the film industry has been blowing fantasy in the past few years, and the number of vampire films in Hollywood in recent years has been endless, but the level is far from the classics of the past. "Four Hundred Years of Fright" wanders between demons and humans. The romantic and lonely epic of "Interview with the Vampire" has indeed set an insurmountable peak in the future. But whether it is the fancy martial arts of "Blade Warrior", or the hell monsters of "Van Helsing", and the shootout of "Underworld", or even "Twilight" as a doctor and a student driving a sports car and playing baseball to fall in love, in addition to endless endless Vulgar, no classic shadow can be found as a movie from any level, nor does it have any solid breath as an interpretation of cultural symbols. This lonely half-human, half-devil species with the fate of being exiled by God forever is becoming more and more politicized, organized, corporatized, gang-oriented, and family-oriented. If Louis looking at Xiao Suo out of the carriage window and Lester's unruly fiddle with blood glasses are the last nobility and brilliance of vampires, today's vampires have completely defected to the middle class with no independent taste: restless, hypocritical, arty, Extremely boring and extremely ignorant. They are blood feuds, wars, vegetarianism, and fashion pioneers at every turn. If the financial crisis loses jobs and the harmony of the three representative ethnic groups, vampires are not human friendly neighbors or what? When Shenwei Sunshine, which represents absolute punishment, only shines with diamonds on these blood-drinking little white faces and provokes a bunch of silly human girls who scream, it is estimated that God will have an identity problem for himself— —Is it a curse or a blessing to banish Cain to the end of the horizon to the end of time? In a word, the absurdity of this horrible setting and inexplicable modeling is not even contemptible by Satan: Hell always welcomes sinners and evil spirits, but absolutely rejects fools and soap opera actors.
At this time, "Never Enter" is the northern cold wind from Sweden, blowing away the dead skin and floral clothes, and re-exposing the pale skin of the vampire. Humans can never accurately interpret a fantasy species, but at least they can rely on imagination and understanding to describe a true state of existence as much as possible. The word eternity is too heavy. Thousands of years of loneliness and drifting are beyond the scope of human cognition, but at least one thing is certain. It is related to sniping with sand eagles, fighting Eastern combat, driving a Hummer, and inviting a neighbor’s girl. It is absolutely impossible to have anything to do with dancing.
kill
Whether you admit it or not, human nature is far less beautiful than what is stated in the ideological and moral textbooks. The destructive instinct itself is a part of nature, and the bullying between children is the extreme of this evil. We are educated to be tolerant and peaceful social animals. This is the need of education, but it is not the need of individual life. The truth is the same as Eli taught Oscar, "Next time you fight back, it will be more cruel than him." The force corresponds to the reaction force, and the cause corresponds to the result. Revenge is the core essence of justice.
A pure killer cannot be tried. In "Life", the purity of the two protagonists is as pure as the Nordic ice and snow in the lens. Elizabeth's killing was entirely due to the physical needs of a vampire. Even though she couldn't escape the guilt completely after she started, she didn't hesitate when she bit someone's throat. Oscar’s situation is more complicated. As a boy, his looks are so beautiful that girls are jealous, and his personality is even more cowardly and pitiful. At first glance, he used a knife to make gestures like a tree just because of being bullied for a long time. Pure vengeance, but once he spread out his collection book, it was full of newspaper clippings about murder. During class, he was the only one who could answer the teacher’s questions about murder. What’s more meaningful is that the first line of the movie is that Oscar is in The monologue during the rehearsal of the knife, combined with the snow in the sky, led to a weird killing. If Elizabeth's murderous aura is the desire to rush through the blood vessels, expanding and restless, Oscar's murderous aura is more like the whistling echoes in his body, long and deep.
Love
Eli and Oscar's love can hardly be described in words, their conversations are minimal but they are full of gentleness in the wind and snow, separated by a wall and even speak in Morse code. This exquisite way of communication is hard to reach in this era of flooding of mobile phones, but the fine taste of the lens does not give people an abrupt feeling. When the only two orgasms happened, she let him escape when she wanted to suck blood, and when he let her in, she asked, "Can you think about it for me?". Eli was instantly old, with deep wrinkles on his face, and blood in his eyes-love didn't make her young, but returned her to what she really was. Did Eli choose Oscar in the snow at first, or Oscar finally hugged Eli, who was bleeding from the seven orifices, and told her "I will let you in". It is impossible to say whoever falls in love first, and Eli is a genderless vampire. it is not important. They have the same tune of loneliness, that's enough, it's pure enough.
Jing
"Life" is a quiet movie. The camera is jaw-droppingly calm, switching clean without leaving a trace of procrastination, facing every killing without turning a single degree, an absolutely contemplative perspective follows every move of the character. This kind of quietness may have a completely different effect if it is filled with all kinds of metropolises. "Life" is just the opposite. The background in its lens is almost single to the stage of drama, a transcendental horizon that pretends to be a stagnant world. Snow in the sky only appeared at the beginning and end of the film, and the frozen town seemed deadly silent at other times. The only living creatures are not many humans, but apart from the group of people gathering in the bar, everything else is almost verbal. However, it is precisely because of this quiet that any movement becomes particularly eye-catching. Noisy, noisy, deliberate, and pretentiousness have no place, and what is left is only an alienated reality, like dust filtered through gauze, bright and beautiful. , Scary and touching.
The soundtrack of the movie is minimal but extremely beautiful, and under the desolation there is an undercurrent of strength, such as the song of the gods and the devil's cry, wandering around the world. If
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says that Oscar and Eli are a pair of dim but gravitational white dwarf double stars, and this movie is attracted to them, Eli’s former protector is a lightless planet moving in the sky, but outlines the entire galaxy. Borders.
He had no emotion in killing, but he was clumsy. The first time he stopped fleeing and was in vain, the second time he threw the body was finally found, and the third time was a complete failure. He is extremely quiet, has almost no lines, and walks at the edge of the whole story at any time. However, his love could not make people unmoved, speechless, like a father, a lover, and a slave. He walked in front of Eli, but was trapped in her shadow, disfigured himself for her safety, and finally offered it. Own blood.
Will Oscar be the next him? No one can answer clearly. The same cowardice, the silence of one body, but it ends with an open end. The open sunlight illuminates the train, and Oscar leaves home and walks into the distance, knocking "kiss you" on the big box with Eli. But in the end, will there be a snow-covered place...
The standard of "Life" is absolutely top-notch. There are few comparable masterpieces in the same year's movie, but it can be compared with last year's "Old Nowhere" and "Blood is Coming" Both the length and the short start from what is said and not what is meant, but in the end the meaning is difficult to balance.
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