Dehumanizing the "dead" cycle
Nicholas WindingLeven is a cannes concubine. "Outlaw Driving," which won the Best Director Award two years ago, was truly stunning, but unlike the sustained applause that "Outlaw Driving" received, "God Can Forgive" received half the cheers at Cannes. Half a cry
Julian (Ryan Gosling) hid in Thailand a decade ago to escape capture. He and his brother Billy opened a fight club and secretly traded drugs. Fight arena. Most of the interior composition, such as corridors, is symmetrical. The lighting is staged, and the intensity of the contrast between chiaroscuro and dark is unusually strong, similar to Wong Kar-wai
Billy kills a Thai prostitute, and police officer Chang (Vita ya Panslingam) instigates the prostitute's father to kill Billy. Chang, as a party of apparent justice, exercises
The method of punishment is very personal, and violence is countered by violence. Respond to the kill poke with a kill poke, in his
In the world, there is only the word "kill." This makes the film incomprehensible from a normal point of view that conforms to reality. Here, killing is just a form of punishment, not morality and law
The same goes for Julian's mother, Christopher (Kristen Scott Thomas), who comes to Bangkok. He sent someone to kill all those involved in his son's death. This also makes the film feel like an endless loop, anti-realist. Man is dehumanized and becomes a symbol. If there's a moment of humanity in the movie, it's Julian's protection of the little girl. But in fact, this character transformation is completely devoid of inner foreshadowing behavior and lacks the necessary motivation to elaborate. Unconvincing.
The film is mostly based on door frames, corridor composition, corridors and the emptiness of the fight field that is easily reminiscent of David Lynch. This emptiness slowly accumulates emotions. The streets of Bangkok have never been so deserted. The director put "Bronson". The strange chicken style in "Sunrise Heroic Martyrs' Shrine" continues until "Only God Can Forgive", some scenes are at the boundary between imagination and reality, and the sense of form makes the focus outside the story, lacking the necessary details. The faces of the characters are also made of statues made of cg due to lighting techniques, think of Johnnie Walker's cg Bruce Lee commercial, you can know that Gosling and Panslingam basically do not perform, just expressionless. The only bit of interesting performance came from Thomas, the most fierce character in her history, cold-blooded, extremely controlling, and ruthless in her speech, as evidenced by the dinner scene with Julian and his girlfriend.
The action scenes in the film are clean and clean, with no superfluous tricks, much like Quentin Tarantino. The music follows Cliff Martinez, the composer of Outlaw Driving, and the electronic psychedelic wind matches the film's sense of emptiness just right.