Just looking at the synopsis of "Neon Devil", you may mistakenly think that it is just a simple description of the intrigue in the fashion circle, and vying for the top position. In fact, it is not true. In the movie, there are few women who focus on women's scheming, but focus on their desires. Beauty’s morbid psychology, and because of these morbid psychology, allows the plot to unfold unscrupulously!
It must be known that the so-called "beauty" in "Neon Devil" is limited to external beauty. Of course, there is a slight mention of internal beauty in the movie. The focus is on pathological behaviors that pursue external beauty, such as murder, corpse rape, and cannibalism. These are heinous behaviors that step on the bottom line of human nature.
"Beauty is not everything, it overrides everything." This sentence is the main theme and the essence of the film, and it is the root of the characters' morbid psychology in the play. In order to pursue a flawless appearance, they do everything possible, except for cosmetic surgery. Even eating human flesh and bathing in blood, just to get a beautiful appearance, I can’t help but think of the film "Three Watches 2", which uses infants as a magic formula for beauty, but the degree of morbidity in "Neon Demon" is more than that. Eating younger female carcasses in an attempt to rejuvenate, even the recent "Tenant Downstairs", which uses a perverted landlord as the subject matter, is insignificant compared to "Neon Demon". Because beauty is above all else, it’s no surprise that the characters in the play do anything crazy for beauty!
Perhaps you will feel a bit of doubt at this time. Cannibalism is not logically reasonable. This is not "Journey to the West" or Tang monk meat. It does not have the effect of immortality, but if you understand the style of director Nicolas Wendinghefen. , You can know the reason. He once said in an interview: "What you care about is feelings, not logic." Therefore, whether cannibalism is effective or not is not the focus of this film. The point is that he wants to show that he wants to pursue beauty. The feeling of unscrupulous means, when the audience feels that the characters in the play are frantic, it represents the director successfully conveying the feeling he wants to express: "beauty is not everything, it overrides everything." Those human morals and legal norms are not in front of beauty. Worth it!
In addition to the subject matter that challenges the bottom line of human morality, it is very topical. "Neon Demon" has many attractive features to watch, a large number of heavy-beat electronic music, plus eye-catching and gorgeous colors such as scarlet neon lights. It is undoubtedly announcing to the audience: This is a movie full of visual and auditory sensory stimulation! I especially recommend Cliff Martinez, who wrote the soundtrack for this film. The soundtrack for the well-known American drama "New York Medical Feeling" is also from him. The electronic music he composes, accompanied by those blurred lights, does not violate the harmony. The feeling of dazzling fascination spontaneously makes "Neon Demon" enjoy a high level of pleasure in the audiovisual senses.
Finally, let’s talk about a section in the play that I like very much. There is an unexpected guest in the heroine’s room. She was nervous at first, but when it was confirmed that it was a carnivorous cat (looks like a lioness), she was not nervous anymore. , Because the carnivorous cat is undoubtedly her portrayal. The carnivorous cat is at the top of the food chain that eats the weak and the strong, just like her beauty is also at the top of the fashion circle. Don’t the animals in front of you look a lot like yourself? So, she was not afraid anymore! In addition, the full moon, which is a metaphor for the heroine’s mood change, and the neon lights that turn from blue to red, are also arranged in a reasonable manner, explaining that she has changed from a fawn that ran into the jungle by mistake to a predator of the weak, just like her mother's evaluation of her:
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