During the May Day holiday, did everyone go out to play?
Uncle Yu has been staying at home for the past few days, crazy patches.
After all, there are so many new films worth watching recently.
No, I dug up a strange movie again.
It comes from A24, the label that has produced cutting-edge films such as "Instant Universe" and "Lady Bird".
When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States, it caused a sensation because it was too shocking.
Audiences who have seen it have been amazed by the director's "beautiful mental state".
Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness rating of 94% and rave reviews.
Moreover, this film is a real R-rated scale.
Hollywood's top "Little K" Kristen Stewart performed "in the sea" again.
Not much to say, let's take a look at it today-
"Blood and Love"
Love Lies Bleeding
As soon as the poster came out, I knew that this movie was not ordinary.
It's no exaggeration to say that you can think of all the inappropriate elements for children.
For example, lust and the flesh.
Xiao K completely let himself go in this film, and the scale reached a new high.
Newcomer actor Katie J. M. O'Brien, crazy fitness for this film, the effect is amazing.
Perfect muscular lines, like a living ancient Greek sculpture.
Popular online protractor face, A4 waist, comic legs...... Stand aside.
A strong and powerful body that interprets what it means to be healthy and sexy.
When the two heroines first met the scene, they were filmed with sparks.
When lifting the weight, the movement of each muscle is clearly visible.
The sweat that soaks the skin becomes the finishing touch.
The scene of the heroine participating in the bodybuilding competition shows the beauty of muscles to the extreme.
The follow-up thunder hooked the earth, and Uncle Yu left it to everyone to enjoy by themselves.
In addition to lust, the film also has hearty fighting scenes.
The bodybuilder and the female owner relied on her muscles to kill her crazy directly.
Harassed by a lewd man who has no sense of boundaries, she punches it over.
treats the domestic violence man who has been taught repeatedly, and simply rushes into his door, and grabbing it is a violent beating.
People don't talk much, just like the female version of Ma Dongxi.
The most surprising thing is that there are fantasy elements in this movie.
Some sudden brain holes shocked Uncle Yu.
For example, when a bodybuilder participates in a competition, her body suddenly deforms and she seems to vomit.
And the white object that spit out turned out to be her girlfriend.
She can even become dozens of times bigger and play with men in the palm of her hand.
The style of painting changes to Attack on Titan in seconds??
Uncle Yu has lost count of how many times he shouted in his heart......
So, what kind of story does a strange film with such a mixture of elements tell?
For example, this movie can be seen as the "Flower of the End" in the new era.
Everyone should remember the plot of that classic old movie.
Thelma and Louise escape their suffocating lives together and drive on the road.
After being sexually assaulted, they shot and killed someone, and then went to the end of the world and never looked back.
"Crazy Flower of the End" has become the awakening and enlightenment of generations of female audiences.
And "Blood Love Becomes a River" is quite similar.
The same tells the story of two women who are involved in a crime.
Xiao K, played by Lu, is the manager of a gym.
It sounds lofty, but it's actually quite aggrieved.
The daily routine is to clean the toilet with bare hands.
And the biggest headache for her is the actual owner of the gym, her father who doesn't want to talk about it.
The old guy doesn't look like a good stubble.
Daddy Lu is a notorious local snake who has been smuggling guns and ammunition for many years, and has also carried a lot of lives.
even, forced his own daughter to shoot and kill, and wanted to pull his daughter into the water to die for him.
has been at large, precisely because he has already bought off the local police, a nest of snakes and rats.
The women of Lu's family are typical victims of patriarchy.
Her mother ran away from home more than a decade ago and never returned.
She and her sister depend on each other.
However, my sister also met an unladylike person, married a scumbag who cheated on domestic violence, and gave birth to three children.
Every time Lu saw his sister, the other party was embarrassed, ranging from bruises and purple to fractures and plasters.
The scumbag is a subordinate of his father and has a protective umbrella.
A tooth for a tooth? Lu Zheng had this intention, and the anger in his heart was approaching a critical point......
Until the appearance of another girl makes everything start to spacge.
Jackie, a bodybuilding girl, has been bullied since she was a child, so she has the idea of getting fit and becoming stronger.
She escaped from her conservative and backward hometown, hitchhiking, sleeping in the open air, and living a wandering life.
The ultimate goal is to participate in a bodybuilding competition in Las Vegas.
Jackie walks into Lou's gym, and the two hit it off.
While everyone else is prejudiced against bodybuilding women, Lou is fully supportive of Jackie's dream.
And when ill-intentioned men mock Lou's orientation, Jackie will also stand up for her.
They are also burdened with heavy social prejudices, and they cherish each other because of their empathy for each other, and they soon become fetters.
However, the sweet days are only a prelude to the storm.
One day, Lu's sister was hospitalized.
That's right, I was abused by my scumbag husband again, and this time it was even worse than before.
Looking at his sister, who was seriously injured and unconscious, Lu completely collapsed.
Jackie, who came with her, saw everything in her eyes.
With a thought brewing in her mind, Jackie quietly leaves the ward and goes to the scumbag's house.
As soon as I saw the scumbag, my emotions instantly overwhelmed my reason, and my body moved quickly before my brain.
With an overwhelming advantage of strength, Jackie knocked it to the ground.
One punch, another punch, another punch.
Blood splattered, eyes widened with rage, and muscles erupted, and they couldn't stop at all.
After a while, half of the scumbag's head was smashed, and he swallowed his breath before he had time to resist.
The fate of Jackie and Lou is about to change completely because of this murder.
If the tone of "Crazy Flowers of the End" is realistic.
Then "Blood Love Becomes a River" is a female cool film that is completely released.
It really made Uncle Yu feel the director's ambition to seek new changes.
First of all, the male savior-type character was abandoned.
In "Crazy Flowers of the End", there is actually a male savior.
Officer Hal sympathizes with Thelma and Louise's plight, and is still trying to convince them to turn back at the last minute.
The vanguard of the film is also that the two women do not hesitate to refuse to be saved.
and walked towards their heroic ending without hesitation.
And "Blood Love Becomes a River" simply abandons this kind of role completely.
In the story, only women save women, and women save themselves.
The most important reason why Lu did not run away from home was that he wanted to protect his sister.
The sisters got out of the sea of suffering, relying on another woman, Jackie, to avenge them.
Of course, killing people comes at a price, and you may even be able to make yourself unrecoverable.
Jackie and Lou come up with a perfect plan to get away with it.
Throw the scumbag's body into the canyon, and this is where Daddy used to throw his body.
In this way, the death of the scumbag can be blamed on the father, and the FBI can also find the rest of the corpses at the bottom of the valley and completely destroy the father's power.
But they can't hide their dad after all.
After being discovered, Daddy is furious and wants to kill Jackie.
When the danger is at stake, it is Lu who helps Jackie escape despite his own danger.
With the cooperation of the two, Dad was finally arrested.
Women save each other, are reborn in danger, and make a complete break with patriarchy.
At the end of "Blood Love", Jackie and Lou drive to a new life.
The female friendship of "Crazy Flowers of the End" has a happy ending this time.
Second, women are no longer placed in a passive position.
While both Lew and Jackie are clearly victims of patriarchy, they are not portrayed as the usual pitiful, miserable, and fragile stereotypical female portrayals.
Whether it is to get rid of the scumbag or to bring down the father, it is their initiative.
Their mental bravery and physical strength are the foundation of the story.
Especially in the last scene, the decisive battle between the two and their father.
The director opened his mind and made Jackie turn into a giant and treat the wicked like ants.
Many netizens saw a question mark on their faces when they saw this, thinking that the director was high.
However, Uncle Yu feels that this does not mean that Jackie really has any superpowers, but just uses an exaggerated way to shoot her strength.
The imaginative design is a metaphor for unimaginable female subjectivity and potential.
Finally, the erotic drama also implements the female perspective.
As we all know, male erotic scenes are often criticized by female audiences, who regard rubbing edges as fun and voyeurism as appreciation.
In this film, the female director makes erotic scenes in the opposite way.
Women's sensuality doesn't need to cater to any narrow aesthetic fetishes.
Women's desires are no longer shameful and euphemistic, it can be passionate and violent.
The camera unabashedly switches back and forth between Jackie's toned figure and Lou's obsessive gaze.
It may not be accurate enough to describe it as a "female condensation" blockbuster.
After all, there is no question of the unbalanced power relations behind the gaze here, both of them have a strong subjectivity, desire for each other, and attract each other.
There are even extremely detailed shots that show the bulging throbbing of every inch of muscle.
This kind of power and beauty also comes from a woman's perspective.
In addition to the attraction of "sex", there is also mutual appreciation between women and women.
Throughout the movie, you can't see a trace of white and thin aesthetics.
Women show strength and strength, just as they were born.
As mentioned in "Rebel Muse", people are afraid of powerful women.
And this movie wants to shoot the ultimate of female strength.
The pleasure and coolness of the whole movie come from the scale of full firepower on the surface.
The deep layer comes from the all-round blasting of the taboo.
Only by daring to think outside the old paradigm can we create new expressions.
Therefore, although the Douban score of this movie is not high, Uncle Yu still thinks it is worth watching.
Just like another female director's fierce work "Titanium" three years ago, Uncle Yu was also selected as one of his top ten of the year.
They do make a difference.
Especially in the moment.
On the screen, big data movies are flooded, and creation is no longer alive.
Off the screen, conservatism is experiencing a global renaissance.
Even our daily lives are inevitably coerced by a single cognition.
The regression of the general environment reflects the preciousness of expression.
"Blood Love into a River" is destined to fail to become a classic in the public sense.
It is also destined to offend some people and provoke criticism and abuse.
So what?
In this era, there are still people who swim against the current, which is commendable.