The tilted world of Jeliza-Rose is not a fairy tale

Jason 2022-01-28 08:19:22

Having spent nearly two hours in this neurotic girl mumbling to herself, I can't say I liked the film - this near-Marquez-like absurdity and madness. pitful? sad? I don't feel and don't think Jeliza-Rose has had these mood swings. She is not a normal girl, even facing death is just another special game for her~ Family is really a crucial nursery. Rose has no doubt inherited her parents' restless genes, and is born with a fascination to see things around her. And her father, who looked like a pirate in Viking mythology, had a small sailboat full of candles, clamoring about going to Jutland all day long. Her mother was in the shape of a yaksha, with a pale face, withered buff hair, and a thick body. "You know I love you, don't you? I'm sorry baby, I'll be nice to you later, I promise... oh baby..." she muttered, pressing her daughter hard against her chest , but yelled "Fuck" when her daughter reached for her favorite chocolate! It's an unpleasant mother, and after she's drugged to death, Jeliza doesn't respond. Instead of tears, or crying, he turned to comfort the childish, helpless father. "Now we can eat her chocolate." Her parents were addicts. Injecting her father seems to be a daily routine for Jeliza, and she is familiar with it. Even after the injection, the child will carefully place his father's hand and position his sunglasses. She thinks it's a help, father needs to "power up" so that when this pirate-like stout man powers up and turns into a gray corpse, our little Rose hadn't noticed when it stinked. . I don't think it's naive or self-deceiving, it's just that this little girl who is full of fantasies and has no concept of death has been immersed in the routine of her father's "power on", and she is only wondering why this time will be so long. Even if the family life is rambunctious, she has no ability to know more than this age. So she jumped on top of the corpse and shouted loudly, talking to him, driving the worms off his face and hair for him, and asking him why his stomach was distended, not knowing that it was a corpse gas filled with decay. Then the camera turns to her father's face, the tongue sticking out a dark purple... It was the corpse of a pirate. I think the moment she really realized her father's death was when Dale, the ghostly woman, was disposing of her body. By then her father had decayed like a statue out of a plaster mold. Dale held his head affectionately. "This reunion, I won't let you leave again." Knowing that they once fell in love is a long time ago, but this reunion, separated by yin and yang, seems so strange. As Rose's father said, "Where there are Vikings, there is a strange light". After Dale's treatment, the color of the corpse changed from gray-white to dung-like brown, and there was wire under the skin. Dale left a gap in his stomach, and the thickness of the wire and skin cream in the stomach can be seen from it. She said, "Are you going to give him a gift to celebrate the arrival of new life". Jeliza then threw the heads of two "friends", her precious Barbie dolls, into her father's open belly, like down a rabbit hole. Two screaming heads fell and fell, just like Alice, and then roamed Wonderland in her father's belly. Drop, drop, drop...will it keep falling endlessly... Her most precious doll head, Restink, fell down the rabbit hole and can't be found again, and when it finally appeared, it was actually in Dale's hands. Rose often ran to see that rabbit hole, just under the tree that seemed to twist up from the depths of hell, and muttered to it. I feel that it is a great irony to call this film "The New Alice in Wonderland". Jeliza-Rose lives in her own world, and no one can sink deeper into this wonderful mind of self. No, she is not mentally disturbed, unlike the mentally retarded "little boyfriend" who is shivering and cowering. Days are for Rose to be playful and imaginative, a long dream connected to countless fairy tales, and she is the princess who controls the plot. After collecting a bunch of clothes from her grandmother's closet, she began to wear all kinds of odd-shaped gowns, rags, and sometimes a smooth yellow wig. Pretend to be mature, talk like a bitch, and giggle. This is just a child, but what she does unconsciously is shocking enough. This is a child like a bitch! I'm sure you or I did something like this a few years ago when you or I were just a little shit. Whispering in a cold mirror, stealing her mother's lipstick and wearing her high heels. These childhood anecdotes have now become gossip condiments for adults after dinner, and they are full of childishness. And Jeliza-Rose, such a girl who lives alone in her own world and has dolls as her friends, acts like this to her father's mummified body all day long, but it is unspeakably strange. The title "Tideland" means "beach" in English. High tide coast, translated so vigorously. However, looking at the whole film, there is no ocean or beach, and there is only a large piece of yellow and soft grassland. The wind swayed, rolling like a wave, making a crisp sound of rustling. And our little Jeliza used to travel like a fish in the yellow waves with her "captain". I wonder if the funny name is talking about this yellow sea full of hay fragrance. Alone, Rose lives on fantasy in this land of nothing. Dyer was not so much her stipend as the enemy she feared, and she was nothing but a broken house to live in. In the end, Jeliza-Rose, this fake Alice, learned to practice at a young age, and the wicked little kid seems to have his own home. When she was snuggling in the arms of that strange woman, eating oranges comfortably and watching the moths (fireflies?) flying towards the fire, in her close-up eyes, silent nostalgia was flowing... "They are mine. Friends, they all have names."

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  • Janiya 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    What JB stuff, can't understand at all, the fantasy world of a schizophrenic little girl and a fool? Too absurd, too perverted, too neurotic, except for the oblique photography (oblique composition) similar to "Born to Kill", it is a bit interesting, other... well, I reserve my opinion...

  • Stuart 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    we will take care of each other,how's that?

Tideland quotes

  • Dickens: He's spoiling.

  • Queen Gunhilda: It's your daddy's fault you were the way you were, not mine. 'Cause I loved you... lip smackin' little junkie baby. Irritable and hyperactive, you was, just twitchin' and spasms and convulsions. Your daddy blew smoke in your face to keep you quiet; you know that, mm hmm. I think it what damaged you, well don't blame me, cuz. I breast fed you forever... Jeliza Rose you know I love you, don't you? I'm sorry baby, I'm gonna do something real nice for you real soon some day, I promise.... What the fuck are you doin'? How many times do I have to tell you to stay away from my chocolate, you little bitch?... Oh honey, I don't want you to leave me, Jeliza Rose. I can't get by without you, Jeliza Rose.