Taboo is long and concise because it is divided into two identical parts. A work of ingenious genius, desperate tragedy and energetic comedy, sound and silent, in black and white from start to finish. Miguel Gomez presents a nearly-disappearing society through a near-disappearing device ( The director's intermediate transition work is so perfect that it makes people forget that the film is divided into two halves ()
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"Taboo" is an extramarital affair story similar to "Out of Africa", but it was given a completely different style by the director. Although the first part uses silent film-style photography, editing and image processing, the actors are still performing normally in the "present tense". The second part is completely a man's narration, telling the story of "past tense". The black and white picture here also has a faint yellow color because of memory. The director first shows the tragedy of life, and then details the causes of the tragedy. The love story itself is also full of the complexity of human nature, the helplessness of reality, the change of mood brought about by the passage of time and age, life and death. The film is a film to be enjoyed slowly. The story itself does not have a strong sense of substitution, but the director's unique handling makes the drama before and after the story more prominent. The silent picture and literary narration almost run through. Full film. This nostalgic image style is very suitable for love and forbidden love deeply locked in memory. The whole film is very bold and innovative in form, quite experimental and nostalgic. Although it is still a little worse from the classics, its innovative spirit And the aesthetic style is admirable ()
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In Taboo, Miguel Gomez's almost paranoid perfectionist tendencies towards mise-en-scene and camera language are brought to the extreme, resulting in a great stylized video work. To put it simply, "Taboo" is a movie about love. Everything seems to be a standard melodrama configuration, not very new, and even a bit disgusting, but Gomez's obsession with film language turns this extramarital affair into a poetic retrospective, a melancholy full of melancholy. But there is no trace of tropical romance. The beginning of the film is abstract and jerky, and the black-and-white filming technique makes the scene especially lonely and lonely. In the second segment of the film, Gomez muted all the dialogue, leaving only ambient sounds and a proper soundtrack, paying homage to the silent era while trying to make the audience focus more on the visual imagery. The director's unabashed pursuit of stylization, poetic dialogue, detailed depiction of daily life, and the looming concern for the fate of colonies in the film all form part of his broad art world ()
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"Taboo" uses black and white soft light throughout, and then puts the story in Africa. The first part is an image of an early silent film. The second part of the film is in the form of a voice-over narration coupled with a silent film, and the text itself is mostly independent of the silent image, and it is detached from it. The tone and content are rather ironic and abstract, reminiscent of modernist novels. So this ethical story that the wife couldn't bear the loneliness because her husband was absent all the year round, and even though she was pregnant, she still ran away
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