Quoting the setting of a vampire to tell a director's story about the core of his personal views on the cultural and artistic changes of the times, but he did not expect the two to match unexpectedly.
First, after millions of years of life, vampires have gradually lost the quality and fun of life, and only the art and culture accumulated by human beings in the long history has become spiritual comfort, and this setting allows the director to depict the two male and female protagonists at the moment. The process of life to show the current attitude of the two of them, which has become the "skin" of the whole movie, which makes the soundtrack, mirror movement, and rhythm have the basis and support, and the other side can be integrated into this "skin". Regarding the director's own different attitudes and perceptions of past culture and current culture, this director's core expression has become "bone" so that the entire plot will not become a pure running account
Second, the director also incorporates metaphors into the setting of vampires. Vampires need to suck blood, blood is a metaphor for culture and art, blood-sucking is a metaphor for the process of cultural production, and vampire transformation is a metaphor for cultural heritage, and the French doctor vampire is a metaphor for the past. The pure and beautiful output of culture and art, my sister is a metaphor
The overall plot development is actually a philosophical speculation by the director himself about his views on culture and art. The blood-sucking method of the male and female protagonists in the early stage is not to eat human beings, and rely on the supply. The blood supplied here is a metaphor for the past culture, and the male and female protagonists make a living from it , The setting of the male and female protagonists is like the director himself. The male protagonist does not know if he should commit suicide, which means that the director himself has a contradictory way of looking at the cultural industry, swaying between the enthusiasm and numbness of creation, and then the sister came to drink blood wantonly, This kind of sucking is a metaphor for the output of today's culture and art, just like the line "mixed with too much politics, etc." is rude, impure, and unbeautiful. My sister is actually like a director's opinion on people engaged in today's culture. It is an inherent impression that the director expresses his concerns, ranging from his own concerns about the output of historical culture and art to his concerns about the output of today's culture and art. The old man represents that the output of the past culture is beautiful, extreme and pure. But it is about to fade away. When the doctor died from drinking the polluted blood, it is a metaphor that the pure and beautiful cultural output of the past has been impacted by the current era. The male and female protagonists almost died of hunger strike. The song of the beauty evokes hope again, and the director still chooses hope in the end, just like the hero and heroine choose to suck and transform a beautiful couple in the end, as long as there is love for culture and art, and there is such a person, then everything There is hope, so only love lives forever
From contradiction to worry to worry and finally seeing hope, the development of the plot makes the bones and skin continue to merge, so the more you watch the whole movie, the more you will be immersed in it. for fascinating
The entire movie is in the dark, with mirror movement, lighting, and music, almost an immersive experience that keeps you sinking.
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