trivial

[Fish Tank] During the filming process, there was no complete script, no opposite scenes from beginning to end, and there were some improvisations. The most intriguing line has to be Mia's erratic emotional performance against Connor. A coquettish fish jumped on his back and gave an ambiguous signal, and when he felt a momentary fatherly threat, he immediately turned back into an aggressive hedgehog. The reversal of this capricious and highly concentrated scene comes from Mia's performance time during the trip. The appearance of her mother interrupted the girl's ecstasy in front of her older lover, as if the wound on her ankle was suddenly torn. The only soulmates who danced alone before, helplessly became the ignorant intruders in Mia's mouth.
Andrea Arnold's film, photography is worth chewing on aftertaste. In the vacant apartment room, the backlit shot of Mia lightly covered the halo of the lens when Mia practiced dancing, and the few seconds of empty mirrors between the episodes were suddenly exquisite. In the audition dance that Mia performed for Connor, the camera did not show the dancer's whole body, but subtly cruising in the darkness between the orange light of the girl's silhouette and the fiery gaze of the man. In the previous work [Red Road], what impressed me most was the cold and desolate neighborhood under the setting sun at dusk, and the infinitely amplified breathing sound in the dark elevator.
[Red Road] and [Fish Tank], the situation and details of the two films, in fact, there are many coincidences and similarities. At the end of [Red Road], Jackie Road met a dog walker who had been silently paying attention for a long time, and for the first time knelt down and petted the bulldog. And Mia's only tear was for the white horse she had tried to secretly release and died at the age of sixteen at the end of the film. Clyde's daughter, who appeared on the surveillance screen, and Connor's young daughter in the video opened a gap in the hearts of the two female protagonists. The CCTV monitor is Jackie's portal to observe the things around her. In the [Fish Tank], the camera also repeatedly crossed the window, showing the world in the eyes of fifteen-year-old Mia.
The two "seductions" that drag the film to a climax also have a turning point. After that, Jackie, withdrawn from the indulgence and humiliation, ducked into the bathroom, took out a rock and slammed her head. After discovering that Connor's family was dizzy, Mia let her body excrete violently in an unfamiliar room.
In [Red Road], in the cafe, Jackie watched from behind a man's hand touching a woman's thigh. It was a deliberate and repressed provocation. Mia peeped between her arms as Connor took off his trousers and quilt as he faked sleep. Such a subjective perception shot in the [fish tank] is also delicate and hot. And when Mia closed her eyes and felt the scent of Connor leaning over, time seemed to stop subtly.
After a silent slap in the dark, the man quickly walked away, Mia's breath was undecided, and the camera cut into the sunlight at noon the next day without any lingering. The failed nightclub audition at the end is perhaps the only deliberate aspect of the film, as Mia walks off the stage without asking for her own soundtrack CD, leaving alone in California Dreaming, Connor's self-proclaimed favorite song. Thinking of the last night, before the dance, Mia talked about the expectations in her words when she auditioned for this song, and was slightly relieved.

View more about Fish Tank reviews