A performance that is both naturalized and deconstructed into "singing"

Liana 2022-04-20 09:02:47

Movies must be accustomed to expressing in silence. The life itself as a portrayal object is not damaged. The monologue performance as another track is stripped and needs to be finalized through post-processing; while musicals are accustomed to the unified appearance of the characters’ voices. , pushes the performance to the same stage dimension.

The fusion of musical theatre and film is bound to produce the distorted effect of a funk mirror, and this film deliberately seeks and amplifies that effect. Through the constant migration of inner-focusing perspectives, a sense of conflict is created with overlapping perspectives and simultaneous voices, opening up life infinitely, transforming it into a performance template to the best of its ability, and abstracting a form of life imitating art.

The musical has penetrated into the film's level of drama, life and viewing, the stage of comedians and opera singers, the chat and love between lovers, birth and childbirth, drunkenness and nightmares, news broadcasts and releases The meeting, the audience's praise and the reporter's condemnation, and even Annette's wooden puppets, are both naturalized and deconstructed into a "singing" performance.

However, after overcoming the discomfort of the sense of form, the film, in addition to providing a senseless horror similar to "The Doctor Who Became a Strange Doctor", has also become vulgar and hollow, presenting an odd and eccentric flat, weak vocals and lyrics. In the end, the characters were sacrificed and the plot was split.

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Extended Reading
  • Kevin 2022-04-23 07:05:12

    An Edgar Allan Poe story, but more important than the psychological factor is the twitching of the body: hands, feet, mouth, nose, ears, throat, esophagus, sweat glands, lungs... Jokes don't work once they're dismissed as negative. No matter how funny, or that laughter has been replaced by something else - laughter always affirms itself. As for the sound? Your voice is never your voice.

Annette quotes

  • [first lines]

    The Narrator: Ladies and gentlemen, we now ask for your complete attention. If you want to sing, laugh, clap, cry, yawn, boo or fart, please, do it in your head, only in your head. You are now kindly requested to keep silent and to hold your breath until the very end of the show. Breathing will not be tolerated during the show. So, please take a deep, last breath right now. Thank you.

  • The Accompanist: [while conducting an orchestra] It's a fast changing world. I am now the conductor of the city's finest orchestra. No longer the self-deprecating accompanist from such a short while ago. Ann would be proud of me. I do have my suspicions, though, about why she isn't alive. And doubts, too, about something else, but... Excuse me a minute.

    [goes back to conducting]

    The Accompanist: Henry has invited me to his place tomorrow, to discuss a matter that he says concerns Annette, and Ann. As awkward as it is for me to attend, anything that concerns Ann and the future of Annette is something that concerns me. Excuse me one more time.

    [goes back to conducting]

    The Accompanist: My love for Ann has never died. Neither has my regret that our affair was only an affair. I had. been hoping for so long. Then at a time when she was in despair, we started an affair. But the very next week, she met Henry. That was the end of it, the end of me. I'll always regret that. I deeply miss her - her warmth, her voice. I miss Ann. Excuse me.

    [goes back to conducting]