unstoppable madness

Clemmie 2022-03-22 09:02:35

Rimbaud begins with a poet and ends with an arms dealer, as the big man in the film said triumphantly. The Hong Kong translation of this "Enjoy Game" is called "Bullets: The Great Revenge". When it comes to bullets and revenge, most people should want to watch a Rambo-style revenge film, with muscular tough guys and machine guns, but Genet uses The black humor that has always been good at defuses, the body language that imitates silent films and the strange shapes that run out of circuses abound. Of course, it is also possible to explain revenge with Rimbaud's decadent and negative poetry and the life principle of "be anyone", but apart from the filtered yellow-green pictures and accordion soundtrack, this movie does not seem to have so much "Rimbert's poetry" . The reasoning inside is very clear, a bit like a madman to a fool, and there was a decent public trial, so there is no need to say more about the culprit. The way of being funny is very simple, like a funny "cannon in the world", the solution is like playing tricks among children, just to teach you, it is basically not dead.

Without waiting for the audience to enter the lonely heart of a child, the film soon revealed a happy side. It begins with tragedy and ends with comedy. Paying tribute to the classic old film "Night and Dreams", imitating Chaplin and other movie stars, "Playing as You Like It" is doing everything. The protagonist Bullet, a garbage product abandoned by society, was inexplicably put into a large homeless family. Although the people in it are crazy, they can still smell the same. From the moment the idea of ​​revenge was born, the movie showed a crazy side, and the gears of everyone's brain began to spin like crazy. When the bullet is anxious and tense, countless strange questions will pop up, the calculator girl is full of data, the black scholar is full of proverbs..., and other people's gags, the film begins to deviate from the normal track, towards a carnival performance , including a personal show like the cartilage girl and the live broadcast of the passionate battle on the windowsill. The deviation mentioned here is regardless of whether it is reasonable or not. These people can play the two arms dealers in circles, and even if plan A fails, they can use plan B to top it immediately.

Genet used the collage technique, used his imagination to create jokes, and turned waste into treasure. You can still see his ingenious arrangement when dealing with the subject matter, turning the heavy into the light. People can be unlucky, but they can't commit bitterness and hatred. However, "Enjoy the Game" is a typical French absurd comedy. There are many words, and the mouths of several characters are better than machine guns. If you are not used to words, you only shake your head. The movie may still have a shadow of imaginativeness, but compared to Genet's famous and representative works, "Enjoy the Game" has some words too plain, such as the exercise of political correctness of justice and ruling, the media can no longer represent credibility, and the Internet that communicates the world is everything . On the love line, the film is also a bit off-limits. Maybe you can say that this is a bizarre film. There is no way for people to face it, but it is so difficult to be less sarcastic and have some truth? Romance has to be romantic.

One explanation is that Genet remembered that if you want to play, you have to play to the end. The anti-war concept in "The Long Engagement" did not succeed. This time, it was simply satirical to the point of death. Isn't it enough to be relieved by playing with a hopeless arms dealer? Fortunately, there are many points in the movie to restore good feelings. The scientist who looks like Einstein was introduced by others that he is actually an artist. When the dance ends, you will believe that such an introduction is reasonable. Compared with the overused poetic softness and warm heart, I still agree that Rene has a crazy brain, and once it starts, it can't stop. 【Southern Capital】

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  • Brett 2022-01-15 08:01:41

    A pleasing visual experience with a wonderful and moving storyline

  • Lina 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    The French style is very imaginative, very similar to the French film "Rhapsody in the Black Shop". After watching it for half an hour, I decided to recommend it. At the same time, confused whether the explosive creativity of the French is related to the leisurely slow-paced life?