wonders whether "Spring Break" can be regarded as the most "normal" movie by Harmony Colin. His previous works are often indifferent to "normal", obscure, sadistic, psychedelic, and divisive. These are all personal characteristics that are completely separated from the aesthetic abilities and values of the general public. With a deep experience of dependence on drugs, Colin has become even more elusive and mysterious. Those spectators who were attracted purely by the posters and lineups, probably because the adrenaline secretion has just accelerated, they find that they are basically destined to be fooled. Genre films that also show American teenagers' wanderlust and entertaining to death, such as "Project X" and "21 Played the World", are completely opposite and subversive in terms of ideas and expressions. Perhaps it is more appropriate to include "Spring Break" in the stream of consciousness literary films. The entire film runs through the electronic soundtrack. The color of the picture is red, and occasionally blue, pink, and green are mixed, and the heavy and complicated stacking shots are sometimes blurred and sometimes gorgeous, making people look either ecstatic or clouded. In the mist. But at least one thing is certain, this decision is a floating illusory and real world.
From that long story, I realized that this spring break will definitely not come as natural and intense as usual. There are things I want to see, but I don’t want to see more. Three minutes of beach orgy scenes, full of foam, dark naked flesh, madness and debauchery, as if the air mixed with suntan lotion and hormones will float out through the screen in the next second. The "inhuman" American cultural values are easily exported, and the efficiency is so high, it is really shocking. Afterwards, I seemed to be able to see Colin spit out smoke rings leisurely, and with a squinting look, he said to filmmakers in other countries: "Don’t be envious. Even if there is this in the culture, you can’t shoot me. "Spring Break."
Colin relies on the expositional inner monologue and the few real dialogues to advance the development of the plot. The pictures in this are like fragments. There is almost no frame that is synchronized in time with the camera, and often There will also be repeated use of pictures and lines. The erratic and scattered beauty has vividly demonstrated the haphazard and bizarre living conditions and attitudes of the marginalized teenagers in the United States. Those confessions of desolation and loneliness, light and distant, seem to be whispering in the ear, I don't know if they can be called "3D sound effects." At the same time, I also insisted on integrating DV images into the film, intersecting them together, in order to create an immersive feeling. In this regard, it made me feel that Colin still slightly took into account the audience on the opposite side of the screen when he "abuses" his strange and ingenious shooting techniques.
To put it more refinedly, "Spring Break" does not have a general storyline, but more like a panoramic camera that you forgot to turn off. Wherever it is carried, the result will be taken. As a result, the realistic color of the film is particularly strong. During this spring break, on the one hand, the four young girls who had just entered puberty received a spiritual baptism deep into their bones. No matter good or bad, they will be completely transformed; on the other hand, it also projected the American regional culture and is in an assembly line. The creation of all kinds of people, good people, mediocre people, villains, the ultimate belonging and destiny of a person cannot be manipulated in his own hands. It can only be imperceptibly, what the society gives, it will give feedback, and it will eventually become what. Just as James Franco played the bottom of the society's scumbag, not even a name appeared, just an "alien" nickname. He robbed with guns, he made music, he sold drugs, he regarded money as dung, he always talked about aliens, he was a fan of "Star Trek" like a fake, he was a child who hadn't grown up in his bones. All the truth, goodness and beauty are lurking, and I have never showed up. He knew he had the whole world, but he couldn't find anyone to share, so the girls came, and at first glance they felt that they were full of his potential and essence. He took them to dream together, taking dreams as life, and didn't want to wake up. Shuttle through the world where bullets are loaded, and do evil in soothing and melodious music. "Spring breakers forever", I don't know how many times I murmured.
"Spring Break" is destined not to be a work that caters to the tastes of the public, and it is even more so for foreign audiences far away from the immersion of native American culture. There is hardly any sense of reality for such a beautiful thing. As for Colin, who has been deeply poisoned by himself and has a dark experience, he can slightly perceive that this may be a portrayal of his own life. The male protagonist "alien" is the true nature of his heart. In reality, there is no power to cry out, no one pays attention to it, no one is sure. Even if you make a call to report your safety to your home, you must pack up your lies. Living on the earth, everyone is a collection of contradictions. In the long river of life, some people choose to be sober, and some people choose to sleep forever.
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