everyone is separated from each other by two thick skins. If one defines oneself as a spiritual and abstract individual, then one person's "knowledge" of the other becomes seemingly easy A task almost impossible in nature.
Between two people, the most distance, not the connection. Even if two people are stuck together, face to face, mouth to mouth, and fingers clasped, it is still impossible to know what the other person is thinking. Even if the body is close and then posted, the most space between the two people is still the gap-they may accidentally or deliberately cause different degrees of illusion, errors in communication, the other party's own assumptions and settings. Occasionally, the truth of successful transmission is rare.
But everyone can always see what they want to see best. So we feel that we know our parents, spouses and close friends very well. I feel that now that we know what they like to eat and wear, their favorite colors and biggest dreams, and their birthdays and looks, we have understood everything about them for a long time. In fact, how reliable are these cognitions? In extreme terms, the parents of serial murderers probably would not have thought that their children would become notorious for serial murders in the future.
We are generally very determined, thinking that the people we "know" are exactly what we think. So when Sean understood that Lauren didn't like him, when Lauren found out that Sean hadn't kept her promise and had fallen asleep with her roommate and Victor didn't even know her, when Paul finally understood that Sean and him were not in the same orientation, their faces were full of horror. It turns out that what we see and hear is not necessarily true. Whether it's someone else's disguise or one's own eyes, it is often the accumulation of unbearable weight that we discovered too late. Because in fact, we would rather see more beautiful lies than facts full of flaws.
The protagonists in the movie are all models of extreme self-paralysis, living in their own bubbles one by one. But soap bubbles are very fragile and cannot withstand real touch.
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The photography operations and post-editing of The Rules of Attraction are pretty cool. It can be seen that Avary is indeed a very hard-working filmmaker. But Avary's disadvantage is that he loves to play tricks too much. For example, a lot of reverse playback is used in the movie, which is eye-catching because it is a relatively rare operation. What's fun is that he played the soundtrack upside down at the same time, gibberish listened to it very fun, and then there is a classical music soundtrack that is also great to listen to. At first, I thought it was just added to it for fun, but when it came to the last scene of the movie, when I found that it was actually the beginning, I was quite surprised. But the technique is a bit too indulgent, and each clip is too long (no editing, so several minutes of reverse playback, and one scene is watched three or four times), which makes people a little impatient. Another thing worth mentioning is the scene where Lauren and Sean talk for the first time. I forgot what the professional term is, anyway, I shot them separately, and then put them together with split-screen in the later stage. Wonderful, when the two people were connected to the same lens at the end, the two people were at 180 degrees, and they happened to face each other.
I went to a Q&A in Avary two days ago and listened to him. Most of the music was thought of when he wrote the script, and the lyrics were related to the drama. I feel that the music is really good, and the lyrics and the plot development are very closely aligned. And there are several pieces of music that are somewhat identical in temperament with the protagonist of that scene. For example, the music that Lauren plays when she wakes up feels very Lauren.
It can also be seen that the composition is a bit particular. Props and backgrounds will be used to frame some frames to highlight the key points or imply something. Although the color matching is not too exquisite, it is still considered overall. The purest and most refined visually is the scene where the girl who has a crush on Sean commits suicide. The composition and colors are beautiful.
On the whole, it is a bit chic and a little ironic. Now it seems that in addition to the equipment and other things, it looks more professional, and the shooting methods are actually quite well-formed (not to say conventional, although there is a little bit of conventional) small indie movies. At the beginning, it was strongly promoted by investors as a teen movie, no wonder the response was so big - Avary said that the premiere was in Orange County, a very conservative place. I saw Paul and Richard (or Dick, hahaha╮(╯▽) ╰)╭) Dancing on the bed, many boys stood up on the spot and shouted "fag movie!!!" and left.
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