The film "Sweet Film" is the work of the former Yugoslav director Makawiev, which was filmed in 1974 and has a strong symbolic meaning, and is regarded as a classic masterpiece in the history of cinema, but it has also caused great criticism. Many directors of that era liked to combine emotion and politics, and it is estimated that this represented "profoundness" and symbolized "avant-garde"! Some time ago enjoyed Ding Du. The same is true of "Wings of Desire" directed by Barras, who satirized Mussolini fascism as a couple, and has previously done film reviews, which interested netizens can find in my headline article.
Du Shan's films are more like performance art, or collages, and often have only one theme, looking into the essence of politics and society. The language of his films is very straightforward, full of male and female feelings and acts of violence. The style of this "Sweet Movie" is no exception, it belongs to the visual feast of the patchwork, the visual scenes are symbolized, and there are many things that symbolize metaphors. Coupled with the gap in time, the translation is also average, so that I feel a little confused after reading it, and I feel very confused about many expressions.
Therefore, after referring to many film reviews, I would like to talk about my feelings and thank the outstanding wisdom of netizens again. The author found that this film full of symbols shows two main points of irony:
One world is the world represented by The Girl Anna. A freighter in Amsterdam named "Survivor" featured a siren-like beauty, Anna, who had attracted a sailor from the Battleship Potakin who had made a contribution to the overthrow of the Russian Tsar. The two lived very comfortably on the boat, others were rolling sheets, they were rolling sugar cans. On board, Anna preserves the relics of her former lovers, as well as countless sugars, leather boots, and various badges. She lures ignorant teenagers to board the ship, shows them candy that they can't eat, and later brutally kills her sailor companions. Anna gathered around a crowd of hippies, looting, dancing naked, raw meat, vomiting, revelry... It is said that this group of actors is really a group of hippies, because normal actors are not willing to participate in such a performance, so the director found this group of people, which is equivalent to the true color of the performance. In this world, the director uses this to satirize that the essence of some ideals is deception, allowing you a good future, drawing a cake, giving you some sugar, waiting for you is indeed death.
The other world is the western world of commercial capital. The Canadian girl won the pageant, was evaluated by experts as a "rose bud", and would marry the bachelor who was the richest man in the world, but later she found out that she had been deceived, that everything about the capitalists was fake, and even the work was made of gold. She asked for a divorce, but was nearly drowned by the hypocritical and murderous bachelor and mother. However, the actress is very eye-catching in the blue waves in the water. It was then strangely transported to Paris, France, as a cargo, and another capitalist harsh environment fell in love with handsome opera singers at first sight under the Eiffel Tower, openly completed the difficult action, and became a joke. During this period, he was also taken to the hippie base camp and humiliated. After being rescued, he makes a living in a chocolate factory, dancing in chocolate slurry under the camera, extremely feminine, but eventually suffocating in the syrup. But this chocolate dance is a classic. There are some people in the commercial society who are particularly strongly symbolized, such as the president of a certain foundation, Mr. Black Muscle, pop rock singers, etc., and these satirical things have long been seen, which is a greater irony.
Noteworthy two true documentaries inserted in the middle and at the end of the film, the "Katyn Massacre". It was filmed in Nazi Germany, showing in detail how the body was hoisted, how to rummaging through the corpses, how to identify the wounds on the skull, and so on, and this scientific precision was tinged with a strong sense of complacency and interest in cruelty. The reason for inserting such a film is that the director's intention is very clear. Cruelty, murder, violence, always under different pretexts, in different time and space, continue to happen.
Looking at this film, the director may want to say that no matter what the big environment and concept, there is a dark side, and it cannot escape the fate of being deceived, fooled, eroded, and finally abandoned and mutilated. The author believes that no matter what the environment, it is not wrong to maintain the spirit of doubt and the attitude of seeking truth from facts.
However, I still have reservations about many scenes in this film, such as: when the streets are raining, molesting children, especially hippies gathered together to live and die, it really challenged my viewing limits. Warm reminder: "Watch the movie need to be cautious, skip more healthy."