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Unexpectedly, it turned out to be "detached"”.
Not a play, but a movie, an art film, or more accurately, an experimental art film.
Then, the Tony Kaye in front of us is a "detached" director！
Tony can be called an alternative in the entertainment industry. He has only directed four works in his career, including "Blackwater Shipping Company". Because it touched the interests of certain powerful groups, he was directly stopped and could not be completed..
He always focuses on sensitive social issues. For example, his directorial debut "American X-Files" focused on issues of racism and neo-Nazis; for example, the "abortion rights debate" four years ago challenged religion. People's sensitive nerves. Both works have caused a lot of repercussions in the art field, and the former even made Edward Norton's Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
And Carl Lund is no exception. "Detachment" is the only work of his screenwriting career..
No wonder Renly didn't recognize the two people, no wonder Renly didn't react at all, no wonder Woody was willing to matchmaking. The three people in front of him are typical New York academic artists. They focus on their own artistic creation and have never asked Hollywood. I have compromised and never cared about Hollywood's preferences..
“"Detachment" is such a work.
As introduced by Carl and Tony, "detachment" has another translation called "human teacher". The film focuses on a teacher named Henry-Barthes and tells the story of his coming to a public school. The story of substitute teaching.
It's not the kind of inspirational story in Japanese TV series, where a hot-blooded teacher saves bad students; it's a cruel story that reflects social reality, and the despair of all hope makes people almost breathless..
During this period, Henry met three different women, a female teacher who silently endured violence from students and parents, a female student who suffered from obesity and domestic cold violence, and a female student who suffered repeated violence from prostitutes/clients. Treating homeless chicks/prostitutes.
The three of them were seeking Henry's help to varying degrees, but Henry himself was in deep trouble..
When he was a child, he witnessed his mother's suicide, and his grandfather blamed him. He was immersed in his own sorrow and allowed Henry to fend for himself. The shadow of his childhood made him start to protect himself and close the emotional communication between himself and others. , facing the world with indifference and alienation. He became a teacher and was very talented, but he never stayed in one school for a long time. He avoided establishing emotional connections with his students and always stayed in different schools as a substitute teacher..
In these three women, each of them embodies the consequences of family education and social influence. This is a movie about education and society, but in the final analysis, it is a movie about family, telling the story of the impact of family on everyone. A child's indelible and profound impact.
Facing three souls asking for help, Henry suffered once again. He tried to redeem them, but he had to redeem himself first.
The film adopts a large number of documentary shooting methods, using interviews to examine the problems encountered in modern American education through the perspectives of different teachers; using monologues to express the inner murmurs and struggles of the characters, with a rough film texture , shaking hand-held cameras, and strong use of colors, it reflects the current situation of the entire society by exploring the depth of the characters' thoughts..
Such experimental performance techniques are more suitable for stage plays, but even in stage plays, a large number of inner monologues are often integrated into boring dilemmas, let alone movies..
It is no exaggeration to say that this is not a likable movie, or even a disgusting movie. Because Tony focuses all the shots on that state of struggle, and after amplifying the emotions to the extreme, it almost makes people gasp. Out of breath.
This is a film that reveals the coldness from the core.
It is also a work of extreme despair, but 2016's "Manchester by the Sea" is more restrained and more clever. It confines all the despair in the character's body, slowly seeping out, and the boundless cold seems to be boundless. , can never see the boundary, makes people cry.
Casey-Affleck, who played the leading role, successfully won the Oscar.
"Detachment" uses a magnifying glass to explode every detail, making no sound or tears. It is like sinking slowly when drowning, gradually moving away from the light on the surface of the water, and slowly being swallowed by darkness. The movie will The whole process was slowed down ten times, elegant, beautiful, magnificent, but sad, desolate and desperate..
More importantly, "Manchester by the Sea" has a clear story outline, which is easier for the audience to accept; but "Detachment" itself sacrifices the frame structure of the story, and the narrative clues are relatively blurred, focusing on emotions. outline.
In other words, when Tony was filming this work, he had no intention of making the audience like it. He completely used artistic expression to present a "detached" state, just like talking in a dream..
This is also true. After the release of "Transcendence", it encountered an extreme test of ice and fire. The overall media review score was only 52 points, which is still a long way from the passing line. The supportive film critics pursued it, while the rejecting film critics then reprimanded Zhentian; the same is true for IMDB's senior movie fans' ratings, hovering on the edge of eight points, unable to go up, but also unable to go down..
This is also proven in terms of awards. Mainstream award ceremonies such as the Golden Globes, Oscars, and Cannes have completely collapsed, and no one even mentioned it; but in small European film festivals, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Woodstock Film Festival, On a similar art platform, he has won a series of awards. However, no one pays attention to it, and naturally no one knows about it..
As for the movie’s box office? It was only released in art theaters for three weeks, and then hurriedly withdrawn. It moved to the video disc distribution market and did not improve. It was piled in a corner and gathered dust. In the end, the film box office was only 70,000 US dollars..
70,000, not even 100,000. It was really a loss and all the money was lost. Even the senior die-hard audiences of art theaters didn’t buy it..
There is no doubt that this is an art film that has been completely ignored, rejected, and hated. However, there are countless such works on Off-Broadway in New York. It is these bold, novel, sharp, and special works that forms the basis of art.
Just like "Once Upon a Time in America".
Italian director Serigo-Leone waited for thirteen years to prepare for this film, even earlier than the "Godfather" series, and it took almost all of Serigo's efforts. and ideas; however, when the work was released that year, due to the castration and editing by the film company, it was scolded by film critics and audiences. Not only did it fail at the box office, but it also did not receive any recognition in terms of art..
In the end, Sergio died in depression, and a generation of film giants passed away in their hometown with regret, sadness and desolation..
It wasn't until ten years later, when Sergio's own original director's cut with a Proustian structure came out, that people discovered the film's brilliance; thirty years later, "Once Upon a Time in America" further became a gangster An irreplaceable and absolute classic among epics, it has even surpassed "The Godfather" and "The Old Man" and has become the favorite of countless film critics and audiences..
It's been called "the greatest flop in Hollywood history"”.
“There are many reasons why "Once Upon a Time in America" has been ignored. Film companies are a part that cannot be ignored. However, in history, even without the intervention of film companies, due to its own artistic attributes, it has been far away from the public's aesthetics, and even deviated from the aesthetics of film critics. As a result, it has been ignored by the times, and people have to wait for time to recover and appreciate the uniqueness among them. There are countless such cases..
“"The Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet", "Sid", "Mulholland Drive", "Death Illusion", "The Ride", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Trainspotting", "Myself" "Idaho", "Fight Club", "Blade Runner" and so on..
Of course, that’s not to say that Renly admires the movie “Transcendence”.
In fact, on the contrary, Renly doesn't like "detachment", and even rejects it, not only because the process of watching the movie is very dull and too unfriendly to the audience; but also because the emotions in the movie are too deep and too strong, even if Even a normal person can detect depression, let alone his condition in the previous life.？
However, the perspective of appreciation as an audience and the perspective of observation as an actor are completely different..
From an actor's point of view, playing Henry Bachet is a difficult challenge. Because all the shots are focused on the actor's emotions and amplify these emotions to the extreme, showing every change..
This is different from "Buried Alive". Henry's emotions are trapped in place. He won't struggle. He has given up struggling. All his emotions are moving inward and further inwards, but he still needs to have something that can shock the camera. That kind of depth and delicacy. There is no doubt that the performance is more difficult.
This is also different from "Manchester by the Sea". Although both characters are immersed in sad despair, the former is more of anger and sadness that refuses to compromise with himself, while Henry is like a trapped animal, trying to escape. He went out, but couldn't find the exit, so he gave up resistance..
More importantly, due to Tony's shooting techniques, Henry's despair needs richer layers and more varied details. If it is just pure sadness or despair, the thickness and depth of the film will not be able to reach that level of delicacy. The changes are the ultimate challenge for any actor. It is no exaggeration to say that the performance difficulty of "Transcendence" is even more difficult than that of "Manchester by the Sea"”.
To put it simply, you have to cry in various ways. Each tear has different emotions and different levels..
This is expressionistic acting. The role of Henry does not require method acting, because Tony only stayed at one point in time in the story, and just now he told Renly all the backstory of the character; what is needed is expression. With Pai’s solid skills and powerful performance, the difference between one look often determines the final depth of the character..
In other words, this is the ultimate challenge of expressionistic acting！
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