【Soul of CULT】Mandy, a film of pretense

Barton 2022-03-28 09:01:07

The soul of the CULT film is that there is no logic or reason to shoot at the existing rules and everything that is unacceptable based on the director's preferences! Surge! Go fuck!

CULT films, also known as cult films. He has several key words - blood plasma, foul language, limbs, good and evil ambiguous.

It is worth affirming that Cage gave an excellent performance, especially in a one-man show when Cage returned home after the cultists burned his wife, the control of emotions was relaxed and relaxed, whether it was physical performance or the rhythm of the characters. , Cage will anger, sadness, despair, with an image of wearing briefs sitting on the toilet, showing incisively and vividly.

The man's anger is like a fire, like a knife.

The story is lackluster, a very simple revenge story, there is no plot reversal, all the way step by step - plot introduction (marital life, account of identity) - accident (the cult kills his wife Mandy) - the protagonist gets the main line The mission (revenge) - and then all the way, the killing will pass, until the end - the sublimation of the seemingly non-existent theme (fighting with the devil, the protagonist stares at himself in the psychedelic, and then sees his wife sitting with him In the car, and he himself became a member of the demon)

Watching a cult movie, you must understand one thing, and even need to establish such a psychology, it is better to understand such a movie, otherwise you must be at a loss - you have to understand that a cult movie belongs to the director or the It is a fun presentation of a group of people, a movie presented simply for fun or fun. It can have no theme, it won't teach you, and it doesn't even bother to convey any spirit, connotation, or meaning. A cult movie is more like a slap slapped by a rebellious teenager at adults. This slap has no obvious meaning or purpose. It can be pure evil or pure stupidity. The core of this type of film is that it is like a big word, denying all those who stick to the old rules and rules.

Pay for something? No! Can also be a bullet!

How to persuade those old people who touch porcelain? No! You can also run over it!

Will honest people endure grievances peacefully? No! His anger knife can cut through a whole body!

To look at Mandy as a cult movie, it's not cult enough, it's a little less swearing, it's not full of blood, and its logic is too strong. (Compared to the reference movies "Killer Aichi", "Frozen Tropical Fish", etc.)

To look at Mandy as a mainstream film, its tone is too psychedelic, its social significance is unclear, and its footage is too crude.

(Compared to the reference movies "God Bless America", "Kick-off King" and "Dawn Before Dawn")

CULT played the purest in Japan, Korea. CULT played the most B-level in the United States - represented by Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Before Hong Kong's handover, there were also several films of Fan Shaohuang's "The King of Power" and Guan Xige's "Dog Eats a Dog", which were all very good films.

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Mandy quotes

  • Jeremiah Sand: [to Red, after Red finds his underground lair] You're just meat. Without a soul, without a brain, without anything. Animal. You, you have no spirit- everlasting! No, no radiant light! I possess elucidations you will never know!

  • Jeremiah Sand: [Speaking to Brother Swan] Do you have the Horn of Abraxas?

    Brother Swan: [Slowly hands him a pointy emerald colored stone with four holes in it, Jóhann Jóhannsson's composition, "Horns of Abraxas", plays on]

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