In the life of two French films every night for four days in a row, I encountered an unprecedented spiritual pleasure. I used to think that life is hopeless, but there is always a way out. I spend a lot of time looking for this way out. Now, the movie has changed my mind, I can't really see where the hope is, but I believe that seeing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enthusiasm, something I once thought would disappear faster than ever, came back to me, surprising even myself.
Nietzsche said, "Live so that you desire to live again, it is your responsibility to live like this", and Nietzsche also said that "people would rather pursue nothingness than pursue nothing".
First I'm glad I have you, my friends, and then I'm glad I found my quest.
"Boy Meets Girl" and "Bad Blood" gave me a clearer understanding of Karax. Later, it was discovered that "Lovers in the New Bridge" is also the work of Karax. When I first watched "Lovers in New Bridge", I didn't like that movie. Now watch the four films of Karax together, and I like it tightly. Karax's films aren't the style that makes people like them at first sight, but they are intriguing. The four films clearly reflect Karax's spiritual journey, and also allow me to fully appreciate his inner struggle, pain and strength.
"Pola X" is a film full of gothic style. The dark-haired woman was like a ghost throughout, or a ghost within Pierre. (After watching this movie, I have a deep understanding of "goth makeup".)
The handsome young Pierre, the son of a diplomat and best-selling author, lives a near-perfect life with a wealthy family and a childhood sweetheart fiancée. During the preparations for the wedding, Pierre continuously dreamed of the face of a dark-haired woman who seemed to have a unique magic that kept him entangled in that strange dream. Later, he met the woman, a woman who picked up trash and claimed to be his half-sister. She told him how her life was full of fear and loneliness, in a world where she had nothing but fear. Pierre decided to leave home and go to the city, and to give this woman something new. Life after arriving in the city with "sister" is hopeless. Money becomes the biggest problem. For this reason they had to live in a steel factory. There is always a rock band in the factory rehearsing with fire and noise, and the band's performance as the background music interspersed in the film by the market, echoes the plot development and the fierce conflict in Pierre's heart, and it is performed perfectly. (Is this what we call "industrial noise"?) The band is always playing in fire and black, and the musicians are all ghostly, all in gothic attire, full of death and mysterious power. On a desperate night, they make love in the dark. The director's shots are completely realistic, but he uses shadows very cleverly, and there are always a few close-ups that make the heart beat faster, and I'm glad this part wasn't cut out. Later, in order to survive, Pierre wrote more diligently, but was always turned away by publishers. He was no longer handsome and handsome, replaced by deteriorating health and poor writing that was not recognized. Ultimately, Pierre shoots his feuding childhood friend before being taken away by the police. The woman he had given everything for rushed into a moving truck in grief.
Longing for the emergence of a person, and then changing his life, everything starts from scratch. This used to be my dream too. Carax brings out Pierre's inner pain and tension to the fullest. The appearance of "sister" is an opportunity, and Pierre broke out of his boredom with the current life in front of the sudden love. Leaving his fiancée, leaving the sun-drenched manor, and living a hellish life with a woman from hell. Which factory is cold and gloomy all day long, in sharp contrast to the sunny manor. Covered in a tattered blanket, she sat at her desk and wrote, while her "sister" spent her days playing muffled tunes on an organ across the wall. After being rejected and denied, Pierre is on the verge of madness. It all comes from this woman, from the love that suddenly shatters everything, from the fragile desire in the heart of men to save others and the waiting for redemption and eternity in women's hearts. of fear. Love is a disaster. Pierre ruined everything for a woman, or it could be said that Lax was looking for answers for his inner strong desire. Is it really because of a woman? Is this really because of love? There is a storm in everyone's inner world, we will never know where it comes from, but it can change our spiritual life and even material life at any time. Love causes it to intensify and come, but it is never just love. Pierre walks into hell involuntarily, some mysterious irresistible force controls him, "sister" is the embodiment of the mysterious force, it comes in the way of love, our desires are out of control at those times, just like that Follow it, go all the way, and go to the end.
This movie made me feel the power of shocking my heart. I've been shocked by many movies, but this time the shock was deeper. Karax's four films are clearer and clearer step by step, from the plotless stream of consciousness of "Boy Meets Girl", to the blurred transition of "Bad Blood", to the increasingly clear structure of the story of "Lovers in New Bridge", "PolaX" can basically use the plot to drive the performance skillfully. With the deepening of the degree of storytelling, Karax's expression gradually became clearer, but the tone of the world he portrayed has not changed much. He expresses people's inner storm, people's desire to rush out of their existing life, their desire to change, and their desire for the ultimate love. But what will happen after all this? He will feel despair. Behind the extreme is only despair. He pursues the extreme, like an addict gradually increasing the dose. Behind the beauty of the extreme is death. He felt this, but he was not afraid, he saw the madness after the extreme, he thought about it all calmly, and brought his storm to us.
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