"Bad Boy Bobby" from Bobby ran away from home one night, and met a girl in the choir on the road. When the two had sex on the bed, the girl asked: What is your name? Bobby said: Bobby. The girl flirted with flirtation: Bad boy, Bobby.
"Bad Boy Barbie" is a co-production between Australia and Italy, an R-rated black comedy directed by Love de Hill. It caused quite a shock at the Venice Film Festival that year (in 1993), and successively won the Venice Film Festival He has won four awards including the Special Jury Award of the Festival; the Australian AFI Film Award for Best Director and Best Actor; and the Seattle Film Festival's Best Director Award.
The film begins in a closed, gloomy, shabby, suffocating hut: a fat middle-aged and old woman (Barbie's mother) deftly gives a than) soaping, shaving, and bathing. Bobby also painted eyeshadow and lipstick for his mother. The mother asked for rose red, and Bobby said: rose red. Seemingly boring things, but Bobby relishes. He could tear off the cockroach's legs one by one and watch the cockroach's body sway back and forth. Bobby happily crawls around on all fours in the filthy hut that has been the entire world that Bobby has been in for thirty-five years.
There was a gas mask hanging on the wall next to the door of the broken house. Bobby's mother always put it on before going out, and took it off and hung it after entering. From his mother's mouth, Bobby knew that the outside world was a terrifying world filled with poisonous gas. The punishment Bobby most feared was being dragged to the door by his mother's ears, pushing him into the world of poisonous gas outside. Every day after his mother left, the only thing Bobby did was to sit alone at the dining table and dare not move around, because his mother always warned him: don't move! God is watching him, all the time! You have to move, watch me knock your brains out! Sometimes when shit and urine are on his body, Bobby will whisper to his mother who came home: Bobby is naughty today. A beating was inevitable before his mother simply scrubbed him.
Dinner is basically the same monotony and simplicity. My mother's meekness and sweet words were always on the bed. My mother rode on Bobby's naked and fat body. Bobby lay on his back and played with his mother's huge breasts with both hands, smiling a little demented and simple. Mother twisted and flushed: what a good boy, a good boy, a beautiful boy! Bobby, mother loves you very much, dear boy, you like to touch them, they are very beautiful, right?
In this way, the days when I was threatened and beaten by my mother during the day, and lustful at night by my mother, I don't know exactly when it started.
Bobby's ability to imitate is very strong. He will wear his mother's skirt and stuff his chest with things, imitating his mother's appearance and the rough tone and tone when he teaches him.
The mother was the only source of knowledge of the world for Bobby for thirty-five years. Bobby asked: What is breathing? The mother who was cooking suddenly put down her work, strangled Bobby's neck with her thick arm from behind, and covered Bobby's mouth and nose with the other hand. After a moment of silence, Bobby began to struggle with suffocation, and the mother released it with a "snack": that's it--breathing.
After gaining knowledge or common sense, Bobby kept trying to "breathe" on a cat that broke into his home and got acquainted with him and accompanied him every day. Finally one day, after Bobby wrapped the cat's body tightly with edible plastic wrap, the cat stopped breathing. But for Bobby, "alive" and "dead" are irrelevant. It is like a toy that has been played with for a long time, and it is reluctant to drop it if it is broken. The cat is Bobby's toy.
Thirty-five years of stubbornness were broken by a drunken, stubble-bearded Father Hero who claimed to be Bobby's father. This man taught Bobby the word "daddy"; this man didn't know that after he left his girlfriend at 35, he would have a silly thirty-five-year-old son; this man said the name "baby" was stupid, but it was used in This stupid son still has it... just use it. Bobby went from indifferent to surprise, from surprise to discomfort, from discomfort to unease, from uneasiness to panic. The man who kept begging for drinks kicked him off his mother's bed and made love to his mother without any scruples. Because of this man, when Bobby touched his mother's breast again, he would be scolded and beaten violently by this man.
Bobby cut some of his own hair and stuck it on his cheeks, imitating his father.
Bobby can't organize the language he wants to express by himself, and everything Bobby says is learned by parroting.
"You're a sexy woman, Florence."
"I can see through your skirt, that's the gate to heaven."
"God, your tits are so perfect, so big and beautiful. It's the world's seven One of the great miracles." The
father threw Bobby out of the house in a fit of rage, and the mother took out the gas mask before closing the door. Bobby put on a gas mask and lay down in the corridor all night, not daring to go out. The next day, his parents stepped over him and went out. Bobby smashed the house to smithereens. In the evening, when the parents came back to see this scene, they were furious until they were tired and fell asleep. Bobby wraps his parents' heads in edible plastic wrap: it's going to be quiet now.
Sure enough, everything returned to calm. Boring calm.
Bobby put on a gas mask cautiously and curiously, and cautiously walked into the so-called world full of poisonous gas while leaning against the wall.
Curiosity and trepidation are Barbie's initial understanding of the world.
That night, Bobby met the girl in the choir, entered the bar for the first time, ate pizza, and went to bed according to the girl's instructions. The girl taught Barbie how to tuck her underside with her tongue and sang her best friend Jesus' favorite carols to her during sex. Said Bobby was a weirdo, big boy, bad boy.
Leaving the girl's room after dawn, Bobby is curious about everything on the street. To a leaf, to a passing child, etc. Facing a red light in the car, he told the police the foul language that a group of drunks had said to him that night, and was dragged down by the police and beaten. He was picked up by a group of well-intentioned and unknown rock bands again, and started a temporary new life.
Bobby and the members of the band get along well, and the friends of the band take good care of Bobby. However, one night, when the show was over and returning to the residence to drink beer, everyone suddenly found the headline on the front page of the newspaper on the table with the headline "The Cling Film Killer Gets Free", with a large portrait of the deceased tightly wrapped in plastic wrap. When everyone was talking about it, Bobby pointed to the photo happily and said to everyone: "Dad" and "Mom". Suddenly the atmosphere changed, and Bobby continued to say "Dad, Mom" with a smile as if nothing had happened. Someone casually said let Bobby go out and get some money, and let Bobby squeak away. Everyone found a dead cat wrapped in plastic wrap in the box that Bobby was carrying, and it happened that Bobby found the money strangely. The sirens came from outside, and everyone thought trouble was coming.
That night, everyone drove the truck as usual, talking about guitars and singing songs. Everyone entrusted Bobby to a painter friend, smiled and said goodbye and left.
Once at a bar with a painter friend, Bobby was fascinated by a fat woman at the next table with the same huge breasts as his mother. He couldn't help but go to strike up a conversation in the same language his father used to praise his mother, the fat woman was so ashamed that she avoided yelling, and Bobby went to jail.
Bobby was kept in the single number, but he was still so calm, crawling on the ground every day looking for cockroaches, and the prison guards didn't pay any attention to questions. Until one day he heard the sound of Irish bagpipes fluttering through the small high windows of the prison and into his eardrums, and he began to be agitated and manic, jumping back and forth in the horn like crazy. The prison guards forcibly changed Bobby to another cell. Whoever thought that the same prisoner was a sturdy gay man forcibly sodomized Bobby.
Possibly thinking that Bobby was mentally retarded, the warden released Bobby and gave him ten dollars to travel.
In the church, Bobby met an elder who said to Bobby: We don't believe in God, and we don't need God. We can arrange our lives better and more orderly than God can arrange the world. fuck it! He doesn't exist at all! God can't help you, Bobby, take your own responsibility. I don't know if Bobby has comprehended and understood the long speeches of the elders. Anyway, Bobby said repeatedly on the streets at night: Damn you, God! If you dare, come and beat me down.
But the rejection of God still did not attract the big breasts of fat women. Bobby was stroking in the street with a crush and was beaten and kicked by everyone.
Babi returned to the dark hut where he had been locked up for thirty-five years, covered with bruises and wounds, lying in the place where his mother died last, crouching and crying bitterly: Mom, you are right, it is not suitable for Babi to go outside.
After venting his tears, Bobby changed into his father's priest's costume and stepped outside again "where he didn't fit in".
As if everything had to start from scratch, Bobby first went to the bar where the choir girls took him to eat his first pizza. Then he was dragged into the bar by a poor street alcoholic, and in the clamor of various voices, he did not hesitate to hear the former rock band buddies playing and singing around the corner. Accompanied by the beat of the music, with the encouragement and cooperation of his teammates, Bobby stood on the stage and picked up the microphone, and copied all the sentences in different tones from different people that he had heard before:
Don't get in our way, you damn monster!
You bastard gay!
Hey son, you can call me dad.
You goddamn imitating me again, shut the fuck up.
. . . . . .
Bobby seemed to be venting, he seemed to be speaking, he seemed to be learning to sing, and he seemed to be accusing. In short, the people in the bar were provoked by an emotion, and they were in harmony with Bobby. Bobby started to fire. became a popular star. Bobby's current name is "Dad"
Bobby came to the garbage dump again, only to find that the stray cat he met for the second time was beaten to death by a group of bored teenagers. Bobby took the dead cat in a daze on a chair by the side of the road, and met Angel in the orphanage who was pushing a young patient with polio who was still stuttering. Bobby could understand the patient's extremely vague language, and the people in the orphanage were surprised. In addition, the patients loved Bobby so much. Bobby was in the orphanage during the day and went to the bar to sing at night. Bobby became everyone's favorite star. and big boy.
Bobby is also in love with Angel.
The end of the story is a happy ending: Bobby and the two children are chasing and frolic among the green trees and grass, and Angel is smiling happily and watching.
This dignified film with a hint of bitter joy is classified as a comedy. Although some are labeled as "black comedy", it is still somewhat confusing, at least I personally think so. Some film critics and propaganda rank it with films such as "A Pear Blossom Presses Begonia", "Forbidden Fruit" and "Old Boy", and call it an "incest film". I don't think it can be said that there is no suspicion of bluffing the box office. The beginning of the film is to depict the incestuous lust of the mother and son, in the scene where the two roll naked on the bed, but after the momentary moment, you can't see the obscene and undisguised sensuality, nor does it inspire. The audience's disgrace to mother and son is vulgar and contemptible, and it often goes against human relations. The audience is more of sympathy and pity for the numbness that Bobby's abnormal life brings to him, which he himself does not know about.
The film still adds comedy and humor from time to time. For example, Bobby cut his own hair and glued syrup to his cheek to learn from his father; Bobby learned the tone of the woman in front of him, and told the waiter to buy a cake word for word; The girl with 36C breasts said solemnly: Your tits are too small. There are a lot of humorous factors like this in the whole film, but after watching it, we just can't laugh, and after knowing it, there are more sorrows.
The tone of the whole film is obviously clear: dark and deep night, bright and neutral daytime, neon and ambiguous night city. The transition of tones matches the ups and downs of the characters' hearts, natural but not artificial, deliberate and not rigid. When the wounded Bobby sat unkempt on the floor of the hut, with his back against the gray and stained wall, a few irregular spots like the kind of light spots formed by the edge of the light passing through some messy gaps, randomly sprinkled on the The room, walls, and body were weak and slightly dirty. This light is not only not warm, but also exudes loneliness and sadness. The white line of the final shape of the deceased outlined by the police on the ground brought the audience back to the beginning of the film. Barbie sits helplessly and tiredly on the white line, making you feel the interweaving of the living and the dead across time and space. Only his mother had beaten and scolded him constantly and had incestuous to him before his death, but at this moment, all the slapstick and lewdness of his mother in the past were gone. The white line outlined was the last physical contact between Bobby and his mother, and the last ray of warmth that Bobby could feel from his mother. At this time, the camera zoomed in, and Bobby's eyes were chaotic and full of sadness and kindness. A deep guttural voice sounded intermittently: tell you a story, sad but true. Tell you a story about someone you know, Bad Boy Bobby, Bad Boy Bobby…. Then the rock sounded. This section is sour and heart-wrenching, and the next Barbie's laughter is the Xipi Adagio of your tears.
Nicholas Hope, the actor of Bobby, gave full play to his good acting talent in this film, and made Bobby's dullness, ignorance, timidity, kindness, innocence, helplessness, loneliness, blankness, pain, hatred, etc. And many other ingredients are mixed with looming demeanor, and the performance is completely natural. Later, in 2000, he starred in "Through the Darkness" and "Finding the Goddess of 1967", and in 2004 "Anaconda Disaster 2 - Searching for Blood Orchid" and other films.
All in all, whether from the film itself or from the director's grasp of the film, the understanding and interpretation of the social state, the attention and extraction and magnification of the dark side of the corners of human nature, and the actors' natural, profound and hard-working performances, "Bad Boy" Barbie, a low-cost film with an investment of 750,000 US dollars, is a film that cannot be ignored in the history of world film, and is a film that every film enthusiast has to pay attention to.
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