The costumes are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, the music is beautiful, the editing and narration are smooth, and the production level is first-class, but this gorgeous blockbuster did not stay in my mind for too long, and it dissipated as soon as the wind blew, which made me regret. According to my personal experience, most of the movies with similar look and feel are because the literary drama is not well done. Self-proclaimed writing background, good scheduling ability, screenwriting is the worst thing, some make me feel ridiculous.
It can be seen that this film is also beset by censorship, and it is difficult to say precisely whether it is censorship or self-censorship. In the film, the style, plot, and invisible eroticism cannot be destroyed. The men are stripped, but they are not completely stripped. The camera avoids some complete and long-term presentations. The mentality revealed when facing straight men?). How to photograph the male body from an aesthetic perspective, rather than a desire perspective, Guo may learn more from Pain and Glory or Pasolini and Derek Jarman in the future.
However, the premise of beauty is the flourishing of desire.
Domestic screens have always lacked nudity, women can’t be exposed to morality (men), and men’s bodies are even more special, except for the fat middle-aged bodies in domestic comedies that have lost any sexual interest (some films will especially highlight the characteristics of obesity. ), leaving only the Peng Yuyan-style standard presentation of the pectoral and abdominal muscles. They are not the carrier of sex. The former is like a self-deprecating man who is deeply trapped in the patriarchal order, while the latter is more like a symbol of strength and patriarchy. An abstract symbol of a patriarchal society.
Therefore, like the female body, the aestheticized and landscaped male body is actually not allowed. As a result, the male body has always been regarded as an alien, and the sexual organs are like pythons, which are ugly and show their teeth and claws, which can easily make people feel embarrassed and offended. beauty too.
(The aesthetic, cultural genitals that belong to the screen are erased, and it morphs into another huge dissatisfaction, opening its mouth in the shape of a giant python. The bigger the dissatisfaction, the bigger the python. )
To a certain extent, "Qing Ya Ji" provides the audience with a rare opportunity to examine the male body, not to mention its beauty and ugliness, Guo can make himself a kind of sincerity, and he can try his best to realize his A goal to be achieved, even though the goal is dubious and inappropriate.
In China, there are not many good films. One of the big reasons is that the creators are not sincere. Some of them are too good at calculating, and they only do things for money and have no heart. Style, in the later stage, in order to pass the trial, I am more willing to self-censor, and shoot stable things. Most of these old fritters are good at camouflage, and in their works, they quietly erase all the dark expressions in their hearts and the things they feel are dangerous.
Guo won't do this. He is so sympathetic with his own value system that he lacks effective reflection, does not think that his defects are defects, and has acquired an inexplicable courage, so he can photograph the inner truth of people like him, A truth that will be avoided, scolded and unwilling to face by such people, a sample that is not contaminated by the lies of the creator.
All of us understand that if the male body in the film is a mirror, the reality of people in this era is by no means a plump and rich body with flaws that are visible to the naked eye in reality, but a kind of filter and whole container. smeared flesh. The desire that belongs to this era is real, not the nakedness of Peng Yuyan's abdominal muscles, but the evil snake who has been imprisoned for a long time and desperately wants to break free.
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