High Art, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko, is a silent debate between normal and abnormal. Lucy used to be a very famous photographer in New York with outstanding talent, but she chose to retire and stay in a small and cluttered apartment with her girlfriends Grata and Hero; Syd has a considerate boyfriend and a stable assistant career, but she is getting In the process of trying to persuade her to come back, Lucy entered Lucy's degenerate life and fell in love with Lucy, drifting away from the so-called normal track. We should ask, is normalcy for most people the right choice?
Following the director's narrative rhythm in this film, I completely put aside the strange eyes of looking at Lucy and Grata, and Lucy and Syd, looking at their kisses, caresses and eyes, I just feel that these are two individuals Passionate way of expressing love, gender has no meaning here. The film does not use pitiful and hopeless sensational descriptions of people who cannot escape in a fallen world, and does not deliberately create the inevitability of redemption. We can only see them slowly corroding, but we will not feel pain for them. The director uses this A way of isolating to tell the audience, save your needless pity, they don't need it.
And even though I still had a little suspicion about Syd in my heart that "I would rather sacrifice my body to get Lucy's photography work", the director was very smart to let Syd face a major decision in the end, whether to publicly declare an abnormality or maintain the surface. It's normal, as if Lucy was lying beside Syd and said "What will you do?" I think this is the small and final test Lucy left to his lover.
The whole "High Art" is visually very real and direct, but full of beauty, like the word "spontaneous" I learned from the film. The sex scenes that appear many times in the movie are almost one shot to the end, and it can give people a full sexy atmosphere without fancy mirror positions, and it is almost true to the feelings. , but attracted much traction; when Syd took drugs for the first time at Lusy's house, and lay dizzy and lazily on the circular sofa, the conversation voices of the people around him began to gradually drift away from Syd's mind, the slow drifting of the camera and the low soundtrack Mysteries are combined together to express the psychedelic confusion of Syd's subjective consciousness in the simplest and most beautiful way.
so, what is High Art? We can simply interpret it as Lucy's sharp and realistic photography art in the film, but the deeper connotation is that Lucy's life and desire have created outstanding works of art, so eager love is Lucy's High Art, what she live for .
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