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Colton 2022-03-23 09:03:15

When I watched "The Great Disillusionment" about a year ago, I didn't understand Jean Renoir's omission of deliberately reducing the drama. Looking at his "Rules of the Game" now, there are still many questions.
The film is to restore and produce a kind of "reality", no matter whether this "reality" is to restore the real time and space, or to produce the truth of human nature, the truth of emotion, etc. In another realist movie, I personally feel that there are many unrealistic aspects of this movie, such as the relationship between the servant and the master. At the end, the servant kills the pilot, and another servant who stole his wife was there. Why not kill him? Killing whoever he was recklessly trying to kill at the time killed the pilot instead. The separation of characters, the actress has a chaste temperament, but her behavior spans too much to understand.
The French aristocracy that I know, the declining French aristocracy who values ​​civilization and dignity, is different from what Jean Renoir presented. The moral decline and the maintenance of dignity are too scattered and inconsistent.
The two scenes of the hunt and the dance cause a lot of thought. The film director, the scene of making hunting has the metaphor of the law of the jungle in his rules of the game. The artist, as the transmitter of humanitarianism, is doing anti-humanism behaviors. The dialectics between the bitch arches is I am so disgusting. When you want to arouse a good feeling in others, you associate that what you are doing is a massacre, which is the opposite.
Of course, I'm also a bitch torii. For example, I eat meat, but I am afraid of killing. For example, I eat pork, and I eat very little or no other meat. As a humanitarian, eating is more terrible than killing, and killing is to satisfy eating. Eating only a handful of meat is also scarier than eating all of it, because you can't be equal in what you eat.
There was a period of experience of vegetarianism and suppressed my human desires. During that time, my emotional life was basically zero. The reason for stopping is that I feel that I am a person. When I lose the sharpness of my body, what I win is the rigidity of thinking and the weakness of human nature. At this age, I think it is appropriate to cater to all normal delusions.
There was a ghostly counter-tone scene at the ball. I don't think this counter tone is good. Because the tone made by Renoir is very realistic, a little bit of unrealism here, or if there is no foreshadowing, will feel abrupt and hypocritical. How to reverse the tone in the tone, how to reverse it properly, appropriately, and cleverly, this is something to think about.
I think this movie book is suitable for Fellini to shoot. Of course, Fellini came to make this film, and the theme that came out at the end was definitely not the existing theme of the rules of the game.
As for the subject of the rules of the game, all I can read is the absurd world, and the metaphors about WWII in this movie at least I can see.

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The Rules of the Game quotes

  • Octave: She's a society woman and society has strict rules!

  • Lisette, sa camériste: So, Mr. Octave! No hello?

    Octave: Hello, Lisette.

    [kiss on the neck]

    Octave: Fresh as a rose.

    Lisette, sa camériste: But you look awful.