The film's most famous slogan comes from the famous writer and literary critic Susan Sontag who said that there is a film "seven hours long, but every minute is thunderous and fascinating. I hope that I will watch it again every year of my life. once."
"Satan Tango" is a living master, a 7.5-hour movie, and every minute is not a decoration, such a movie is poisonous, after watching it saves money - vision and taste are high, the average movie is very Difficult to pay for tickets.
This kind of movie has requirements for the audience. He doesn't care about designing a touching opening hook to attract the audience's appetite. No, the master director wants to drive the audience away from the beginning - there is no actor's face, There was no plot, the director showed us a run-down farmhouse that lasted for a few minutes, the muddy ground with potholes, the dead branches with fallen leaves, the gloomy sky, the herds of cattle walking dazedly, and a few chickens that ran out of nowhere. The wooden fences nailed in a mess, the mottled and peeling walls, the mooing cows, the whirring of the wind, all in one word: mourning.
But I don’t know why, but I felt kind at first sight, evoking certain moments in my memory, a rural village after a winter rain, the camera moved over these uninteresting barns and cowsheds, muddy sewage, inside the cowsheds Walking out of the silly cow, the branches and the sky are reflected in the sewage. It has never changed, it has been the same hundreds of millions of years ago, and it will still be the same hundreds of millions of years later. There is no hope and no change. Maybe the East and the West are connected in the art world, and the lens is peeling off. The poetic leak marks on the walls have the beauty of the pulp of time, and the branches that have lost their leaves are the six gentlemen tree written by Ni Zan...
At the beginning, I looked silly, the sound was loud, the elephant was invisible, and I was screaming how could it be possible, so that I could photograph the vague sense of the universe, the emptiness and desolation in my heart, and the disappearance and decline. "Without a foothold, it is for cleanliness."
The ultimate beauty is not about presentation, it is not about magic, it is natural creation, it is "seeing mountains as mountains, and water as water", it is a girl with a face with a zero-degree expression to completely break with the world and walk away with the corpse of a kitten in her arms. Going to church all night, the little girl who was bullied and abandoned by everyone finally committed suicide on the ruins of the church with her stiff kitten in her arms; it was the man who drank wine all night, recited sacred poems improvisationally, and stepped on his own under the street lamp. The shadows are gone; in a group of taverns full of gangsters, someone is chanting poems about the universe; it is a thin shed horse and an old man is running hard in the wind and sand; it is the old man with gray hair and beard sitting at the table. , like Van Gogh's "The People Who Eat Potatoes", peeling the skin of the potatoes reverently... Just peeling the skin of the potatoes with the father's hands is enough to make people move
The director let the plot back, let the star actors back, let the soundtrack back, and the artist, lighting engineer, and photographer stepped forward to become the protagonists, and the director showed the people who had a bad mouth milk to see what a pure film and director are, Show people who are accustomed to the Meitu filter what the light, genius angle and composition were at the beginning of Hongmeng, wash the ears of people who have listened to all kinds of clever background music, and paint with his own mirror language. Master Chen once said that in ancient times, people used to polish their pens more often. Dry pens were thirsty for scorching ink only occasionally, but once they were used, they were magical brushes. Purely using dry pens and scorching ink, it was a good landscape to ecstasy at first sight.
In the film, the two bad guys appear along with the garbage all the way, and they also capture the beauty. What kind of head came up with this?
It's strange, watching a foreign director's film always reminds me of Chinese art. Although the film lasts 7.5 hours, it is as precious as gold. From the beginning, he is old and wrinkled, and hides the great wisdom that penetrates the world.
A movie like this suddenly gave me a different kind of confidence that the world can still be saved and better, because there is still "Satan Tango" and beauty in this world.
For example, a down-and-out fat man and an open drawer can be photographed so beautifully.
Although the director spends his whole life expressing destruction and death, I can clearly feel the gaze full of sympathy and love from every shot, one for the fool, the prostitute, the alcoholic, the liar, the adulterer, the unemployed, the bankrupt, the dying , potatoes, dead cats, skinny horses, spiders, yawns, muddy... etc. A director with a sense of dignity, he spends his life thinking and asking questions, and also spending his life loving and dancing, even Satan has tango.
Teacher Yang Chao, the director of the movie "Yangtze River". He said, "7 and a half hours is a bit long for a movie, but for an era, maybe it's not enough." He said, "We are not perfect, we all have flaws, and the master chooses to use creation to fight personality flaws." He said When it comes to the "beauty", "good-looking" and "apocalypse" of this movie, he is a director and a professor, but when it comes to his favorite directors and movies, he is a lovely super fan and movie fan.
He said that there is a director in China who has learned this master. The closest thing is that he showed us his work "The Elephant Sitting on the Floor", but the young director himself will never know it again.
Welcome to the Satan Club, Director Yang Chao said in a nice voice.
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From a literary point of view, this is a Hungarian version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Reminiscence of Time Is Like Water". The Hungarian farmhouse in the ambitious director's lens is also a Macondo town. If you like Marquez's magical reality and Proust's details, "This farm is isolated from the world, the nearest church is 8 kilometers northwest, and the worst thing is that not only the bell is gone, but the bell tower has collapsed", the only intellectual doctor, responsible for treatment and health The symbol of function, but in the daily drinking, but has no effect on the existence of the farm, people can't remember to inform him when they leave the village, metaphor of the separation of intellectuals and the masses, the only thing to do is to record the daily occurrence of the farm, which It's a bit like the work the director himself is doing. The director just reproduces the times, and both the doctor and the director just show it.
It is the only film at this year's Shanghai Film Festival that I hope to see again in theaters next year.
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