I continued to watch it the next night, thinking about whether this kid really died and entered a state of "bardo", or whether it was a hallucination of high after taking drugs. Either way, I have to marvel at the director's imagination and control. Before watching the film, I didn't know that the director was the director of "Irrevocable", only that this film was Quentin's favorite alternative film. When I saw Oscar's death, her sister drank a lot of drugs because she couldn't bear the pain of losing him, and twitched on a platform that looked like a children's playground, I thought she was going to die, and at that moment, I almost I thought it was a great movie. But the camera moved away quickly, as if Oscar was looking for a way to save her when he saw his sister, but then saw his body being cremated, and then continued to wander in nothingness.
If you really enter a "bardo" state after death, as the director expressed, you will constantly recall the events of the past, look down on the events after death, and then find a suitable uterus and reincarnate as a human being. That death really wasn't scary at all. However, I don't think it's that easy to die. In any case, the director still showed us a postmortem state that was both real and imaginary, and it still looked a lot like that. The angle of the lens, the placement of the camera position, the shaking of the lens and the speed of movement; as well as the illusory shape, blurred tones, and gorgeous lights, all perfectly reflect the state of "nothingness".
It's just that this actor is at a disadvantage. He can only see the back of his head from beginning to end. He may be the first guy in film history to act with the back of his head. Still, the movie isn't fundamentally a staged movie, it's a made movie, so the actors' faces and expressions aren't that important, lots of dim lighting and psychedelic colors, and non-stop The shaking camera makes it impossible to see the actor's face or even the body, so the effective performance is limited to the actor's body movements.
The director believes that what drives the siblings crazy is not drugs, but sex. The younger sister is obsessed with her brother, so crazy that she wants to have sex with her brother. Although the older brother restrains himself with reason, when the younger sister goes to bed with another man and doesn't return all night, he can't control his jealousy and rage. In fact, the root of everyone's madness in the film is related to sex. As Freud said, libido is the root of all human behavior. Therefore, there are a lot of sex scenes in the film. The most impressive thing is the KJ shot of this film, which echoes the "Ding Zhi Love" played by Aya Yamamoto. In these two films, the man's words become brilliant Hui's luminous body, but the latter is a white luminous body, and in this film it is golden yellow. Relatively speaking, the light-emitting treatment of this film is more natural, because the whole story is full of bizarre colored lights and shades, and it does not feel abrupt if there is a light-emitting word.
Novels are the art of writing, TV dramas are the art of screenwriting, and only movies are the art of directing. When taking professional classes, teachers often ask what is a movie? What is a movie? Then I brought a film and told us that this is called a film. Those things that cannot be expressed in words and cannot be expressed in words, and can only be expressed clearly through film means are called films. I would say that "Into Nothingness" is such a movie that can be called a movie. It uses the language of movies to express and expresses feelings and feelings that cannot be explained clearly in words. I like this movie.
ps: I originally downloaded a high-definition version, but when I saw it was a Japanese scene, I thought it was a Japanese movie, so it was immediately deleted without subtitles, and another one with Chinese subtitles was downloaded. If I had known Yishui's English dialogue, it would not have been a waste of time. In order to review those dreamy digital flower designs in the film, I have to re-watch the next high-definition version, which is a must!
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