"Relatos salvajes" is a highly watchable film that triggers unstoppable laughter and spontaneous reflection at the same time. The comedy is full of deep despair and desolation. Whenever the characters in the various stories in the film are angry or sad or crazy or desperate because of people, events, rules and fate, Yohji Yamamoto's words It seems particularly fitting - "Life, in the end, is nothing but a tear-jerking farce."
Probably only a passionate Latin American can carry out such a strong and thorough black humor without the audience feeling overstretched , over-rendered, and will not be overwhelmed by the high fullness of the story and characters, and it is difficult to dispose of it. Under the seemingly mashup of bursting and indifferent, distorted and dazzling, the audience can appreciate it. A very exciting viewing experience, and this experience is also completed in one go, not because of the mix and match of narrative styles and the splicing of each story, which presents a sense of unsmoothness.
The film has shown its unique side from the very beginning. What contrasts with the list of the film's premiere staff is not a portrait of a character, nor an empty landscape mirror, but a group of wild animals. Instead, in a trance, the audience will have the illusion of watching the animal style of the Serengeti, and this unusual beginning indicates that the film will be unrestrained and unrestrained in its narrative style. The soundtrack is also very interesting, revealing unruly.
After watching the film and reminiscing about the opening, the audience may feel that this combination is very wonderful. Human beings show their animal side on many occasions. Animals do the same, sometimes more so. Martin Buber said: "In our world, every 'you' is destined to become an 'it,' an unbearable depression of our destiny." In this book by Damian Szfron In the directed film, these doomed evolutions are not just melancholy, but inevitable inevitability. When the primitive survival laws appear relatively civilized, the human world breeds wild stories everywhere. Such a statement may be a little exaggerated, but if you think about the wonderful anecdotes that happen every day in the real world, people have gradually become numb, and they don't realize how unexpected and crazy it is. Reality is always more dramatic than drama.
This wonderful collection of films is composed of six stories, each of which is small in length, but all of them are compact in plot and well-arranged in structure. The story is told clearly and fluently in a limited time, so that the contradictions are progressive and the meaning is clear. , quite powerful, with incredible black humor, showing how those maddening things in life have intensified and evolved into unbalanced and out of control disasters from multiple angles and multiple levels. Such an analysis seems to be in line with the Taiwanese translation of the film "The Craziest Little Things in Life", while the Hong Kong translation of "Undirected Madness" also reflects the film's sudden plot, humorous and slightly exaggerated narrative style. side.
The stories in the film are uncontrollable and seem to have different forms, such as trampled dignity, crushed IQ, malicious provocation and humiliation, oppression by rules and regulations, money jealousy and so on. , all of which eventually lead to emotional and human uncontrollable, so the conflict is on the verge of triggering, and it becomes more and more intense, until it is ridiculous.
In the first story, revenge came violently and quickly, surpassing many moral taboos, and it seemed that only complete destruction could vent the long-standing hatred; in the second story, revenge was still too unexpected, as if Dao Luo is already happy and grieving, but lament is always revealed, revealing the helplessness and helplessness of the bottom people; in the third story, the mutual revenge triggered by the rivalry finally leads to a ridiculous ending. The police's final characterization of the vicious burning incident is also full of humor; in the fourth story, the individual is squeezed by the huge system, so angry and depressed that it seems that only the extreme form of explosive revenge can export evil; 5. In the sixth story, the film does not seem to talk about revenge so loudly, and instead discusses money and morality, emotion and morality, but the revenge also exists, as in the sixth story. , the bride's revenge on the groom.
When the film finally shows the situation of happy enemies, Kierkegaard's words are suitable and far-reaching: "Everyone is taking revenge on the world. My revenge is to press pain and trouble deeply in my heart, let my Laughter delights all..." In a sense, this film does this in part, delighting the audience with laughter, but also throwing out pain and trouble, so to speak, the film's Turning out also seems to be "revenge" this wonderful world.
What I have to mention is the picture of the film. The picture presentation of the film, like its narrative, has reached a certain level. Although the scenes in each story are relatively independent and fresh, the visual style always runs through the end. one. In addition, the soundtrack of the film is also very good, which not only fits the trend of the plot, but also drives the emotions of the characters.
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