You can always trust Karax

Daniela 2022-03-12 08:01:02

A very skilled film, you can always trust Karax. 1. Those who are familiar with Karax's films must be familiar with the very personal elements of motorcycles, woods, and people sitting in cars. "So may we start?" is a very novel opening. In a long shot, the director and the actors walk out of the studio singing songs, and the two protagonists walk towards their own performances to start the movie. This long shot reminds me of Like the accordion marching in the church in "Holy Cars", Ann's shot in the car is reminiscent of Alex walking towards the next mission in "Holy Cars". Motorcycles are more familiar. There have been scenes of motorcycles running wild on the road in "Bad Blood" and "Sacred Car Dealer". It may be because of the director's own life experience that this element frequently appears in his films. 2. The soundtrack of Sparks is super nice. My favorite is the opening song and we love each other so much. I don't understand why so many people find it unpleasant. I think it is pleasant to the ear objectively, dislike ≠ unpleasant. 3. The story is a little boring. If you only read the story, this may be the most popular film of Karax, but first of all, this is a musical, and secondly, this film makes me feel that the rhythm is deliberately slowed down. If the rhythm of the story is told It may not take an hour to be compact at all, but it is worth noting that this film has a lot of "play within a play" bridges, Ann and Henry are both actors by profession, and their performances are also presented in the film, maybe this is Discussing the performance itself, Henry, a stand-up comedian, spoke openly on stage about killing his wife in a tickling (made up), talking frivolously about the Rwandan civil war, talking about Jewish discrimination, and even mocking His wife's profession, which may be bad, but it's his style as an actor, and maybe what made him famous, as he said: "Everyone knows that my performances are aggressive", and he himself was turned into a murderer because he lost his real life in the performance. Like he always said, don't try to stare into the abyss. And Ann "died for people" countless times in the performance, but Ann's image in the performance is in line with her own temperament, so she will not fall into Henry's manic crisis. This kind of play-in-play is about discussing the performance itself. The same discussion is more in "Sacred Motor Vehicles". The discussion in this part of "Annette" seems to magnify the problems mentioned in "Sacred Motor Vehicles". . Anyway, although the story itself is popular, it also includes a lot of personal discussions. I don't think it can be said that it doesn't tell the story. 4. Little Annette has been a puppet since she was born, which is no longer a metaphor, because since Henry discovered Annette's singing talent, the conductor has already said that this is taking advantage of children, and of course there are some voices of the masses. The puppet represents control, and Henry uses his daughter's money to satisfy his own desires. During the visit in prison, facing her daughter Henry and saying that her daughter has changed, Annette is no longer a puppet and is out of control. 5. Some of the plots are really weird, it's a little weird to sing while having sex in bed...Ann's music when she gave birth to Annette is also weird and even has a sense of humor...

Others: It's a pity that there is no royal male protagonist Denilawang

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Extended Reading
  • Michel 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    We followed this man wearily to the end, the end of the era, the end of film history, the end of the action, the motorcycle that Denilawang and Depardieu once rode in the woods and finally drove into a huge The tomb of disillusionment, the long-awaited darkness descended upon him with a sinister face. Retreat from the unicorn universe of neither life nor death, this is Karax's absolutely private film history, bringing a classical opera back to the present with almost masochistic self-referential: how he loves and hates it as a sacrifice The "acting art" of the ceremony is like how the predecessors of the new wave photographed the girl in love, and at the same time, like the Hollywood tradition, it is deceived by lust, leading to killing, and under the same kind of enthusiasm for doubt and incompleteness, Declares that stale types deserve to end. An ultimate paradox, it cannot rest anywhere, and calls for the future wherever it goes. Even if it doesn't know where to go, it has to do everything in its power to say goodbye to the past and the present.

  • Alysson 2022-04-23 07:05:12

    8.0/10 American-style talk show for "kill people" murders European classical opera that saves audiences ("I saved them.") through their own deaths, the ghosts of the latter through intercourse with the former The pregnant puppets kept returning, and finally at the Hyper (Super) Bowl, the apex of American pop culture visual spectacle, exposing his biological father's double original sin of murdering his dead wife and exploiting child labor, he was imprisoned, and thus returned. own avatar. Through the bizarre video style, stylized audio-visual language and unpredictable story direction, Karax makes "Annette" fall outside the coordinates of most traditional works sequences, presenting Henry as a real "American mental patient". Image——This kind of grotesque often defeats the expectations constructed according to ordinary logic, but it is not a raving completely opposed to interpretation, its purpose is to blur the boundaries between drama-image-fiction and life, and let the daily and dream interpenetrate chaos—— A true surreal spirit.

Annette quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Henry McHenry: There's so little I can do. There's so little I can do.

  • Annette in Prison: I will never sing again, shunning all lights at night. I will never sing again, smashing every lamp I see. I will never sing again, living in full darkness. I will never sing again, a vampire forever!