At the end of the year, Sister Tiao couldn't help being excited!
Because there is nothing more happier than the year-end summary !
Do not misunderstand……
At the end of the year, of course, the cool thing is not to write it yourself, but to see others write it .
Especially in the film industry .
At the end of the year, almost all the media and bigwigs that can be named will publish their "Top Ten of the Year" .
This means that even if you haven't done anything this year, haven't followed up on any hot spots, and haven't watched any news, as long as you stay up to date this month, you still won't miss the best movie in the year.
The "Top Ten of the Year" is not always a conservative theme that everyone applauds.
No matter how weird your taste is , as long as you are with the right person, you can spend the happiest month of the year.
The strange film introduced today is a cult film leader known as the "Trash Pope", "The King of Disgusting", and "The Father of Evil Taste" , and John Waters 's "Top Ten of the Year" is number one.
At the Cannes Film Festival last year, it won the Director’s Bi-weekly Art Film Award, and a ticket is hard to find.
"Climax" ——
Director and screenwriter, Gaspar Nou .
You should tremble when you see this name.
Because, as long as he runs out to be the director, he can almost guarantee it—
You will embark on an extraordinary spiritual journey where the senses go to heaven and the soul goes to hell.
Do not believe?
Now, the name of his old man still hangs in the Chinese Encyclopedia entry of "Top Ten Banned Movies in the World" .
However, for students familiar with the Cannes Film Festival, the film that made him infamous on the Chinese Internet is just another art film nominated for Palme d’Or.
And Gaspar Nou is just another author-type director with a unique style and much sought after.
"Stand Alone", "Irrevocable", "Escape into Nothingness", "Love"...
Since 20 years ago, this Argentine living in Paris has repeatedly digged into the dark corners of his soul between death, violence and loss of control, challenging the audience's bottom line with extreme pictures.
"Climax" is the same.
No matter how many people leave midway, they can't resist the enthusiasm of more people waiting in line outside the movie palace.
No matter how many angry stars there are, more people can't stop more people from racking their brains and exhausting their vocabulary, just to blow an article with the most personality.
At the beginning, do not take the usual path.
In the white snow, a woman covered in blood was struggling in the snow.
It looked cold, what happened?
After the subtitles were released, flashbacks began.
An audition video is playing on an old-fashioned TV surrounded by old DVD boxes.
Don't just watch the video.
A fixed lens aimed at the TV screen for 6 and a half minutes has its own meaning.
If you can recognize the neatly stacked DVD boxes on the right side of the screen, you can set up a preset for the style of the entire movie in advance.
The 1981 "obsession" madness;
The horror of "The Wind and Wind" in 1977;
Taboos of "Sodom 120 Days" in 1975;
The stylization of "Fog Harbor Sailor" in 1982;
The cult atmosphere of "The Unveiling of the Bliss Tower" in 1854;
The tragic feelings of "Abdomen" in 1919;
The fantasy of "An Andalu Dog" in 1929...
Add them up and average, and you can get Gaspar's "Climax."
Immediately, electronic music began, and the film officially unfolded in a closed space.
No nonsense, no redundant shots.
In psychedelic electronic music, Gaspar Nou directly uses a long lens to show a paradise of artistic creation.
There is nothing superfluous, only music born for dance, lights and space born for dance, a group of people born for dance.
The dancers in the audition video have already begun formal rehearsals. After three days, a group dance has taken shape.
This long shot of a large group of dancers full of control, rationality, and enthusiasm is the closest scene to heaven in the whole film.
The rehearsal is over.
With the supreme sense of accomplishment in their creation, the dancers scattered and rested.
Still don't say any nonsense, a few very documentary, but extremely visually sophisticated shots, simply and neatly explain all the relationship between the characters and everyone's heart.
Among this group of people, there are lovers, brothers and sisters, mother and child, friends, suitors and pursuers, disadvantaged groups, and minority groups.
Gathering together only because of the common identity of "dancers".
Temporary alliances are fragile.
The love affair between the female choreographer and the male dancer just looks beautiful.
Male dancers have long been famous among female dancers because they are bothered.
Being tired of being with a female choreographer was also rejected as "unscrupulous for the sake of the superior".
It looks very popular, but in fact, men dislike women.
A pair of siblings who should take care of each other and achieve each other.
Taking off the mask, she is just a dissatisfied sister, a brother who has a strong desire for control.
Friendship and harmony are all performances for others.
Several dancers who were not interested in the opposite sex also quickly launched a variety of single arrow temptations.
Someone bluntly, some hinted that what remains unchanged is the awkward atmosphere in the air.
The black-spoken black dancers were talking about female colleagues in an obscene tone.
It turns out that the utopia constructed by art is just an illusion. Discrimination, injustice, and violence exist everywhere.
The rest is over.
The music is more exciting, and the enthusiasm is more boiling.
What followed were more dance shots that could be incorporated into film history.
More beautiful light and shadow, more incredible lens scheduling, bring more free and indulgent spiritual experience.
Someone gradually realized something was wrong.
Alcohol and fruits are not the only beverages that everyone is drinking.
A hell is opening a huge mouth to people.
Fear enveloped the rehearsal room, and other identities under the identity of "dancer" slowly emerged.
Mothers, pregnant women, children.
It only takes a few seconds for everyone to walk from heaven to hell.
Music illusion, color illusion, lens illusion.
The dazzling lights, the upside-down world, the burning body, the disappearing morality.
Scream, cry, scream.
The blood is divergent, hysterical, hell on earth.
In the 40-minute continuous follow-up shot, the audience was exhausted and mentally out of balance along with the crazy dancer.
People who fall into hallucinations can’t distinguish reality from nightmares, and don’t know which is more terrifying, reality or illusion...
The next day, the police who broke into the door faced such an upside-down hell on earth.
At the end of the film, the lens hints at the instigator.
But it was too late.
The man and the pregnant woman who were driven out of the gate, buried in the snow, the mother in a pool of blood, the little boy who was electrocuted to death in extreme fear...
This out-of-control carnival has completely rewritten the fate of these young people.
They all thought they were here to create, but they died unexpectedly.
Just like the audience, I just wanted to have fun, but I didn't expect to receive anti-drug education in a cold sweat.
The only thing that makes people feel relieved is that, of course, this film does not really involve drugs.
Among the 23 dancers in the film, only Sofia Podola is a professional actor. The others are dancers recruited from all over the world by the director from social networks .
Dance is a job that requires physical control and coordination. No dancer will make fun of his career.
Just as dancers can precisely control their own limbs, Gasper is also regarded as a master because of his ability to accurately control the lens and perform.
With complete control to shoot completely out of control, this is the awesomeness of "Climax".
Gaspar himself used the allusion of the Tower of Babel to illustrate the theme of "Climax".
Because of human language barriers, the large-scale collaborative project of the Tower of Babel eventually broke down, and human beings will never be seen from heaven.
Language is just a metaphor , and the differences between humans are of course not limited to this.
Skin color, faith, gender...
In a runaway environment, they become the new Tower of Babel.
When the fear and violence in the subconscious are vented unrestrainedly, civilization collapses.
In the opening audition video, there was a question: "What's in heaven?"
The dancer's answer is, "All good things, only good things, no problems, no confusion."
Obviously, everything they later experienced was the opposite of heaven.
Gaspar Nou conducted a hearty anti-drug education with a film with the signature of a cool film.
Click here to watch, cherish life and stay away from drugs.
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