Natasha Kinski's 1982 work, a remake of a 1942 classic. Natasha. Kinski plays a leopard-like teenage girl who goes to New Orleans to join her brother Malcolm. McDowell, and live together. My sister is obsessed with zoologist John. Hurd made his elder brother jealous, so he wanted to seduce his younger sister. His actions fail, but his sister discovers their family's secret - turning into a murderous black panther when lust is high. The visual design of the whole film is distinct and strong, and the rhythm of the electronic soundtrack also has a bewildering charm. Some fantasy shots capture the provocative power of animality and lust, covering up the more mundane handling of the realistic parts.
"Leopard Girl" is a movie that has been known for a long time. Natasha Kinski, who is quite well-known among Chinese middle-aged and elderly movie fans, is the biggest attraction of the movie, but what I didn't expect is that I finally saw this movie. At the time, I also found another familiar face, that is, Malcolm McDowell, who played "Brother Leopard"-in "A Clockwork Orange" and "Terrorist Ka Nikolai", there was an almost terrifying man performing.
The leopard siblings make the whole story tricky in the first half of the film. When we first saw the short-haired and pure Elena, the innocent wanderer, how could we know that such a bloody and cruel story would happen next? But when we saw Paul, who greeted his sister with a wicked face at the airport, an ominous premonition started in our hearts. really. Paul promised to take his sister to find a job the next day, but that night, he disappeared mysteriously, and at the same time, a prostitute was bitten by a black panther. The connection between the two makes us wonder, who is this black panther? But, is there really such a thing?
I originally wanted to make a full screenshot, but I found that I deleted it again. This leopard made me tremble at first sight! Obviously, this is already doomed that this is not a movie with an ordinary story. A surreal plot with an equally surreal love, because soon a man who falls in love with a leopard is about to appear - Oliver, the zoo director.
Love encounters are often at unexpected times and unexpected places. When the bored Elena went to the zoo to play, she seemed to have telepathy with the black panther captured by Oliver, and looked at each other as if they were relatives. This shot of the film makes us reconfirmed: the Black Panther is really Paul. But how did Paul become the Black Panther? At this time, when Oliver saw that the girl in front of the Black Panthers was closing the park, he did not leave, and asked her, the girl ran all the way and leaped up the wall. Could it be that she is also a leopard? "You and I are the same." The dialogue between the brother and sister who escaped the cage revealed the mystery for us. It turns out that they are all descendants of the leopards born after the combination of the leopard and the human . They must be combined, if they marry a foreigner , it will revert to the shape of a leopard. Of course, what is even more terrifying is that when they are in love with foreigners and their lust is high, they will become leopard-shaped, so they will not stop killing people. When love is soaring in lust, man becomes a leopard. What a passionate metaphor, but if the lover really becomes a leopard, who can accept it?
So, when we saw the growing love between Oliver and Elena, while we were blessing, we were worried: how should such a story end? We know that according to the normal story rhythm, Oliver and Elena are bound to love each other, but what happens to Oliver when the lover becomes a leopard? While looking forward to the peak of the two's love, we are worried about the arrival of the moment that will break the love. Such a climactic scene is like the bomb in a Hitchcock movie that we know it is destined to explode, we know it will explode, but we don't know how it will explode. And this expectation has become a torment. Perhaps in order to relieve this tension, the film arranges a very freehand scene for us: under the moonlight, Elena lightly relieves Luoshang and walks gently. The beautiful body is shrouded in holy light by the moonlight. Our hearts can not help but rippling, what a beautiful picture of the moonlight! However, a rabbit showed up... oh god.
The brother finally died violently. When Oliver dissected the black panther, he finally discovered the terrifying secret of the panther family. Can his love with Elena continue?
The climax of the film finally arrived as scheduled, and those eyes full of lust finally turned into wide-open leopard eyes. There was no accident, however, what surprised and moved us was the unfinished ending of this man's bestiality. When the leopard named Elena was finally caged and Oliver fed her, we were finally relieved: they were finally together again. True love, how can it be locked in a cage? This thrilling love finally had a most helpless but most reasonable ending, weird but sweet.
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