Chen Wei's Commentary on "The Knee of Carat"

Although it's two o'clock, I still need an enjoyable film to sleep well, and the new film has no such guarantee, so I really want to watch Rohmer again. And it's a rewatch of CLAIRE'S KNEE. Looking back, it still feels good. very good. Sometimes I can't believe it's older than me. It was shot in 1971 or 1969. This is surprising - since I don't believe in cultural evolution, I'm rarely surprised by how long a work was created. While no technology feels "advanced" today, nowhere is it lagging. And, the "themes" discussed are still thought-provoking today. Most importantly: no element, biased by the times, appears disjointed or gross today. Any element that should be caught was caught by him. He's so controlled, bold, tight, and relaxed. He never gets the audience's attention with "amazing", he rejects surprise, he shocks people. Before the film was shot, he had lived in this film for a long time, or in other words, he had been living in this film, and he only needed to intercept a part of his life at will, and it was a genuinely good film. Other good movies, you can tell they are "creating", but Rohmer is not, he is living. He plunged deep into the depths of the flower. He is the stamen itself. I seem to have a lot to say about Rohmer. Sometimes it is so powerless to face such an excellent director: it seems that you have to deeply and seriously analyze a "rigorous" and large-scale "theory" in order to feel enjoyable. However, this is not only beyond my ability, but actually I'm also very skeptical of its real efficacy; and if you don't, you'll feel like you'll never finish talking to him, babbling endlessly, and you can talk about any topic from any angle, and no matter how you say it, you feel It's a scale and a half claw. This is really worrying. I feel the same way about Goethe and Gide. I don't like the movie he likes the most because he thinks "Knee of Carat" is his best work, I only saw his statement after watching it. Of course, I'm very happy to coincide with him. I once said in one place: Rohmer pays great attention to their voices in the selection of actresses, and even their voices are the highest concentration of their spiritual temperament. The unobtrusive laziness in his voice is in the same vein as the "richness" and "the never-ending inner" style of his entire work. The same emphasis is reflected in "The Female Collector" (LA COLLECTIONNEUSE) Hattie Pollitover. Carat's soft but stubborn voice, once it appeared, represented the depth of the director's life in the film. Also involving middle-aged men's love for girls, "Knee of Carat" is far more important and mature than "Lolita" in literature.

2005/3/28

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