The movie has a heavy feeling, or a charm. Why? One is the goodness of the novel "Club Alexandre Dumas" on which the film is based, and the other is Polanski's understanding of European culture, plus of course his enormous control over the film. To put it bluntly, the story of the director's speech has a background, and he can convey this sense of background to the audience through the lens when he tells it. Undoubtedly, this movie is worth watching
and a kind of thinking. I just watched a few movies two days ago, "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleaner", and I felt too young compared to them. But if you have known about the novel "Club Dumas" and read Polanski's the ninth gate, the sense of heaviness will be lessened. If you fully understand the myth of Lucifer becoming Satan, then watching this movie, you will feel that the movie is childish. We feel that it is thick because of our own shallowness. But this kind of heaviness is layered upon layer by layer. From movies, novels, to devil culture, to mythology, the story becomes clearer and simpler. We went back, we have always understood the simplest things, and gradually we have seen through the complexity of today. The source is so unremarkable, yet far away from it we find it so complicated. We are captured by complexity, guided by interest, and we are scrambling to find the origin that is actually bland. It seems that the girl sent by Lucifer to lead Corso into his world
In addition, when it comes to that kind of origin, the ninth gate is not much different in connotation than other green movies if you don't consider the time factor. It is the accumulation of time that makes us feel its weight. Obviously, it is always inevitable that the passage of time brings changes to things. However, is it because we are all changing over time? Or is time the part of us that changes?
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