Wrote an unfinished fake analysis. . .

Marcia 2022-03-27 09:01:09

Refn's approach to modern art is getting more and more familiar, and the guy who once smashed the school desk against the wall has become graceful in channeling the unstoppable force in his heart, and the runaway has become so beautiful.

Among the films I have watched sporadically, there are few films with a style and form like this one, but I am not unfamiliar with it, because I am still familiar with the context of the story, and I have watched the UK chart for 5 years, and the MV is like this. The number of ways, this is like their audio-visual language.

Contemporary art, I don't know what I understand, whether I understand it or not, so I want to talk about some trivial thoughts when watching the film:
color, shape, mirror, symmetry, beast, flash, electronic music, My

preliminary understanding of the setting:
Jesse = beautiful appearance, perfect state that cannot be achieved by human pursuit, with a native fiery soul; from Georgia (slightly wild), to LA (opportunity and dream), hope to pass To NYC (fashion elite)
Ruby = short to medium hair, professional attire, streamlined and neat, at a glance, it is very pull. A part of the machine, longing for a fresh life, dealing with "death" for a long time, especially sensitive to "life"
Gigi = the representative of the main body of the machine, doing the best of human effort, has become rigid, and what remains in the soul is more Greedy, madly obsessed with vitality
The entire mature fashion system: demons, man-eating machines, pursuing the external extreme of form, greedy for the beauty of life but always destroying and swallowing

color | Red and blue:
color matching is a master play The color of the film is bold and saturated, but there is no discordant stimulation in the visual perception, and I can't say how.
Some people say that red and blue reveal the transformation of characters, which should be justified. I personally feel that it is in a place that is delicate and without soul (Artificial), which is blue, such as the show stage, such as the gorgeous house, such as the corpse, such as the catwalk is dangerous. When peeling, exposing, exposing the human soul, it is red, the color of blood and flesh, and when Jesse's blood gushed from the wound on his hand, the demon version of Gigi greedily sucked it up.
If I assume that blue = soulless appearance = artificial refinement = precision machinery; red = inner wildness = soul and nature = dangerous out of control, I can understand many red and blue collisions in the film from this perspective:
such as T During the first show, everything above, the costumes, the triangular neon lights, the flash, were all in a very cold blue tone, very delicate, and J kept flashing red inverted diamond images as he moved forward, here is the A Threshold, the collision of exquisite machines and wild primitive life, also marked J crossing the point of no return and leaving away from the original self.
Another collision of red and blue is the scene of the morgue, and it is also the continuous switching of the two sets of "postural echoes". Ruby is facing the soulless but delicately sewed and packaged corpse (the opposite of delicate should be conceivable. This sentence of the death of a corpse) Close your eyes and imagine the living soul that she cannot occupy (J in red wriggling on the sofa). I felt an obvious effect here. When R turned off the mountain gate and the lights, and the bright white light turned blue, the first reaction was, it's over...R is going to do something with the corpse... This is the unique power of color on the sensory impact Bar.
There is also the pursuit of R's family. The originally blue house, when danger came and revealed the fierceness of human nature, J also retreated to the red area. Red is also a color that indicates danger. In addition, the small hall at the end is covered with a blue carpet. When the eyeballs spit out from the mouth and land on the carpet, there will be another collision of colors. Here I feel that the artificial construction cannot wrap the original The power of G, and after losing the captured soul, G's greed devoured himself. It seemed like a knife pierced from the outside to the inside, but it actually exploded from the inside out.

Light and Darkness: In light and dark
, the film is basically very bright, and the dark is very dark. Generally speaking, the deeper the light and the darker, the darker it is; the more superficial, the brighter it is; the more intense, the more dazzling it is; the more relaxed and softer it is.
For example, the scene where Lynx appeared is the most stark contrast: Lynx, I will preach later, here is more to show the subconscious level (J's awakening), so it is a very dark scene, a transition, When I came to the unfamiliar interview studio, the light was instantly exposed, straight eyes, and jumped to the surface from the depths of my heart, J entered an unknown new world, this scene was solved after the awakening of the animal nature, J went into fashion transformation of the world.
Then J left the studio and turned into bright natural light, becoming a daily LA, and J also corresponds to the most relaxed state. Similar soft natural light appeared when I went to a restaurant for the first time
(a little tired, I can't write...)
(I wanted to re-read it, but it took a month to procrastinate, so I just finished the article with a few sentences)
Mirror: There are several functions. On the one hand, it expands the space and creates a sense of alienation. In the same room, several girls have a conversation through the mirror. Inwardly, they are actually rejecting each other. On the other hand, when J looks in the mirror, it means to introspect, observe himself, and watch himself wake up, and his heart will change. Correspondingly, with mirrors, there will be symmetry, which is very neat.

Flashes, geometric figures, and electronic music all have psychedelic effects, and of course they also have symbolic meanings, so let's feel it.
Beast: That lynx is J himself, and the appearance of the lynx is also a sign of J's natural release, from a well-behaved little girl to a dynamic dangerous object. As for the other beasts, wolves are all rigid and lifeless. At the same time, the dead wolf's eyes are so bright that they are bloodthirsty, and they all yearn for J's fresh life.
Alas, the more I write, the more scribbled it gets. It took a long time to think about writing an analysis, so let’s finish it hastily.

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Extended Reading
  • Maggie 2022-03-22 09:01:58

    I don't know how many times I've rewatched it, but I just think the better it looks, the better the scheduling, the first-class aesthetics, and the charming symbols. 【2016 Top Ten No.1】【2010s Top Ten No.1】

  • Dereck 2021-12-19 08:01:04

    Audiovisual feast of formalism masterpieces, lighting, color, music, photography, atmosphere, emotions can all be taken separately, but the story is not worth it, Libra NWR loves formalism to the point of poisoning, it must be good-looking, it must be Pretty. One more director like this is vulgar, and one less is lonely. He also needs one or two stubborn people. He insists on making only the movies he thinks is right, so that people who like him will like it to death, and those who don't like it to death.

The Neon Demon quotes

  • Roberto Sarno: Dean, we're having a little debate over here. We need your expertise.

    Dean: Okay.

    Roberto Sarno: You know Gigi, right?

    Dean: Well - I mean, we just met.

    Roberto Sarno: [to Gigi:] Will you stand up so that he can take a look at you? Go on, stand up.

    [Gigi stands up]

    Roberto Sarno: Well...

    Dean: Well, what?

    Roberto Sarno: What do you think? You think she's beautiful?

    Dean: I don't know - I mean, yeah, I guess she's fine.

    Roberto Sarno: Yes, yes, that's exactly the word I was looking for. She's fine! Right?

    [Roberto touches Gigi's right arm]

    Roberto Sarno: You can sit down now, thanks. Thank you, Dean.

  • Gigi: [while looking at herself and applying lipstick in a bathroom mirror in a club] God, I love this color on me.

    Ruby: Red rum.

    Gigi: What?

    Ruby: That's what it's called. They say women are more likely to buy a lipstick if it's named after food or sex. Just think about it. Black honey, plum passion, peachy keen.

    Gigi: [Sucking on her finger and looking at herself in the mirror] Pink pussy.