Cronenberg is still cold and forbidding, and the brutal realism of the camera movement is everywhere. Clearly visible fractured nasal bones, dull wallpaper wrinkled by moisture, newly grown stubble on the chin of a good home man after a long drive all day, a middle-class model mum peeping in horror at the underworld boss who was shot by her husband when he was headshot by the screen window Flying flies...
The moments of liveliness are all about violence. Stall Jr. finally takes action to teach the provocative gangster classmates. There was a lot of laughter in the theater. Compared to the bruised and breathless staircase sex scene, the first cross-dressing scene where the couple's love and tenderness was full of love and warmth was like a pediatrician -- come on, I'll show you this tropical fish tank-like happiness, this weak Embarrassing real life. But even that can't hide that what scares you has always been in your blood -- what scares you is always you. This history of violence, who is cleaner than whom?
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