A black and white world saturated with loneliness

Carmela 2022-10-18 20:59:38

Karax's films construct a black-and-white world steeped in loneliness, full of tedious boredom and aimless wandering, as well as neurotic babble and self-talk. The boy who was repelled by the girl's ardent love stood in the phone booth downstairs and told the girl that when she kissed him he couldn't help feeling that her saliva was smelly, even though it was actually sweeter than anything, but His thoughts always make him believe and think that the girl's saliva stinks. In the opening scene, the woman drives the man's car, takes their children and the man's poems and crappy paintings, and leaves resolutely. She even ignored the crying child in her arms, impulsively called and told the man all this, and then threw the paintings and poems in the trunk into the river. The young man wandering by the river told the woman the time at the moment. After the woman left, another young man appeared. He chatted with him about the other woman, and suddenly knocked him to the ground, grabbed the other man's neck and hung his head on the river. , and then kicked him into the river. Back home, he described these as a near-successful murder. On the deeds map on the wall behind the painting in his house, you can see his relationship with him and her. It doesn't matter that Karax doesn't directly show us the evolution of their relationship, he has his way of making sense of these events and leaving us with an empty loneliness for us to feel. For example, girls play heavy metal and tap dance alone in the room, and boys see kissing men and women by the river and throw a handful of coins at them. This is a city of aphasia, where everyone is falling out of love, everyone is not good at conversation, and older men are nostalgic for movies of the silent era, when deaf people could read obscene jokes from the lips of the actors. The boy finally met the girl at the party. He felt that he had experienced love again, and his withered heart was about to be soaked by the rain. He made every move, followed the girl closely, closed the door to the party, and eagerly uttered the words of love pouring out of his heart. When I look at you, when I am held tightly by love, I recognize you, as if I recognize the person who is destined to fall in love in this life, I say to you for the first and last time, I Love you, more than anything in the world, I want us to love each other, we must, love each other very much... When he said all this, the girl has no feelings, her feelings have been consumed by the city, she drank the coffee coldly, Put on that nun-like hood. They sat behind the tram, the city's night and crowded vehicles in the background of the huge rear window. She has cut her hair short, and her face no longer has a warm expression... halfway through, I fell asleep on the dark blue carpet, and the dreams in my dreams were also black and white, trance like I never Just like that dream. (monsoon spinach)

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  • Alex: I'm going to wind up a loser. Yet I stood a chance. I wanted to be someone outstanding: flyer, traveler, musician... Can't I be reborn?