In May 1990, Bernardo Bertolucci, the famous director and the current chairman of the jury, announced that the Palme d'Or at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival was awarded to David Lynch's film "My Heart" for sex and violence. Wild", cheers and mocking boos rang out in the hall at the same time. This situation just foreshadows what will happen after the film's release, with critics and audiences alike having mixed reviews for David Lynch's film, the head-scratching and impossible-to-ignore director who's following "Blue Velvet" After a series of controversial films such as "Twin Peaks", "My Heart is Wild" once again disrupted the contemporary film industry. "Wild at Heart" is based on a short story by Barry Gifford. David Lynch has done more than just a tinker's work. The original book is only five pages long, but the movie has been extended to two hours. The only thing that remains is the dialogue in the book. Filled with plenty of David Lynch-esque eccentricities, the film opens and begins with brutal violence, and the protagonist's journey is almost entirely a reflection of inner experience. Although there are no fractured and rapidly changing images, many eerie and unrelated image elements are added, and jazz, heavy metal rock and Elvis' love songs are intertwined, and it can't help but feel like MTV.
The film was so violent and bloody that it drew boos at the Cannes Film Festival when it won an award. Just three months after winning the award, it was criticized and criticized when it was released in the United States. A French film critic commented on the film: "Full of eroticism, violence and swing dancing, it has, obviously, everything that would annoy American audiences". David Lynch's films tend to divide audiences into two extremes. Either kill or kill. The former thinks that his enchanting film language makes people addicted and addicted; while the latter thinks that his films have no clue and are inexplicable and unreasonable. As for the film "My Heart is Wild", David Lynch's own explanation is that this is a story of finding love in hell. Like many road movies, the pair of desperate mandarin ducks in "Wild at Heart" face all kinds of temptations and challenges while finding their own selves. And these temptations and challenges come not only from the environment and people around them, but also from the depths of their own hearts.
It can be said that while Seiler and Luna are trying to escape from Marietta's control, they also begin to gradually reveal their hearts to each other, and use this to release their deepest fears. With their wild youthful impulses, they declared war on the people and the environment around them, and questioned the legitimacy of the social system. The irony is that the process of Seiler and Luna's pursuit of freedom is also the process of their return to a rational society. Especially when the world around you is so crazy, the way to escape it is to return to an orderly and sane world. However, both of them must conquer their own fears of established authority and self while seeking a rational world. In order to promote the development of the plot and enable the audience to better grasp the important plot, David Lynch's handling of the two scenes before the heist is very ambiguous. One scene is Poppy and Cyler drinking in a bar. Poppy uses Cyler to lure and coax him to join the robbery. Here are two twisted shots that resemble a hip-hop mirror when Cyler looks up at the ceiling when drunk. , the effect is very clear. First, it shows that Sailor is unconscious after being drunk. At the same time, it also indirectly reflects the confusion and overwhelm of Sailor at this time. On the one hand, he is penniless and needs a lot of money urgently. The two of them could continue to flee, but on the other hand, he was frightened. If something went wrong, the consequences would not be as simple as the last few months in prison, or even a few more years, or even death. There was another one that happened a while before the robbery, and Luna was alone in the room crying secretly. All the unpleasant things that happened before seemed to have not made her so sad this time. Sad strings, Bobby's lies, Seiler's dark glasses still couldn't hide his worried face... David Lynch's two burdens shivered at the right time.
In David Lynch's films, he can play with what he considers extreme personalities, as if none of the elements escape his grasp...A careful viewer should notice that the musical elements of the film are quite Diverse, from JAZZ, rock, keyboards to electronic pop, country pop and finally the acclaimed "love me tender", David Lynch can be used in the storyline according to the time, such as the beginning Thaler's roaring rock when he kills, the jazz that's ubiquitous in New Orleans when the two enter New Orleans, and the medley of strings and electric guitars used to express Thaler's indecision. David Lynch controls the soundtrack of the whole film quite casually, and it is not unconventional, which not only publicizes his personality but also meets the needs of plot advancement. "Love me tender" is the finishing touch. When everyone was disappointed and regretful that Seiler and Luna finally broke up, who knew that he made a big joke for us, and the twist turned in an instant. A peek into a dreamlike romance (although the plot design here is very controversial). When Seiler ran across the blocked cars and sang "love me tender" after embracing his wife, the scene was really moving. Next to Aunt Qiong Yao...
Like David Lynch, Seiler and Luna also have extreme personalities. In addition to rock and his lame kung fu, the most characteristic is the snakeskin jacket that symbolizes "personal freedom belief". In the film, Seiler usually wears it, only some scenes need to be abandoned due to specific plots. went. At a rock party, a gangster provoked Luna and his "belief in personal freedom", and the two fought one-on-one. As a result, the gangster was thrown to the ground by Seiler, when everyone thought Seiler would beat him. Immediately, he didn't do this, he just asked him to apologize to his girlfriend and said he didn't want to embarrass him, and Luna also behaved generously. Throughout the whole film, Seiler's brutality is not innate, but forced by this perverted society. In this natural "wild" environment, selfishness and greed have long drowned out human nature. Either doing good or doing evil, there is no room for people in the middle.
In addition to sound effects, David Lynch's use of light in the film is also quite unique. When Seiler has sex with Luna, he uses different colors of light tones and the tone of the lens to convey the lover's intense and enjoyment during sex. , silence, blur, melancholy, and contemplation are vividly expressed, roughly composed of red, yellow, blue, green, and purple shots. To paraphrase Luna's words: "When we make love, you seem to bring I flew over the rainbow"...Maybe to highlight the always erratic blurred state of the two protagonists and the bizarre background features of other characters, the film generally tends to have a yellowish style in the narrative, only some need special It's only after the processing of the scene that David Lynch's set becomes eerily eerily different. The actors in this film did a great job. Laura Dern's teenage Luna looks like a teenage girl who deliberately dresses up as an adult, which is exactly what the role calls for. Laura Dern's mother, Diane Ladd, plays Marie Luna's mother, Marie, who is the film's most successful role as the cunning, compassionate milf . In this film, Nicolas Cage also found a role that really suits him, and his performance is passionate and authentic.
"Wild at Heart" is a wild, unconventional film full of all sorts of horribly ugly hellish scenes. In the naked sex scene, David Lynch chose red and yellow filters to enhance the emotional atmosphere. In terms of genre, this film is a road movie that exposes the dark side of American society, and it is also a mixture of many types of films. One, reflects the director's grand creative intention. The result of these types of intermingling is to present the audience with a strange realm. Bold, full of erotic, violent, gore, and delusional hallucinations, the film offers audiences a mixture of intense sensuality and passion. The film's image processing is wild and wild, but the storyline is conventional and even very traditional: a young man and woman in love, despite the opposition of the woman's mother, finally broke through the dangers and conspiracies and found their own "The Wizard of Oz". This is a love-hate story between a psychoanalytic drama and a thrilling horror film. Although the story is bland, director David Lynch has made the world cinematic with his bold and creative imagination. It leaves behind another film text that can be called a classic "postmodernism".
When writing and directing "My Heart is Wild", David Lynch referenced the classic model of two business cards: one is "Heroes and Thieves", a reckless couple robs and commits crimes along the way, until death; the other is "The Wizard of Oz" in Huang Brick road and two witches. David Lynch said: "The theme of Wild at Heart is how to find love in hell, and this particular hell is modern life. Like Blue Velvet, sex is at the heart of Wild at Heart. .David Lynch presents the audience with a colorful, bizarre and intricate world. It tries to show the potential darkness of society and the duality of humanity through the process of young people's wild search for love and ideals. David Lynch used his hearing to get started, and led the whole film with a small trick, that is, a match was struck, accompanied by various raging fires, and finally the flames spread into one piece, igniting the objects in a living room, and the This forms an apocalyptic symbol of disaster until the middle of the film, and then shows this meaningful meaning to the audience, thereby giving people an atmosphere of unease and anxiety. The United States in the film is an absurd world. The match is lit The close-up of the time, the image of the witch, the long red nails, the crystal ball, and the inexplicable hysteria of the characters are all used by the director to fragment the narrative structure of the film. David Lynch does not explain the motives of the characters' actions, nor does he Without explaining too much about the relationship between the characters, everything seems so unreal, so unreasonable. Behind this is the sense of unease, mania and confusion that the film shows everywhere.
Visually, the film is very punchy, but unfortunately lacks the necessary character development and sufficient dramatic motivation, and its thin plot line often bursts with confusing cracks, which makes it seem a little out of control. Some critics said, "Despite the richness of 'Wild at Heart', it does not prove that David Lynch is a coherent and articulate genius." An important aspect of David Lynch's film It's violence, and his violence, unlike the violence often seen in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War films or commercial films, has no political or moral metaphor. In his films, the display of violence is both stark and exaggerated; both realistic and surreal with strong visual effects. Violence does not have any narrative significance for his films, but is only a pure visual effect, a bloody scene like hell, without any metaphor wrapping, but stripped to the most primitive blood, flesh, and even bones , bringing the audience into a visual dream, making the contemporary world appear in front of the audience as a hell, all the blood and ugliness in his films have been interpreted as passionate epics.
The whole world is wild and full of weird thoughts. What pulls the distance between people, what makes two wild hearts unable to mate, between loving and being loved is not a simple "I love you, Do you love me?", on this crowded highway, the Holy Trinity of courage, faith and responsibility is indispensable. Even if the heart is wild, there is reason to fight for the dream, thank David Lynch, this is not Paris, Texas, thank the fairy for guiding us: "Don't run away from love". "Wild at Heart" isn't the David Lynch movie one would expect, lacking the dreamlike texture of David Lynch's best films. In David Lynch's previous work, David Lynch has achieved a fragmented, almost solemn quality, where comedy and tragedy, irony and passion, and mesmerizing sincerity are effectively integrated . His imagination reflected the unconscious lurking in the depths, with unspeakable power and danger. David Lynch admits that in making the film, "you have the opportunity to give people something they can't see anywhere else, something that makes people's souls quiver". That's exactly the sentence that describes the film: a fantastic road trip that presents a picture somewhere between a colorful fantasy and a dark hell.
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