观感首先是压抑的,让人带着猎奇的心态去关注走向,最后还得花时间将隐喻和多义并行的呼应慢慢剖析,不是轻易能讲清楚的电影。
三段小故事,Hero,Homo,Horror延伸自让·热内(Jean Genet)自传体小说,互相没有交集,但共同点在于
1. 本无害之人,因社会的种种伤害,最终都某种意义走上了形成对社会恶狠狠的反向报复性质道路。如Homo中的John,拥抱监狱以拒绝这个拒绝他的社会;如Horror中的暗示艾滋病的病毒传播;如小社会“家庭”压抑中的小男孩最终开枪弑父。
2. 为了融入群体,融入主流价值观,哪怕要做出非本意之事,也必须以”同流合污“来达成步调一致。但影片并非从一种“批判”角度来表现此事,相反,我们看到的是除了普通社会事件背后的无可奈何外,更多是认同角色的自我认同。无谓善恶,无谓道德,无谓判断。我们见证口水变成鲜花降下,也听见天使在天花上放屁。
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Queer filmmaker Todd Haynes' debut feature POISON dazzles as a multi-faceted cinematic triptych, three segments: Hero, Horror, Homo, all inspired by Jean Genet's novels (with his texts sporadically materialize on the screen as inner beacons), are intertwined altogether yet each is bestowed with a sui generis visual style that speaks volumes of Haynes' eclectic idioms.
Hero takes the form of a grainy and slipshod pseudo-documentary, interviewing sundry characters about a deadly homicide further confounded by a surreal twist, a 7-year-old boy, shoots his father dead and then wondrously flies away from the window witnessed by his mother Felicia (Meeks), various interviewees recounts the boy's aberrant deportment before the incident, some are startlingly perverse, finally, through Felicia's account, the boy's ascension smacks of something punitive and defiant in the face of family dysfunction and violent impulse, rather dissimilar in its undertone and timbre from that WTF upshot in Alejandro González Iñárritu's BIRDMAN (2014, 7.6/10).
Horror, shot in retro-monochrome and abounds with eye-catching Dutch angles, namely is a none-too-engrossing pastiche of the erstwhile B-movies and body horror, a scientist Dr. Thomas Graves (Maxwell), accidentally ingests the serum of "human sexuality" which he has successfully extracted, starts to transmogrify into a leprosy-inflicted monster, and his condition is deadly contagious, which threats lives around him, especially his admirer Dr. Nancy Olsen (Norman), who against all odds, not daunted by his physical deterioration. In comparison, this segment is less savory owing to its own unstimulating camp, where Hero ends with a subjective ascending, the upshot for a beleaguered gargoyle is nothing but plummeting.
Last but not the least, Homo is plainly a more self-reflexive treatment conjured upà laFassbinder's QUERELLE (1982), another mainstay of queer cinema derived from Genet's text. A prisoner John Broom (Renderer), grows intimate towards the blow-in Jack Bolton (Lyons), whom he has met before during his stint in a juvenile facility of delinquency, Jack's humiliated past emerges inside John's mind, now it is his turn to exert his suppressed libido. This chapter is as homoerotic as one can possibly imagine, a maneuver Haynes would have unwillingly relinquished en route pursuing mainstream acceptance, one tantalizing sequence of Broom groping an asleep Jack is divinely graphic and atmospherically transcendent.
Credited as an experimental juvenilia, POISON throbs with vitality, ambition and knowing archness, though the end result is far from flawless, it potently anticipates many a Haynes' modus operandi, say, the segmental structure and interview-style in I'M NOT THERE. (2007, 8.0/10), his distinct prediction for the photogenic period setting and outfit in FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002, 9.2/10) and CAROL (2015, 8.9/10), not to mention his latest sortie into black-and-white mystique and paralleled storytelling in the Cannes-premiered WONDERSTRUCK (2017).
Not many can embrace perversity as plucky as Mr. Haynes has done, whether it is a tragedy can easily take place around us in real life, or a man living through his most egregious incubus, or a blatantly idealized contest of one's sexuality (motifs like wedding, saliva and scars are all defying their accepted norms), just like a child’s stretching hand in the opening credit, Haynes' first directorial outing jauntily treads through many taboo subjects and in retrospect, vindicates that it will be our profound loss if his talent fails to be acknowledged and utilized in full scale.
referential points: Todd Haynes' SAFE (1995, 8.4/10), VELVET GOLDMINE (1998, 6.7/10); Rainer Werner Fassbinder's QUERELLE (1982, 7.8/10).
In submitting to a prison life, embracing it, I could reject the world that had rejected me.
All night long I built an imaginary life of which he was the center, and I always gave that life which was begun over and over and transformed a dozen times a violent end.
I felt myself growing mean, icy, stiff, gleaming like a sword blade.
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dream is nursed in the dark.
玉山之上,有一个叫西王母的部落,他们的首领蓬头乱发戴着不死树制成的木簪,长有人的面孔,身后却是豹子的尾巴。 有男子从西方来,半祍斜襟,碧眼金发,前来求取一件东西。 问他是否求取不死药?男子微笑摇头,伸手指向首领身旁的木匣。首领怔然大笑,露出满口虎齿,说:“你可知道,这里面,乃是我司掌的天之厉及五刑?” 男子颔首,伸手接过木匣,转身即要离去,身后传来首领被朔风吹来的警告,说:“普罗米修斯,你可要当心,盒子里面,装的可是名为爱情的瘟疫,称作性的病疾,还有化身暴力的冷兵器。” 男子回头冲玉山轻语:“我想叫它作——潘多拉。”★★★☆
7.4分,你们发现了吗?《horror》(恐怖)《hero》(英雄)《homo》(同性),三个小短片的主题都是以H为首字母开头的。三个故事本身拍得都好不到哪里去,采用非线性叙事也没看出有什么特殊意义,不过实验性质的作品在猎奇上还说得过去。比某些各方面都很平庸的分段式恐怖片还是有点意思的。
积石如玉,列松如翠,双目灿灿,郎艳独绝,二手香烟,唇间流转,鲜花唾沫,甘之如饴,溃烂之时,美如乳酪,创伤之处,艳若桃花
有机会一定要看一看《鲜花圣母》
海因斯处女作,整体三段故事穿插叙事,十分新潮和大胆,《变蝇人》那一段颇有《迷魂计》的风格。
剪辑在电影里也是一种剧作的体现,这一点在这部电影里被详尽的表达,基于自编自导,托德海因斯十分了解自己创作出来的三个完全不同的故事如何通过剪辑来结合在一起,到了电影的后段三个故事的交叉共同收住了本片。除此之外摄影也十分优秀,首先为每个故事风格使用了不同的镜头语言,其次在关键情节的表达上机位、镜头内部的设计都十分精妙,这部电影尽管纷杂,但是可以感觉到创作者背后十分纯粹的表达。
引领新酷儿浪潮的里程碑电影。从先锋实验的“毒药”到娴静优雅的“卡罗尔”,托德·海因斯的电影就像拥有自己的年轮,见证了一个叛逆青年如何平和下来、步入中年中产的全过程。
Hero-Horrow-Homo。三種風格都極喜,花園和監獄,賈曼和熱內。
原来托德海因斯早就玩起《我不在场》的多类型解构了,只是这部早期的更锋芒。
表现主义-纪实-后现代,Each man kills the thing he loves,孤独到哪里都一样;个人感觉比《雾港水手》更具让·热内范儿;
作为新酷儿电影的扛鼎之作,托德 海因斯当年展现了一种新锐先锋的光芒。对于同性情欲的呈现,也实在美妙动人。这样一看,当下的queer cinema整体都是偏homo-friendly的,对于queerness的呈现倒是不如当年。
啥呀,没看懂,你赢了。。。
探讨了 同志相关的内容。91年的老电影了。其实看看影评就差不多了。
零散的多线叙事看得太催眠,结尾的高潮cult到你的胃,实在够恶心的。监狱那段具有一种颓废肮脏的美感,压抑的欲望,昏黄的光线让人想到雾港水手,本片唯一出彩的部分
@Film Society 总算看了这部诡异的处女作, 三个部分螺旋上升。1.用新闻记录片的拍法讲述消失的暴力男孩,家庭动力学下的暴力因子,幼年性经验对生活的折射;2.Film Noir笔触下的科学怪人悲剧类比艾滋,气化的情欲,纵欲过度下的肉体糜烂,疾病下的精神失措;3. 对热内的致敬,小偷的淫猥,肮脏而纯洁
2007年6月3日 燕园421 hero horror homo 三个故事分别用不同的方法讲述,取材自jean genet的小说,开启了1990年代的新酷儿风潮
就监狱那段故事有点意思...
没法欣赏…… 多一星给那个监狱里自说自话的哥们
三段线穿插。最后的黑白画面和最初的少年披着婚纱的样子真的很美好
监狱部分的戏非常棒非常!堪比雾港水手!简直可以列入同志片中的经典!!! 结尾太让人心碎了