The first half is like sitting on pins and needles, like a awn on the back, like a choke in the throat. But realized a truth, Karax is making an unusual movie. There are two main schools of film performance, Stanislavsky's substitution experience school and Brecht's alienation effect school. The essence of the film is naturally to bring fantasy into reality, presenting light and shadow to let the audience substitute into the characters or stories. Comedies and musicals in movies are the nature of their own alienation effect. Because in real life no one sings and dances without a word. Annette of Karax is all about making a movie that doesn't let the audience in at all times. The feeling of being on pins and needles is made by Karax, and making the audience hold their breath in the opening confession is an ironic declaration of this. Bloody plots, exaggerated performances, awkward chats as talk shows, and even puppets instead of real people. All these attempts are to pull the audience away from the plot and the characters to watch the movie. What are you looking at without the plot and characters? Look at the craftsmanship of Karax. Forgery in the usual sense refers to making the fake real, and Karax's fake is worth how to make the fake more fake. In this sense, Annette is quite successful. Not only the plot and characters are fake, but also the special effects, lighting, and mirror movement are unreasonable. Henry and the conductor quarreled in this scene. According to the real shot, the foreground should be pushed, and the front and back would be played, but Carax gave the telephoto lens to eat the melon perspective. What's the difference between Annette and a bad movie? The bad movie's needle-heavy effect is that the director is really rough, but Annette is a master craftsman. In the interaction between puppets and real people, we can see the real high-tech content. The alienation effect is completed by puppets, so the interaction between puppets and real people shows the true level of Karax. The death at sea scene and the Super Bowl performance show that Karax is seriously "fake". No film before has such a fake exploration. This is a weird movie. So it makes perfect sense for the judges to give the best director and not the best movie. The film itself is one star, but the production method is five stars. Movies are not like modern art, where you read the manual first. Annette's movie is best read the manual before watching it.
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