The director of this film is a very thoughtful person, and many reviews used a hodgepodge of them when he directed the film, but this is not like he has no style of his own, but more like he knows what can better express his ideas and uses it deliberately. The director created two scripts, "Psychedelic Black Rainbow" and "Mandy" at the same time when his father passed away; the former pays tribute to the sci-fi films of the last century, and the latter pays tribute to the cult films of the last century; therefore, the two are in the picture. Very similar in texture.
In a previous review of "Mandy", it was mentioned that the equilateral triangle △ represents males, so the device used to suppress Elena in "Black Rainbow" is also an equilateral triangle.
Barry saw a vision of Dr. Arboria when he was looking for Elena who fled, and Nicolas Cage also saw a vision of his wife Mandy after revenge.
The two films have a lot to do with both sexes. "Black Rainbow" describes the resistance and flight of women after the psychological distortion of men, and "Mandy" describes the wounding of women's psychology in men's hearts and the awakening and release of men's psychology.
In 1966, Barry entered another world where he was revealed to a certain truth. This part is the most mythical and sci-fi part of the whole film, and it is also my favorite part. In another world, the physical state is mostly gas, and the gas is also a symbol of women. For example, in the ancient Greek drama "The Cloud", the cloud gods with indeterminate shapes are all women, and the clouds and mists in the other world also resemble women.
Barry turns red at the end like coals of fire, and fire is a simile to men.
In contrast to this, there are several cloudy pale tones.
In addition, above the triangular device used to suppress Elena, there is a hole similar to this picture that will spit fog, and the composition is similar to the sexual organs that are about to copulate.
People who come back from another world, or have connections to another world, become abnormal. Barry is insane, while Elena has some kind of psychic ability. The other people in the lab also have their own oddities.
This film has many similarities with Stranger Things, set in an era when the US-Soviet Cold War arms race stimulated all kinds of unusual experiments that eventually led to magical supernatural events, as well as The perfect app for electronic music.
When escaping from the lab, she stepped back into the mud, and with the increasingly positive electronic music, Elena, who had returned to nature, showed an uncontrollable smile. This is the very humanistic and real side of the film.
It is precisely because of this humanistic concern that I believe that the director of this film knows the theme he really wants to express, so I don't believe that this lack of style is a lack of control.
In the end, this film may only be worth giving me 4 stars, but because this is the director's debut and it has more than me on the psychology of sex Also improving, so I gave 5 stars. The electronic music throughout the film is very harmonious and impressive.
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