To the thunderous, but very professionally polite, premiere applause and screams, director Abel Ferrara hunched over from the heart of the Palais des Cinemas. Standing up from his seat, he walked slowly to Chairman Marco Muller in front of the stairs in the middle porch, and vigorously waved one arm from his waist. This picture is very interesting, like a boxing ring to knock down Chairman Ma, more like the concert scene of old rock star Mick Jagger.
In fact, Ferrara's new film "4:44, The Last Day on Earth" is really like a heavy metal Music Video that has little to do with movies. It should not be commented on Lido Island, which belongs to the film festival, but more It should be enshrined in the contemporary art biennale in the arsenal on the main island of Venice. In a field that has long blurred the boundaries between film and visual art, all discussions about quality and artistic value are unnecessary, especially If it is placed in a thousand-year-old cathedral like many video installations, then Ferrara's heavy-colored prophecies involving the end of the world and the extreme performance of the living conditions of dying modern people will all appear appropriate.
An even more bizarre viewing mood was generated when the ticket stub that the box office gave me to sit by number actually landed in the first row of the hall with the film's main creator, five seats away from the main actor Willem Dafoe. So, 8 minutes before the opening, when Willem Dafoe and Natasha Leon's New York lovers are fighting on the bed without any cover, and the real two people in reality are by your side, the feeling must be very interesting.
If this film is regarded as a movie, then it is a psychological disaster film about the end times. There are no crowds in traditional apocalyptic blockbusters who go to the front camp without knowing when the finish line will end, and there is no hero where everyone is drunk and I wake up alone (of course, later everyone also knows the doomsday moment that may end), Ferrara 's works let all people on earth know the time of their death from the beginning - 4:44 in the morning tomorrow. The word-of-mouth blockbuster "2012" also discussed whether human behavior will be better or more evil before the inevitable destruction of the earth. When the "4:44, the last day of the earth", which really discusses the end of the world, we found that the director gave the earth's people His behavior was the same as usual, there was no hysterical in-time entertainment, and there was no Lei Feng spirit that broke out for his own redemption.
However, the director has a strong attitude to freeze the last time of human beings as the climax of the pervasiveness of contemporary media, especially the overwhelming arrival of video media. Esoteric teaching on TV, home video farewells in front of Apple computers, news video streams from mobile terminals, night and night on street surveillance terminals, plus revolutionary, violent, demonstrative and pornographic images that bear in mind the contemporary history of mankind. Everything within the reach of the human eye is defined as an information dump that will eventually overturn.
The actor as an actor no longer produces video garbage, but runs back to his parents' house after a quarrel with a woman to experience the last happy family time; the heroine as a painter continues to create what should be an art but will eventually change Beautiful abstract painting for the wasteland.
The doomsday is coming, and the bright light in the distance is swallowing everything. The two embrace each other in the center of the abstract painting in the house, like yin and yang in Tai Chi. Doomsday Light is like a ruthless garbage collection truck, mercilessly incorporating all the once great visual works until the last body image of the two of them.
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