[Climax] This kind of movie is like taking medicine after watching it.
In the winter of 1996, in France, a young dance team was rehearsing for the upcoming performance. They have different skin tones, but they all have excellent dance skills. They are exhausted after rehearsal and decided to relax.
Cigarettes, fruit wine, electronic music, the atmosphere is just right and relaxed. Someone lusted, slept, slapped their mouths, punched their mouths, said, "My dick hit her throat", and then laughed.
It wasn't until a blonde female dancer stood in the middle of the room and peeed in front of everyone that everyone began to feel something was wrong.
Someone seems to have drugged the fruit wine.
Yao Jin quickly climbed up, and the music changed from passion to psychedelic. Everyone seemed tireless, screaming, crying, insulting, fighting, dancing, self-harm, even incest and rape.
Then I thought, will those three letters appear in the second half?
There are three letters in the world, can make the world upside down, the sky becomes a kaleidoscope, milk delivery staff like a witch. Everyone is out of control, as if they are on a showy dance floor, the body is frantic and unrestrained to shocking, as if the whole process is in orgasm, as if he can get an erection at any time.
Sure enough, at the end of the film, the dancer who was peeing in public was sitting on the bed with a few boxes piled up beside him, one of which was written " LSD ".
Also called lysergic acid diethylamide, a strong hallucinogen.
In 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman drank 250 micrograms of diluted LSD and rode home with his assistant from the laboratory on a bicycle. Then, according to the assistant, "He rode fast."
The streets have become a place where heaven and hell are intertwined, and the sounds of door handles and passing cars are turned into visual presentations.
Woke up the next day, Hoffman was refreshed and in a good mood. He felt that everything was fresh and clear, and breakfast was better than ever. This is the world's first complete LSD fantasy tour, which people call "Bicycle Day".
It is water-soluble, colorless, tasteless, and highly medicinal. As long as 0.1 milligram-one ten thousandth of a dime coin, it is enough to produce some effects.
For example, auditory, visual and sensory hallucinations and stimuli, delusions and anxiety, can see a variety of bright colors, happy or sad emotions, and sense that time and space have been distorted.
It is the cheapest drug. It only costs $2 for a single dose. It is usually dripped on a stamp-sized piece of paper, and it is also printed with a very psychedelic cartoon pattern.
There is such a "stamp" in the movie [Black Mirror: Bandersnatch] . The male protagonist puts it in his mouth and sucks, and for a moment, he finds that everything is deforming.
As for why it is made into a stamp shape-
In the summer of 1960, a Harvard psychology professor named Moshi Leary began to study the hallucinogens in poisonous mushrooms in Mexico. Not long after, an Englishman introduced him to LSD. After taking two bites, he fell into a pleasant intoxication in a flash.
He abandoned the poisonous mushrooms and began to study LSD.
In the 1967 "Human Gathering", countless hippies gathered in Golden Gate Park. Lili felt that he could not miss the opportunity. He squeezed into the crowd to give a speech. He used three phrases to describe the feeling of consuming LSD: Turn on, Turn in ( Accession to the WTO), Drop out.
Overnight, LSD became the standard equipment for hippies, which was equivalent to a kind of "happy water" that could liberate oneself, almost one dose.
But soon, crimes caused by abuse increased day by day, and some people jumped off the building in a psychedelic state. LSD was denounced by the media as a "lunatic drug". The government also realized the harm and listed the holders as serious prisoners.
The more this is the case, the more curious and eager the masses are, which leads to circulation on the black market. In order to avoid censorship, the black market drops it on small pieces of paper, and buyers can "promote immortals" as long as they hold them in their mouths, so-called " postage stamps ."
Seeing repeated prohibitions, the situation has become more serious. In 1969, the United States established an anti-psychedelic drug committee to completely ban LSD.
But they did not know at that time that LSD was not limited to the black market, but also penetrated into various fields of culture, such as music, art, and movies, collectively referred to as " psychedelic culture."
Let me talk about music first.
In 1968, he took LSD's gratitude to death and took to the stage, improvising a large number of songs, each for more than 5 minutes, which made the audience fascinated and unable to extricate themselves, which directly caused the concert to be extended by 5 hours.
Jefferson Airplane will prepare a pack of LSD before each performance, "sprinkle it to the audience like chocolate beans", and nibble some of it himself to enhance musical expression.
The Beatles were most affected by this drug.
They are obsessed with the inspiration inspired by LSD, so they can plunge into the studio and record songs while taking drugs, just to use notes to remember the misty and distorted feelings of taking LSD.
So I have the heart after taking drugs in "Nowhere Man", the fantasy travel experience in "She Said She Said", and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" uses the initials of the song title to imply LSD.
This song is also an episode of the animated movie [Yellow Submarine] . The movie features the 4 Beatles as the protagonists, and the visual style is quite psychedelic.
There are also Warhol, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Happy Monday. The music they make after taking drugs is very different from the waking state. Each capital is bizarre and more sensory. The listener seems to see colors, patterns and shapes.
Not only the songs, but the album covers are also full of LSD style.
For example, painter Mati Klarwein painted the cover for Davis's album "Bitches Brew", and Martin Sharp designed the cover for The Cream Band's album "Disraeli Gears".
When psychedelic rock like a hurricane swept through San Francisco, small music festivals began to appear. In order to attract audiences, some heads of dance halls and outdoor venues also specially invited designers to create psychedelic posters.
Among them , five designers , Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse , are the most famous and are called "The Big Five".
All are designs whose form is greater than content, fluid and distorted fonts, and contrasting colors. Most of them are creations after consuming LSD.
The style is as Hoffman said, " Everything is rotating, and pieces of furniture become absurd and horrible, constantly moving, lifelike, like being driven by an unstable internal force. "
The film is a hybrid of the above two kinds of art, which has both psychedelic music and psychedelic color pictures, so it is defined as "psychedelic movies", "psychedelic movies" or "LSD movies".
But not as long as there is a lens that smokes LSD can be counted as such.
The so-called psychedelic movie is actually the director recreating the hallucination experience after inhaling LSD. From hearing to vision to sensory stimulation, images burst, alternate, mutate, and open like a kaleidoscope.
It made people feel dizzy, as if they were really taking medicine.
The first film history to describe this feeling was [Elysium Building Unveiled] in 1954, and it was also the first film to clearly express the use of LSD.
The colors are colorful, and many shots have used superimposition to create a trance effect.
The 1960s was the heyday of LSD, and even psychedelic movies flourished. The two can be described as mutual ingestion and mutual promotion.
The most representative ones are [Lost] and [Easy Knight] .
But the former can be named in the history of filming , not only because the filming feels closer to the illusion of form and perception that LSD brings to people, but also because the director Roger Koman and the male lead Peter Fonda both smoked LSD during the filming.
There are many such people in the entertainment industry.
Starring Gary Grant in [Golden Jade League] and [Northwest by Northwest], Helen Mirren who has filmed [恩愛情天], [Love Before Memories Die], [Flying over the Asylum] and [The Shining] male protagonist Jack Nicholson, who has experienced LSD phantom tour, seeks sensory stimulation and improves creativity.
Especially Jack Nicholson, he is not only the screenwriter of [Lost], but also starred in [Easy Rider] with Peter Fonda.
It is a road psychedelic film that uses drugs while riding a motorcycle. The color is bright, sometimes fluctuating, sometimes fuzzy and distorted.
For a long time after that, psychedelic films were the same, with no new ideas, or poor reputation, and they were shot like a rock.
Until 1998, [Fear of Las Vegas] was released.
Said that two men took a lot of drugs and alcohol and drove to Las Vegas in search of the American dream. However, under the action of the drug, many frantic images appeared in front of them, with a carnival until the death, so that they could not distinguish between the phantom and the reality which is more broken.
This movie was regarded as a classic by hippies, and people still praise it for recreating the drug-taking experience perfectly and evoking people's psychedelic feeling.
It can be seen that psychedelic film is not a movie type, but a feeling.
It takes the audience into a certain state of consciousness and withdraws constantly, crossing the mind, emotion and physiology, just like a dose of LSD.
After the millennium, it will be represented by [Dream of Requiem], [Dancing with Poison] and [Escape into Nothingness].
The director of [Escape into the Void] Gaspar Nou made the neon lights flash quickly and the camera floated around, calling himself a "psychedelic melodrama." It is a pity that the judges' mixed praise and criticism made it miss the Cannes Palme d'Or.
Fortunately, in 2018, he used a similar technique to shoot another one and won the Cannes Director's Biweekly Art Film Award in one fell swoop.
This movie is [Climax] .
Overdose of LSD drugs, screaming and roaring one after another, desire, anger and death are intertwined, and the fluorescent red that makes the blood of people bursts out in the dance room, constantly changing, reorganizing, and blooming, drawing everyone to their own frequency , Extremely excited and hysterical.
I think this is psychedelism.
It is sensible and deep into the soul, like injecting 100 mg of LSD into the muscle, which is the amphetamine, Gandhi, and Vivien Leigh of the poison world.
So, what kind of medicine, psychedelic film or psychedelic music, visual nerve congestion, and can’t help but dance—this kind of art is the small dose of “poison” that should be on the tip of the tongue.
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