I have been waiting for the movie "Black Dahlia" for a long time.
Director Brian De Palma.
Everyone who has watched "The Dawn of Love Owl" directed by this dude will never forget that Al Pacino once uttered the truth of the rivers and lakes in a dull voice
-love killing is faster than a bullet.
Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank are both actresses with complicated temperaments. They appear in a noir film at the same time.
The film is adapted from a real case in 1947.
The victim was unknown during his lifetime, but after his death he became the strangest female corpse in the history of American homicide.
She was cut at the waist, her body was completely divided into two parts, her internal organs were hollowed out, and her abdominal cavity was washed clean.
These are quite common. The scary thing is that the corners of her mouth are cut off on both sides, so her face can't help but smile.
I have to admit that when the camera suddenly swept towards her head, and at this moment, a black bird flapped its wings and flew to stay on the corpse, I was really frightened.
But "Black Dahlia" is not a mystery film, so there is no need to expect to see Hitchcock's meticulous logic in it.
On the contrary, the story begins very plainly. Let’s start with the acquaintance of a pair of police partners. They are both retired fighters. The blond is Li and the brown-haired is Buqi.
Los Angeles in 1947, when the style of Rita Hayworth was still prevailing, the tone of the City of Angels was a bit old and a bit dim like a vintage photo.
Kay Lake [Scarlett Johansson] is Lee's lover. She has bright blonde hair and beautiful red lips. It is so rare that she even got a master's degree in history.
Bacchi spent the best time of his life with these two people. But this relationship lurks crisis because Kay and Bach finally fall in love.
Soon, a female body was found in the wasteland. Because of her black hair, the case was named Black Dahlia.
The process of chasing the murderer was treacherous, and Li was also killed. He fell from a tall building and landed on a pyramid-shaped fountain. His death was horrible.
But Bach even found a woman who resembled the dead in a lesbian bar-Madeleine [Hillary Swank], the daughter of a Hollywood architectural tycoon.
The deceased Betty is a girl dreaming of a star.
She spends all her time auditioning and hanging out on Hollywood Boulevard, showing her terrible acting skills and flattering smile to the camera and strangers.
But the famous line she imitated Scarlett O'Hara was a metaphor for her fate
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even if I were to cheat, cheat, or steal, I would never go hungry again.
Indeed, she could act in an obscene movie on the subject of lesbians, and eventually died as a result.
She will never go hungry again.
Any attempt to find good people in "Black Dahlia" is futile.
Everyone walks side by side with evil-betrayal, betrayal, blackmail, adultery, disfigurement, necrophilia, and perhaps incest.
The movie does not give justice, only tells us the truth.
But Nietzsche asserted early in the morning that the truth is poisonous. So if there is a short-term discomfort after watching a movie, it is too normal.
Isn't the charm of film noir that the audience likes to find themselves unhappy?
I remember the best noir film I have ever seen, "Chinatown".
There are Fei Donnawei, who has a sad temperament, and Jack Nicholson 30 years ago, who had not played "The Shining" and "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at that time, let alone the one in "The Infinite Walker" The gangster who overly robbed the show.
He was just a helpless private investigator. In the dark night of Chinatown's gleaming lights, he watched the woman who had had a one-night stand with him get a headshot.
And all he can do is forget it-forget it.
To be honest, sometimes the darkness is too big for us to fight against.
Life is broken and can only be stuck with a piece of tape.
We have to sacrifice our inner darkness and contend with the darkness of the outside world, and we can't even say whether this is an escape or a war.
In 1947, the world had just awakened from the trauma of World War II, and the hearts of the people were like frightened birds, impetuous and turbulent, and Hollywood drunken fans were simultaneously staged with corruption and prosperity.
In the same year, the black dahlia was reported as a warning with its fragrance and its weirdness.
Still this year, the Jewish poet Celan published his famous "Death Fugue"
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Morning black milk we drink in the evening / night we drank our morning and early afternoon drink / We drank and drank
Celan said the death is from Germany The master, I guess its name is Hei.
2006-12-8
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