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The Lobster (2015)
Just want to talk about its time setting
The film didn't specify the year - so you can say it is a story about either future or past, or whenever the time you think is reasonable. But funny enough, I really like the way the director sets it.
The technology they use to turn human into animal, and the way they operate the hotel, or, the social system, make you feel like it is from the future. Plus, the way people talk in the film (unemotional - in fact, I find that it is the director's intention to have characters act that way to make the film look surreal) gives you a stronger "future" feeling.
However, if you look at the facilities - the entire hotel, the yachts, people's dresses - everything looks so old fashioned, like it is from 70s. Especially the way how Colin expressed David - serious, cautious, introverted - literally a dogmatic guy from decades ago.
I believe there is a reason the director designed it that way. The conflicts more or less satirized the advanced technology versus backwards social system and people's cognition.
There is another conflict in the film - couples and loners. Both use extreme approaches to maintain and manage its systems. However, there is no right and wrong side, it is just how you choose. Ironically, David (Colin) is always on the wrong side. He was a loner in the hotel, and fell in lover in the woods. What a sarcasm.
In the end, what would be in front of them? Would David finally sacrifice to fit into the system? And, would the system accept them? To me, it's an open question too.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
It is all about how you present the story
It is not about the story, it is about how the story was being presented.
Unlike other horror movies that are filled with scream, blood, actions - which we have been tiring of, this movie is slow, elegant, carefully narrates the story but gives a difference kind of intensity. With the profound background music and the tactfully filming angles that helped build a depressing atmosphere, the dark scenes could easily stretch to your deep heart. And this is the art of filming.
I love the way the director presents the story. It perfectly proves that it is not only about the plots, it is more about the way of showing it. Love its slow, quiet, and Gothic style. It is another level of horror movie.
Demolition (2015)
Cast off Your Chains
It is a story about return.
The whole film was with the story line of Davis. Had been bonded by tedious marriage life, as well as been under the pressure from work and father-in-law, to Davis it looks like a huge relief after losing his wife. He started acting weird, getting curious about every single subject he could see, talking to strangers. He seemingly opened himself to the world that he used to try to hide from, everything is so new and fresh to him. Physically, he "demolished" washroom, his office, others' and even his own houses. He was too egotistic to grieve.
However, it's not a real relief. Although Davis was like a rebellious kid who celebrates while mom is away from home -- in this case, a close life partner has gone away from his life, soon he realized it was not like that. Knowing that Julia had been cheated on him, Davis also started to remember all the little parts and times they had spent together. Until they, he's back, not to celebrate, but to the real ground. You don't have to make big changes, just need to give out more cares.
For Karen's story, it's about getting out of the relationship that she doesn't enjoy.
Karen's son's part came along with Davis's line. He's in the teenager state where the self-cognition is being built upon, he's part is about finding the true-self.
Jake's movies are always so touchable and inspired, and yet all characters that he has acted are so different. You can't find any similar characteristics from one character in his other movies. Like this one, Davis, his childish actions in the first half part were being perfectly expressed by Jake, you can't even believe this is the person who just acted a boxer full of mankind (Southpaw) and a greedy fox lives in the bottom of society (Nightcrawler).
Réalité (2014)
Real or Unreal
The whole film looks like a time travelling, parallelism or sarcasm topics from the surface. I didn't watch Quentin's other two films, but to me, it's more like a discussion about the reality, just like the name of the movie -- is it real, or it's unreal? Or, which is real, and which is unreal?
The director, the producer, the superintendent, the TV show host, the girl, and the father, they are actually represent contradictions, and they are connected. My most impressive story line was the superintendent. He drove his car in a women's dress and sent the old man a bouquet, but he denied for actually did it while seeing the shrink, whereas what he did was being seen by Reality (the girl). However, is Reality really existed? Another one is the TV show host (Denis). He kept scratching and complaining about the eczema that doesn't exit at all (or maybe), but it appeared on the doctor whom he went for the doctor's note. Who really has the eczema? The doctor is Denis or Denis is the doctor? Other than those two, the producer's miserable acts when they started talking about the idea of the movie also represents conflicts.
The background music is just like the name of the movie that Jason wanted to make. Wave, it uses organ with little fluctuations on the tones, which exactly like the television waves that keeps sending signals to the audiences, makes you feel confused, anxious, and desire to find out the answer -- even though you may not be able to.
What you see may not be real, what is real you may not see.
Song of the Sea (2014)
You just need to watch it quietly
Nowadays most of the animations are made with high-tech special effects, all subjects are so vivid that you can even every single fur of the animal or every single hair of a person. But this movie, combined eastern typical animation patterns with Irish cultural elements, generated a unique movie that fulfilled with its national features.
The seemingly rugged lines and original style of the scenes perfectly elaborated the simplicity of the human nature. Yet if you watch carefully, you'll find that each scene, for instance, in the caves or in the ocean, is designed out of thorough consideration, all backgrounds, patterns and characters, they just match so perfect.
Actually, you don't even need to observe anything, you just need to watch quietly, and follow the story to dig out the most simple and pure thing in the world.
Shame (2011)
Lost
Really like the title of the movie, totally explained the life of people living in big cities. Brandon had been addicting in sex and trying to protect his secrets from being exposed until his sister stepped into his life suddenly and found out those secrets, he then felt totally lost both physically and mentally. In the end, it seems that he has figured out what he needs after almost lost his sister, everything backs to normal, then there was an open ending that the director wants to leave to us to judge what he would do in front of the temptation after experiencing such struggles earlier.
In my understanding, what the film wants to discuss is the life of businessmen living in the metropolis. They look elegant and decent from the outside but actually have private secrets hiding under the shadow. This kind of lifestyle that you repress yourself from the outside world and finally cultivating a sick habit to release the pressure, which is pathetic.