The light rain in winter has diluted the atmosphere of merry Christmas.
The story takes place in London.
The first thing I was familiar with was the name of the city of London. I didn’t know the damp mist there, or what a capitalist country was, etc., and so on. I only knew that the answer to the mystery of collective toilet use was the name of the city. If you capture it carefully, you can see the flashing toilet plaque in the picture of this film. On the small buildings on both sides of the narrow street, it makes the indispensable private space for people in this city seem very public. The word public has appeared on both the lines and the plaques in the picture. This word allows the private to surface in the public, it is safe when it is safe, and it is dangerous when it is dangerous.
David Cronenberg's films are full of mystery as always. This time the mystery and reality are closely combined. The elements of the Gothic story are hidden in the pale and crude reality screen, which is completely different from Tim Burton's eerie beauty. The meticulous expression of complex thoughts reveals sad indifference. If expressed in music, Tim Burton's film is a black metal neo-classical goth, and "Oriental Promise" is a post-rock mixed with neo-classical black metal. The two men's new films at the end of last year both took place in London, with broken corpses bloody slitting their throats, barbers' razors as murder weapons, and barbershops and restaurants a place of sin. Both of them have their own unique characteristics in expression. David Cronenberg's focus is more public, not leading to a dark heart, but to a dark world. Simple suspense is fascinating, and straight-to-the-point violence brings the story into the picture. The hidden corners of London, the closed underworld, the Russian underworld hiding in London.
In Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is "The Barber of Siberia", in which a boy of mixed Russian blood was born in the United States.
The film was co-produced by Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. The beginning of the story is that a Russian girl gave birth to a baby girl. On Christmas day, she wanted to die with the child in her womb. The baby girl was born in the hospital, London, her father It is a secret. This secret is kept in her diary. She entered the underworld with her. Only the blood has passed down the secret, the secret of sin, waiting for a baptism to wash away the sins of the past and usher in a new life.
The diary records the sins of hope, despair, and the voice of the girl in the narration. She dies, she narrates, and she watches everything. Her name is Tatyana, her father died in a mine accident, was buried in the mine, they were all buried, buried in Russian soil, and she was leaving Russia in search of a better life. She left Russia, but failed to escape the Russian underworld. A baptism began in the movie in the quiet London...
Midwife Anna wanted to find relatives for the baby girl with the help of the girl's diary. Growing up in England, she didn't know what she wanted What kind of sin you are facing. Her father was Russian and died prematurely, and her mother was British. In the UK under the Queen's rule, she is full of curiosity about Russia and is incompatible with her Russian uncle. Her uncle has been in the UK for many years, and she will still be there. Plural mistakes are made when using singular words. In this family she faces everyday racist discourse, British snobbery, Russian arrogance. She would never have known that Russian women were different from her, nor would she have known that Russian men, in addition to alcoholics like her uncle, were full of gay camaraderie and shared women as tools. These gay-leaning Russian men are selling Russian women. Cronenberg uses a lot of details to express this point, lines, actions, common wine bottles.
Clear is the son of the boss of the underworld, where he is the prince, and he will pat his partner Nikolai on the ass frivolously while Nikolai handles the corpse. Viggo Mortensen's performance combines brutal scenes with the sexiness of men. The fox-like sexy and alert man, the charm flashes between gestures and eyebrows, making the prince both love and jealous of him.
The existence of the prince and queen is only on the banknotes. He comes from Russia where the faith has collapsed. Although the Orthodox Church has become his faith again, it is different. The Orthodox Church attaches great importance to the worship of the Virgin Mary. The prince who has long lost his mother does not show any respect and love for women, except for his young daughter. Nicholas, who wanted to replace the king, had to cater to the prince against his will. Although he loved women, the tattoo on his leg had the image of the Virgin Mary, and his usurping heart was out of hatred for sin. For this reason, he once replaced the prince as a sacrifice. , handed over to the murderer seeking vengeance, bathed and steamed in a Turkish bathroom, and survived just to get a tattoo. In the ceremony when he got the tattoo, the two figures who presided over the ceremony had a familiar beard and hair style, one was Lenin and the other was Stalin, but the temperament and feeling were different, at least different from the painting, and very different from the information film. Cronenberg has his own thoughts on the changing communist country. In fact, for the former Soviet Union, communism was just a title, which was far from the original ideal. In that revolutionary era, there was narcissistic passion and no woman's tenderness. There is the title of "heroic mother" awarded to women who gave birth to sextuplets, but the responsibility of parenting is left more to the collective life, collective kindergarten, collective dress, people regardless of men and women put into work with pride and sacrifice their children's mistakes. It is a public recognition. These narcissistic people form an infighting society. Identity does not reduce disputes, but makes the struggle more intense. You are different from me. It is you who must change, because we want to be the same, not to be different. . King Stalin overthrew the old, but the new he didn't, his passion was power, the drunken prince of the London underworld said this to his dad - he liked people fighting each other, and I got to know him more and more. This decadent and rebellious prince has always been obedient to his father, he can desecrate the corpse, even the corpse of his former friend, he can laugh at Anna, because Anna talked about his sensitive things, and his father is only sensitive to blood, because it flows out The blood will bring him into the French Open and lose the throne. The ruthlessness of the king finally made his prince choose to abandon evil for good.
Cronenberg's style has continued to this day. He is getting more and more old, and he has combined his usual mysterious events with reality, and his perspective has penetrated into the society. This time, the issues he is concerned about are more closely related to the political issues of the world today, which is the same as before. is different. In his earlier film, Touch the Spirit, the male protagonist has a supernatural ability that prevents a politician who could become another Hitler from running for the presidency. There is no longer any special function in this film. Hitler's ideas are rising again in the world at this time. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, neo-Nazis became active in Russia. Adaptation, radical racist ideas became a new problem in today's world after communist countries were thwarted. Violence, war, darkness, all these are not things that people on Earth are willing to experience again. Cronenberg's view on this is obviously optimistic, and there will be a new beginning after chaos. His ideas are more Christian, and he emphasizes his own redemption of original sin, and there is no police and gangster movie scene where British undercover agents take down the Russian underworld. In this redemption, sacrifice has become a ritual, wine and blood, killing and feasting, reincarnation of life and death... The
baptism in the movie is completed. Baby girl comes back to life.
The British-born Anna no longer rides a motorcycle alone or rides in Nikola's car.
Nikolai was like the father of the dead girl, buried, buried in the underworld, they were all buried, leaving Anna and the baby girl in the world.
London has always been a word for this Russian man, the opposite of London. His left middle finger is always vacant
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