metaphysical tracking

Trevor 2022-04-08 08:01:01

Trier's "The Elements of Crime" was better than I expected because I had seen the struggling donkey at the beginning a few times before and didn't want to look any further. I didn't even know that "Dancer in the Darkness" was also his work. In this way, I am reminded of what Osborne stated many times: systematic. It is true that our lives, and the basis for what we do, may be systematically alluded to, but are there psychological systematics, or the desire to sin, to follow? Like the murder map Osborn drew three years ago?
It was a true hypnosis, the recollection receded, and when he retold it, the repetition moved forward so slowly and nightmarishly.
Arriving at night, the lake and town quiver in the orange light, and Osborne's glass ball lights seem to be the core of this light. In this corrupt place, countless fallen leaves are falling, the wind is blowing, and the child sings terrible short ballads like how the girl who sold the lottery was killed.
Fraser left Cairo and came to Europe to investigate a murder case. The only old boss he saw was Osborn, a criminologist. He wrote books on criminal cases and conducted psychological analysis, claiming to guide the police to find the unknown activities of criminals. Fraser's spiritual mentor. But when Fraser began to search for Harry Gray, Osborn took out the photo and pointed out that Harry had died on the way, and the flames of the car were extinguished in the photo. Fraser believed he was intimidated and suspicious, and decided to follow up on his own.
Fraser recreates Harry's country trip. He floated on the water, carrying either Harry's or his own amulet, and following the route on the report, he met the hotel where Harry had come, it was like a ruin, but the people in it didn't know it. Hit the road with a prostitute and assume she's Harry's lover, or at all. Here, Fraser and Harry overlap from time to time, narrating each other, and Fraser begins to have to restrain his head with a string because of a severe headache. Has the search for "the mood at the time of the crime" also become a temptation in the hypothesis? He suffered from Harry's headache until he realized he was in a conspiracy.
Fraser entered his own labyrinth, but he was bound along the clues, as if changing his identities in different experiences. When Fraser was about to end the story, he was told that a girl who sold lottery tickets needed help. They came to the expected location together and walked past the empty room full of bottles. The girl was restless, and Fraser's talisman slipped down. He was suddenly touched by possible criminal psychology. The girl tried to escape by grabbing the window, but was suffocated to death by him.
It is no longer worth revealing who the murderer was, and Osborn, like a prophet, pointed out that the murder was only a formality, a kind of mental manipulation, and he thus found the perfect form for his "systematicity in the last detail".
Reality is not worth simulating, but the surreal performance excites the director and us. Is hypnosis a deep memory or a re-exploration on a certain level? The countless light cannons, fallen leaves, sand and stones, donkeys, glass bottles, and scalpels are more like the complicated thinking in Fisher's mind, derived from actions, and I still don't understand what he repeats "I believe in happiness" is Point to something? The last autumn rain made me feel infinitely desolate.

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Extended Reading
  • Paxton 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    Rewatch. It is still the DVD version of CC, and it is worth a chance to wash blue with CC, which is of great significance for entering and understanding LVT. What is the element of crime? people. In post-war Europe, people are guilty without knowing it. Euro Express is Europe's past, Plague is Europe's present, and Crime Elements is Europe's future. Using light effects and colors to create a visual sense no less than "Blade Runner 2049". The text is similar to Hitchcock's "39 ​​Steps" + the visual style is similar to Nolan's remake of Sweden's original "Extreme Insomnia", and the ubiquitous Tarkovsky...

  • Haley 2022-04-20 09:02:56

    Complementary standard: tone, atmosphere, erotic images, the various extremes shown in the debut work, gradually evolved over the long years, and turned into hypnosis and destruction at the psychological level. In his bones, this person is really a downright "devil".

The Element of Crime quotes

  • [first lines]

    Therapist: [to Fisher] Fantasy is OK, but my job to keep you on the right track. We are after the facts. You seem to return to Cairo and me whenever you have a problem. Two months ago you left Cairo, your wife, everything for a police job in Europe. Now you are back haunted by headaches. If you want me to help you get rid of these headaches, we must go back two months in the time. Back to where it all started. All I know... Europe has become an obsession for you.

  • [last lines]

    Fisher: [to therapist while under hypnosis] I want to wake up now. Are you there? You can wake me up now.

    [long pause]

    Fisher: Are you there?