has a director who is famous for specializing in large-scale banned films.
He is Gaspa No , one of the most rebellious figures in the film industry.
There was a riot at the scene, and the audience cursed loudly and even threw things at the screen.
html More than 1,200 viewers left the venue halfway, and 20 viewers fainted.
In 2015, he filmed another extremely explicit lust film "Love". There are a lot of bed scenes in
film, just like an adult movie.
uses the ultimate chaotic scene to describe a group of dancers X after being excited.
Recently, the director returned with his new work.
is still a crazy challenge from form to content.
Douban 8.1, which ranked in the recent reputation list.
Uncle Yu will talk about it today—
"Verm"
Vortex
At the beginning of the story, the two were in the same box.
very quickly, the format changes quietly.
A crack slowly fell in the world of two people, gradually separating the world of two people.
From then on, the movie began to present the changes in the lives of the two people in a strange split-screen way. On the right side of
, the wife got up, slowly put on her clothes, came to the kitchen, turned on the boiler to make coffee. On the left side of
, my husband is still sleeping, his breathing is exhausted and heavy, and he coughs from time to time due to phlegm.
My wife packed up and went out to take out the garbage.
However, as soon as she walked on the street, she forgot her purpose, went around and searched in different stores.
The husband sat at the desk and wrote until noon when he realized his wife was lost. He hurriedly went out to search.
From the pharmacy to the record store, he asked from door to door until he found his wife in the supermarket.
He took his wife away with his anger.
Before leaving, he bought a bouquet of flowers for his wife.
When I got home, my husband could no longer control his emotions and asked his wife where she went.
gets only a vague hum.
It turns out that my wife is sick.
This former psychiatrist is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease .
is often confused, has lost memory, and cannot find the way home.
Even at home, it can cause all kinds of troubles.
The husband is planning to write a book, and it is rare to write a few pages.
When I go back to the room to measure my blood pressure, my wife broke into the study and tore the draft into pieces.
Sometimes it can also bring life danger.
The wife always turns on the gas stove for no reason.
If the husband had not noticed it in time, the two of them would have been poisoned and died.
Long-term fear and mental torture have changed the mindset of my husband.
What makes the husband even more trouble is that The wife can no longer recognize him .
The son is the only person she still remembers.
When her son came to visit them, she pulled her son and whispered to her husband.
"This is a man, follow me wherever you go"
The wife occasionally briefly recovers her sanity.
At this time, she will fall into self-blame and shed tears in sadness.
All a husband can do is to hold his wife's hand and not to comfort him.
But, taking care of her day after day makes her husband exhausted.
Moreover, my husband is also aging and plagued by illnesses, and has suffered from heart disease for many years.
The son saw it and suggested sending them to nursing home .
says that the equipment and environment there are excellent, including nurses, doctors, and psychological counseling.
They can live in a double room and take care of each other.
The husband refused without hesitation.
He is unwilling to leave this house.
There are hundreds of books, journals, and magazines in the family, but they cannot be taken away.
More importantly, this is where they lived all their lives, carries the past that they don't want to throw away.
He said that there are people with abnormal mental health.
And the couple are both well-educated intellectuals.
But his son suddenly woke him up.
" But, my mother is really confused "
The father and son started quarreling.
The son was dissatisfied with his father's conceit, while the father complained that his son did not come to visit them often .
The son was very wronged, he had to busy himself with his livelihood and take care of his young children.
The quarrel became sharper and the volume rose higher without being controlled.
Mother sat among them, shocked and scared.
She couldn't understand what her husband and son were arguing, and only knew that the conflict arose because of herself.
She fell into disbelief and blamed herself, and suddenly said:
"...will I die better? "
Although her husband and son comforted her as soon as possible.
But she still stutteredly requested:
"I want you to give up on me "
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has been tried in the previous work "Eternal Light".
However, this time, "Verm" has used this technique to the extreme, almost throughout the entire film.
This is not a show-off of playing with gimmicks, but is closely related to the theme that the film wants to express.
split screen, not only the picture, but also the character relationship .
What it shows is a Revelation of the marriage of the elderly .
Since the screen was split, the two old men have almost never been in the same frame again.
Although living under the same roof, it seems to live in two time and space.
In life, they face the trivialities of food and food together.
Spiritually, they are independent of each other and can never be closely linked to .
Unlike the wife's mind, the husband remains awake.
He can also talk to his friends about the movies, from Kenji Mizuguchi to Fellini.
And the wife can only fiddle with fragmented objects like a child.
After decades of accompanying each other, love has faded.
support each other, not from passion, but a habit of .
And the wife's disease breaks this balance.
The husband was in great pain, ran out to relieve his boredom, gathered with friends, and met his lover.
When his wife was searching for medicine in the cabinet, he was hugging his lover with open arms.
The two people's actions are almost the same and the purpose is the same. both want to seek something to save themselves .
But, this is ultimately a futile thing.
No medicine can cure Alzheimer's disease, and has no way to save the aging life .
Unexpectedly, the first person to leave the other party was her husband.
On an ordinary night, a heart attack.
He covered his chest in pain and fell to the ground.
My wife is still sleeping soundly and not noticed.
The couple lie on their side in the same position.
is a short distance away, but I am already in two worlds.
At this time, the split screen is separated by life and death.
On the bed in the emergency room, the husband's breathing sound gradually weakened.
The picture faded.
When life witheres, the color of life is also smoothed out .
All the sadness turned into a sigh from my wife.
In fact, the wife has not yet realized the death of her husband.
She asked her son calmly, " How is he doing " .
The son curled up on her legs, and she instinctively stroked his hair.
The screen did not become full screen because of the death of my husband.
My wife is still on one side of the picture, in a narrow and cramped frame.
This is exactly the true portrayal of on the elderly widowed .
Even if one party dies first, he still occupies the other half of his life.
The wife will still suddenly wake up late at night, facing the emptiness and loneliness.
ran out of the door and called on your lover.
seems to have a long dream.
Searching around but no results, she walked back to the room in disappointment.
turned on the gas, lay on the bed, covering her face with a quilt.
She ended her life in a calm way.
Heartbeat stopped and she was pushed into the crematorium.
The moment the iron door closed, there was no crying, only darkness was left.
"Verm" tells not a fairy tale of love that is together forever.
It is more like a real documentary, showing it bluntly and cruelly, The feeling of powerlessness when life goes to the end .
and split screen is an emotional and clear way of expression.
Director took this opportunity to film the common and entangled lonely fate of the two old men .
In addition, split screen is also the visual presentation of on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease .
Alzheimer's disease can cause lesions in the brain.
The atrophy of the brain causes the gap between the left and right hemispheres to gradually grow larger.
Patients often have an unbalanced perception of things.
The director’s wonderful use of split screens is to intuitively show us this state.
Many old fans of Gaspar No were actually a little disappointed.
has no hormones that overflow the screen in "Irevocable", causing to stop cardiac arrest and 's sensory impact.
also does not have the movement mirror in " Escape into Nothing ", the erratic and subjective lens , which is erratic and hilarious.
However, Uncle Yu believes that "Verm" is precisely the movie with the largest "scale".
Because this time, He really had the courage to face death .
Before filming this film, the director just passed by Death.
In 2020, he was admitted to the hospital due to sudden cerebral hemorrhage .
This experience gave the rebellious director a whole new thoughts on the proposition of life and death.
Not only that, Gaspar Nou's Both mother and grandmother are Alzheimer's patients with .
He once witnessed the difficulty of taking care of his grandmother.
After her mother fell ill, he took care of her personally until she passed away.
He has a deep understanding of love and death.
This emotion was projected by him into the movie, telling the sadness of his son wanting to support his parents.
"I have made gimmick, shocking or provocative movies.
This time, I want the audience to cry with me and experience life is the movie."
In "Verm", the couple's son is a complete loser .
is addicted to drugs and lives a difficult life.
While working as a social worker in the community, you also have to raise your young son.
It is rare to go home to visit your parents, and you have to borrow 200 yuan.
Through the lens on the left and right, we can feel his helplessness even more. To the left of
, his mother was staying at home alone, anxiously looking for her relatives. On the right side of
, he had to patiently coax his son to sleep.
The night my mother committed suicide, she took out her own medicine from the cabinet and poured it into the dirty toilet one by one.
The son knows nothing about this.
He secretly took out heroin, escaped the distress of reality in a depraved way .
Aging is a terrible thing.
" or die of old age, this is a problem "
Sex and drugs has always been the theme of Gaspar No movies, and he has a breath of indulgence in every shot of him.
But in "Verk", the director seemed to figure it out.
Over the years, he experienced the death of his mother and he also walked through the gates of hell.
He restrained the stimulation of rebellion and focused his care on love itself.
Even if everything is finally nothing.
However, At least for us who are alive now, life is a heavy and cherished .
Parents will eventually die a day, and so do we.
The withering of life is actually not terrible. What is important is that you need Love and company .
Due to the decline in cognitive ability, patients with Alzheimer's disease often have a mess of memory and are easily lost when going out alone.
We can always see news, and the patient's family racked their brains to this, embroidered contact phone numbers on the elderly's clothes, or directly tattooed on their arms.
Take care of them requires great patience from their families, and complaints are inevitable in the process.
But at least, you won’t regret it after losing it.
There is a wonderful contrast in "The Vortex".
On one side is an old man who is gradually losing his language function, and on the other side is a grandson who has not mastered the language function.
These are the two extremes of a short life .
After the two old men passed away, the child finally spoke.
In the funeral home, he asked his father from the perspective of a child.
"Does grandpa and grandma have a new home? "
Children symbolize hope and our expectations for good.
Just like at the funeral at the end of the film, PPT plays photos of two elderly people as children.
life cycle repeats, we always get and lose .
This is a vortex that we can't get around, like an unsolved problem.
But, it is not powerless.
You might as well leave more love for the people around you and for your parents.
accept their aging peacefully and bring us the power of love.
can also harvest, the courage to face death .
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