France is a country of romance, and Jean-Pierre Genet is a far more French director than Luc Besson. Champagne-colored lens filters, quirky characters, and naughty and naughty soundtracks have always been his three magic weapons, and they are also the most straightforward impressions of French cinema for many people. He is actually very similar to Tim Burton, both of which are strongly marked by their wild imagination and grotesque visual style. The difference is that the former is good at surreal and surreal themes that combine absurdity and romance, while the latter is good at mysterious fairy tales in Gothic style. In Genet's films, most of them have strong imprints of realism, such as the dark and humid fictional world of "Black Shop Rhapsody", the machine that captures children's dreams in "The Night of the Lost Child's Dream", and even the Hollywood commercial "Alien 4" in mode replaces the series' usual icy metallic vibe with a dull yellow tones and twisted environments. After entering the new century, Genet used more to extend his surreal personal imprint from the perspective of reality. For example, in "Angel Amelie", the exaggerated taste and flying romantic feelings are displayed in the streets of France. In "The Long Engagement", the cruel war madness is set in the wind chimes of loyal love. Including this "Enjoy the Game", the director once again based his starting point on reality, but let the whole story loose again in an unrestrained surreal style.
Compared with Jean-Pierre Genet's other films, this film has a very popular plot, and the story structure is no longer obscure. The film tells the story of a man who survived a gunshot to the head and revenge on an arms dealer with the help of a gang of skilled homeless people. If you just look at the introduction of the story, it is easy to equate it with Hollywood business, such as "Eleven Arhats". But the simplification of the plot does not mean that Genet abandons his personal style and flatters the Hollywood business model. The box office fiasco of "Alien 4" proves that European directors are like two parallel lines in the Hollywood rules of the game, never overlapping. combine. "Enjoy the Game" is different from a popular commercial film like "Eleven Arhats". Although the film also has exquisite storylines, tricks and designs, and even love scenes embellished by the protagonist in action, but the plots of almost the same story structure, As the product of Renei's unique stream of consciousness, the effect displayed is still so distinct from the inside out. The protagonist of the film is a homeless man whose father died of demining, he was shot in the head, and the bullets remained in it. His career and family are empty-handed, and he may die at any time. Instead of a group of frustrated people living in the garbage heap, the movie focuses on the people living at the bottom of the society. If this kind of plot design is replaced by others, it must be a reality-themed tragedy of bitterness and hatred. However, under the optimistic and romantic atmosphere of France, the childlike lifestyle of these "junk kings" who spend all day with garbage is in stark contrast to the unhappy and sanctimonious upper-class people.
Among these broken kings, the protagonist, as the main line of the story development, has no advantages except that his brain is so big that he often short-circuits (the process of short-circuiting is also visualized by Renai, which is eye-catching). The initiator and experiencer of the event, and the various supporting characters are not ordinary, including the flexible juggling lady, the black writer who likes to play with words (if there are no subtitles, most people think this person is all day long Speak bird language), a little old man who is good at making some gadgets out of garbage, an old man who always challenges the limits of alternatives, an introverted woman with glasses called a human computer, and an old man who has spent most of his life in prison as a leader . These variegated psychics are more versatile than circus jugglers. With these funny characters standing with the protagonist, it is not difficult to understand the development of the following storyline, a typical Genet style. The essence of the movie is the revenge of the tattered kings against the arms dealers. It's not so much a revenge as a tease. Just like the title of this film, in the process of teasing the two arms dealers, there are no swords, swords and shadows, and no dead people. (The arms dealers kill each other is not counted), full of happy childishness, even the two at the center of the explosion after the explosion of the arsenal only left the embarrassment of looking at each other. To be honest, in the movie, such tricky plots as swapping purses and sneaking into secrets are not new or even clichés, but they are unique in the way of expression, so they won't make people feel fooled at all.
For example, in the episode of robbing ammunition containers at the dock, the Kings of Ruin used the bee "bomb" designed by the inventor to scramble the scene, and set up a human cannon in the distance to launch the living people to the other side, and take advantage of the chaos to seize the truck with the cannonball. . Such an incredible design is bold and imaginative, and is definitely beyond reality on the basis of reality. The original rigorous and tense robbery has become a lively and interesting part of the joke, which also represents the overall tone of the film, exaggerated and lively. Both have a sense of reality. The movie packs a story of a small man's revenge into a commodious and civilian farce, with love and conspiracy, and it also has justice and evil, but all these basic elements of commercial films have become so cute here. Generally speaking, "new wine in old bottles" is used to describe the novelty of a movie in a mode, and this film is wine or the original old wine, but the bottle is rebuilt, and a handicraft with old wine reappears.
The ending of the movie is still that kind of routine, and the protagonist is not lost because of the bullet in his head that will kill him at any time. "Play Now" has a very happy ending. Although the subsequent lives of these junk kings will not change, they only acted as the heroes behind the scenes, but in the relaxed atmosphere of the whole film, the characters in the film and the audience together. Enjoyed this childlike story. At the end of the film, the dress of the inventor dances under the beautiful and light BGM of Ra phaël Beau . Whenever I think of this scene, my heart fills up with the leisure and self-entertainment like "Six Floating Life".
In Jean-Pierre Genet's mottled video style, French romanticism is displayed everywhere. His films have long since moved away from the obscurity of the philosopher of pain, giving life and life hope, which makes people yearn.
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