When it comes to stories about women taking revenge on men, we can easily think of the 1978 film "I Spit on Your Grave", when a female writer launched a series of revenge stories after being raped by a local youth during an outing. . And this movie is exactly the same, except that the wasteland in the suburbs sometimes gives people the feeling of "Mad Max 4" (of course, the rhythm of this one is still not as fast as the former).
The name of the movie is also simple and clear, it is called Revenge.
This R-rated film can be said to bring together a lot of elements: beauty, scenery, sexual assault, blood, hunting, and compared to ordinary R-rated films. "Vengeance" under the lens of Coralie Falya is a little more composed and calm, and even has a hint of literature and art, which is in line with the aesthetic thinking of a French director, not like the United States using some exaggerated lens connections to tell People: Hey, you're watching a low-budget R-rated movie. But the French female director told us: Hey, we not only have a lot of red wine (blood), but we also shoot beautifully.
Maybe this is a story that is a little hard to pull. The heroine uses her incredible tenacious vitality to pave the way for the next plot of revenge. It also confirms again Nietzsche's famous saying "Those who don't kill me must make me stronger". There is basically no dew point for the heroine in the whole film, but the male shows his genitals recklessly. Of course, it is difficult for us to determine whether this is a feminist movie. After all, men and women are not equal in this desolate and populated place. The label of "feminism" is also too casual. The director also said in the interview that this is just a revenge story.
The blood in the movie that doesn't want money gives people a visual impact, exaggeration, and presumptuousness. If we analyze this phenomenon from a scientific perspective, it is difficult to draw a more scientific conclusion. The director claims to have been influenced by revenge films like Park Chan-wook's "I Want My Revenge" and "Old Boy" back then, and it's no wonder that the whole film will give people a calm feeling, just like another revenge film "Blue Ruins". ".
The climax of the hunt in the second half of the film shows the style of some Korean crime commercial films: editing, music and people's expressions are integrated, plus some randomness and cat-and-mouse games in closed spaces, compared to the previous expansive hunting. Killing scenes are even more exciting.
This is a two-way film that is both commercial and biased towards some compositional aesthetics. When the audience realizes that the story is a little absurd, their minds have long been led to a higher distance than the movie with the director's lens. Although the later period is full of blood, the scheduling of Zhongyuanjing is so beautiful. At least what we see is not a cheap entertainment commodity like "Deadly Bend". "Vengeance" at least has a little ceremony and solemnity, at least let the audience know that this is a good thing. Made with care. The story, in this barren wasteland, anything absurd will become a potential possibility.
Keywords: revenge, blood
Similar movies: "Blue Ruins", "I Spit on Your Grave"
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