Popular Film Review Network: "Grim Ritual" film review

Sonya 2022-09-07 08:34:39

The world is constantly changing, and different eyes see differently. Therefore, it will not appear consistently well-behaved and beautiful. "Discrimination" also presents the "beautiful" and "dirty" in the world in various forms. In short, to make this type of people feel like a duck to water, you have to let another type of people stranded on the dry beach, regardless of whose eyes and whose mouth it is? When the searchlight shines, there are hidden feces everywhere that people dislike others; if you are not careful, you can be poured into a jerk and fall into a calamity, but all kinds of mainstream and tributaries alternate, and then some new moths emerge, The comedy and the tragedy also took turns. You said that when the concubine was leading the fashion, the fat girls were all beauties. Then in the more distant thin Feiyan period, the plump women probably also shouted "Fat people are not qualified to eat, go to sleep when they are hungry" to sense the future children. Miss S.

Speaking of which, it's really not a problem to be fat and thin. There are so many more "serious" than this. Try to say that you have gender inversion or transvestite. That is the treatment of flies. Don't try to avoid the strange eyes, and you will be focused and positioned at any time. Besides, if you have a dyslexia or don't know money, there may be a problem. People who don't know the inside story will laugh at them in a soft voice, "Ah, you haven't read books, you're illiterate!" Literacy, the city is full of storms. Even if it is hard to study hard, those students in ordinary colleges and universities will sigh in front of the door of 211 colleges, because the spectators have long been ashamed of the students and mourned for the future of the students, who cares if it is a matter of spectators. To put it bluntly, this is the predicament of living. People are like the food to be cut on the Turkish rotisserie. Whoever goes to it will be scraped. Fortunately, it is fortunate.

However, human beings are alive, and their brains can dominate their bodies, so they will resist or even take the initiative to attack and frantically persecute them, thus causing uncontrollable tragedies. Stories like this continue every day in life, twisted to the point of cracking, and exploded into all kinds of social news. There are also many movies made according to this, and they are basically defined as crime-type movies. Many movies will naturally start from the victim or moral side, but there are also works of art that provide more perspectives and loose space for debate. Another meaning of the so-called "new wave" may be to break the rigid inherent thinking. The mode, "thinking outside the thinking, taste outside the taste".

I like this kind of movie, it looks more interesting than throwing gavel to the audience that has already been judged. There are some different voices in the French film critics who say that Claude Chabrol defies the mainstream and tells stories from the standpoint of moral deficiency is annoyingly frivolous and self-righteous. The same is true of subjective feelings, there is no right or wrong. It's just that this kind of rhetoric has no place in the "Grim Ritual".

Perhaps "Grim Ritual", which was filmed in the 1990s, has long been unaffected by Chabrol's old gloomy mood. Instead, this film exudes the melancholy of "fatalism". Implicit meaning pervades it. Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" (Don Giovanni) is quoted in the play, which seamlessly creates a tragic atmosphere of "play within a play". As a erotic detective opera, scripted by Lorenzo da Ponte. This is a tragedy built on the "wound" of the middle class. It tells the story of Don Juan, who ignored the advice of the "stone statue" and became a murderer. Pursuing the theory that wicked people have their own wicked people and demons, he will eventually be dragged into the story of the region. This opera is a reference to The Fierce Ritual, and it's the best and most wonderful setting in my opinion, and it's endlessly entertaining.

Watching the French film "The Fierce Rites" for a short time is definitely a process of enjoying the art of film. When reviewing this movie, there is always a whack-a-mole hammer ringing the bell in my mind, no spoilers. This time it feels really different. I watched it without knowing anything about it. Even the synopsis covered my eyes with my hands and blinded myself. The result really gave me such a big surprise, so I was superstitious. .

In fact, that's just my subjective feeling, probably because Claude Chabrol's films are to my liking. The so-called "Chabrol suspense film" turned out to be a shovel to dig a hole for class contradictions, original sin of desire or moral propositions, digging and digging, and digging out a large refrigerator, which is filled with rum, banana, matcha, mango and chocolate ice cream. The various enchanting emotions that are rewarded when consuming physical and mental energy are still intertwined, penetrated from the mouth and throat to the bottom of the heart, and the charm is getting stronger and stronger.

In the movie "Grim Ritual": Looking at the faces of the four women is like looking at the beauties through a curtain, each one of them deeply penetrates my heart, Virginie Radoyan's baby face has changed from "Four Beauties" to "Eight Beauties" Seven Years are like a day. Watching an opera with the Leleaf family is like walking through a cemetery at midnight with a lantern, the courage and passion in the red light on one side, and the unpredictable horror in the dark on the other. On the way, I saw Jeanne, a female post office worker. Is she a bad guy or a good guy? Need to think about it carefully, just like encountering tigers and leopards in the wilderness, the good and the bad are unknown. And the feelings of Sophie, the maid, are contradictory and tangled, like a bottle devil picked up by the river, wrong time, place and person, she is a devil, destined to be a tragedy; if it is right, she only needs you to give her a picture Letter of recommendation to continue working as another maid.

What is certain is that all the problems in "Grim Ritual" must have been caused by class contradictions, and the appearance of Jeanne made it possible for the vented emotions to be united. The unequal way of life is like a whetstone that constantly sharpens the anti-social sentiments of the poor, and eventually becomes a weapon of violence. Chabrol may want to say that the secret that Sophie needs to keep is actually the only right that a lower-class person thinks can be autonomous, and the result is the same deprivation, which will inevitably plant the seeds of revenge in the heart of the poor person. Obviously, he was going to paint the faces of the middle class to make them feel humiliated differently than being humiliated. And these intentions may only belong to the person watching the movie. To understand Chabrol's true thoughts, it seems that it takes a keen sense of dispelling Hitchcock's suspense films.

It can be seen from Chabrol's films that as a loyal fan of Hitchcock, he has real feelings. There is no frivolous act in love words, and he also understands the principle of imitation in terms of skills. The master's love for the master , obviously following it from the heart, splashing the suspenseful charm in his lens, as if being illuminated by Master Xi Fatty's most proud spirit, he himself also lit up in his own coordinate system, becoming an independent star. Of course, this will envy others. But his trump card is the real kung fu of self-realization, using his inner turbulent film critic complex to check his ability to cultivate beauty and French film and television manuals, and tell interesting stories one by one, the old god of Chabrol's self is there The style also came out.

In fact, even if he loves to play suspense, it has almost become a stereotype of being criticized, and some people even conclude that his movie type is nothing more than suspense and thriller, but he can get out of the shadow of a suspense master. His trump card is unique when he tells stories. Angle. It is undeniable that he is not used to the middle class in his eyes, which opens a window for spectators to discuss class contradictions. In addition, he will also add to the embellishment of emotions such as love, desire, anger, and sadness. Lay out and make another main battlefield of equality for his use. Therefore, his films often use the secret tension as the engine to attract the audience, and at the same time, they will make people feel the delicious taste after the big meal at the moment of ending.

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La Cérémonie quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.