Chapter 388

I didn't expect to be "detached".

It's not a drama, it's a movie, it's an art movie, more accurately, it's an art movie with experimental nature.

So, Tony Kaye is the director of "detachment"!

Tony can be regarded as an alternative in the performing arts circle. He has directed only four works in his career, and one of them is "black water shipping company". Because he touched the interests of some powerful groups, he was stopped directly and failed to complete the shooting.

He always focuses on sensitive social issues, such as the director's debut "American X-Files", which focuses on racism and new politics; For example, the "fight for the right to abortion" four years ago challenged the sensitive nerves of religious people. The two works have caused a lot of repercussions in the field of art, the former is the achievement of Edward Norton's Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Karl Lund is no exception. "Detachment" is the only work of his screenwriting career.

No wonder Langley didn't recognize them. No wonder Langley didn't react at all. No wonder woody would be willing to connect. The three people in front of us are the typical New York Academy artists. They are devoted to their own artistic creation, never compromise with Hollywood, and never care about Hollywood's preferences.

"Detachment" is such a work.

As Carl and Tony introduced, "detached" has another translation, which is called "human teacher". The film focuses on a teacher named Henry Barthes, who tells the story of his coming to a public school as a substitute.

It's not the inspirational story of Japanese TV series, where hot-blooded teachers save bad students; It's a cruel story reflecting the social reality. The despair is almost breathless.

During this period, Henry met three different women, a female teacher who suffered from the violence of students and parents, a female student who suffered from obesity and domestic cold violence, and a homeless prostitute who was repeatedly treated by clients.

All three of them were seeking Henry's help in varying degrees, but Henry himself was in deep trouble.

When he was a child, he witnessed his mother's suicide, while his grandfather blamed him for his fault. He was immersed in his own sorrow and could not extricate himself, leaving Henry to live and die on his own. The shadow of childhood made him begin to protect himself, close the emotional communication between himself and others, and face the world coldly and alienated. He became a teacher, brilliant, but never stay in a school for a long time, to avoid establishing emotional contact with students, always stay in different schools as a substitute teacher.

In these three women, each of them condenses the consequences of family education and social influence. This is a film about education and society, but in the final analysis, it is also a film about family, which tells the indelible and profound influence of family on every child.

Facing the three souls who asked for help, Henry suffered again. He tried to save them, but he had to save himself first.

The film uses a large number of documentary shooting methods, interviews, through the perspective of different teachers to examine the problems of modern American education; In the way of monologue, the characters' inner gibberish and struggle are shown, with rough film texture, shaking hand camera and strong color application. By digging the ideological depth of the characters, the status quo of the whole society is reflected.

Such experimental performance techniques are more suitable for stage plays, but even in stage plays, a large number of inner monologues are often involved in the boring predicament, let alone movies.

It's no exaggeration to say that it's not a pleasant movie, or even a disgusting one. Because Tony focuses all the shots on the struggling state, and after magnifying the emotion to the extreme, it's almost breathless.

This is a film that reveals the coldness from the bottom of its heart.

It is also the work of despair to the extreme. In 2016, "Manchester by the sea" is more introverted and more brilliant. It imprisoned all despair in the body of the character and slowly permeated it. The boundless cold seems to be boundless. The boundary can never be seen, which makes people cry.

As the leading actor, Casey Affleck won the Oscar.

"Detached" uses a magnifying glass to crack every detail. It can't cry and shed tears. It's like drowning slowly, away from the light of the water, and slowly swallowed by the darkness. The film slows down the whole process ten times, elegant, beautiful and magnificent, but sad, desolate and desperate.

More importantly, "Manchester by the sea" has a clear story outline, which is more acceptable to the audience; But "detachment" itself sacrifices the frame structure of the story, and the narrative clues are relatively vague, focusing on the emotional outline.

In other words, when shooting this work, Tony did not intend to make the audience like it. He presented a state of "detachment" completely in the form of artistic expression, just like a dreamer.

In fact, after the release of "chaotuo", it encountered the extreme test of ice and fire. The comprehensive evaluation of the media only scored 52 points, which is still a long way from the passing line. The film critics who supported it sought after heaven, while those who rejected it denounced Zhentian; The same is true of IMDB's senior fans' ratings, which hover on the edge of eight points.

The awards also proved this point. The Golden Globe Awards, Oscars and mainstream awards ceremonies in Cannes were completely occupied, and no one even mentioned them; However, a series of awards have been won on the art platforms such as the European small film festival, the independent spirit award and the Woodstock Film Festival. However, no one pays attention to them and naturally no one knows about them.

As for the box office? After only three weeks in the art theater, the movie went off the line in a hurry, and the distribution market didn't get better. It was piled up in the corner to accumulate dust. Finally, the box office of the movie was only $70000.

Seventy thousand, or even one hundred thousand, are not up. It's a real loss. Even the veteran audience in the Art Theater won't pay for it.

There is no doubt that this is a completely ignored, completely excluded, completely disgusted art film. But there are so many such works on Broadway outside New York. It is these bold, novel, sharp and special works that form the basis of art.

It's like "past America.".

In order to prepare for the production, Italian director serigo Leone waited for 13 years, even earlier than the godfather series, and spent almost all of his efforts and ideas; However, when the work was released that year, due to the castration and editing of the film company, it was scolded bloody by the film critics and the audience. It not only failed at the box office, but also did not get any recognition in art.

In the end, it directly led to Sergio's melancholy, and a generation of film giants died in their hometown with regret and sadness.

It was not until ten years later, when Sergio himself was the first director's version edited in a Proust style, that people found the brilliance of the film; Thirty years later, "the past of America" has further become an irreplaceable classic among the gangster epics, even surpassing "Godfather" and "old guy", and has become the heart of countless film critics and audiences.

It was called "the greatest failure in Hollywood history.".

There are many reasons why "the past of America" has been ignored. The film company is a part that can not be ignored. However, in history, even without the intervention of the film company, because of its own artistic attribute, it has been far away from the public aesthetic, or even deviated from the aesthetic of the film critics. As a result, it has been ignored by the times. Only after the dust of time has been lifted, can people relish the only one of them, There are countless such cases.

This is true of "Elephant Man", "Blue Velvet", "Sid sisters", "muherland road", "hallucination of death", "alien soul", "2001: Space Odyssey", "guess train", "my own Idaho", "fight club", "blade killer" and so on.

Of course, it's not that Langley advocates the movie "detachment".

In fact, on the contrary, Langley doesn't like "detachment" or even some exclusion, not only because the process of watching the film is very boring and unfriendly to the audience; And because the mood in the movie is too deep and strong, even normal people can see depression, not to mention his condition in the last life?

However, as the audience's angle of appreciation, and as an actor's angle of observation, but very different.

From the actor's point of view, playing Henry bacht is a tough challenge. Because all the shots are aimed at the actor's emotion, and magnify this emotion to the extreme, the slightest change is shown.

This is different from "burying alive". Henry's emotion is trapped in the same place. He won't struggle. He has given up the struggle. All his emotions are introverted, and then introverted, but he needs to have the depth and delicacy that can shock the lens. There is no doubt that the performance is more difficult.

This is not the same as "Manchester by the sea". Although the two characters are immersed in the despair of sadness, the former is more anger and sadness of refusing to compromise with himself, while Henry is like a trapped animal, trying to go out, but unable to find an exit, so he gave up resistance.

What's more, because of Tony's shooting technique, Henry's despair needs richer levels and more changeable details. If it's just pure sadness or despair, the thickness and depth of the film can't reach the height. That delicate change is the ultimate challenge for any actor. It is no exaggeration to say that the difficulty of "detached" performance even exceeds "Manchester by the sea".

To put it simply, you have to cry in a variety of ways. The emotion of each tear is different, and the level is also different.

It's performance. The role of Henry does not need the substitution of Methodists, because Tony just stays at one point in the story. Just now, he told all the background stories of the role to Langley; What we need is the solid foundation and profound deduction of the Expressionists. The difference between the eyes often determines the final depth of the role.

In other words, this is the ultimate challenge of Expressionism!