Horror movies are always one step away from vulgarity.
Nicholas Winding Refn, born in Denmark in 1970, came to live in the United States in 1980 and graduated from the American Academy of Arts and Drama. Regardless of his nationality, I thought he was an authentic American, named as a Danish director. The signs are really unreliable, and there are movies to testify that his style is very different from those of Danish or Nordic directors.
Since his "Desperate Drive" won the Best Director Award at the 64th Cannes, "Only God Can Forgive" and this "Neon Demon" (2016), which I want to say, have changed greatly in style. It is to downplay the narrative, to say the worst, not to tell the story well, and to focus on the excitement, bizarre and dazzling sense of form. The nonsensical and extremely shocking plot still makes people see his will to innovate. But the audience must be mentally prepared, and be careful that the glasses will slip off when the back gets cold.
Of course, Elle Fanning, who was born in Georgia in 1998, had a terrific role in the film, even though she played Jessie with a bleak ending. The former child star has a famous sister, Hannah Dakota Fanning, who has appeared in films such as "Live in the Moment", "The Runaway Band" and "Good Girl". It is precisely because of her sister that her family has grown up early Moved to Los Angeles. Elle Fanning has starred in "Grandma's Rangers" since 2002, and then starred in "Babel", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Super 8", "Maleficent" and so on.
In "Neon Demon", Elle Fanning plays 16-year-old Jessie, who is also from Georgia (presumably at the director's discretion), but the agent asked her to fill in the age of 19, the youngest among the flowers. Delicious flowers, the most dazzling diamond in the glass pile, according to the words of the boss Shano played by Keanu Reeves in the film, this is natural beauty, non-artificial beauty, and has nothing to do with hyaluronic acid silicone filling injections. She was silent, even a little cold.
Dean, the young man who first photographed her, wanted to go into her heart and accompany her to the top of the mountain to see the moon, helped her through the difficulties, paid for her accommodation, and helped her pick out the hand that was pierced by the glass. , but it was just useless and was rejected by her for a thousand miles. The guy doesn't care, it's nothing more than retreating, returning to where it came from. But the opponents who are on the same stage are different. This angered the two artificial beauties, Sarah and Gigi. Originally, they were calling the wind and calling for the rain on the T stage. Unexpectedly, when Jessie came, she was robbed of the limelight. They could only be reduced to audiences. Finale by Jessie.
The boss Shanuo is even more fascinated and praised by Jessie. It seems that the fashion industry has never seen such a dazzling soup in a hundred years. Although the narrative of the film is a little weird, it still revolves around Jessie. She lives in 212 in a humble hotel. At first, on the eve of her fame, she was intruded by a leopard. This strong plug is extremely strange. Does it imply some kind of powerful and ominous omen? It certainly won't make people feel that their brains are flooded, but they think this trick is very bright. At the premiere of the Cannes Film Festival, many audience members left the stage angrily and expressed dissatisfaction, but the director himself said calmly, my wife said that this is the best film he has ever made. Even so, there are still many people who don't buy it.
Another key character in the film is Ruby, the female makeup artist she knew at the beginning. Ruby fell in love with her at first sight, always thinking about Jessie and caring about everything about her. Just when the hotel owner raped the 214 girl, she was so frightened that she called Ruby, who had kept her distance from her. But what she didn't expect was that she just came out of the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den. Turns out Ruby is gay.
What Ruby didn't expect was that Jessie dared to reject her coldly, which was a big disaster. Originally, Ruby was not only a homosexual, but also a necrophile. She was also the master of the murder den, but she was jealous and hated her. Sarah and Gigi, who were gnashing their teeth all day long, obeyed Ruby. This time, Jessie's ending can be imagined, together with a knife and forcing her to jump into the pit, Ruby bathed in her blood, Sarah and Gigi ate a pair of her bright eyes... We were all killed by Nicholas Winding Refn is playing.
It's not the audience's contempt, nor the fashion industry's protests. Such a bloody smearing of the fashion industry and insulting catwalk models is probably more than just accusing them of cheating. Even a "plastic beauty" like Jessie is a real person... Let's hold back our anger and give a thumbs up to Elle Fanning, it's really great, her penetration and grasp of the role is precise and accurate. Three points into the wood, fully integrated into one. But looking at her expression from beginning to end, you can see that her seemingly unchanged heart, the cold and reserved expression and the faint smile on the corner of her mouth are ruthless and affectionate, which constitutes her signature style.
In fact, she is not indifferent, she has really warmed her heart. For example, when she saw the lost Sarah hiding in the toilet and crying, she went in to comfort her, but she didn't expect that the hysterical counterpart would get her hand stabbed alive by the glass. Even before walking on the stage, she tried her best to soothe their hurt hearts. But Sarah and the others don't see it that way. The more you comfort, the more they think you are hypocritical, so it's better to be cold to the end. But she was still deceived by Ruby's appearance, so that she was deceived to the core. Young was killed by the old rivers and lakes.
At the end of the film, when Sarah was sent to the T stage of the seaside pool, Gigi next to her couldn't stand it and ran to vomit. What vomited out was Jessie's eyeballs. The cold-blooded Sarah picked it up and swallowed it. It has become an arena where the living flesh is torn apart. Criticism is useless. The director said that the filming of this movie was based on his observation of his 12-year-old daughter and found that "entertainment is more important than social networking". In fact, this sentence is very vague. Are entertainment and social networking separate? Or it must be the bridge back to the bridge road, I think, it should be connected to each other.
What the director cares about is not the disgusting fashion and entertainment industry. What he cares most about is his aesthetics of electric light, sound and color. We can regard this film as a test of his fighting skills. When a living person, in the wonderful changes of electricity, light, sound and color, will produce what kind of magnificent, dazzling and strange effects, I think if we focus on this, he will undoubtedly be successful. The French "Cinebook" listed as the top ten of 2016, probably because of this. Of course, superstitious authority requires a prudent and sober brain, otherwise, it will also be confused.
In fact, "Cinema Manual" has also done a lot of unreliable things, sometimes it seems to be one-sided, for example, for all the films of the Coen Brothers and Eastwood, it is highly regarded, but ignores many good films. Including the three major film festivals in Europe, the preference of the judges has become a key factor in winning the award. This is something to be vigilant about, and it is easy for related households to ascend to the top (especially if a star or director of a certain country is the judge who is best at doing this, look back. Look, they recognize award-winning films, a few have stood the test of time). Of course, in the final analysis, it still depends on the film itself, not whether it wins or not.
Indeed, the electric, light, sound, and color of "Neon Demon" are in one furnace, and its aesthetics alone can be said to be unparalleled, it can be said to be beautiful and illusory, and the beauty is a bit unreal. As for the plot, he just made it up, or he doesn't care about other people's judgments on the content, because he cares about the sense of form, which is the success of the film's aesthetics. If you look at this alone, his goal has been achieved. In view of this, "Neon Demon" is a work that is at least formally successful. As for "Who are you?", as for those vases of fame and fortune and naked necrophilia, let's treat it as a runway for the mentally retarded.
2016, 12, 1
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