Fantasy and metaphor in film

Carrie 2022-09-14 00:42:18

Original book: Boris Vian [French] "Mood Indigo"
Director: Michael Gondry

Fantasy in the movie:
1. The electric drill drills the bathtub;
2. Colin's bath water makes the flowers of the old aunt downstairs thrive;
3. Colin's pet mouse , the same way of life as people, the same behavior as Colin, at the same time can be an assistant, blowing bubbles, picking, moving things, handing tools, etc., as well as own elevators and go-karts;
4. Trim eyelids (not eyelashes, scary );
5. Rotating the vegetable cutting bucket;
6. The dish that moves by itself when wiping the table;
7. Throwing the record out and recording, the TV and the real person play together at the same time (in the building);
8. The TV and refrigerator that guide cooking De", will reach out from the TV refrigerator to help when necessary;
9. Mice and TV sets can be placed in soap bubbles;
10. Lights that can be played;
11. Eels hidden in water pipes;
12. Pineapples lure eels , mint, tomatoes to anesthetize eels;
13. Human positioning system, which can observe telescopes in any position;
14. Rotating condiment bottles;
15. Use light to heat cheese;
16. Moving doorbells (like cockroaches) that must be shot dead;
17. 3600 rotating handshake;
18. Dishes that can be deformed;
19. Cocktail piano, different cocktails are prepared with different music; 20. The
surface is undulating, and the dining table wears roller skates, and the dining table will run away after the meal;
chess pieces;
22. Garbage automatic cleaning and recycling device (like a human small intestine);
23. Coffee bean grinder like a gramophone;
24. Nikolai's Rubik's Cube Notepad;
25. Bibelwa Dance (the legs are bent and stretched freely, like an inflatable trachea);
26. The Duke Ayton gramophone, the way to play records is to smash the records and press the sound 27. Factory shooting method to
eliminate faults;
28. Steel carrots, children's shoes;
29. Shoes that can run and lace by themselves;
30. Double twist and increase Legs;
31. A puppy cloth toy made of temporary gloves with the wrong gift;
32. Isis's clothes with puppy characteristics, Isis who is constantly winding up;
33. Put the microphone on the TV In front of the character;
34. A sign that touches the ground;
35. A pill that echoes;
36. A mop to clean the table;
37. A one-second change outside the door;
38. A cake that predicts the future;
39. Anything A fixed telephone that can be moved anywhere;
40. Crane and duck viewing car (Ferris wheel function), which can also automatically take pictures;
41. The subway that still shuttles in the pit of the excavation square;
42. Jump out of bed and change clothes automatically;
43 , The human body that can automatically stretch, the forklift that cleans the corpse; 44. The
superb skating technology; 47. A priest with a gun, the priest drives an indoor plane, parachutes in a church, and launches a rocket indoors; 48. You can get married if you win a competition; 49. A priest can only preside over a wedding if he accepts bribes; 50. A fully transparent wedding car;






51. 3D living person guidance system;
52. Artificial rainbow;
53. The trunk of the wedding car that automatically deforms, and the thunder appliances that divide the weather, half sunny and half light;
54. Nikolai throws people to the second floor;
55. Leather legs Ambulance;
56. Corpse Crusher;
57. Anxiously smashed into the window, the person who broke the glass is fine;
58. Circular room;
59. Living biopharmaceuticals (horror), eating ingot carrots;
60. Bleeding sewer pipe;
61 , thoracic transparent examination method;
62. A stool that collapses and becomes better after sitting;
63. A train that can get on and off at any time;
64. Surgery while smoking, automatic surgery machine, remote live performance;
65. Tear books into water , drop into the eyes and watch the video;
66. The factory opens a tank; 67.
The stairs that cannot be
walked down ; ; 72. The Mouse Collection Chloe manuscript; Metaphors in the film: 1. Typing: industrial age (like Chaplin's "Modern Times" small worker), repetitive labor; 2. Water: death; 3. Porte Jean. Saar, Bolvar: Sartre, Beauvoir; (Chick's bust bought in the store, becoming a burden;) 4. Octagonal curtain cover: darkness, death; 5. Dove: bad thing; 6. Feather: disease; 7. Water lilies: cancer; 8. Women and people crushed to death by skating rink winning prizes: fragile lives;

















9. The wanton growing vine: the spread of the virus;
10. The cracked earth, the oppressed wall, the shadow: pressure;
11. Doctors: all quacks (the first drunk; the second liar; the third mental illness );
12, flower: vitality;
13, house: economy.



Now I think Tim Borton is a piece of shit. Love Paris!

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Extended Reading

Mood Indigo quotes

  • Chloé: [Last lines]

    Chloé: If we screw this moment, we try the next. And if we fail the next... we have our whole lives to get it right.

  • Colin: Introduce me to her!

    Isis: Yes, great! Chloé? This is Colin. Colin, Chloé.

    Chloé: Hello.

    Colin: Hello.

    Colin: Chloe... Ever been played by Duke Ellington?