The austere movie vision, the non-intrusive spectator's narration of shooting methods, and the effect of alienation (like Jim Jamush's movie image style) calmly express the living conditions of small and medium-sized people in the city. Or, simply use a highly subjective and disorganized plot and lens processing method to show the so-called contemporary youth's mental state of disintegration and self-anaesthesia after the Beat generation. These two methods of treatment, no matter their strength or the ideas they entrust, can be regarded as the choice of famous artists, and they can both criticize the so-called moral human rights society in the eyes of the director indefinitely. However, when one art movie after another, it should be said that more and more art movies show the sad fate of the little people time and time again, stimulating the nerves of the audience with pure or cold violence on the screen. At that time, as a viewer whose reading volume was not poor, I felt a kind of inexplicable sadness. This kind of sorrow stems from the ruthless criticism of the reality of such films. However, the film itself is weak and pale in the face of reality, just like Zarathustra's insignificance and desolation in the face of all living beings in society. So, going the other way, I look forward to a film that does not need to reach how deep the realm of thought, how stunning the lens technique is, and it excludes exaggerated expressions of actual violence or cold violence, it only needs Tell the story of a person or a group of small characters with the most ordinary vision, the most simple techniques, and a back-to-nature attitude. This kind of film is undoubtedly emotional, and to a large extent it can be regarded as pure sensibility. It uses this sensibility to touch the most sensitive emotional nerves of the viewer, and it is more or less at the same time that it is crying or sighing. It is reminiscent of the meaning of existence and its own value, and achieves an effect that can't be achieved by preaching films and critical films. Of course, this kind of film is absolutely not abusive, because it is created by true feelings and simple humanistic care. By an unexpected opportunity, I was delighted to find such a film, a little-known film that may not be reminiscent of the title, it is called "Inflatable Doll Love" (Craig Gris Works by Pei, starring Ryan Gosling, 2007)
Here, I have to spend a little time to briefly summarize the general plot of the film. Because I just mentioned that if you understand it only from the title of the film, it is likely to enter a vulgar dead end. Especially in the age when the title party has considerable power, the title of this film may be unnecessarily criticized. Lars, a 27-year-old young man who lives in a snowy city, has an innocent smile and an almost angelic innocence. He is deeply loved by neighbors and colleagues in the small city. But he is a flawed existence. His mother's early death, father's autism, and his brother's premature leaving home made him a marginal figure accustomed to isolation. This isolation eventually led to neurological hypothesis. Even if his brother and sister-in-law returned later and loved him, they could not break the barrier between him and the world at all. His chained heart did not dare to expect love at all, even though someone had been waiting for him. Then one day, he fell in love, and his partner was actually an inflatable doll Bianca made of silicone. He and "she" were in love with each other, achieving a pure relationship without sex. And his relatives and friends gave up all their prejudices and poured out a love beyond ordinary people for this silent partner for him. In the end, Lars's hypothesis was cured and he found a true partner worthy of love. And that kind-hearted "girl" named Bianca gained the dignity of being a human-a funeral that only humans can enjoy...
For a qualified movie viewer, the first step in analyzing this film is to break through the constraints of a single lens or even the scene, and resolutely not be entangled in the technical analysis of the film, and must focus on the story itself. If for such a purely perceptual film, it is still limited to the basic elements such as lens technique and lighting, then it is better to regard this film as a patient recovery record shot by the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. Reaching the core of the story itself also successfully touched the world of this young man named Lars. It is true that Lars is a deficient existence. He is extremely autistic and afraid of being close to others. The gentle touch of others to him is a kind of severe pain to him, an indescribable torture. However, in reality, who is not the existence of regret? Leaving home too early, leaving behind his younger brother Lars and his autistic father’s brother Gus, a friend obsessed with games and anime dolls, a girl who shed tears for a pranked teddy bear, and a girl who likes to give The uncle in cat clothes...Are they the perfect individuals in life? To paraphrase the words of the kind lady in the play, "In front of God, what about this?" Obviously no one in this world will exist without any regrets, and there is always a fact that there is no way to avoid the flaws and even the cracks in personality. . Defects may worsen and become a disability. Eventually, the human spirit will wither and die like a flower bud that has caught the plague. At the same time, the defect will heal like a wound. Although it will leave a scar, it will eventually become a beautiful thing with scars. The cure for this deficiency is love. The people around Lars are practicing their promise to heal Lars with love. And this process, for others, is it not the best way to heal oneself? Lars’ kindness, smile, innocent simplicity, and Bianca’s unreserved love make his relatives and neighbors understand this seemingly absurd thing, from incomprehension to understanding, from understanding to tolerance, from tolerance In the end it became a spontaneous fraternity, love Bianca like Ellars, which in itself is a miracle, a miracle performed in a small city on the ice and snow in winter. Brother Gus, in Lars's "No, I have never hated you", got rid of his many years of regret and guilt for his brother. At that moment, he completed his soul self-salvation. That unfortunate but extremely kind psychiatrist was also in the process of treating Lars, and finally got rid of the shadow of losing loved ones in a car accident many years ago, and gained a new experience and insight into life. "If you don’t move others, others will never think of moving you." Lars is the true practitioner and beneficiary of this sentence. And the unspeakable deep love, the personal love and dedication to the homeland of the homeland, so that everyone is more eager to return. Bianca itself is just an adult toy made of silicone, and the essential purpose of "her" is to vent lust. Once tired of playing with the owner, they will be cast aside like countless toys, and eventually return to the garbage dump-this is the fate of the inflatable doll. However, the appearance of Lars broke this fate, he regarded "she" as a human being, as his own woman. He talked with "she" all night, confided to "her", even moved and shed tears for "her". The two got along for a long time, but they never had a sexual relationship. Because Lars was so pure, he only dared to expect to be side by side with the one he loved. Then, in order to repay Lars’ love, Bianca eventually changed from a tool of venting to an existence that everyone relied on. “She” participated in all public welfare activities in the community and sent the children silent but But it is the most innocent talk. So "she" finally gained human dignity. On the eve of Lars's stubborn illness was about to heal, "she" fulfilled her mission, peaceful and without regret at a rare and solemn funeral in a small city. Leave. Bianca finally opened the window for Lars's frozen soul, and he can finally live and fall in love like ordinary people. It can be said emotionally that Lars is an angel with his wings released. He has never given up on the kindness of angels, the smile of angels, and he is a man born for love. Bianca is his new wings, willing to transform into feathers for the man who loves her most. Love has made this city of ice and snow a veritable city of angels. On the eve of healing, "she" completed her mission and left peacefully and without regret at a grand funeral that was rare in a small town. Bianca finally opened the window to Lars's frozen soul, and he can finally live and fall in love like ordinary people. It can be said emotionally that Lars is an angel with his wings released. He has never given up on the kindness of angels, the smile of angels, and he is a man born for love. Bianca is his new wings, willing to transform into feathers for the man who loves her most. Love has made this city of ice and snow a veritable city of angels. On the eve of healing, "she" completed her mission and left peacefully and without regret at a grand funeral that was rare in a small town. Bianca finally opened the window to Lars's frozen soul, and he can finally live and fall in love like ordinary people. It can be said emotionally that Lars is an angel with his wings released. He has never given up on the kindness of angels, the smile of angels, and he is a man born for love. Bianca is his new wings, willing to transform into feathers for the man who loves her most. Love has made this city of ice and snow a veritable city of angels.
Jia Zhangke once said that he increasingly believes that the quality of a movie lies not in how deep thought it contains, but how deep emotion it carries. This sentence can only be regarded as a statement of the family, but it reveals an important hidden law, which I can interpret as the "regression effect" here. "Return" refers to the return of perceptual elements. This trend is particularly evident in these film works that focus on a kind of person or even a race in the current state of existence. Oliver Stone's Vietnam War trilogy "Field Platoon", "Born on July 4th" and "Heaven and Earth" have evolved from focusing on the attack on the American system to the survival of the entire Vietnamese nation after the war. And the attention of the psychological state came up; Angelopoulos was world-renowned for his "Wandering Artists" (1975), using the experience of a group of wandering artists in troubled times to describe the sufferings of Greece in wartime. Thirty years later, he wrote "The Crying "The Steppe" (2004) re-examined another history of war between Russia and Greece, but this time he has changed from Homer to Aeschylus, from showing the experience of a group of people to exploring the world of two people (mainly convenient Is the emotional world). The narrative transformation of the two world-class film masters in a certain period of time is the perfect display of this "regression effect". "There are always things slightly more beautiful than ugliness, and there are always things slightly better than poverty. People can only obtain their own satisfaction by comparing themselves with those around them. Until one day, they find that others have surpassed themselves. "Unforgivable" This remark that I have forgotten its source can explain the tragic fate of the little people to some extent, not to mention the more marginalized groups in this society than the little ones. But this is by no means the truth of life, nor is it the purpose of human existence. Overemphasizing this kind of implicit or explicit violence in survival is likely to create a sense of instability and despair of reality. This kind of problem has exploded in some underground movies and noirs, so underground movies and noirs The decline of movies has also become inevitable. In order to show the magnificence of the world and the grace of mankind on the screen, great pioneers invented the movie. The movie itself is a product born of emotional psychological sustenance. Although some filmmakers and viewers never agree with sensibility and denounce sensibility as a vulgar trick in the film, when a mellow and true story is presented on the screen, there will always be countless hearts trembling, countless People will shed sincere tears for it, which strongly shows that the perceptual element is the hard and lasting guarantee of the movie. This is why it is almost impossible for people to invest too much emotion in "Made in America", but they will definitely be for "Brave Heart". 》The essential reason for shedding tears.
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