This weekend, Leah's circle of friends is about to fight for this year's Cannes competition film "Burning"! However, I was hilarious for two days because of this Cannes out-of-competition film last year-
"Party Pick-Up Tips"
The film premiered in Cannes last year, and it is said that the line up at the scene only lasted for 3 hours. And the reason why it is so attractive is because its novel author and director are two great god-level geeks!
"The Secret of the Party" is adapted from the short story of the same name by Neil Gaiman. This great god has won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for many times. One of his masterpieces, "American Gods", has also been adapted into an American TV series.
Neil Gaiman's works are bizarre and absurd, so those who can control his novels must not be ordinary people.
John Cameron Mitchell, the geek in the director, has a more well-known identity in the second dimension: the prototype of Victor in the comic "Yuri on Ice".
Mitchell directed a total of four feature films, the first three are "Rock Barbie", "Sex Bus", "Rabbit Hole", one more fierce than the last. ,
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How to properly flirt at a party?
The story of the film takes place in London in 1977. In this year, a rebellious and crazy band composed a song of the same name as the British national anthem, "God Save the Queen", which was "Sent" to the Queen of England, who was on the 25th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
You'd be wrong if you thought it was meant to flatter the Queen, which compares the Queen to a fascist regime and sings: There is no future! There is no future for you!
This band is Queen Elizabeth's nightmare - the Sex Pistols.
Immediately, the song was banned in the UK. But the official ban could not stop it from becoming popular around the world. "God Save the Queen" became the most popular single of the year and also defined punk music.
Enn, who lives on the outskirts of London, is one of countless secondary school teens around the world who have been influenced by the song's rebellious spirit.
Influenced by his father who ran away from home, Enn has been obsessed with punk since he was a child. Related records and posters are piled up all over the house. The first thing to wake up every day is to turn on the record player and shake his head to the music of The Damned.
Enn has two good friends who also love punk, John (fat) and Vic (non-mainstream).
During the day, the three friends crowded a broken bicycle on the streets, causing trouble, shouting "fight against the state machine to the end", and at the Queen's birthday celebration in the community, they pointed their middle fingers to adults, shouted "fascist regime", and their mouths were full of genital organs. .
In the evening, they hang out in the local speakeasy, sing songs, flirt with girls, have sex, and sell their own magazines to the local punk godmother, the queen with smoky makeup and killing Matt's explosive head.
Yes, you read that right, she is the Australian fairy Nicole Kidman.
On this day, the three people who had not had enough fun decided to go to another place to continue their fun. Unexpectedly, the three buddies really followed the music and found a luxurious villa where a party was being held.
As soon as the door opened, the three people who had never seen the world were completely shocked! Where is the party? It is clearly a cult of this religion!
The villa is full of people who are even stranger than their punk outfits. They are wearing tight leather jackets in six colors, white, red, purple, blue, yellow, orange, very postmodern.
And accompanied by futuristic psychedelic music, one by one doing difficult yoga moves with empty eyes, the three stupid people concluded that these cultists must be from California, USA.
The non-mainstream was the first to hook up with the young lady in the orange leather coat, and found an empty room, and the young lady took the initiative to send Lu Lu for him.
Just when he had an orgasm on his face, he opened his eyes, where did this TM have a third hand? !
This year's most bizarre 3P scene was born - a little brother in orange leather stroking Vic came out from behind the little sister, and he was so frightened that he wilted on the spot!
The fat man who danced in the hall was at ease as soon as he came, holding the idea of "Come on, be happy", half-naked and dancing a difficult yoga dance with the leather-clad people as if he was getting high.
The timid and shy Enn had long been frightened by this bizarre scene, and ran around and bumped into Zan, a blond innocent girl.
Zan was picking up scissors to cut the long yellow dress, and Enn, who had the courage to strike up a conversation, stepped forward, pointed at her and said, "This is punk!"
Zan became interested in what Enn said about punk, and decided to run away with him to see what punk was.
Enn, who fell in love with Zan at first sight, thought she was a simple girl who had strayed into a cult, and took her home without hesitation.
Enn led her around the park, sharing fresh tomatoes in the back garden, listening to "Angry Universe" at the record store, and going to the underground punk bar opened by his godmother.
Enn wants to perform for Zan in a bar, but the godmother falls in love with Zan and decides to give them a chance to perform on stage.
The innocent girl with the ball head was transformed by the godmother and instantly turned into a punk girl with heavy makeup.
With no lyrics and no rehearsal, Zan and Enn who were temporarily pushed to the stage, along with the bass sound of the roof overturning, began to roar at the audience on the stage, "Swallow me raw, peel me alive", Zan improvised The cynical lyrics tell a cannibalistic story about cannibals, and the whole place explodes in no time!
What's even more crazy is that Zan and Enn seemed to suddenly float into a different time and space during the singing. The bodies of the two people turned into colorful transparent bodies, which were seen, decomposed and merged in a vacuum, as if they had achieved the great harmony of life.
It turns out that Zan is an alien! Strictly speaking, she's not even a person, she's a dwarf!
Since Zan eloped with Enn, she has only 48 hours to live. When she returns to the villa, she will be eaten by the elders of the tribe according to the customs of their tribe!
Zan, who has fallen in love with Enn, must make a difficult choice:
Protect your own clan, or stay by Enn's side?
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What is the spirit of punk?
In fact, the original novel ended when Enn escaped from the villa, and director John Cameron Mitchell, the rock veteran, made a drastic adaptation of the novel, boldly adding punk elements, and changing the original from a growing up youth film. It turned into a cross-species romance movie of punk music vs alien psychedelic!
Therefore, it is not so much a science fiction film as it is the director's memory of the free and rebellious punk era.
And the most exciting part of it is that Zan, who knew nothing about punk, was enraged by the boos from the audience, and she roared for the first time in anger, accusing them of the cannibalism of their tribe.
On the 25th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne in 1977, the Sex Pistols sang "God bless the Queen, she's not human..." on a cruise ship on the Thames, until the British police arrested them.
"Party Pick-Up Tips" is all about the rebellious and fearless spirit of punk: they are anti-mainstream, anti-collective, anti-government, anti-everything.
Just like the cannibal song sung by Zan in the film -
They devoured us raw like giants devoured gods They slaughtered us alive like punk devoured modern Say goodbye to this damn world
Once upon a time, punk was misunderstood and spurned by the world. With the disbandment of the Sex Pistols in 1978 and the murder of bassist Sid, anger, rebellion, and violence have become synonymous with punk.
However, what exactly is "punk spirit"?
At least director Mitchell's understanding is not negative. From Zan and Enn, we can see that every breath of friends is unique, and every me is fresh.
This is true punk.
There are too many people in this society who forget their anger and resistance when they are alive. They bow their heads under power and obey in habits, and become the silent majority in the collective.
However, there is another type of people, with smoky makeup and ragged jeans, who can't stand the fucking rules of the world, and they go on a rampage to fight against them, choosing to destroy the order and pursue freedom.
This kind of people may be troublesome, but they are like a basin of cold water filled with ice. Only this biting cold can wake us up, who are numb and decaying.
But in addition to anger and opposition, there should be a second half of the punk spirit, which is awakening and growth.
It was Zan's resistance to racial cannibalism, and her courage to face difficulties; it was the godmother who carried the speaker and brought a group of punk youths to fight the aliens with music; it was Enn who finally knew herself through music, Turn the ordeal of adolescence into a weapon against society.
Only by resistance can we survive! So Sao Nian, while you are young, get dry!
-FIN -
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