film kicks off with a young girl's gasp.
Quick and trembling gasps, white and elegant neck, and the girl's confused and intoxicated expression stirs every nerve in you; on the side, Thad tells you a beautiful story...just when you are preparing to enjoy a fragrant and sensual meal At that time, the fierce and wicked man suddenly pushed your girl to the guillotine, lying on the ground with bloody heads, ready to welcome their new partner with various expressions; blood dripped from the high hanging blade, It dripped between the girl’s pale lips; the ignorant people looked around under the guillotine with enthusiasm, waiting to see how the god of death embraced this living life... Your hot body suddenly cooled to half...
And at this moment, our protagonist Earl Thad was also at the distant window, watching everything coldly. Because his novels are filled with a lot of fornication and bloody pornography, he was diagnosed with mental illness and was kept in this mental hospital for a long time. But the scene where the knife started and fell gave Thad a new inspiration, and another shocking story was born in his pen.
The owner of the mental hospital is the young and handsome Father Abby, who is kind and pious and manages the mental hospital in an elegant, harmonious and vigorous manner. He is convinced that the call of love can save any confused and fallen soul, including Thad, who is not ashamed of the world. He provided THAAD with books, pen and paper, hoping that he could vent the evil in his mind on the paper; he asked THAAD to organize patients to rehearse plays and became the most popular theater company in the town. His kindness, integrity, and tolerance made Thaad, an arrogant man, regard him as a close friend. However, the perfect Abby also has unknown pains. He loves the laundresser Melena, but suffers from the constraints of clear rules and cannot speak. But he didn't know that the beautiful and innocent Melina was a fan of Thad. She often took the opportunity of changing the sheets to take out Thad's manuscripts and submit them to the publisher for publication. In the dead of night, Melena and her companions shared stories about the wandering skeletons in the hut, and even her blind mother was addicted to the sounds created by Thad.
Thaad’s new book is very popular, and Napoleon’s bold and bold descriptions in it also angered Napoleon. He dispatched the highly respected psychiatrist Kolo to make Thaad sober. Under Kolo's respectable appearance, greed and cruel crimes are hidden. He not only tortured patients, but even married his own daughter. He built a magnificent palace with no money to prevent his peaceful and virtuous wife from communicating with the outside world. Rumors spread to Thad’s ears, and he composed a drama that exposed Corot’s promiscuous and extravagant face in front of the nobles of the upper class. The drama turned into a farce, and Abby felt that the situation was serious, and despite Thad's plea, he took away his pen and paper and ordered him not to write again.
But how can Thad, who sees creation as his life, stop there, he uses chicken bones dipped in wine to write the story on the bed sheet, and hand it to Melena to take out. After the incident in Dongchuang, he pierced his finger with glass again, and wrote stories all over his clothes with blood. Even when the angry Abby stripped off all his clothes and moved all the items in the house, the naked Thad faced the empty walls, still burning him with the exuberant creative fire. Soul, carry the rebellion to the end.
After learning that his wife had read Thad's book and eloped with his assistant, the frustrated Kolo finally removed the mask of hypocrisy. After being exposed by a laundress, he whipped Melena, who had an affair with Thad, and relentlessly mocked Abby, who was defending Melena. In order to protect Melaina, Abby reluctantly lets Melaina leave the mental hospital. Late at night, Melina came to Abby's
room and revealed to him that her love was not Thad, but Abby, and begged Abby to let her stay. Facing Melina's true love confession, Abby, who was suffocated, couldn't break free of the shackles after all, and relentlessly rejected Melina.
Desperate Melina finds Thad, hoping to hear the last story before leaving. So, on a thunder and lightning night, all the patients pierced the wall and conveyed the story dictated by Thad to Melina one by one. The violent wind and rain pushed Thad's creative passion to the top, and he created a bloody story. The exquisite rhetoric in his mouth, filtered through layers of mental patients, fell into Melena's pen, and has evolved into a naked desire. A patient finally couldn't bear such a huge appeal and lit the room. Another patient imitated the plot in the story in the chaos and brutally killed Melena.
Melaina is dead. Under the instigation of Kolo, the painful Abby believes that Melaina died under Thad's writing. He asked Thad frantically, and told Thad that Melene remained a virgin until her death. Looking at the collapsed Thad, Abby understood that the incredible Thad also loved Melena.
The upright Abby finally bowed his head to the evil Kolo, and in order to avoid future troubles, he cut off Thad's tongue.
In the early morning of the next day, he found that the walls of the dungeon were filled with Sade's unyielding beliefs. This persevering force awakened Abby’s conscience. He lifted up Thaad, who had been humiliated, and prayed for him; but Thad, who could no longer create, swallowed the cross that Abby put between his lips and ended. Lost his life.
Soon after, Kolo took over the mental hospital. The new priest is also named Abby, with the same young and handsome face, and the same innocent and pious. He didn't understand why the young patient with the same name was hysterically asking for a pen all day; he didn't understand why the kind and kind Dr. Kolo refused to meet his small request.
At the end of the film, Melina's mother took a quill pen in the changing sheets and told the imprisoned Abby, "Write her story." Abby picked up his pen, and a trace of familiar evil ran across his eyes, "This is the story written by Father Abby. He found freedom in unexpected places. But I want to warn you in advance that this story is very bloody, characters Fallen, the theme is not healthy at all. If you have the courage, just
read it. " We know that the story is not over yet, and a new cycle begins...
I didn't deliberately understand the person of Earl Thaad, I don't know how true the plot in the movie is, but what is certain is that the film must be mixed with a little personal treatment by the director. In the film, the notorious pornographic novelist is transformed into a talented, elegant and noble sexy old man. Whether it is attire, conversation or behavior, he is full of poetic aristocratic temperament; when he sits naked and empty. When I was in the room, the word "performance art" appeared in my mind. However, as soon as he came into contact with creation, he went crazy in vain. When others accused his work of being offensive, he retorted that "the world was not created by me, I am just recording." In that age of suffocation, creation was his way of being and his way of releasing, releasing his longing for freedom and resistance to the precepts that he had accumulated in his body. Therefore, when he can no longer create, he can only choose another way of existence and release-death. And the real panic by the government is probably not the licentiousness and violence in his book, but the irresistible charisma under his tenacious, stubborn, and firm conviction.
I can doubt the plot, and even suspect that Thad is a real person, but I have to believe in "faith".
Needless to say, Jeffrey Rush’s performance of old drama bones, Kate Winslet and Jacques Phoenix are also rare actors with classic temperament in Hollywood today. The beautiful face of the former has a unique fortitude and rebellion, and then However, between Zhejian's eyebrows and the stars' eyes were written with a lost grace, it seemed that they were born for this drama. In the film, Abby once asked Melina why she wanted to watch Thad's things, Melaina told him sadly: "Only by bringing herself into his role in fantasy can she be a good girl in reality." Therefore, she is obsessed with Thad's novels, but cannot bear Thad's frivolity, because it is her soul, not the body, that is hungry. And Abby is also obsessed with faith, affects every patient with love, suppresses his own desire, kindness makes people feel distressed. But when his faith was destroyed time and time again, his world was out of balance. When Thad's tongue was cut off, he refused to use anesthetics because "since it was a punishment, the use of anesthetics was meaningless." When he returned to the room, he flogged himself in pain. Afterwards, he said to Kolo: "I am not the first person sent by God to be bloodthirsty in his name, but I am not the last." Therefore, we can't expect him to really extend Thad’s life, Thad’s arrogance. , Narcissism, arrogance, free and easy are innate, not any pain can be tempered. After all, after Abby woke up, he still had to pray for Thad and let Thad kiss the cross; after all, there is still such a sentence in his article, "If you want to find the truth, you must first recognize sin
. "
Philip Kaufman, who once used the movie "Love in Prague", has inherited his usual exquisite beauty in the film, ranging from landscape costumes to small decorations, all of which are gorgeous and intoxicating. ; The actor is even more handsome than cannibalistic fireworks, even the knight who sent the manuscript, quite a bit of Ethan Hawke's charm. The tone of the film is strong green. The reason why it is said to be strong is that you cannot ignore this green from the beginning to the end. It not only gives the film a strong retro taste, but also adds a sexy evil and weirdness. The only shortcoming is that the director has more than enough energy to deal with the big scene. The scene where the mental hospital caught fire and Melena was killed at the end of the film should have been a climax of the film, but the director was conservative in editing and failed to create it. The strong tension makes the visual effects as chaotic as the film scene, which has to make me a little discouraged.
I noticed an episode. When Melena begged Thad to tell her the last story, Thad concentratedly said to her that he would tell her, "but not here, not this time" (but not here, not this time). Here, not now). I don’t know if these words reminded Winslet of that handsome boy on the Titanic, because in the cold water, he seemed to have said the same thing to Ruth, also played by Winslet, "you will be die , but not here, not this time.". I don't know if this was the director's unintentional act or the weird work of inspiration. Anyway, I smiled heartlessly in this sad movie.
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