It's not short of bold, glamorous shots that explore queer cultures like gender, sexual mobility, and freaks, and it's filled with gimmicks like incest, beauty and metal car fucking, and violent murder.
Each of the above "labels" that are capitalized and close-ups seem to always attract some viewers to find out.
It is in the controversy and honor of the two extreme evaluation system, French female director Julia Di Kuno directed the science fiction, horror, crime, women and other genres in one, but also broke through the concept of genre film "Titanium".
Just as the director of "Titanium" has a strange fascination with freaks and the beauty of freaks, I personally like to explore marginal and topical films such as spectacle movies and experimental movies. Digging a treasure out of the seemingly vulgar audiovisual language, that satisfaction is difficult to describe in words.
A good movie can always break through cognition, the recognition of movies or human nature.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="33" > female directors prefer "heavy taste"</h1>
The previous "Raw Eating" filmed "beautiful women eat human flesh", this "Titanium" filmed "do not distinguish between male and female beauty killing", stepping on the hunting, bloody, horror "red line" film Julia Diku, with the second work won the best film at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival, she also became the second best female director after Jane Campion to win the Palme d'Or.
Many people may not know Jane Campion, here is the science popularization, she is one of the world's top female directors, "Piano Lessons" (1993), "Bright Stars" (2009), "Canine Power" (2021) and so on are her masterpieces.
And "The Power of the Dog" is the Western masterpiece that persuaded "Curly Fu" Benedict Cumberbatch to "go to the sea" to play gay and gay.
Compared with the intuitive, raw and hard bloody scenes in "Raw Eating", the movie "Titanium" does not use "blood color" too much, the person killed by the protagonist Alexia is a white vomit, and Alexia's lower body and breasts after pregnancy are gray-black liquid similar to oil.
Similarly, both movies can bring the audience a very direct sense of physical pain, who can not sigh after watching: too perverted, too shocking, too challenging three views!
The inspiration for the script for Titanium came from a recurring nightmare in which she gave birth to a car engine. Every time director Julia Di Kuno wakes up from his fears, he can't help but cry out deeply: What an impactful cinematic scene this scene is!
So, the director created Alexia, a destructive, male-female character. Injured in a car accident as a child, titanium alloy artificial bone was implanted in the brain and the body was covered with a prosthesis. "Titanium" is a metal material commonly used in auto parts.
Based on this premise, as a dance performer at the auto show, she has a soul exchange with the cool luxury car, and has the collision of titanium and flesh. After a late-night tethered "car tremor", "hybridization" gave birth to a baby.
What does a human mother look like to a car-born baby? This suspense will not be revealed until the end, leaving room for imagination.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="51" > freak's self-help</h1>
The world created by director Julia Di Kuno is a world where gender and sexual orientation are highly mobile, and the boundaries of ethics and morality are not very clear.
The world is alienated, cold, and full of desire, and in the cracks between dirtiness and violence, there is a trace of warmth. In the film, Vincent, the orphaned father, is the warmth that Alexia seeks.
Because of the provocation of her biological father suffered a car accident, Alexia "cut flesh and bones" to return to her father and became a titanium synthetic; because of the killing escape, Alexia wrapped her chest, shaved her hair, lost her voice, changed from a physical woman to an external male, and found her spiritual father, Vincent.
Alexia's emotional choices are very interesting, the relationship with her biological parents is cold, she is not interested in love, she is forced to kiss him by male fans and kills him, and there is no reason to kill each other in close contact with women.
The act of killing people is very sloppy and rough, the specific reason is that you can freely brain supplement, perhaps due to the eccentricities of pregnancy, or perhaps the dominance of "titanium" has produced a rejection reaction to the human body?
Alexia is a freak in every way, and before Vincent appeared, it was hard to imagine that she would have an emotional bond with anyone, she was extremely egotistical, extremely lonely being.
Vincent, obsessed with her missing son, chose to bring back the makeover Alexia, and as to who Alexia was and where she came from, even later realized that she was not her own son at all, she was always willing to protect her at the expense of her life.
"Whoever you are, you are my son".
This pair of "father and son", in the ambiguous language of the camera, also has a same-sex/opposite-sex love attraction, and the two are always tempted on the edge of ethics when they hug and kiss.
The indelible Oedipal complex of human nature has once again been interpreted differently.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="66" > a curious art film</h1>
Although the palme d'Or is the supreme honor, the artistry of "Titanium" is still questioned, including some authoritative and professional voices. On the domestic Douban, the score has dropped all the way to 6.7 points.
More netizens asked: If it is made into a domestic film, word of mouth should be the lowest score, right?
This theme has a freak character design, a curious storyline, and mechanical, industrial texture of electronic music, the form is too noisy, crazy, lack of emotion and detail portrayal, it is really difficult to cross the threshold of domestic "art films".
Not to mention the scale and imagination of the Japanese hunting film next door, has always broken through the audience's ability to accept, "Titanium" is too much like some restrictive works, not very acceptable to domestic audiences and forgivable.
The beauty emphasized by director Julia Di Kuno is a trembling beauty. Freaks exist to destroy the "ordinary" and advance the future. And this in itself is very different from our country's aesthetic tendencies and cultural roots.
Some people who can't understand or feel uncomfortable watching this film, some people enjoy this "perverted" carnival; some people watch this film and praise it, some people can't accept it, and feel that "the three views are ruined"; some people understand tolerance, some people feel offended, and some people think that it is anti-feminist and has misogynistic tendencies.
Isn't it normal for everyone to have everyone's interpretation?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="78" music is a plus ></h1>
The director tells the story he loves in the way he thinks it is beautiful, and the audience appreciates the beauty of the film with his own cognition. Watching the whole movie, my personal favorite is the soundtrack.
Electronics, percussion, Bach excerpts, organs, every piece of music implanted seems to be just right, leading the mood and atmosphere deeper into the heart.
Impressively, the firefighters dance to the "Future Islands" song "Lighthouse", and the boy-dressed Alexia dances in a seductive and provocative dance, when the non-biological father Vincent's inner desire for Alexia becomes stronger, and Alexia's own desire for humanity is completely awakened, weakened by the power of "titanium".
The dance at the auto show leads to the camera, and the intense music runs through the film passages, ending with the birth of a new life. The overall rhythm shifted from wild to sacred, and the music also moved from the drums without a tone to the sacred Bach tune.
Alexia satisfies Vincent's fantasies as much as possible, and then dies in childbirth, where Vincent will continue her desire for a "son," or an aexia, from the newborn.
Finally, a friendly reminder: please be mentally prepared before watching this film, the three views are too conservative, the acceptance of heavy taste is weak, do not look, may feel physical pain across the screen.