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strong ending
Alanis 2022-09-16 05:24:07
Chabrol in this period is indeed very sophisticated and skilled in style. Nearly three-quarters of the previous pages have been laid out calmly, trivially and implicitly, presenting a lot of details, but without deliberately magnifying and emphasizing details, he handed over the initiative to The audience, let the audience discover the details and find out the truth for themselves, if they do not enjoy the fun of this discovery, they may feel dull. When it is found that as the two women get closer and closer, the evil in their hearts is stimulated, and the hateful side of the poor person gradually reveals itself. When it is found that although these middle-class people are occasionally mean and hypocritical, they are not hopeless. The members have long been separated from each other, and the crisis is actually on the brink. Then, the climax is expected to be staged: accompanied by Mozart's ceremonial opera music, two women come on stage and enter the home of a middle-class family to do evil, and the evil in their hearts finally erupts. Complete release in the form of violence. If you're a little bit disgusted by the self-inflated superiority of the middle class, if you finally get the pleasure of a gunfire orgasm after a long wait, then at some point you've become an accomplice of these two women. Their guns went at all the family members, at the books, but not at the TV and the tape recorder, and when the opera music stopped, it was all quiet. If the film ends here, it's just another "Fun Game" or "The End of the Road," followed by Huppert's sudden car accident (by a local priest), a plot that follows the Coen brothers in ten years. A few years later, "No Country for Old Men" found a common language, leaving infinite room for interpretation. In the final scene, the tape recorder is turned on, and the truth is revealed. The camera has been staring at Sandrine's face calmly. It is a fateful ending of traditional noir films, which makes people unconsciously think of the ending of "The Elevator to the Gallows". Very powerful.
Extended Reading
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Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.
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Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."
Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?
Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.