It's all a masterpiece of meaning

Richie 2022-11-10 15:43:52

One thing the director wants to express is freedom and restraint. You who seem to be free, as long as you have a home and a house, your life track will have dots in the circle, and you will revolve around him. Life is endless and spinning. If you want to escape, the house is your prison. Perhaps this involves the value of buying a house. Some people want to buy a house and live in stability, while some want to rent a house without stopping. The director will "secure" and express it in an extreme way, making it the opposite of "freedom", making you feel that you want to escape the fear that you can't escape. One is the money you make from the exploitation of capital. When you buy a real estate, it looks like you are getting a return, but you are actually helping people raise children. This is a fact that exists, but it is magnified by the director to become a horror idea that everyone can't accept and resist. Precisely, you will find that because you bought a house, perhaps you will have a heavy loan. At this time, you don't have enough wealth to give more to your children. You are beyond your means and you have no money to give. Then your money is naturally given to the children of the real estate agent. Just like the film's opening, the food that the magpies hardly grabbed feeds a murderer dove who deserves to die of his own child. Terrible metaphor, do you feel it? Even if you think that this is an asset you leave to your child, you can't prevent your child from growing up and having the same dream of buying a newer, better and more "distant" new house. The house you buy may not be the capital of you or your children. One is the deep downside of architecture. As I said before, you live in a high-rise building in the center of New York, or a slum in São Paulo. From the director's point of view, it is the same steel structure. Like the cookie-cutter houses in that neighborhood. The director magnified this point very obviously. In the relationship between capitalists and the exploited class, the distinction between luxury and narrowness of the house has become less important. This may also be interpreted as: Look at the essence through the appearance. One is the pursuit of humanity. What is human nature? There are many, it is difficult to make a comprehensive and perfect summary. The human nature covered in the movie is the pursuit of home dreams, maternal love, freedom, sex, quietness and gregariousness. Home is one's own space, a paradise for living with the closest people. Mother's love is the need for reproduction and the hope for the continuation of life. Freedom is the root of happiness, and if there is freedom, there will be opportunities to have happiness. Sex is a natural beauty, even in adversity, it is also a flavoring agent. Quietness is far from the noise of the world, and people often seek for at least a moment of silence. It is precisely because there is no sense of community that the most primitive fear of people is triggered. When all of this is absent, it is the most fearful time.

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  • Mackenzie 2022-05-26 16:21:04

    #72nd Cannes# Visual fantasy thriller. The film has references to modernist paintings in terms of visuals, especially fine art, lighting and color palettes, such as the Belgian painter René Magritte (a painting of a house is hung on the wall of the living room of the house, which is particularly typical The composition of Magritte) and the American painter Edward Hope (green, light, etc.), residential areas with green as the main color are eye-catching at first glance, and the more they look, the more depressing, whether it is light or lawn (actually fake) It's the clouds in the sky (fake it like a painting), and the rapidly growing baby emphasizes this so-called "Uncanny" feeling. In addition, near the end, there is a cross scene that was very gorgeously filmed, and the design of each scene and the matching and cohesion between the scenes are very good. There is not much to say on the story level. The opening paragraph "Dove occupying the magpie's nest" implies the whole story. As far as the creative context is concerned, it can be regarded as Nicholas Winding Refn. Although the layout is smaller, it is still worth seeing.

  • Lizzie 2022-05-26 18:41:57

    The dialogue and rhythm are great. The whole movie is as absurd and natural as the salesman

Vivarium quotes

  • Gemma: What am I suppose to do with him?

  • Gemma: Did you see the boy?

    Tom: No.

    Gemma: He's gone missing.

    Tom: Well, so have we.