In fact, the shortcomings of this film are very obvious, that is, the nature of the film is not well grasped. This is why most moviegoers, including me, feel at a loss after watching this movie at the beginning.
Everyone knows that this is an ironic film, because the film clearly shows its early foreshadowing and late results. The early foreshadowing is the shaping of each character, the complexity of the art circle, the display of various scenes and the processing of various details. The later result is that these people with complex human nature and greed finally disappear and die.
but! The director directly handed the deaths of all people to a soul in the painting very impatiently, and in order to echo their deaths and the artistic sense of death, the death scenes were completely handed over to the thrilling science fiction style. In this way, I was immersed in the ironic atmosphere of the movie, and instantly led the audience to the superficial discussion of "What is going on with the soul in the painting? This group of people died of the soul in the painting is too nonsense." Being indifferent to irony is the subject of the movie. Including the irony of the casual sale of a painting at the end, the first thing that people think of is not the proposition that good art becomes street merchandise, but is guessing whether many people will be hurt by ghosts in the painting again. The theme and style of the movie are totally unsure, and it's ridiculous.
So what do the film creators really want to do? ? In fact, according to my understanding, there is basically no problem with the previous foreshadowing. In the second half of each person's death scene, the director's idea is like this: the second half is about how everyone died. There are two elements, one is the painting of Disen who seems to be able to kill, and the other is the dead person himself.
First, the first element works. The works of great artists can indeed resonate deeply with the viewers, because those works have experienced the profound feelings produced by the fluctuations of the artist's life and demonstrated through artistic creation. In the movie, the painter Dyson is lonely and unknown. When he was a child, he experienced a brutal and dark period, was bullied, and murdered, but he also had fond memories with someone he loved. These are the emotional materials for his paintings, so when his paintings are on display, everyone will quietly sink into the world in the paintings and watch the paintings with serious and dazed expressions. Then everyone will say that his paintings can Communicate with people. This is not because there are ghosts in the painting, but because the viewer feels the painter's soul. Therefore, the black artist who created the life ball and the artist who painted on the beach at the end of the credits were deeply moved by the nature of the painting at the beginning, and felt the painting quietly in the Dyson exhibition. Later, there was no artistic pursuit of fame and fortune. Road, so they are not dead. Therefore, the director’s skill or expressive intention is not good enough, so what he originally wanted to express is that those paintings have great charm, like impressionist paintings, Van Gogh paintings, etc., which are only static paintings, but they have dynamic effects and body. The feeling in the mirror, but the director uses a sci-fi thriller to interpret it, which can easily mislead the audience to misinterpret the director's or screenwriter's intentions.
Secondly, after talking about painting, we must talk about people. Why do these people die? We just said that painting can be contagious. No matter how superficial the people who die are, they are also people with knowledge and artistic accomplishment. However, in a world where styles are full of flowers and materialistic desires, you must stand alone if you want to survive, even if it is incorrect. Yes, the superficial ones, as long as they are different, and are engaged in vicious competition in some dark-box operations, they can easily survive. This is the common feature of the dead group. But these people will eventually be greedy and conceited, leading to a lot of bad consequences, and gradually realize how shame they are. Because of this shame and shame, coupled with the artwork that they come into contact with every day, there will always be something like Dissen's paintings are as infectious and can wash the soul of a person's art. Gradually, their minds lose control. Like in the movie, they seem to have a huge hallucination, and finally they die.
I think maybe everyone’s death-related artwork and art scenes have meaning. Since they have meaning and are related to art, the director should think about it patiently and write the script carefully, similar to the art critic Morf in the room of Sheng Ning. The auditory hallucinations that are heard are a breakdown of self-shame. Everyone should be in this state when they die. They think of what they have done and have no alternative but to do it, but it is mixed with inferior methods. The infectious power of the flashback artworks in the brain is strongly oppressive. With their nerves, they eventually died in their own hands. If these things are arranged properly, what a shocking sensory impact, the movie will also rise a lot, and the audience will not be so puzzled by this movie. But the director couldn't get rid of his own commercial film, the style of thriller. In order to try an artistic satire, he forcibly used fast-paced thriller themes to tear the movie to pieces. Especially the heroine, such a complicated woman with a lot of highlights, died so suddenly at the end.
Many people who have just finished watching a little confused because of the good visual texture of the movie and the excellent acting skills of the actors, they will reduce the scattered sand of the movie to a more avant-garde, similar to an experimental movie, so they are somewhat immature. I thought the same at the beginning. But after reacting to the theme and ideas of this movie, I felt very angry and disappointed. A simple satirical theme plus the proposition of art and merchandise. It is not good to shoot, but I must add horror and ghosts to make mystery. This is the director’s. Not profound and irresponsible, and lack of grasp of the direction of the work.
Regarding artistic satires, the first one I saw was Paolo Sorrentino’s "The Beautiful City". It is deep, beautiful, and satirical interspersed with the beauty of life. This is what a director should think and think about. manner. If you add a bit of suspense, Giuseppe's "Best Offer" is also very graceful. Although this velvet circular saw can see the director's ambition, it is also true that he made the audience see it in the cloud. Therefore, whether it is art or film, modernism is not simple and grandstanding, but simpler, more profound, more cautious, and more serious.
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