Director Gaspar Noh is a very bold guy, and his films try to convey an uncommon reality, a despair, a struggle. When I was young, I watched his "Irrevocable" because of curiosity. That terrifying QJ scene really shocked me. The whole process was like watching a criminal record, which made me horrified. It can even cause psychological trauma to some moviegoers. This also prepared me psychologically for watching this film, knowing that the director would tell a story through intuitive and even explicit film language, and the name of the film is love, which literally translates to love. The subject that cannot be escaped, I myself, for works on this topic, have always held the mentality of seeking answers, trying to understand, what is love, this is a life problem. My favorite movie about love before was "her", and today, through this movie, I didn't deepen my understanding of love, but it broadened the dimension of my understanding of love.
Next, I hope to tell what kind of film this is through the feeling of watching the film, the language style of the film, and the narrative structure of the film.
【my feeling】
"Love" is indeed very direct and explicit, and it is very bold to tease the viewers' senses. And as I am about to turn 30, after watching such a film at this age, I seem to have something to say, so I want to write it and share it with you today.
This film starts with a flashback style. In the trivial life of the male protagonist, Murphy receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Electra's mother, saying that she has been missing for 2 months, and the male protagonist is lost in thought. , the memories of the past will unfold one by one. The whole movie is trying to talk about love. Trying to answer, what is love? Love is possession, love is sex, love is jealousy, love is mutual companionship, love is betrayal, love is lost before you know how to cherish, love is an experience that increases danger, love is wanting to have a child with you. I don't know what love is, and neither do movies. The two people have been in love, quarreling, cheating, ML, XiDu, 3P, participating in YinL parties, experiencing RenY Xing services, and the whole movie is recalling the crazy experience of the two people. There are so many famous scenes in the whole movie, which makes it feel like stories are interspersed in the AV, but the director's shots are beautiful, offensive, and bold, but there are still too many famous scenes, which makes the plot of the whole movie slightly insufficient.
In the end, the male protagonist cried in the bathtub and recalled the past commitment. I seem to understand the pain, but everything seems to be irreversible, which is deplorable. Even if the two are together, what can they do? Life experiences are important. Whether they can redeem each other, this is too difficult. If love goes in the state of redeeming the other party, there will be no good results. It is said that dangerous things are fascinating, but because they are charming and irresistible, people are really contradictory, selfish, and humble creatures.
After watching the movie, I will be a little envious. This kind of love is beyond my control, and I yearn for it because it is beyond control.
【Movie language style】
Style 1: Rich colors and strong contrast. The reason for putting this poster is to try to convey the language style of the director. One of the poster styles is that the colors are more saturated and the contrast is high. The director of many scenes chose unnatural light, which is very beautiful, and is also trying to adapt to the difference that the film wants to express. theme. The flow of the word love is also meaningful.
Style 2: Realism is a major feature of this director. All the parts related to X are the actors' real guns and live ammunition. The whole process ignores the audience's feelings. Even in order to match the 3D special effects, even SJ's pictures are very direct. Showing it to the audience is both an offense and an expression.
Style 3: Soundtrack, which combines weather, mood, atmosphere, and environment to create different musical styles. There are also some scenes with male and female protagonists XD scenes, so the music will also be psychedelic and weird, which is the part that the director is very good at.
[narrative structure]
The whole story is a flashback, and the end returns to reality. It is a person who shows a relationship that he has experienced through the process of recollection.
The whole story is very simple, Murphy and Electra met at an event at the university, the chat was very speculative, Murphy was an American studying directing, came to Paris to study, and his dream was to make a movie about love, Electra Terra studied fine arts, he was half French, and he wanted to hold an exhibition one day. The two decided to be together that day and confirmed their relationship. In the next time, Electra had a tendency to take drugs, and used this to get inspiration. The two of them took drugs together, and then ML, together to continue to understand each other in depth. Slowly, as the relationship between the two became more and more intimate, Electra brought Murphy to meet her mother. Her mother warned Murphy that Electra had a tendency to take drugs and hoped that he could help Electra. Lectra. But apparently, both were on drugs. The two promised each other that they would be together for the rest of their lives, and fantasized about having a boy named Gasper. Later, the two went to the bar, and Murphy had sex with other women in the toilet. For this reason, Electra had a big fight with him and confessed that he had cheated on his ex-boyfriend, the gallery owner. The two yelled at each other and hurt each other until they were exhausted and reconciled, and expressed their possessiveness towards each other through Xing. Later, the two went to the art exhibition together. Murphy was so jealous that he beat the gallery owner directly and was taken to the police station. After being released the next morning, Electra decided to break up with Murphy. Murphy seeks solace in other women. However, if I still wanted Electra, I called to get back together. After the two are together again, it seems that the relationship has not come out of the derailment of the two sides last time, and the rift has been created and cannot be recovered. In order to repair their relationship, the two went to the XingAi party, and later even had a relationship with Ren Y. The last two seemed to come out of the haze, and Electra's lesbian tendencies were also highlighted. They met a neighbor girl and had a relationship with the three.
One weekend, Electra was away, and Murphy was with a neighbor girl. Later, due to an accident, the neighbor girl became pregnant, causing Electra and Murphy to completely break. Finally, back to the opening scene of the movie, Murphy looked at her daughter Nora, crying with her daughter in the bathtub, and kept calling Gasper's name. At the end of the movie, Murphy hopes to return to the bathtub where the two promised to embrace each other and never part.
I hope everyone will not be distracted by the gimmicks of the movie and forget to think, what is love? You are in the world, have you found it?
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