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When it comes to fox fairy, the first thing that pops into everyone's mind should be those little goblins in Pu Songling's novels who like to hook up with poor scholars and flick their sleeves without leaving a cloud after a night of lingering.
But the fox fairy in "Fox Fairy Lisa Shashashasha" is a Hungarian beauty with a high nose and green eyes. In this work, the mysterious oriental legend collides with the classic routine of heroes saving beauty in western fairy tales, but this time the warriors are not fighting dragons, but the mysterious "eight characters" in the oriental mythology system and the characters behind them. Uncertain fate.
All in all, it's a story that strays between fantasy and reality. "Fox Immortal Lisa Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha" is a work with a strong personal style of the director. The word "like a dream" may sum up the overall temperament of this work.
Reality and dreams are like two strands of a hemp rope, entwining and advancing each other, making you feel that the plot is both absurd and unusually reasonable.
It is a very bold thing to use myths and legends as the background of the story and the motives of the characters' behavior. For the development of the plot, this is tantamount to acrobats walking a tightrope in the sky without protection. I feel like I fell from a high cliff and fell to pieces. But he succeeded in making the plot safely go to the other end——
When you finish watching this fantasy love story between the blond fox fairy and the Hungarian film police, you will have the illusion that you have been visiting for two hours in the director's brain hole that is comparable to the karst landforms in Yunnan.
In the heroine's bizarre fantasy, you can see the cultural fusion behind it - the barriers of Eastern and Western cultures are broken in this girl and blended together like water and milk:
In her imagination, she is not only the fox fairy who brings bad luck to the people around her in oriental culture, but also the princess who was trapped in the castle by the evil dragon of fate and needs to be rescued by warriors.
The oriental setting of "innate determinism of destiny" is originally contrary to the traditional Western values of "people's value is reflected in people's self-struggle", but once it is put together with the topic of "love", its meaning The negative meaning of the representative seems to be disintegrated in an instant, and the only thing left is the romance of "destined to meet you". The two stories and legends that originally existed in two completely different cultural contexts were linked together by the director. The significance of this is like building a bridge between Eastern and Western cultures to connect India and India in South Asian myths and legends. The Bridge of Miracles in Sri Lanka.
There is another work that also tells the story of the heroine being dominated by mysterious supernatural powers and the director's brain hole, which is "Private Buyer" . Unlike "Fox Immortal Lisa Shashasha", the tone of this psychological horror film is far less relaxed and bright.
The film, which won best director in competition at Cannes, was ostensibly a frigid style that wanted to blast audiences out of the cinema: Twilight's Kristin and her iPhone counterpart took over It is estimated that half of the plot of the whole film, and the remaining 50% of the plot is that Twilight girl wanders alone in the abandoned manor, wandering in the dark corridor, wandering in a hurry on the pedestrian streets... …
But in fact, the director did this to find that small group of people who really resonated with the work - the loneliness of strangers in the metropolis, and the fear caused by this loneliness. Ghosts are not the protagonists of this movie, loneliness and confusion are.
Living in an unfamiliar place is like walking down an alley at night. Walking at night in an alley like this, it is normal to be afraid of ghosts appearing in the darkness ahead. This should also be the core metaphor that the director wants to express in the film.
Judging from the story structure of the film, "Private Buyer" seems to be at the end, completing the transformation of the character image that a big plot film needs to complete: the heroine finally came to Arabia, in this country far away from Paris. The outer land has completed its own spiritual detachment.
However, for those who will fall in love with the film, it doesn't matter how it ends. The preciousness of this film lies in the director's small plots that express the inner loneliness and struggle, panic and hesitation of the protagonist.
This kind of movie viewing experience is extremely personal, which also leads to the two polarities of the film's reputation: the person who loves is deeply in love, can see his own shadow from the heroine, and see the street where pedestrians are in a hurry I will think of myself getting off work or on the way to work, there are many voices and people, but I don't know the reason why I am here; people who don't love it think that the whole movie is useless plot, extremely boring, not worth it Look.
As for what this film is, it cannot be summed up in simple good or bad. You can only walk into the cinema by yourself, and after watching this modern lonely dream woven by the director with light, shadow and sound for the audience, can you get the one that belongs to you. Answer.
Promotion Team of the 7th Beijing International Film Festival of China Film Archive
Written & Edited / Guo Zhou
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