accurate. Interprets a world of high IQ patients who are entangled with schizophrenia and delusions.

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Shutter Island quotes

  • George Noyce: You wanna uncover the truth? You gotta let her go.

    Teddy Daniels: I can't.

    George Noyce: You have to let her go!

    Teddy Daniels: I can't! I can't!

    George Noyce: Then you'll never leave this island.

  • Chuck Aule: All I know is it's a mental hospital.

    Teddy Daniels: ...for the criminally insane.