Original steam upstream pilot Television 2018-01-30
At the beginning of the new year, when everyone was immersed in the trivial things to welcome the new year and the turbulent traffic news, Xiaoyou silently turned on the hard drive and found out this unpopular king that has been silent for many years, a weird fairy tale that truly belongs to adults. A new world built by the director.
Speaking of Jean-Pierre Gennet, everyone will immediately think of "Angel Loves the Beauty" filmed by him. The color of comedy in the film, plenty of light and shadow and the dream and romantic storyline make the audience eat a bite of honey. Sugar also made the whole world know that strange Emily. And this is not the whole style of Renei, even less than half of his full imagination. Many viewers don’t know that he once built another small city before this film . This small city is facing the sea, drifting, and full of metal. Texture and fog, this is Renai's another movie "The Night of Lost Souls", a fantasy city that truly belongs to him.
Everything happened in a small fantasy city facing the sea, where the mist was still invisible during the day. A strange doctor Geller, because he could not dream and accelerate aging, in order to relieve his pain, he decided to kidnap children and steal their dreams, but the kidnapped children only have nightmares; on the other hand, Ah Yi, who was born and strong, was originally there. On the corner of the amusement park, after his brother was kidnapped by the doctor, he embarked on an adventure to find his brother. On the way, they met the little girl "Breadcrumbs" from the orphan stealing unit. The two rescued Ah Yi’s brother and all his brothers. Kidnapped child.
The seemingly simple plot becomes fantasy and full of drama under the combination of Rene. Weird and grotesque architecture and movie images; old but vivid color contrast; dwarf, long face-the dark part of European fairy tales.
This is a dystopian-themed steampunk pioneering fantasy film. Even today, its shooting methods and film connotations are still advanced.
Compared to "Amelie" is well known, "Of Lost" is more like a hot internal elaborately carved a sculpture , all sunshine and laughter sweet in this film traces no, this is not a It seems that there is a city in the daytime. The director did not use bright colors and rich lens language. The whole picture showed a wet gloomy feeling soaked in green liquid, and a large number of shots were directly attached to the face of the actor, like The fisheye stretches and deforms the face of the actor, making the story more plastic.
The children are sitting in the room with blackboards and desks, but what they teach is theft of knowledge; in the weird "True Eye" organization, everyone wears mechanical instruments instead of eyes, and detects through flare guns. Voices from the outside world; the speeches of the leaders of the church are passionate, infectious and symbolic, but they are very Hitler; the weird towers are all surrounded by mines, and you can never pass through without a map; sticky and dirty dark green The sea is like the Dublin Bay described by James Joyce in Ulysses by Buck Mulley: "The sea of snot and green. The sea that makes people's testicles tighten."
The director has always been keen to create an island-like dystopian society in the film. Compared with the real society full of sunshine and sweet dreams, it is extremely cold here, without future and hope, even without dreams. People will accelerate the rate of aging. .
And this is just a reflection of the real society. On the surface, it is full of peace, but inside it is full of uncontrollable ills. Class contradictions, shortage of resources, crime...The human spirit has not been truly free in a highly developed society.
But even in such a depressive environment, Renei still continues to tell us fairy tales, and still creates some corners for us to sleep in this chaotic environment, so that people caught in steel and cold air are always full of people. In order to understand the taste of people, including all villains, they are also different from the bad guys in the traditional sense. They try to dress up as Santa Claus, hoping to play with the children in exchange for their goodwill and trust. Compared with the children sitting at the dinner table and silent on the bed , all the great talents in the film are more like children with upside-down bodies.
For example, the lines of the six clones telling stories for the strange doctors exude an amazing fairy tale atmosphere:
At that moment, the snails suddenly began to dance.. Then they took off their shells and used them as loudspeakers to announce the start of the concert. Next, all the snails took off their shells and used them as loudspeakers to announce The concert started and then the stupid big shark bounced the xylophone with catfish bones, walrus with sperm whale suspenders, bounced the Jewish harp, the sea was as blue as the sky and the sky was as blue as the South Pacific and I didn’t know I was in the sky Flying in the middle or flying on the bottom of the sea I swear it makes me tremble
With just a few short words, the cold steel shelf around it seemed to be wrapped in syrup in an instant, and the sun appeared again. This is also the ultimate meaning of Renei's spare no effort to shape the entire fantasy world, using dreams as a primer to implicitly bring us new hope in the cold reality.
Those who have dreams are the happiest, but those who don’t have dreams will age faster; although they are in a dystopian society, as long as they have dreams, they can temporarily forget the noise and trivial matters in the dark night, and will not fall into reality again. Can't extricate himself from the distress.
"When people grow up, dreams become the only door to the beautiful world of childhood." Because of this, dreams are also so important that they can rebuild the wider world that people want.
Renei once said with a grin: "Since the New Wave, movies have mostly been about a couple arguing over trivial matters. I prefer to shoot positive stories."
So he created such a fairy tale that looks scary but is actually bright and uplifting. Whether it is an adult or a child, he will like to feel the fear and find his own pleasure.
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