7.8 points.
Freud’s psychological thoughts should have had a great influence on Polanski. The previous "Knife in the Water" is a more euphemistic and implicit expression of the relationship between men and women, and this "Cold Blood Horror" is just one shot. It is very open. On the one hand, it has the characteristics of film noir and B-level film. On the other hand, it is also very experimental. From the film to the back of some thrilling imagination fragments, the hand extended from the wall, etc., until Shadows can be seen today, such as the hand stretched out of the bush in Las Von Trier's "Female Addict" (if I remember correctly).
At the core level, it is the female protagonist’s desire for sex and the fear and repression of sex, which form the ultimate madness.
It is conceivable that Hollywood was inclusive in that era, but now Hollywood has only business in its eyes, and it is difficult for such an excellent film to be produced.
The audiovisual language of this film is also very advanced and very good.
Let me talk about the visual aspect first: In terms of space, Polanski is best at a closed space. Throughout Polanski's films, many films are closed spaces, because closed spaces can better highlight the inner world of the characters and show the conflicts between people. It can be seen that as the heroine gets more and more crazy, the space becomes more and more closed. There are some exterior scenes at the beginning, and all the back is in the internal space. In terms of photography, the location photography is becoming more and more closed, and there is no panoramic display, because the heroine's heart is also becoming more and more closed. The setting of some small objects is also very skillful, such as the rotten rabbit meat. Note that it is rabbit meat instead of more ordinary chicken and beef. Rabbit meat seems to have an indescribable sexual suggestion. And the shape in the film is reminiscent of dead babies, babies are also the product of sex, so this may be why it seems full of semiotic hints of sex.
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