"Angel-A" and "Container-Style" Viewing

Luc Besson is coming to China with his "Angel-A", which is his tenth film. I am still thinking about whether it is a good standard to judge a film. I think every audience has his own standard, even though he can't say it himself - this kind of standard that can't be said is superficial, superficial and passive. , container type. Just watched "The Room Key" (also translated as "Opening the Heart") last night. The story is very similar to Hollywood's "Rain Man", but there are no gorgeous elements; The touching story is obviously packed with entertainment elements such as casinos, famous cars, beauties, and humor, so almost no one dislikes it, but some people think it is a contrived film, just like "Braveheart", I That's what I thought. This is what I call the passive container-type judgment standard. You accept whatever the film gives you. Shootout, violence, car racing, nudity, sex scenes... These are like delicious ice cream in summer, and the movie says "Ah-" , sitting in the dark, you opened your mouth: Well, it tastes good, this is a good movie. Of course I'm not saying it's a bad phenomenon, movies are sometimes just to satisfy human desires, voyeuristic desires, sadomasochistic desires, fantasy desires, and so on. We all have these desires inside of us, but there is no need to feel terrible about them. —— Having said that, I like the movie "Room Key", and I also like "Angel-A".

We all know Luc Besson, and we are familiar with his "Killer Lyon", "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "The Fifth Element", we should all understand that he wants to entertain you with ease and make you laugh in 20 minutes. There's nothing wrong with laughing at 20 minutes, making you cry at the end and wiping your eyes at the end. If you look at "Angel-A" with the impression of these movies, it is a "container-style" viewing method (I coined this term just to better express my opinion).

Angel-A is understated, just like its black-and-white photography, Luc Besson is secretive and understated when it comes to filming and publicity. He is a simple story, the character is not a killer, not a hero, not a savior of human destiny, he is very ordinary, ordinary like ourselves. He was so unlucky, so unintelligent, so poor, so incomplete and imperfect, he was cornered by his creditors, and felt that no one in the world would care about his existence and help him, so he decided to commit suicide by jumping into a river. At this time, his guardian angel appeared, and she helped him solve the problem and regain his self-confidence. Then they fell in love. I was at first dismissive of this simple story, trying to find something in the large dialogue, but after a few days I found out that this simple story made such an impression on me. I'm wondering why.

People who believe in Jesus believe that everyone has their own guardian angel who will protect you from the moment we were born. She has been watching you from heaven and even growing up with you. Angela is the part of Andre, the female part of Andre's body. This is very consistent with Jung's psychoanalysis, Jung said that every man has an Animus inside, and every woman has an Animus inside, and sometimes he/she will show it and dominate you to do something decisions about things. There is a very wonderful scene in the film. Angela and Andre are standing in front of a mirror. Andre stares at himself in the mirror. This is a deep self-examination. He feels that he is in love with Angela. Love yourself too. There were tears in Andre's eyes: "I love you, Angela...I love you, Andre." Angela had disappeared when he said this. As an audience, we can completely imagine: maybe, Angela did not appear, Andre loved himself, he found himself. But this kind of self-discovery is just a concept in the film.

We may think of the angels in Wenders' movies, and we may think that "Angel_A" is still not deep and complicated enough, but why do we always have the habit of comparing? Especially for literary works. In my 5.19 journal about "Munich", I also rationally analyzed the criteria for judging several good movies, perhaps too rational. Kieslowski also said that when watching a movie, you should treat yourself as an ordinary audience as much as possible, so I think, to put it simply, a movie that touches you is a good movie. This is a rather subjective statement.

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