Refn's Full Release Fantasy Satire Cult Film

Liliane 2022-03-28 09:01:04

Refn has always been extremely controversial. I like this film very much, what it wants to express is exaggerated and empty! Refn is a director worth paying attention to, and he is worth cherishing in the contemporary film industry! Because there is no shortage of well-behaved storytellers in the world, and he is very personal and willful, and his audiovisual standards are not low. He insists on his own aesthetic style, and he dares to use the aesthetics he insists to satirize this flashy and empty industry, including himself! He himself became popular when he was very young and encountered swordsmanship in the film circle. All ordinary people who fall into this glitz trap will actually get lost. From the very beginning, the dazed, nervous, naive and ignorant of all unknowns, to the first taste of sweetness, the self-esteem and arrogance, and then the growing sense of unease, I think it is well expressed. I don't think the lines are exaggerated and blunt, but I think everything is just right. I didn't feel like a failure in casting either. This is not a traditional genre film, and it is worth watching several times. When the works of many masters first appeared, they were met with mixed praise, and their value should be left to later generations to judge.

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  • Oswaldo 2022-03-23 09:02:05

    "Desperate Driving" focuses on the story, "Only God Can Forgive" focuses on the form, and if you go further in any direction, you may be conferred a god, who knows that "Neon Demon" is stuck in the middle. In fact, I was thinking, if there was a movie that handed all the work except the director to NWR alone or the team leader, but he was not the director, and it was Finch or something, maybe it would be amazing.

  • Emmanuel 2022-04-21 09:02:22

    When the most popular performance was Keanu Reeves, I knew tragedy was coming. Probably only viewers who have finished watching at 5x and 10x speed will not feel the frustration of me waiting in the theater; the pursuit of visual intensity of a single scene is not a problem, it is the purpose of not being able to move with the playback time. It's basically just a cartoon that can move, and it's a very bad kind.

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.