Length: 81 minutes
Production time: 2003
The 56th Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or
News: On April 20, 1999, two high school students broke into Columbine Middle School with automatic weapons Killing, killing 13 teachers and students after committing suicide.
A lyric from elsewhere: "I never think I die alone. I am too discouraged and don't want to live anymore. When I passed away, you (You) will feel sad and sad..."
Movie: Audiences who look forward to the thrill and excitement of blood and killing, please choose "Battle Royale" or "Kill Bill". There is only a peaceful day and everyday Indistinguishable life, but one more slaughter, and even this slaughter can still be described as quietly.
Quiet, like a silent film.
No one who has watched this movie has treated it. Expressed great appreciation, so I decided to find it. So I finally watched it.
In fact, it is not long, but 81 minutes, but the first 60 minutes, I was always at a loss.
Here, and any American high school Similarly, there are the late arrival of bad students, the whispers of girls, the indifferent couples, the ordinary girls, the teenagers bullied...Long, winding corridors, libraries, restaurants, Rugby field...
At the beginning of the film, the director tells us that life is no different.
Here, time and space are interpreted again and again.
When A appears, A calls and is called to the office by the teacher and leaves , Meet B in the corridor, take pictures, go out...
When B appears, B takes a portrait on campus, and meets A in the school building, takes pictures of A, then C hurries past by... .
When C appears, C talks to classmates, talks to the teacher, changes clothes, goes to the library, wipes from A and B...
Also, D, E, F, G, H... these students are busy in this huge teaching building, and there are various consciously or unconsciously intersections between each other, as if one opened one. Spider webs, threads scattered all around.
It's messy, but they cross each other.
The camera is like an eye for action, closely following every character who appears on the scene, faithfully recording the last day of everyone's life. Long shots of large and large sections, lines and dialogues that sound vague.
Reversing the interlaced time, space, and characters makes this film look like a record and a reappearance.
In this upcoming school violence incident. Who is the master? In the first hour of the film, the director never revealed the puzzle.
It just makes the audience guess at a loss in his changing perspective at any time.
It wasn't until the next twenty minutes that the clues began to be summarized.
The film began to become clear here, and the many inexplicable plots that appeared in the front were finally integrated and framed.
And two of them, named Eric and Alex, are the focus.
The shots of other people all happened on this day.
And only Alex and Eric are not limited by the time of this day. (After all, so many actions are unlikely to happen on the same day.)
Eric is the boy who was bullied by people throwing paper balls in class. He looks a little dull and honest.
In the face of ridicule and provocation, he was indifferent. Just leave silently.
In the restaurant, when everyone was eating, he took a small notebook and recorded while walking. When I first saw this place, I didn't care about it, thinking it was the boy's quirk. It wasn't until later that he and Alex discussed the action plan in detail, that I didn't understand his true intentions at the time.
And when he was designing the action plan, his spirits were flying, and he was totally different from the previous one.
The turning point of the film comes from a plot of Eric playing the piano.
He was so devoted, his fingers danced flexibly on the keys, and music like flowing water gurgled out-to Alice.
Then Alex walked in and listened. Then began to play killing games.
Eric's piano sound became more and more rapid, and finally turned into madness and ended.
Hitler and Mussolini are being talked about on TV at the moment.
…In
this section, I was still a little drowsy, especially the melodious piano, which almost made people forget the tragedy that was about to happen. However, when I saw the guns that Eric ordered from the Internet clearly displayed on the screen, I immediately became sober. Keep watching with wide-eyed eyes. Jet black, brand new M4 carbine.
They went to the sundries room, shot bullets on the ground skillfully, shot, and sawdust splattered. It's like a prelude to a massacre. The film also got rid of the straightforward narrative and almost unbearable long shots of the previous large sections.
Getting better.
And where did the violence arise? There is still no clear answer. Only one episode of the plot emerged.
Among them, the same-sex affectionate behavior between Alex and Eric in the bathroom. This also coincides with the episode that appeared earlier in the film, in a classroom where a heated discussion about homosexuality occurred. Those people have disdain, opposition, and noncommitment.
In the later part, some of these people will die under the gun.
Among the A, B, C, D, E, F, G... and others that appeared in the film, only A got out of danger. When he walked out of the school building, he met Alex and Eric who were walking over with their backpacks, and only he had a foreboding of the smell of danger. And began to let some people leave.
The rest were not so lucky, they fell under the guns of Alex and Eric.
C was the first victim, and her blood splattered the bookshelf behind her. D, who likes to take pictures, fell under the muzzle after he took the last photo of Alex.
Throughout the entire killing, Alex and Eric remained calm and calm, and were not moved by the blood and the students' screams, as if they were in a video game, not real death.
The rhythm of the film has also reached its climax. Although tragedies continue to occur, the hysterical madness is not visible on the screen. Whether it is a student or a killer, it is quiet and terrifying.
As a result, the intensity of death formed a strong contrast with the silence of the students and killers, which made the film even colder.
Among them, the appearance of a black man confuses the audience. When the other students ran away in panic, he walked in the direction of the accident as if nothing had happened. When he saw Alex pointing a gun at the teacher who fell on the ground, he still walked forward step by step. I believe the audience at this time should think that he is a hero with stunts who can turn things around. Unexpectedly, Alex turned his head to see him, a bullet hit him, and the black man fell to the ground with a slam.
Subsequently, the teacher also became a ghost under the gun.
It turns out that there is no need for a savior in this massacre.
And when all the main characters appearing in the film were killed one by one, only a couple who often advertised in school hid.
At this moment, two killers who had washed the school met at this moment.
When Alex found Eric, the latter was relaxing in a chair in the library. Right here, the plot changed unexpectedly. When Alex excitedly told Eric of his record, he fell under Eric's gun with a shot.
It is indeed an unexpectedly wonderful pen.
At the end of the film, Eric didn't rush to find the couple who was hiding. Regardless of their pleadings and curses, I easily talked about the ballad of pointing soldiers that Mei Leli read at the beginning of "Born Murderer"——Eenie meenie ninie moe, cath a redneck by his toe, if he hollers let him go… …The
camera slowly backed up at this moment, pulling away. Only the figure of Eric holding his gun aiming at it was left.
End.
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