Comment on "European Express" by Akikawa There is a director who likes classical music, he likes Tarkovsky's composition, he loves Bergman madly, and he set off the Dogma movement. He is Lars Von Trier. The film "Euro Express" was discovered in the thick book "Understanding Movies", and the illustration selected in the book is a man in a top hat living in a huge clock, like an exaggeration of a Chaplin movie. Performance. I'm amazed that there is still such a retro expression. So I came into contact with the "European Express". "I had an uncomfortable feeling when I got into your movie, I felt like I was being controlled." "I think it made me happy," Lars von Trier said in the video chat, with his trademark dismissive smile. When reporters target the Danish director, the situation is always awkward. He can tell pornographic jokes at the film festival, showing obvious incompatibility. He would use a lot of memes to obscure the question and answer, drowning the answer in a pile of trash talk. It is very similar to the story of the blasting certificate told repeatedly by Director Bi Gan. He's not an easily approachable director. In "European Express", Lars von Trier made no secret of his tribute and imitation of the master. The slow male whispers at the beginning are hypnotizing the audience. The beginning of "Mirror" in Tarkovsky's film is also a hypnosis, But the effect is different. Tarkovsky's hypnosis was used to speak, and the hypnosis used by Lars von Trier in "European Express" was used to control the audience, allowing the audience to enter this often overlooked history. In the post-war dilapidated Europe, the protagonist is a German who was lucky enough to escape the war by studying in the United States. His uncle gave him a decent job as a shoe shiner. His uncle told him the spirit of service was a bit dated, but rigorous. But the protagonist's heart has been hooked away by the company's boss daughter. When they met, the black-and-white picture came to life in color, and she was reading a book. What I thought was a romantic unfolding turned out to be a terrifying allegory of death. With a unique perspective, he portrays the sickness and irrationality of a German society. Gladly, Lars von Trier is telling the story honestly, and although his stories are often shattered by the little surprises he crams in, these little fragments are very beautiful. When people carried the coffins of people who died by the railway and planned to hold a simple funeral, everyone was praying for the deceased, and the police who were investigating were found and threatened, and the crowd dispersed like birds and beasts. Including the male protagonist changing from a gentle and knowledgeable student to picking up a gun and shooting passengers, and a young boy committing suicide in the carriage after murdering, these small fragments have played a good role in portraying the characters and social environment. But "European Express", I think it's a good bath Cylinder play. This is a very dramatic story, it would even feel a little ridiculous to tell it alone, a cadre of a high-end train company chose to commit suicide by cutting his wrists in the bathroom because of the list to be provided every day and the oppression and financial pressure of his colleagues. And his daughter knew and even contributed to it all. Every night she wrote anonymous letters abusing her father, and in the morning she regretted it. This moral ambiguity and cruelty of good and evil can easily lead to confusion. So how does Lars Von Trier tell this story, trying to simplify the process and present the results directly. The story takes place in a romantic, old-fashioned banquet. The heroine's father goes to take a bath. The audience can see some scars on his body. He picks up a knife, and blood flows out of the bathroom. The scene is beautiful and weird. The heroine and the heroine went to pat the door, and the heroine collapsed and cried. Then in the confession scene, the heroine admitted that she was a werewolf and forced her father to death. The final revelation of this result frees the heroine from the shackles of film noir's serpentine beauty, and her wickedness is purely thought-provoking. Just as Lars von Trier emphasizes that he focuses on the characters, the heroine of "Euro Express" is complex, evil, and beautiful. The hero's romantic fantasy is always accompanied by a thick haze of corpses and hanged men outside the train. Including when the hero and heroine confessed, the heroine persistently asked, what is wrong with them only wanting to protect their country and people from harm. The church wedding with flying white doves is like a dream. The husband and wife share the same bed, but they don't know her. She wanted to blow up everyone in the car. Accompanied by the second speech - Survival is suffering, so everyone should not live. She used herself as a bargaining chip to threaten the actor to load a bomb. The male protagonist is about to take the official exam. This exam is very perfunctory. He doesn't need to answer the questions. But he was already in a dizziness, he loaded the bomb, and regretted racing against time. Unfortunately, this is a Lars Von Trier movie, and he did not run over time. When the audience can only see the result, the audience is surprised and puzzled, and this seems to be what Lars von Trier wants. When the audience tries to find out why, he has succeeded. But his narrative is like a rootless tree floating in water. He seems to discuss the morbidity of European Germany, the decline of morality, and the infiltration of the evil forces of the Nazis, but he does not actually provide a solution. (According to director Tarkovsky's statement in the sculpture time, he did not love human beings through film art) He just told a good story that made the audience unable to stop, and challenged and even satirized many types of films. There is no possibility for the beauty of the snake to be redeemed. The protagonist's conscience discovery and the countdown voiceover did not prevent this death. The iron fence that cannot be opened for dozens of seconds is in the bathroom. Death is not an accident, but the necessity of inner pain. The protagonist pointed his gun at his uncle, and nothing else was possible. Fate acts as a narrator to hypnotize the audience to read the script of this life. Floating can be confusing, heart-pounding, deprived of detail in pictures and memories, and finally peace through death and sea water. I want you to immerse yourself in the cold, soft grass by the railroad and sleep forever. Lars Von Trier eventually managed to hypnotize the audience. He was also awarded the title "The Super Genius the World Waits For" and embarked on a journey to make more films. Oh, and if you ask about that wedding with white doves, the answer is floating in the water.
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