Hard Candy is reminiscent of Mies van der Rohe's glass house, minimalist, ethereal, and oppressive.
This is a story of Lolita's revenge. Fourteen-year-old Helene and a thirty-two-year-old photographer chatted online with the IDs "LENSMAN" and "THONGGRRRL", then met in a cafe, then the girl went home with the man, and then the man was drinking a glass of orange juice and vodka It turns out that everything was turned upside down. The girl searches his house for evidence and tortures him to find out if he is a pedophile and murderer. The man was not willing to admit defeat, he struggled several times successfully, even prevailed, and kept conducting psychological warfare with the girl. When he lost completely in the end, he was completely destroyed psychologically. "Who are you?" he asked when the girl hung a knot on the chimney on the roof, explaining to him that suicide was the best way out. The girl smiled, maybe she wasn't a middle school student, or the daughter of a medical professor, or even Hailin. She is an invincible nemesis.
From an ideological point of view, no matter how mainstream this film is, it cannot be more positive. Girls are righteously proclaiming the crimes of men, and there is no temptation or injury to be forgiven, no matter how touching childhood Freudian causes are presented. Its overall style is also concise, cut, that is, black and white, and does not require any ambiguity, sensibility, decadence and isolation. And what makes this movie so good is that it proves that ambiguous richness doesn’t necessarily have an inherent aesthetic advantage, and it even protests that, with a sense of beauty that can be rejuvenated by minimalism related to morality and form, to a certain gender , theme, aesthetic program for a wash.
This kind of aesthetic view is not common in movies, but it is certainly not new in painting and architecture. The displacement of a small red cube in the space composed of lines in the title is very reminiscent of Mondrian, the home of the photographer who serves as the main scene in the film, which is a very typical modernist style interior design. A movie with simple scenes and simple characters is not difficult to make well and deeply—for art films, this is a shortcut. But it's hard to make a good genre movie. In other words, it is not difficult to make a good boring film, but it is quite difficult to make a good one that is not boring. Hitchcock once made a "Rope", only in a house to move the camera, one shot to the end, but after all, it is not his masterpiece. And "Fruit Hard Candy" is not so strict in form, it still focuses on the setting of suspense and the grasp of rhythm. When Helin and Jeff are fighting a psychological war, the movie and the audience are also fighting a psychological war. , this fight was beautiful.
Of course it has something to do with Peggy's acting. She was eighteen at the time. Certainly not pretty - although I think her profile is still pretty nice. He is still very innocent when he smiles, and when he is not smiling, he is almost an adult. Is this the ultimate ideal for women? Smart, strong, with great control and explosiveness, and at the same time, always wearing a red hoodie and hiding in the hat like a little candy?
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