"Mandy" is a very unique cult masterpiece that combines postmodern, punk, mysticism, witchcraft and other subcultures, and no one will be able to compare it in the short term.
The film is divided into three parts, the first part can be said to be a hypnosis to the audience, mainly composed of irrelevant dialogue between Cage and his wife Mandy. When the two of them were chatting on the bed, Cage's hand kept stroking her shoulders, and with the psychedelic lights on and off, it was like a pocket watch shaking in front of the audience, making people enter a single boring a state of mental relaxation. This is also a little trick deliberately done by the director, wanting to be promoted first.
After that, Mandy told his husband a story: when she was a child, she once saw her father catch a bunch of baby myna, then throw them to death in front of her and the other children, and let them take pictures one by one Do. This somewhat cruel fairy tale does nothing to advance the film's plot, but only makes the audience more sleepy. The picture of the film is extremely staged, like a live rock concert, and a hint of ominous premonition rises with a large amount of dry ice. The director creates an atmosphere of evil spirits through color filters and psychedelic lighting design.
In the second part, cult members appear. Just because the leader accidentally saw Mandy wandering on the road in the car, he was deeply attracted to her and wanted to recruit her as the saint of the organization, so they kidnapped her. In fact, Mandy's mysterious temperament is very similar to that of cult members, but her arrogance makes her unable to accept the naked "favor" of the village leader of Tuweier, and she despises this group of people in her heart. She mocked the sect master who flashed a gun at her like a witch, completely angering the other party. Disobedience was ruined, she was put in a sack and burned in front of her husband, and Mandy was burned to ashes.
The hypnotic serenity is broken by sudden violence, and what follows is a nightmare. Chapter 3 Cage used violence to control violence, almost killed all the members of the cult (without killing the beautiful girl and the dog-head military advisor), and after a journey of adventure and revenge like a punk fairy tale, he finally found the temple of the cult and executed the leader . It can be seen from this that the director's inspiration came from American B-level movies in the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Mad Max" and "Breaking the Dark Valley", but he went further and played more high. At the end of the film, Cage drove away alone, and no one understood. The background is actually modeled after Jupiter, Mandy's favorite planet.
"Mandy" is a niche movie. When its resources did not flow out, many people yearned for this movie, thinking that it was just a heavy-duty torture movie, which could be enjoyed in domestic theaters from the flesh and blood Unparalleled pleasure. When the resources came, they downloaded and watched it, and a large part of the audience expressed their disappointment and dissatisfaction, because there were neither naked beauties nor large fights in it, it was really boring! It can be seen from this that it is false that some fans claim to love cult, and it is true that they want to watch vulgar content. Many people still don't know what a cult movie is or what a cult spirit is, so they call many irrelevant exploitative movies a cult.
Cage's acting skills don't actually need a breakthrough, he was already the Oscar winner more than 20 years ago. The core of cult movies is the director, let us remember this name: Panos Cosmatos, this unruly "second generation" will bring us even greater surprises in the future.
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