Slaughter in the parlour

Lelah 2022-03-23 09:01:49

The 79-minute film, the scene always revolves around the living room. The dialogue is relaxed, even the seemingly loose and nonsensical parts are actually ready to be broken, and the dialogue is humorous and sometimes full of sarcasm and deep meaning. With the progress of this conversation in the reception room, in the background of joking and humor, the tension of the dramatic conflict is gradually full, the characters are concentrated, and the scene is only this, but it constitutes a good story, and the dialogue is wonderful without a second of boring waste. A 79-minute dialogue killing, rigorous but not difficult, clever and humorous, let people laugh. It presents the intertwined family values ​​of two middle-class families of different occupational categories, and then progresses to the collision and conflict of the relationship between husband and wife and each other's psychological concepts, until the differences between men and women on social morality and humanistic emotions intersect. Even a political metaphor in which the strong intervene and the weak antagonize the disparity. It all exploded from this conversation in the parlor, two couples, four men and women, one big world. Roman Polanski is really good.
Two couples - The professional habits of the two couples directly determine their different positions on issues. Dolexis clearly advocates the definition of responsibility and the bearing of consequences. Writer-salesman This pair pays more attention to the sincerity and emotional appeal of attitude, and wishful thinking to impose their intentions on each other. This is also a factor that makes the dialogue interesting and full of tension. Housewives sit together with a subtle aura, inadvertently comparing their family lives, husbands, ability to be a housewife, and so on. So when Penelope talked cheerfully about her original apple and pear pie, a flash of embarrassment flashed across Nancy's face. And when her husband Alan said that he and his ex-wife have a child, Nancy's face was annoyed. "I believe that culture is a great enabler of peace", when Penelope says this with a bit of moral superiority, the subtext means that violence is an expression of no culture. How can this make Nancy's feelings that have been suppressed all the time? Penelope's husband, Michael, is a family man and is happy with life. This is also evidence that Penelope accused her husband of being inactive and negative in life. Nancy's husband, Alan, is an elite in the legal world and a hands-off manager of family life. Both wives have been patient with their husbands for a long time, and women can best reach a consensus when they criticize their husbands. They just want their husband to listen to her talk, otherwise she will lose the patience to wait for the man's response and grab the man's mobile phone and throw it into the water bottle with tulips. (Really mature and powerful men don't need weapons in their hands. Whether it's an AK-47 or a BlackBerry, a strong man has nothing in his hands. Nancy said so.) Although the two couples alternated in the conversation, this is not the case. He is long, but this does not prevent husbands and wives from forming alliances from time to time.
Four men and women - Polanski despises women. He sits behind the filming monitor with a naughty smirk on the corner of his mouth. Taking advantage of this meeting, he is pampering women and at the same time ridiculing and ruthless. The women on his camera are vulnerable, fake and emotional paper tigers. In the consciousness of the two women, a positive attitude towards the dispute is more important than a good solution, so Penelope was initially friendly and humble, and Nancy was gentle and reserved. The scramble for self-examination made the negotiating meeting seem like a polite start. As the conversation progressed, there were more and more collisions, and self-expression became more and more urgent. After an undisguised vomiting, the disguise of friendliness and decency was torn apart, the radicalization of friendliness and modesty collapsed, and the gentle and conservative vicious attacks . Speaking of which, I suddenly thought of Francis Bacon's drawing book on Penelope's desk, and casually opened one of the works. Nancy commented that "brutal and gorgeous", indicating that she expects tranquility. Penelope then responded with "chaos, balance". Means she pays attention to order. The seemingly nonchalant answer is full of meaning. There are two women's unmarked contest, and there are two women's different personalities. As for the men, they didn't turn around that much, in fact, it started out as a fight between two little boys that didn't seem to them worth such a formal meeting, and let them settle it on their own like two men. better. The two men in the conversation were more interested in topics other than the question, and they were there because the women thought they should be there. In fact, Michael's attitude in this meeting was more like a party chat between friends. Alan, who was pulled by his wife forcibly, was in a state of mind wandering most of the time. Only the women are wringing for the truth.

A big world - the members of the fraternity are willing to take the lead in order to take the lead, the spirit of the contract and the collective interest are the bonds. Of course, if the Brotherhood sees anyone who doesn't like it, they will have to get together and fix it. Even if it is inevitable to bully others, they will become famous. Penelope cares about the lives of the African people, and the situation in Darfur is worrying. Part of this stems from her natural sense of justice and the need for order, and the other part is based on her idealistic self-salvation (Alan language, although Penelope vehemently denied it.), which is in line with the United States taking the lead in calling for the NATO Brotherhood to enter Sudan to maintain Peace in Darfur is the same, although the purpose of the two is different. If she really got into it, she wouldn't be able to tell whether it was more important to her whether the people in Darfur were in trouble or Penelope's apple-pear pie with gingerbread crumbs. The essence of this world at a critical moment is "everyone controls themselves, and God controls everyone." Just like after Nancy's sudden sadness and vomiting, Penelope's first concern was not the person who was suffering, but her out-of-print book.
This 70-minute meeting is rich and meaningful, in which the two couples and four men and women are forced to face their real world directly. It was the worst day of their lives, it was the best day of their lives.

A film I watched more than ten years ago, The Ninth Gate, reminded me of Johnny Depp at that time. "Killing" made me admire Polanski from the bottom of my heart. What I didn't know was that the director of "The Ninth Gate" was Polanski. I can still make the movie look so good without any bells and whistles. The screenwriters have contributed a lot, and Polanski has won my heart even more. The performances of the four actors are particularly impressive, one is very strong, and the other three are extremely powerful. Kate Winslet's micro-expression was ecstatic, and Jodie Foster's emotions went back and forth. Christopher Waltz's sly and naive, John C. Reilly's elephant is invisible, unloading force. The opening and closing music and the film complement each other perfectly. Oops, this show is all about scoring golden balls and Oscars.

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Carnage quotes

  • Alan Cowan: Mrs. Longstreet, our son is a maniac!

  • Alan Cowan: Did you schedule a contingency for litigation?