Dan Gilroy's "Velvet Circular Saw" is a satirical film in the art world. The art depicted in the movie is full of dangers, and those who profit from it are also risking their lives. Gilroy aimed the lens at all the players who make high-priced art work-pretentious artists, gallery owners, brokers, customers, especially art critics-the more we commoditize art produced from passion or the dark side , The more we have to risk suffering because of this. This is how he arranged in this satire-horror hybrid film. The first half of the film teased the players in his art world, and the second half began to inflict real violence on them. . This is a very contradictory film: sometimes it shows disappointing clumsiness, as superficial as the world it mocks; but it is also an ambitious work with unforgettable imagery and a combination of ace actors. Do you know how a painting can look completely different depends on the angle from which you appreciate it? The movie "Velvet Buzzsaw" (Velvet Buzzsaw) tells this truth, and I think this is what the director Dan Gilroy wants to convey.
The art critic Morf van der Walter, played by Jack Gyllenhaal, is extremely eye-catching. He can accomplish or ruin an artist's career through his well-received art criticism. He is like a regent in the circle of profit-making art. Also included in this circle: agent Rodora Holtz (Rennie Russell) and his assistant Josephine (Zavi Ashton). Like every homicidal movie, the director showed us fragments of the final victim arriving in a remote cabin in the forest. Director Gilroy has created a bunch of weird characters, such as installation technician Bryson (Billy Magnussen), gallery manager Gretchen (Toni Colette), and always repeating his own art painter Pierce ( John Malkovich), sexy young agent Jon Dundeng (Tom Sturridge), passionate young artist Damresh (David Diggs), and new assistant Coco (Natalie Dell). This is a group drama of beautiful characters, but their glorious life on the surface is about to be destroyed.
The story begins when Josephina returns home and finds that the neighbor upstairs is dead in the corridor. She spied on his apartment and found dozens of gorgeous paintings-the artistic accomplishments of these paintings are simply unparalleled! If it hadn't been for these haunting paintings, the movie might have already collapsed. The ups and downs of the plot of "Velvet Circular Saw" depend on whether the paintings discovered by Josephine can credibly arouse people's enthusiasm and love. The paintings have indeed caused a sensation, so we need to pay for her fascination with these paintings. . She learned that her neighbor was a troubled artist, and that when he died he wanted to destroy his life's work. She should have regarded the painter's behavior as a sign. However, Josephine released the painting to the world, and all the characters mentioned above (except for Cocoa) wanted to get a share. Then people began a journey of death.
"Velvet Circular Saw" is a visually unique horror movie. It does not use the dark tones and weak light sources that are common in this theme. Instead, they used the popular artistic methods in "Reaper Is Coming"-bright and vivid blood clots, bright red flames, blood and paint. The design of the movie has always attracted me. I was shocked by its visual choices from paintings to product design, to costume design and murder scenes. Almost all deaths in "Velvet Circular Saw" are caused by indulging in their art, just as Gilroy said for a long time you can't stand by and watch the real art without indulging in it. The film was shot by the excellent Robert Elsvit (his work in Gilroy's "Nightcrawler" was approved by the Oscar), and his shooting improved the overall level of the film. The entire "Velvet Circular Saw" has enough eye-catching visual effects, and a series of black humor is strung in the whole work, which can at least attract the audience on the surface.
When someone starts to delve into it, the problems of the movie are exposed. It seems that "Velvet Circular Saw" needs improvement on every level. The script sometimes feels abrupt, with unclear goals, and deviating from the theme of the movie, such as a scene between Pierce and Deng Deng. In addition to showing that John Malkovich can execute a free throw, it is really superfluous to say about the plot of the movie itself. And I always hope that the film can blend in-depth statements about art, not just let us "take art seriously". In addition, there are some weird, undulating cuts and tonal jumps. This is an ambitious film, so it is difficult to control in terms of structure, but when you want it to increase its momentum, the film sometimes stumbling or even stalling, sometimes even close to the state of "a failed experiment", powerful The performance lineup or design element is just to pull it back from the edge of the cliff a few times. People just hope it never gets so close to the cliff of failure.
As someone who watches hundreds of movies a year and spends hundreds of hours watching TV, I cherish originality. "Velvet Circular Saw" is of course different from what I saw on Netflix or any other streaming service this year. Maybe I'm more tolerant of this movie than people who don't suffer so many predictable mundane things. In other words, after reading the warning story of the cynical critic Morff, I was just afraid that bad things would happen to me if I was too mean.
The comment comes from the Sundance Film Festival.
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