you poor soul

Micheal 2022-03-16 09:01:03

I don't like to analyze movies by breaking them down into pieces, but some people just write movie reviews like this, and it feels like a pervert fell in love with a beautiful woman, dismembered her, presented the corpse as her own baby . I don't mean to say that you shouldn't seriously analyze the scenes. In a two-hour movie, each scene is naturally the director's scheming, but the analysis must grasp the core of the story, and must not only see the surface. In particular, this "Seven Metamorphosis" also deliberately uses a special way of storytelling.

This story tells the story of a playwright Marty who is writing a screenplay for a movie called "The Seven Perverts", but he drinks heavily all day and lives a decadent life for no reason. And there is no inspiration, except for the title, the entire script has no whereabouts. He has a girlfriend who's not in a relationship, and Billy, a friend who messes up. It is this Billy who constantly inspires him, so the story of the seven perverts alternates between reality and fantasy, culminating in the appearance of the seventh pervert with his diary. Then the plot took a turn for the worse. The three escaped from the gang and drove to a desert. Suddenly everything slowed down. They set up a tent and lit a bonfire, and then the three began to think about the script again, thinking about how the story should end. .

Since the protagonist is a playwright, knowing a little about the principles of play is the key to understanding the movie. Most of the blockbuster movies are classic plots, stimulated by various external conflicts. We love watching classic plot type movies because we all think and live that way. It fits our mindset. In contrast to this, there are also simple plots, which are mainly reflected in various literary and artistic films, with large sections of lyrical but less plots; and anti-plots, which break all plots, some high-IQ suspense films are especially about schizophrenia or something. I really like this way of telling a story.

In the first half of the film, the plot is compact, but rather the events are urgent, and the connection between several stories is not close. Moreover, it is a perverted story, and it uses an anti-plot design, otherwise I will be sorry for the title. But the second half became a simple plot. The difference between the two styles is very uncomfortable. This is exactly what the director did. In the final analysis, he is a film of inner conflict with a pared-back plot told in an anti-plot. Yes, talk about a nonviolent subject in a violent way. Certainly not the love and peace that Marty is talking about in the movie... (Idiot Prince again in my head).

At the beginning of the story, Marty is alcoholic and decadent. At the end of the story, Marty is still unhappy. He lost a person who loved him the most, a person who helped him write the script and let him understand that life itself is the source of the story, and a true interpretation of perversion. Where will Marty's life go in the future? He understands the meaning of life. .

Remember the opening song?
The angel of death
Will come from the sky
And claim you poor soul
When the time comes to die

And, I remember, Billy said to him in the desert "I love you, man." Marty replied "I love you too.”

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Extended Reading
  • Rebeka 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    Wait for Chinese subtitles.

  • Jalyn 2022-03-21 09:01:37

    The more you look forward to what you will not show you, another extreme of the anti-genre film! Seven (?) perverted murderers, a drunkard screenwriter, sunny and poetic plasma splashing nonsense

Seven Psychopaths quotes

  • Billy: Is that a guinea pig? It's a gerbil, isn't it? That's enormous. Hey, Marty, we just seen some kind of giant gerbil.

    [Marty punches Billy]

    Billy: Marty, you alcoholic fucking bastard.

    Hans: Yeah, you might wanna stop drinking, Martin, if this is the way you're gonna behave.

    Marty: If this is the way I'm gonna... This guy just telephoned a psycho-killer to come down and psycho-kill us. And this guy's doubting a lifelong belief in the afterlife because of a psychedelic cactus he just ate. And you motherfuckers are telling me to behave?

    Billy: Whoa. Whoa. Time out. What's all this about doubting a lifelong belief in the afterlife because of a psychedelic cactus you just ate? Hans, what the heck?

    Hans: I met Myra. On the ridge. She had some things to say.

    Billy: About the afterlife being non-existent or something?

    Hans: That was the gist.

    Billy: No, no, it might have sounded like Myra. But you know why? Now don't get mad, but you know I can do Myra's voice pretty good. Yeah, I snuck up there a little while ago and I pretended to be her. I started saying all kinds of crazy stuff.

    Hans: Hmm? But what specifically did you say? About the place you were in? The place Myra was in. Huh? How did you describe it, specifically?

    Billy: You mean specifically?

    Hans: Yeah.

    Billy: I just kind of said it was all kind of... I just kind of said it was all kind of gray and shit.

    Hans: No.

  • Hans: My wife is sitting on a chair someplace. Some gray place. I thought she'd be in Heaven, but she's sitting on a chair with a bullet in her head. I thought they'd have cleaned that kind of stuff up.

    Marty: Maybe you've just eaten too many hallucinogenic cactuses tonight, Hans.

    Hans: Nothing to do with the hallucinogens.

    Marty: But you've just seen Myra on a chair with a bullet through her head.

    Hans: In some gray place.

    Marty: England?

    Hans: It seemed a lot worse than that.

    Marty: Wow.