"Nymphomaniac Female Addict" (hereafter referred to as NY) is a very complex film, not only in the form of his expression, but also in the content of his expression, including the angles, stories, techniques chosen to express, there is no doubt that It's a movie that couldn't have been shown here with us. Of the many films I've seen, this one is probably the most suitable for the frigid and ascetic, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it will arouse or excite them, but on the contrary, it may be better after watching it. Towards apathy and asceticism. Nymphomaiac itself is actually a derogatory term, but from the first minute to the last minute, you will find that there is no critical element in the story, and the misplaced expression made by the director is already obvious.
The length of the film may be challenging for most people, with its director's cut 5 hours and 26 minutes long, divided into two volumes, in the form of chapters. No doubt, as you can tell from the title of the film, there are a lot of sex scenes and close-ups of the genitals, etc., which are reportedly done by doubles and a lot of post-compositing. Of course, I have always been very interested in the filming of pornography, including how to protect the actors, how the shots are taken, what rules are there, and so on.
NY director Lars von Trier from Denmark is the director and screenwriter of Björk's famous "Dancer in the Dark", the fact that Björk can't play here with us is probably more famous than her film. Be famous, of course Lars is better known for being the founder of the film movement Dogma95. As a graduate of the film and television industry, I still need to reflect, because I haven't seen a single Dogma95 movie, so it's no wonder I can't find a good job, fall! It is a blessing for three lifetimes to meet a living film activist in my lifetime. After all, this era is rushing to copy the commercialization model, and the mediocrity and simplification of culture cannot be avoided.
Northern Europe is actually a very interesting place. No matter its status in World War II or movies in Western culture, the four Nordic countries are all among the best in the world's cleanliness rankings. Their industrial design styles are sought after by people all over the world. We are familiar with IKEA and Nokia. All from Northern Europe. And although Jesus occupies an absolutely important position, and Zeus is a god that everyone is familiar with, you will find that the Norse god Odin is constantly mentioned in Western literature and film and television, such as "Thor: Thor: Ragnarök Thor: Ragnarok. The coldest place breeds the freest soul. The success of sex education in northern Europe has been imitated and never surpassed. Perhaps the environment and education are inseparable.
Leaving aside pure pornography, in fact, most of the sex scenes in the movie are divided into two types, one is purely industrial sensory stimulation, and the other is political metaphor, which is particularly evident in the NY movie. The setting of the two main characters of the film is very obvious, one is a middle-aged female addict whose sexuality is very open and the moral concept is contrary to the mainstream, the other is an intellectual old virgin who claims to be asexual, looks fair, self-disciplined and compassionate. There is a very interesting conflict in itself between the typicality of the dramatic setting of personal identities and their atypicality in everyday life.
Due to the film's title and the narrator's perspective, we can easily read the story from the heroine's point of view, from her lying on the cold street with scars all over her body, to her first telling how to satisfy her own sexual desires from the hook, To develop her sex stories that seem to be unethical, it is interesting that at the end of the second part, the male protagonist who has been in the perspective of the listener suddenly reviewed the whole story from a different angle:
Do you think if two men were to walk down a train looking for women, do you think anybody would have raised an eyebrow, or a man lived by you Such a life or if a man had led the life you had? And the story about Mrs. H. would've been extremely banalif you'd been a man. Your booty And your conquest would have been a woman. When a man leaves his children because of desire, we shrug it off but you are a woman we accept it with a shrug, but you as a woman, you had to take on a guilt, a burden of guilt that could never be alleviated. Your abortion was legal, but more importantly, you had a sense of yourself. Your abortion was legal, but more than anything else, t was a punishment you inflicted upon yourself.
It was only when you realized that you had been guided by the director for a long time when you had let go of the first hook in the story. So when the story begins with a hook and ends with a gun, we're not at all surprised. On the surface, NY is talking about a story of men and women, and even the love story in it does not jump out of clichés and dog blood, but in the final analysis, from the first judgmental line "I'm just a bad human being." Beginning, He is destined to be a sociopolitical education story, otherwise who would put themselves in the perspective of Human Being first?
Milan Kundera said in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", "A simple metaphor can lead to love". There is a very interesting contrast in the opening of NY . When it came to the hook and started her story with the hook, the male protagonist did not refuse, and also took the initiative to explain the story of the angler, the hook and childhood, but when the female protagonist mentioned the word "pussy cunt", The male protagonist disliked the word Strong, so when the female protagonist changed it to "Pandora's Box", the male protagonist refused. You see, the root of love in metaphors has actually been explained here. What metaphors bring is the power of fantasy, and fantasy is the foundation of everything, whether it’s love or sex.
Since childhood, they have discussed the issue of original sin in depth. When the heroine believes that she is a female addict at the age of 2, the hero tries his best to clear this statement, and at the same time brings out the religious theory, "I I d on't think even the strictest God would see anything else than a child's normal behavior", here we can actually see an obvious linguistic The difference is that the Chinese translation uses affirmative sentences while the English original text is negative. In fact, there is a very subtle difference in attitude and language range between I think and I don't think.
In the heroine's story, you will find that many seemingly random behaviors of a child seem to be the way to satisfy her pleasure, such as imitating a frog on the bathroom floor, stimulating with running water, climbing a long rope in the gym, Satisfaction with the posture of clamping your legs. In the process of telling the story, you will find that the whole film is scattered and has a sense of stream of consciousness, except for the formal guidance of the chapter body, such as the previous paragraph about childhood sex. After the narrative of pleasure, only using the concept of original sin to bring out the heroine's view of the sunset, she defines herself as:
Maybe the only difference between me and others is that I prefer sunsets.Perhaps the only difference between me and other peoplewas that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin. Why are you insisting that children are sinful? Not children. It's me Not children.Me.
In such dialogue and narration, the director uses a very Soviet-style montage technique. When the heroine mentions frogs, we will see smart frogs, and when the heroine mentions the sunset, we will see the magnificent sunset, so that The interspersed editing techniques dedicated to directly visualizing the metaphor of stream of consciousness in the dialogue can be found throughout the film, including empty shots, documentary shots and even news shots. That's what's interesting about this movie, when his lines can almost become a part of their own, his picture can also become an independent part, and the combination of the two does not disturb each other but enhances the overall meaning.
As at the end of the first part, they talked about Bach when they talked about the three typical sexual partners of the heroine, and analyzed Bach's polyphonic music and Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, Pythagorean law, religion At the same time, the three different males and their sexual relations are described in a three-dimensional manner. And behind this sexual relationship is also related to physical and social attributes. The close-up of Bach's three-part organ performance is interspersed with pictures of body postures. With the dialogue between Bach's music and the male and female protagonists from the perspective of sex itself and rational aesthetics, you It's hard not to take all of this seriously, both with and without sex.
Another American drama "Masters of Sex" that cannot be broadcast here has done a very good title from beginning to end using the things we can touch in our lives as metaphorical titles, you will find that the sex in life is actually Suggestions are everywhere. Similarly, in the second part, when the heroine went to participate in a sex addiction rehabilitation association, she was asked to remove all items that might cause her suggestion, so the telephone with coil, bathroom shower, faucet, comb, Leather sticks, mirrors, table corners, doorknobs, windows, and finally the heroine can only wrap herself in a thick coat and lie down on a bare mattress. This is a very intriguing thing in itself. Among the many commentary articles I have read, one commented on NY from the perspective of saying that although this movie is about female addicts, it is actually a female character from beginning to end. are missing.
This point of view is very interesting, and it seems to be quite right. From the first time the female protagonist finds the locomotive man, she suffers the stylized humiliation of 3 and 5. When she goes out, she ignites the engine for the locomotive man, until they are on the train. Competing who can have sex with more men, and then organizing an anti-"love" sex group, you seem to be able to see the shadow of Dogma95's oath of purity in the movie in this series of processes. In the movie, we chased down the heroine's house to stage the familiar story of "the main master and the mistress torn apart". After mentioning "the secret of sex is love", Jerome, who has met several times to produce love and a stable relationship, is just right. The arrangement of losing the ability to experience orgasm, including the scene of flirting, communicating with a married man and opening his heart to oral sex on the train, is very explicit, straightforward and embarrassing. After a mouthful of semen, she grabbed a handful of her booty - colorful chocolate jelly beans and stuffed it in her mouth. In order to regain the pleasure, he participated in the sexual abuse group, rejected the psychiatrist's conversation on "Do you love the father of the child" and finally chose abortion. Yes, the director completely presented the bloody process of sexual abuse and opened the uterus and pulled the child out of the body The process is truly terrifying. Under a despicable, half-gangster story, "pedophilia" and heroism are again discussed in a context, and every concept we take for granted has been turned out and reinterpreted.
This sense of conflict is from beginning to end. Unlike many movies where we talked about sex in the past, NY is very peaceful and open, but it brings an unexpected effect. This may be due to his way of arranging the clues and completely disrupting the story of the timeline. The Zhanghui style, which is very literary in itself, makes it easy for the audience to escape from the emotions, and there are three clues and triple identities: childhood. -The simple exploration of nature and trees between her and her father is actually a process of seeking herself at the spiritual level; love - the triangular relationship between her and Jerome and P is more like a roundabout, and P is It seems that she is another woman who loses sexual pleasure when she finds love. This kind of setting that completely opposes the unity of soul and body also discusses the existence of love in a circle; the other-narrative to a stranger The most insidious stories, looking at and analyzing the story from the perspective of the seemingly objective non-participant, the invisible God, and the audience is God.
We all know that no matter what movie, the basis of his role is actually projection, psychological, spiritual, physiological, and each viewer has his own different participating roles, such as the now very popular immersive drama Sleep No More, NY this The film creates multiple contradictions and conflicts through long dialogues with a very European New Wave feel, jumping and turning of characters and perspectives, from mathematics to aesthetics, from religion to science, from physiology to psychology, from literature to music, from history to philosophy. , from myth to reality, from sociology to ethics, from classicism to Freud, from patriarchy to feminism, from capitalism to socialism, the film starts from sex itself, taking sex as a carrier, With sex as a form of expression, almost every aspect of human experience and thought is discussed.
Benefited a lot , and perhaps the best way to sum up this movie.
Just like the ending he left behind, under the all-black screen, the male protagonist, whose sexual ability should have degenerated long ago, took out his sexual organs and attempted to rape the heroine. When the heroine said No, his answer was : "But you have slept with thousands of men. But you, you fucked thousands of men." And a minute ago, when discussing the behavior of the heroine who "accidentally" did not open the safety bolt to shoot, he concluded that , She subconsciously didn't want to shoot, we couldn't see what happened in the dark, but we reached a tacit agreement on the ending, or we knew that the story formed a complete loop here, a song Story Canon, a golden section spiral, a set of Fibonacci numbers.
Once the film is broadcast, he no longer belongs to the director alone. Film is a synthetic art that is established through the interaction, reaction and interpretation of the audience. Perhaps "Nymphomaniac Female Addict" is committed to doing this. .
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