Polanski's films forever discuss control and power
The most difficult thing to shoot is this kind of psychological drama with two or three people talking. It is the most difficult to make it not boring. I don’t dare to make this kind of drama without a deep perception of people. The first thing to have perception of people is to perceive oneself. In addition to talent, self-examination must also have pain. characteristics. Two or three films have extremely high demands on performances, lines, and the scheduling of scenes, and few directors dare to try. Polanski counts as one.
Especially like this kind of two or three psychodrama
The later film "Killing" continued the style of the film: four people, two men and two women, dialogue, dialogue, discussion, quarrel, mockery, disgust
"The Immoral Trial" is also one woman, two men, sex lies and power, sin, trial and revenge
There is also "Venus in Furs" full of two people dialogue dialogue dialogue sadomasochism and power
Two men are jealous and the woman is watching and mocking, just like the scene in "Wild Strawberry": three people hitchhiking, two men and one woman, the men are always arguing, and then they fight in the grass
"Wild Strawberry" director Bergman said in his autobiography "The Magic Lamp" about his childhood: When other children went into the water to play, he stood on the shore and talked about the useless social genius Nietzsche
And Polanski quotes Nietzsche by cowardly rapist in The Immoral Trial: You can never get a woman's soul
And Buñuel's "The Obscure Purpose of Desire" also quotes Nietzsche when he talks about the relationship between men and women
Those who like Nietzsche are art film masters and like to discuss sex, desire, power, will, death and a non-existent God, all too human
If you want to read the films of the masters, go to Nietzsche
If you read Freud together, you can understand most of the art films
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