After watching "Piero the Madman", I am absolutely sure that this is one of the movies that I like the most, and I almost immediately listed it as one of the top ten films in my personal history. But the excessive nihilism and anarchism of the film's story itself made me give up in the end.
I prefer Pierrot the Madman to Exhausted. If "Exhausted" is "creating" (the first large-scale use of jump cuts), then "Piero the Madman" is "extreme". No film does a better job of portraying an energetic "rebellious" temperament than Pierrot. All the innovative audiovisual styles in the film serve this "rebel":
——Based on the screen direction match at the beginning of the banquet, the protagonist walks through spaces of various colors such as red, yellow, blue, white and green, showing this colorful and mutated world and the protagonist's desire to escape (the last cake thrown is the embodiment of this mood);
——Various narrations on the escape road said the chapter names, and then often sang and played two-person turn;
- Often insert paintings of various styles such as surrealism;
——The two are chatting and chatting and breaking through the fourth wall from time to time (such as when Pierrot suddenly said to the screen "she knows money" when driving the second car, and Marianne asked "who are you talking to?" , he returns "audience", etc.);
- a neon title (such as "RIVIERA") suddenly inserted in the middle of the film;
——Unconventional bgm usage (for example, the bgm when they stole the car was very nervous and suddenly stopped, which is very funny);
——The text on paper, painting, film reality and other artistic genres are mixed and edited to tell the story (such as the American soldier and the Vietnamese girl);
- and so on.
There are also a lot of relatively conventional but very high-level sequences, like Pierrot and Marianne dancing (there's such a charming rebellious and free spirit there), and so on.
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