Don't you think she/she is suitable for the morning? /Don't you think she is very suitable for/for example/running/opening her old biscuit box/reading wet old letters/she is like a cork/sealing a bottle of wine/don't you think she is very suitable for running in a hurry/living in the bright starry sky?
Yu Xia, don't you think she's perfect for the morning?
At first glance, Xavier, a talented Canadian director,
/kloc-Dolan's work "I killed my mother", which made him famous at the age of 0/9, came to my mind. Xavier (male name)
Dolan's film world is full of slow motion, bright colors, moving soundtracks and montages, interwoven into a unique Dolan aesthetics, and his five feature films will all show his unique aesthetics in the future.
As Xavier
Dolan's fourth feature film, Tom's Farm Travel, is different from his previous works. It's a story adapted from a stage play of the same name, which is a bit suspenseful. The film mainly tells the story that the hero Tom was killed in a car accident and drove to the remote farm where his boyfriend lived to attend the funeral, so he met his brother Francis, a homophobe with violent tendencies. From then on, Tom was trapped on the farm and began his farm life. As a director who can amaze the film festival at a young age, each of Dolan's works has its own unique theme and color. I killed my mother, by telling the life stories of my mother and son, shows the fierce quarrel but interdependence between them. Fantasy love enlarges Dolan's control of color and beauty to the extreme, and double-sided Lawrence conveys that love transcends gender, and no enemy can be more loyal to his own thoughts with cross-dressing love. Tom's farm trip is dominated by yellow and green. By telling Tom's experience, he reveals his boredom with city life. With Tom's Farm Travel, Dolan appeared in the main competition venue of Venice Film Festival and finally won the Phoebe International Film Critics Award.
Director Xavier
Dolan is also the hero in Tom's Farm Travel. He is a designer with yellow curly hair and has just lost his boyfriend. By watching movies, it is not difficult to find that Tom is a weak comrade with Stockholm syndrome. When he came to his boyfriend's house, he met his abnormal brother Francis, who was violent and paranoid about his family and oppressed and tortured him. He had a chance to escape (Tom had a chance to escape from this life after the funeral and when his female colleague arrived), but Tom chose to stay in pain and suffering. On the one hand, because Francis looks like his late boyfriend, Tom has a nostalgic complex. On the other hand, Tom fell into such a life under Francis' ambiguous and slightly emotional torture, which is the embodiment of Tom Stockholm syndrome.
Another protagonist is Francis, a violent homophobe. Francis appeared in an unexpected late night. He grabbed Tom's neck in the thick black, and the atmosphere was as depressing as the darkness that night. Francis is an extremely violent man. He likes to deal with things by violence. There is a bloody hostility hidden under his good-looking appearance. His obsession with violence can be seen from his repeated torture of Tom and tearing his brother's boyfriend's face. Francis is also an extremely contradictory figure. Although he is a homophobe, he shows his love for Tom when he gets along with him. At the same time, he also has extreme love for his family. Through every time he gets along with his mother, it is not difficult to see his love and fear for her.
As a suspense film, the whole film reveals a tense and depressing atmosphere, and Dolan magnifies this helplessness and fear through many details. In the church, the priest's obedience to Francis and Francis's attitude towards the people who came to attend the funeral all hinted at the fear of Francis in the town, which laid the groundwork for Francis's full display of violent tendencies later.
A conflict between Tom and Francis in the cornfield is the center of the whole movie. Running helplessly in the endless cornfield, Tom's emotions and experiences can't be found. Francis suddenly appeared, threw Tom to the ground and spat in Tom's mouth. This extremely depressed montage directly shows Tom's sense of oppression, helplessness and humiliation, and the tension as a suspense film reaches its climax. In this passage, the film reduced the screen size for the first time to highlight the depressive feeling of the enlarged characters.
Giving birth to a calf is a turning point in Tom's mood. Tom was anxious and nervous because he delivered a calf for the first time. Francis helped Tom wash the blood from his hands and comforted Tom who was crying. Francis's tenderness for Tom made Tom feel so good that he wanted to stay on the farm for the first time.
Tom was once immersed in this dangerous but ambiguous relationship with Francis, and finally the bar owner told him that Francis had torn his brother's boyfriend's mouth, which made him want to escape. Tom, who left the farm and hid in the forest, and Francis, who came to look for him, started a chase and escape. In "The Forest", Dolan once again reduced the screen size to create the tension and oppression of the story. At this time, Francis found himself having feelings for Tom. He shouted an apology in the forest and tried to keep Tom from leaving, but it was all in vain. Tom took the opportunity to get into Francis's car parked on the side of the road and drove away this endless cornfield and this hopeless life.
After leaving, Tom went to a convenience store, but in the convenience store, he vaguely saw the man with his mouth torn, and Francis flashed in his mind. After returning to the city, Tom will definitely go back to his normal life. This nightmare but emotional life is bound to become a memory, but its influence on Tom will be eternal, either a scar or a dark cloud, just like Francis passing by in a convenience store. This will be a gray memory that Tom can't say goodbye to.
People often find the shadow of Wong Kar-wai in xavier dolan's works. Xavier dolan, like Wong Kar-wai, has a very strong personal style and great sensitivity to capture the beauty of the picture in those elegant music, beautiful color blocks and frequent slow motion.
Tom's farm trip is dominated by yellow and green. The color of the film is combined with the suspense of the whole film, revealing a cold atmosphere. In the dialogue between characters and the collision between characters, Dolan's grasp of this cold green picture gives the film his unique aesthetic feeling. At the beginning of the film, Tom's overlooking of the driving scenery when driving to the farm and the quiet scenery of the farm interspersed from time to time in the film make the film amazing. Director Xavier
Dolan's accurate control of the aesthetic feeling of the film screen once again is admirable and worthy of the title of genius.
For a long time after watching the movie, I was trapped in the sadness of "I'm tired of America" in the ending song. Tom, who returned to the city to start his original life again, was tired of the confusing lights and noisy crowds in the city, but he wanted to start this life cycle again.
"Today, a part of me has died, and there are no words to describe the blank that should be filled, but I can't cry because I have forgotten all the synonyms of' sadness'. Now, what I can do without you is to find someone to replace you. "