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film has a harsh and uncomfortable feeling like a metal scratching on an aluminum pan. It is better for a weak-willed person to watch it less. In his gloom, it is easy to make people nervous and negative, which leads to a world-weary mood.
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This is the glamorous French beauty Catalina. A psychological thriller starring in Denov's early years, it can apply Freud's theory as a model of insanity, which is also the basis of Western psychological films. People’s works will not be created out of thin air. Polanski’s miserable childhood has once again mutated into his theme. From the "Pianist" in "The Knife in the Water" Polanski has forever enclosed the individual in a thick wall of ideas. In the alienation of the human heart, the nightmare causes life to be in a trance about existence, falling into despair and helplessness.
Images, Polanski’s images always have a kind of evil, exuding a suffocating smell like a manhole. In its expression method, you can feel the loneliness and hopelessness of people. No matter how many lives are around them, they are like "Cold Blood Like "Fright", what I walked through will be a corridor full of withered human arms, and my face will face the side of hell.
The space is still self-enclosed, refusing to communicate with the world and people. Carlo is immersed in a imaginary world. She can no longer find the feeling of coexistence with others.
At the beginning of the film, Polanski uses a face covered by a mask to symbolize the mask of society and the alienation of human nature. This essential distance runs through the history of human class.
Carlo is an assistant to a beautician, handsome and beautiful, but his mind is moldy in autism. Polanski expresses Carlo’s mental state in a few shots, close-ups of his eyes, washing his feet in the washbasin, and kissing the guilt Feelings, such behaviors that are different from ordinary people truly express her mental state.
We can recall Polanski’s other films. The doors of those neighbors are always closed. People’s rationality is dispelled under the double pressure of environment and spirit, but the hidden demons occupy our hearts and let us become ourselves and The enemy of the world has a title in psychopathology: split personality.
Carlo seems to be such a person. Behind the appearance of coldness and arrogance is a fragile and melancholy heart, but busy people live on their own, heart, a distant and funny term.
The insomnia of such patients makes them more restless, and even the moans of their sister's intercourse can become a reactionary force and deepen her psychological burden.
She seems to be living in the world, but in fact, her heart is already exhausted. There is no sun to shine through such a gloom, and no external force can prevent such a collapse. It is just that a qualitative change will happen sooner or later in a process that accumulates over time.
The rabbit remains in the Kun bag, the unplugged ironing, the raped nightmare, the exaggerated alarm clock sound effects created disturbing and frightening effects, and the illusion of abuse from time to time makes the whole film trance and pervert Emotions have become a question to our spiritual world: What are our emotions controlled by, and what can we know about ourselves? !
Carlo, isolated from the conclusion of existence, self-enclosed. She tortured and struggled in her imagination until she murdered. Through the film, we can see that Polanski still sympathizes with her. The two people she killed had a reason. In a sense, they exacerbated her split personality, and they promoted her collapse.
The story of "Cold-Blooded Horror" is too simple. It is still the trembling and desperate dreamscape repeated by Polanski? It's like a person's childhood, startled at midnight, seeing the shadowy bushes outside the window thinking that ghosts are coming? As a psychological thriller, the director mobilizes all the elements of the thriller, distorted sound effects, cold environment, strong contrast between light and dark in the composition, and an unknown ending. However, the director not only tells us a story of individual loss of control, he wants to reflect the characteristics of depression, irritability, and indifference in contemporary society through individual events. This is also a director outside of Hollywood's view of the system and the composition of society.
The performance of the young Catalina Deneuve in this film is commendable. The cold expression on her beautiful face, the empty and negative eyes, and the neurotic demeanor deeply interpret Carlo’s autism. And the process of collapse, as an actor who has just debuted is really commendable.
In the film, Carlo's mind is a by-product of modern society. Diaphragm and indifference make the heart lose the basis of trust. The fragile people are locked in the cocoon of self, allowing nothingness and illusions to cover the truth and unable to extricate themselves. Eventually become a persecutory type patient. The spiritual world in life is still an unknown area for human beings. In the face of pressure, fear, failure and frustration, some people have slipped to the back of social benchmarks. Become an alien in the eyes of others.
Polanski started with this film and directed a series of thrillers until the later "Strange Tenants" reached the peak of speculation. However, it is always the same. His film has a metal scratching on an aluminum pan. The harsh and uncomfortable feelings are better for weak-willed people. It is easy to make people nervous and negative in his gloom, which can lead to world-weary emotions.
As a low-cost film, Polanski’s first English-language film gave him a firm foothold in Hollywood. His gloom has also become his hallmark, constantly changing in his thrillers, wiping out the seemingly peaceful world. Going on all the haze. His exploration left a valuable experience for thriller films. And "Cold Blood" also won the 1965 Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award.
[Note 1] Persecutory type: I believe that I have been persecuted, deceived, stalked, poisoned, slandered, or conspired, etc. The patient tends to become extremely cautious and guarded, and small insults may be caused by the patient. Amplify, become the core of the delusion, and often bring related people into the world of their delusion.
November 25, 2003 Tuesday 20:30
independent critic: OSAMA KAVKALU in Pudong Jackdaws Abode cool hours of the night
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