Karax slowly got up from the bed in the dimly lit room. He leaned against the wall painted with trees and listened to the other side. Then he opened the wall with the big iron key on the middle finger of his right hand. He walked through the dim aisle and came to the second floor of the movie theater. The movie theater was full of audiences, and a silent film of a naked man was playing on the screen. The dim light made it difficult to see whether the audience was attentive or lethargic, but judging from their posture, they were clearly not enjoying themselves, and many of them had fallen asleep. The cinema was filled with the sound of waves, seagulls and the whistle of cruise ships and the sudden sound of gunfire. This does not seem to come from the sound of a silent film, but a kind of out-of-body fantasy, a kind of wandering, such an old film is far less enjoyable than the sea or the violent gunfight. Carax looked at the dead movie theater, he couldn't do anything, but he wanted to do something, so he gave Denis Lawan 9 tasks. Denis Lawan's name in this film is Oscar, which is a name that makes people imagine, and through the progress of the story, the meaning of this name becomes clear.
1: Early in the morning, Oscar walked out of the villa with the attitude of a high-class successful person, said goodbye to the children, and got into a stretched limousine. He put on make-up to look like an elderly beggar in the car, which was his first assignment on the job today. Then he got off the car and begged on the bridge, just like himself in the old version of "Lovers in Xinqiao". But he didn't ask for a penny, just like the box office of "Xinqiao Lovers" was as bleak...
2: Oscar became a motion capture stuntman in the later stage of film and television. He wore a special induction tights to perform a lot of difficult action demonstrations, and occasionally made mistakes and lacked physical strength. But it doesn't matter, the special effects artist will only keep the good side. Then he and a female stunt performer unfolded a passionate scene in tights, with a dizzying array of difficult poses, while on the one hand a three-dimensional erotic animation synthesized by capturing their movements... Actors stay behind the scenes or take a back seat, technology Special effects have become the protagonist in the spotlight... How does Martin Scorsese evaluate Marvel? The erotic element has always had an unshakable position.
3: Oscar became the madman Dmitry. He came to a cemetery and kidnapped Eva Mendes, who was taking a sexy photo. The photographer on the side was crazy about taking pictures of the sudden beauty and the beast combination. He knew that it was a combination that was always popular with male audiences and lustful, just like men in Japanese AVs are generally ugly. This is a pair that stimulates men's sexual desire, but Karax does the opposite. Medd wraps the sexy and scantily clad Eva in the sewer, like an Arab woman. After that, Dmitry took off his clothes, and the stiff GG lay on Eva's lap and fell asleep... The covered body can also make GG engorged. The irony of Karax is so powerful.
4: Oscar plays a father who drives his daughter home. The daughter feels inferior because she is not liked by the boy, and she makes up the lie that she left the party because her friend left. As a result, it was exposed by the father, and the daughter confessed that she was hiding in the toilet of the party because of her low self-esteem and did not want to integrate into the crowd. Father is furious at daughter's cowardice and lying...
It was followed by an intermission where Oscar led a group of entertainers playing the accordion as they walked.
5: Oscar plays a killer who comes to a warehouse managed by a Chinese and kills a man exactly like him, Theo, with a knife. He was going to imitate the wound on Theo's face, and he was obviously going to switch identities. But the dying Theo stabbed Oscar with the last of his strength, and Oscar staggered back into the car. His mission didn't fail, it's just part of the show...
Oscar met an old man in the car (Michelle Piccoli) Oscar told the old man: "I miss the cameras, they used to be heavier than us, but later they became smaller than our heads , Now you can't see them at all, I sometimes find it all unbelievable." The old man: "What drives you?" "It's the beauty of interpretation." "Some people say that the beauty of interpretation is hidden in the eyes of the audience." "What if there is a day without an audience?" Karax muses on the past, present and future of the film, the natural barrier between the audience and the creator. The advancement of technology has brought about changes in lifestyle, and the way of watching and shooting movies is also changing, which is a nostalgic for the legendary and classic era of film art. The beauty of interpretation is the thinking about position and compromise. Is the value of art given by the audience or the artist? Without the audience, is art still valuable? How to judge the artistic value of a film when cultural industry commodities are eroding the public aesthetics? From the masses, to the masses? Karax used Oscar to express his anxiety.
6: Oscar wears a hood and turns into a hitman, he rushes out of the car and shoots the banker he plays. The banker, a strong man in the food chain of the capital world, fell in a pool of blood, and Karax seemed to give his answer. But then Oscar was shot to death by the banker's bodyguard... Karax was in deep despair while giving his attitude and position.
7: Oscar plays a seriously ill old man in a hotel room with another young female actor who staged a life-and-death farewell scene. After the performance, the two said goodbye to each other and left. Everything is a performance, Oscar is just one of many cosplayers, everyone who is exposed to others is playing, everyone is playing a different role and living a different life, just like we are in different The environment will say different things and do different things. The only truth is in that stretched limousine, as if we were alone at home.
8: Oscar meets his former lover by chance because of a car accident. The two asked each other if each other was who they were at this time, and the result was no... Then they came to the dilapidated and nearly abandoned department store, where his lover sang a song, and kept asking Who are you songs. They then split up to play their next roles. And his lover turned into a flight attendant, and staged a scene of jumping off a building to die for love with his co-acting partner... Oscar cried and returned to the car. Actor's life, constantly playing different roles and forgetting himself, forgetting how to live in real life, rushing to the show every day, losing love, losing himself, losing life. Especially in the era of the prevailing cultural industry, cultural commodities are mass-produced like canned food, without souls, like walking dead. Nostalgia is the self-cultivation of an idealist.
9: Oscar plays a man who goes home and lives with two chimpanzees.
The female driver parked the car in the parking lot of the holy car dealership and went home with a mask on. After a day's work, the extended luxury cars had a conversation in the parking lot. They were worried about their fate, worried that they would be abandoned and destroyed by the times. Like actors, they are all parts of the machine, and they are all mechanical actors in the cultural industry, day after day, until they are completely submerged in the tide of the times.
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