After "Standing Alone", Gasper uses one after another visually violent works, such as "Irrevocable" in 2002, "Escape into Nothingness" in 2009, and "Love" in 2015, exploring being trapped in mortal bodies. Dark corners in the depths of his soul (if any).
Time and time again, between death, violence and loss of control, he constantly challenged the audience's bottom line before the screen.
If the nearly three-hour soul wandering of "Escape into Nothingness" has not broken your bottom line, then when the one-hour large-scale collective drug-taking scene in "Climax" is presented in front of you, these horrifying extreme scenes are presented in detail, Can you still resist leaving the game without angrily?
In contrast, the sex scenes in "Love" seem a little warm.
Of course, those highly recognizable and over-saturated film color schemes and high-frequency light and shadow exchanges are also indispensable. Gaspar is like a poet who is always dancing, jumping in the blinking neon lights, thinking about life restlessly.
Still Gaspar
Even if you have never heard of Gaspar and never watched his work, if you are careful enough, the dancer casting scene at the beginning of the "Climax" film has faintly predicted the style and direction of the entire movie.
The neatly stacked DVD boxes on the right side of the old-fashioned TV playing the casting video tape can give you a rough psychological presupposition for the style of the movie:
The horror of "Enchanted" in 1981 and "Golden Wind" in 1977 (Luca Guadagnino was remake in 2018), the horror of "120 Days of Sodom" and experiments on the limits of the human body, "Fog" in 1982 The eroticism and the use of a large number of neon colors in "Hong Kong Sailor", the cult atmosphere of "The Unveiling of the Bliss Tower" in 1854, the sadness of "Cutting the Belly" in 1919, and the fantasy of "An Andalu Dog" in 1929.
Compared to Gaspar’s other works in the past, "Climax" has a looser structure, almost zero plot. It is not so much a film work, it is better to regard it as a large-scale performance art scene (but it seems that he The colors of performance art in his works are quite heavy).
Except for the very obvious traces of the choreography in the previous dance scenes (after all, the smooth scene is really amazing), the rest of the film is more like a V-log mix cut in the documentary.
Most of the roles in the movie are performed by non-professional actors. Except for Sofia Boutella, all of them are excavated from disco clubs or YouTube personal accounts, including the Congolese contortionist who has reached a terrifying level of flexibility. .
These dancers have never participated in large-scale collective dance choreography performances, but under the extremely short running-in time and instructions, they have successfully contributed to the dance scenes that can be included in the film history.
This five-minute one-shot, wonderful choreography combined with various free styles such as Voguing, Krump Battle, etc. Actually only rehearsed about 15-16 times, and it was completed in one day. The look-down view used extensively in "Escape into Nothingness" The lens is also used here smoothly.
The vulnerability of human large-scale assistance
The highly coordinated and nearly perfect dance scenes are rare "normal" content in Gaspar's works, but just when you think that "Climax" is a 180-degree change in the style of Gaspar, then you are very wrong. .
It is just such a harmonious, energetic and energetic rehearsal and assisting performance that can form a very ironic contrast and contrast with the hour-long madness and loss of control in the back, reflecting the almost perfect assistance of the front. How fragile and vulnerable.
ETRE EST UNE ILLUSION FUGITIVE Existence is a fleeting illusion
Compared with the revenge of "Irreversible", the lust disputes of "Love", the despair of "Standing Alone", "Climax" uses high-intensity and long-term chaos to describe the instantaneous collapse of human collaboration under unpredictable factors. Towards a state of madness of uncontrollable disaster.
Yuval Harari's "A Brief History of Mankind" mentioned that the large-scale assistance ability is a characteristic of Homo sapiens that has evolved and distinguished it from other species. But what he didn't mention is how fleeting such a spirit of assistance we are proud of is almost an illusion.
When discussing the theme of "Climax", Gaspar cited the example of the Tower of Babel in the Bible.
The Tower of Babel Project is the first (and only) large-scale collaborative action of all mankind since the creation of God. The great project of working together was finally disintegrated easily and completely by God using language as a weapon.
Since then, mankind has been divided because of language barriers, and said goodbye to heaven forever.
In reality, it is no longer language, or not just language, that affects the assistance between people. Differences in gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and race can easily disrupt the assistance between people; alcohol and Drugs are only an enhancement of this deep xenophobia. Under the condition of loss of control, all those subconscious fears and violence can be vented, and uncontrolled animal catharsis also heralds the disintegration of civilization.
When the large-scale human civilization system collapses, only those who are truly strong in their hearts can survive.
Discussion of Out of Control Ontology
In the opening CASTING, one of the dancers, OMAR, was asked what is in heaven. He replied, "All good things, only good things, no problems, no confusion." At the beginning, he also wrote:
A CEUX QUI NOUS ONT FAITS ET QUI NE SONT PLUS To the creators who have left us
The theme of chaos and self-made is constantly interspersed in all of Gaspar's works. In a world without God's guidance, do we have enough wisdom to deal with, whether we have enough courage to face the dark corners of the soul.
Although Gaspar’s works always carry religious implications from time to time, for example, in "Escape into Nothingness" discussing the issue of Buddhism reincarnation, in "Climax", he is not strongly interested in discussing issues about God and belief, but There is a constant discussion on the ontology of human beings that can easily get out of control.
The two sangria with LSD added were just as unpredictable and unknown as God’s interference.
Many people are asking if these dancers really took drugs when the film was shot, but they really didn't.
The director explained that many people in the fashion industry use drugs to cope with stress, but the capital of dancers is their control over their bodies. They care about their bodies and they also have very strong control over their diets, and drug abuse It is against this principle.
In "Climax", Gasper constantly pushes the characters to the extremes of emotions and behaviors. Some are driven by desires and some are driven by emotions. When discussing different extreme states, he tries to restore what the human body can achieve. degree.
The visual impact of the various jiu-jitsu movements that the Congolese performers showed that broke through the limits of the human body structure gave people an illusion that the reality is no longer real.
This is not to say that in such a state of excitement, you become another person. You or you, whether within or outside the control of your mind, won’t be because you have done something that you wouldn’t normally do. Behavior, you become another person, the existence of the ontology is a fact, but different behaviors only require different triggers.
MOURIR EST UNE EXPERIENCE EXTRAORDINAIRE Death is an extraordinary experience
Fear and insecurity are the deep reasons that make people crazy. Alcohol and drugs only amplify and amplify this fear and insecurity to a degree that cannot be achieved in reality until you completely lose control.
Different people have different paths of exploration for self-perceiving.
"Climax" reveals Foucault's view of the limit everywhere, and the chaos that follows makes people reminiscent of an undocumented trip to California before the French philosopher's death.
It is in death that a person can escape all kinds of tedious life, no longer bear the influence of his leveling all people, and thus become one with himself. As death approached slowly, half-hidden, but clearly visible, the dull and vulgar life finally became a personality. A black border isolates it and gives it its own authentic style.
Excerpted from "Foucault's Eros of Life and Death", by James Miller, translated by Gao Yi
Gasper through those extreme and long-term crazy shots will leave you with lingering fears at the end of the movie.
Watching Gasper’s movies is always exhausting, not only because the subject matter of the movie always revolves around the extreme conditions that life can touch, but this kind of almost crazy emotion is unreserved by him. The ground, even slightly deliberately, rudely, and for a long time to restore in front of you.
The senses have been trapped in such a highly intensive nerve stimulus for so long that you have an illusion that this forced out-of-control of the body is actually happening in front of you.
You can’t help but substituting yourself into this extreme emotion, stepping out of the movie theater or closing the computer, it may take a few days for you to return to a normal mental state.
Therefore, Gaspar, who was born in Argentina, can be regarded as the most unfriendly director in history. In his filming works, he focused on visualizing his extremely personal spiritual climax. This also means that there is nothing for his films. There are two kinds of reactions: undifferentiated body feelings and cluelessness.
Even for Gasper's most and most loyal followers, not every work can be seamlessly sought after, because there are no two identical sensory worlds in the world.
Perhaps, only in the nightclub where the light and shadow change, and the body is handed over to the dark, can we perceive the depths of the soul, good or bad.
For Gasper, I can understand his pursuit and exploration of the extreme senses, but as a fat house who doesn't like jumping, I believe that there are more different ways to explore yourself.
Love and peace, and don't do drugs.
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