I love paranoia.
I'm afraid of paranoia.
is how to face failure because of the paranoid nature.
or to ask you a question: If you are told that you will try hard and there is a high probability of failure, when will you give up?
So, I love paranoid movies.
is best known for "Black Swan" and " Burst Drummer ".
"Black Swan" is actually asking: Can success make me cute?
"Boom Drummer" is actually asking: Will success make me stop hating you?
Most paranoia, not so much into some kind of fanatical obsession, as the ease of nothing after waiting for the stud.
today is talking about a paranoid movie that is not as advanced as "Black Swan", but has very beautiful audio-visual and full characterization.
Newbie The Novice
Director Lauren Hardaway doesn't look like she's behind the scenes.
Her main professional identity is a top sound engineer, responsible for Quentin 's " The Hateful Eight ", Zha Dao's " Justice League ", Wen Ziren 's " Conjuring " and Dami The movie sound effects of En's "Boom Drummer".
did not expect to write and direct it for the first time, the lens language is not only rich and gorgeous, but also very aesthetic.
"Novice" doesn't feel like a newbie at all.
audio-visually, through rich mid-close-range switching, high-contrast composition, and fast and slow editing rhythm, plus the director's best sound effect settings, the heroine's paranoid, fanatical, distorted and lonely emotions are created in a perfect way . The most impressive picture of
is a montage between the climax of the rowing exercise and the intense sex scene. The tide is surging, surging and enthusiastic, and it is a multiple superposition of breath, action and emotion.
"Novice" is a female film starring Hollywood Xie Na , actress Isabella Furman , who became famous because of "The Orphan".
Although "Orphan's Resentment 2" just met with you is not satisfactory, at least her acting skills are not hindered.
This film is a "little heroine" film tailored for her, and she also more or less follows the acting of a thriller.
She plays an average-looking, average-qualified, and average-looking female college student who works desperately to win something.
worked hard to the point of being annoying.
The exam has to be done over and over again. The paper will not be handed in until the last minute. The teacher will wait for her to the last minute.
participated in the fun rowing club, most of the people went to get credits, but she practiced vomiting on the first day.
What's more, she didn't admit defeat even when she went to the bar to drink and hang Kaizi, and finally got an appointment with a scumbag who had a very poor life, just to prove that she was a "female college student who is sexually attractive and can decide her own body" . In the first half of the
film, the director focuses on this clumsy, ugly effort.
is a small town's hometown effort.
is what could be called an ineffective effort to involute .
The light and shadow design in the 18-minute segment where she worked so hard was beautiful, illusory, lonely, and sweaty.
She was alone in the sea of sweat and no one was there, but when she stopped, she found that she was in the midst of everyone, but the others were exercising and laughing.
She is the only one who practiced herself to the point of almost shock.
The other side of this overworked emotion: tension.
Even if she is a talented player who works as hard as her, even if she is a student with better grades than her, there are always easy moments when they are fishing, being lazy, and making jokes.
but she didn't.
was sitting in the training car back, and the other friends were chatting about gossip about boyfriends and where to go for drinks at night.
is only her, reviewing what the coach said in a small notebook.
If you think the story behind is that the heroine won the respect of the coach and teammates through her own efforts, and finally brought everyone to good results.
Then you are terribly wrong.
Yes, she refused to listen to the coach's words that "Rowing is just an elective course, you really don't need to care about it", and insisted on getting up at 5 o'clock every day to train with high-level players until she was tired.
She even took the physics class she feared the most and attacked every day.
But the destination she is going to is not the destination that everyone thinks.
This tension extends unreservedly into her love life.
and so on, the pressure accumulated after the movie made me even a little "on pins and needles" (a compliment).
I'm familiar with the tightness, the unflattering, unseemly, unrelaxing tightness. In the process of watching
, I was also waiting for the moment when this extremely tight string was pulled.
However, the director's final handling of the ending is a light weight, and it is completely different from "Black Swan".
And a hidden question runs through the text of the story: why is she doing this?
In the inspirational stories of traditional sports, whether it is a retired boxer for his wife and children, or a down-and-out racer for his dignity, the motivation is always the driving force of the story's passion and tragedy.
But one of the things that struck me about "Newbie" is that there is no clear and specific motivation for this dreaded desire to win in small town girls - no setbacks from the original family, no experience of being spurned, despised and ignored.
In other words, this motive is not worth mentioning, hidden in the silence and loneliness that she rejects thousands of miles away.
That's what I love about this characterization.
Everyone who sees the movie probably compares it to Natalie Portman's Black Swan.
I would like to say that the biggest difference between "Novice" and "Black Swan" is that the latter uses a powerful psychological structure to allow the audience to enter the heroine's psychological desperation. That is to say, the audience and the heroine stand together and are deeply empathetic.
But the direction of the character creation of "Novice" is completely opposite - the director first bravely portrayed the heroine as a hateful person, a person who is over-thinking, a person who doesn't love but is too afraid of failure , she threw herself into rowing, a sport she had no experience with, for no reason. The biggest motivation was simply that I wanted to win.
doesn't pack "love", encouragement like most of these films.Zhi's coat didn't even sprinkle chicken soup saying "win or lose is not important, just feel the process well".
Therefore, the director initially drove the audience to the opposite side of the heroine, and from beginning to end did not intend for the audience to fully empathize and understand her.
Because in the heart of this character, whether it is the understanding or empathy of others, it is not worth mentioning. The final night rowing battle of
is really a rowing game. It is not the burning passion of the sports-themed final sprint competition, but the darkness, loneliness and crampedness full of urgency. Is
's effort without love worthy of respect?
I just want to win selfishly, okay?
