High Life (2018)
The outline of this story is a space experiment of humans dealing with juvenile delinquency. The subject matter is not new. Kinji Fukasaku In 2000 directed the film "BR Battle Royale" (Suites Hikaru · ro waイアHikaru) , William Golding (Sir William Gerald Golding) 1954 published novel "Lord of the Flies" (Lord of at The Flies) , are focused on similar theme.
One of the fascinating things about Claire Denis's movie is that it puts this observation of the odd young man into space. In the atmosphere of isolation and alienation, the atmosphere in this spacecraft whose goal is to sail through a black hole is becoming more and more ambiguous, like a juvenile correctional house, like a mentally ill building, and also like a medieval monastery. With an artificial vegetable garden full of green crops, the visual atmosphere of this movie is immediately different from all previous space movies.
Second, as a representative of feminist films, Claire Deney's film aesthetics has been unique for many years. She gave the film this space experiment a perspective to examine the mother body, especially with Juliette Binoche (Juliette Binoche) playing the spaceship doctor Dibs who was suspected of killing her husband as the point of view spokesperson. Claire Denis metaphors the universe as the mother womb. The juvenile offenders in the entire ship seem to be Dibs' children. In Dibs' eyes, this space exile has almost turned into a journey of education and nurturing for the young prisoners (of course it was a failure). The female doctor's space capsule masturbation scene is strong, like a Nuwa who is immersed in the music of the lich , triggering the divinity. Watching this scene, not feeling pornographic, I inexplicably think of the high-income unmarried women who have frozen eggs in the news reports in recent years .
A similar Terayama in "Shanghai Museum prostitution different people" (Les fruits de la passion) philosophical reflection solemn manufactured, produced here. Dibs' healing as a healer meant that she was dispelled after she stole semen, violated the rules of abstinence, and raised her baby without permission. And when she jumped into space afterwards, it was difficult for you to sum up her with just shamelessness.
Robert Pattinson (Robert Pattinson) played Monte, his daughter Boyse, who grew up on this exile journey, the father and daughter became the last living beings of the spacecraft, and they will sail to the black hole. Monte asked her daughter at the end, Show we? End of the play.
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