"Cold Blood" is like a pathological research report on female "sexual psychology". Carol, played by young Catherine Deneuve, is a taciturn girl. Sexual troubles put her mentally on the verge of collapse. In the end, in panic and fear, she killed her suitor and landlord...
The original name of the film, Repulsion (meaning disgust, resistance), is a hint of Carol's inexplicable hostility towards "sex." Although Polanski did not try to explain it with Freudian routines such as "childhood hurts", it is not difficult to see that all the women around her gave her negatively in terms of "sex." Impact: My sister lives with a married man, an old woman in a beauty shop talks about how to control her husband (the lens focuses on the close-up of her mouth, which reinforces its horror), colleagues cry because of the man’s injury-through Their behavior, the meaning of "shame, uncleanness, representing women's physical and mental violations" contained in their sexual behaviors, etc., has been infinitely magnified.
But disgust is only appearance, and the virgin’s fear of sex is also mixed with desire. After her sister left home for vacation, Carol, who was alone in an empty house, began to have the illusion of rape. Rape represents a half-masochistic nature, half a portrayal of the social attributes of women giving up the initiative to men (at least Polanski thinks so, women want to be ruled by men). Carol hopes that a strong man will break the barrier, destroy her, ravage her, and break through the defenses of her sexuality in a ruthless way. In the hallucinations, when she was touched by countless arms protruding from the wall, the expression of both horror and enjoyment on her face was enough to explain everything. And Carol's lipstick puts a bright red mark on the pillow, which is simply the most straightforward metaphor of a virgin's bloodshed in the first night.
At the end of the film, my sister came back and found Carol lying on the ground. Her brother-in-law, whom she had always hated, picked her up. Does this symbolize her reconciliation with men after all this?
"Cold Blood" is full of surrealist movie images-cracked walls, rotting rabbits, moldy potatoes, but at the end of the film Polanski made a joke with the audience. We can't help but exclaim, it turns out that Carol's murder is not her fantasy? ! This completely blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy. A few years later, Bunuel asked Deneuve to play a woman who was suffering from sexual problems again in "Beauty of the Day", but Bunuel would not care about the inner state of the heroine. It seems that humans It is the first to ridicule the stupidity and hypocrisy of human beings. It is interesting to watch these two movies in comparison. But what makes me even more curious is what would happen if "Cold Blood" was filmed by female directors like Catherine Brea? She may treat the split state of women's "breaking" fear and desire as normal, rather than using it as a model of mental illness as Polanski.
It is interesting to say that although "Cold Blood" is a real literary film, it was invested and shot by a British adult film company called Compton. When filming the famous scene of "Deneuve walking through the corridor with arms outstretched", the prop artist wrote to Durex (yes, that condom company) and bought them a large amount of light rubber to stick to it. On the wall, so that weird shots were taken.
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