By DIANA JIMENEZ LEFT
PRADO
Nathan Gomes Broadcasting Students Special
The Moviola
Freedom, morality, death, existentialism and the fight against himself are human conditions that compel us to act in a certain way, sometimes breaking the rules and behaviors that''we''have to fit into society. But what happens when our desires and impulses compel us to act differently? When do you just want to live without being bound by the rules?, When do we pay attention to our inner voice that goes against everything? The answers would target human decadence and rejection by society.
Gaspar Noe, Argentine filmmaker based in France, embodies the human condition in a butcher, a man 50 years of lower middle class living internal chaos in his mind. Life is not easy to put it, has no friends and family, is limited to his daughter, with whom he has a somewhat distant relationship, ultimately, his only refuge is his mind. Noah
shows this character physically very simple, your wardrobe does not have much else, use pale colors and monochromatic. He speaks little, but his mind is so active that is able to analyze and feed back in a few seconds. Always hear the voice of his thoughts ranging from optimism to frustration.
director at the beginning of the movie creates a simple narrative. The protagonist tells his life and this story is accompanied by still photographs that complement the dialogue. The whole story is recreated in Paris, perhaps you would expect to see the Eiffel Tower and beautiful streets, but Noah shows empty streets and seedy places, the perfect environment for the evolution of the protagonist.
The pace of the film is slow, long takes and static camera allows us to engage more with the protagonist's mind. The first planes are unexpected, startled the audience and create an atmosphere of tension, the forced camera to focus on what the director wants to promote, for example when you close the mouth of the character with particular emphasis on what you mean.
The proposed Noah narrative is mainly based off the voice of the protagonist, are quite profound dialogue where the character looks at life from many areas, social, religious, cultural etc. Noah is customary to create raw and violent films such as meat and Irreversible.
Dominique Colin is responsible for the photography, has worked with Gaspar in several of its productions. In alone against all, the picture has a yellow light that gives a sense of family warmth but rather gives a feeling morbid and distressing, there are great prospects and depth of field.
sound in this film is not composed of familiar melodies or songs are heard loud noises to disturb the viewer, these are inserted in an unexpected way and what the director is intended to frame or highlight something specific. The voice-over accompanies the main character throughout the film regardless of the words being said, the speed and volume of the voice are believed to be tension. The ambient sound, a shot or something sharp musical note, suggesting violence, excitement, danger, despite being too short to create nervousness.
to black inserts proposed by the director interrupted the narrative, but do not forget the atmosphere that prevails, the violence and disturbance by sound effects with them intended to alert the viewer.
The relationship of the film between fiction and reality is very narrow, as are events that anyone can live, feelings like anger, fear, fatigue and loneliness situations are real. The place where things happen may be fictitious but applicable to reality.
Society and their behavior, play an important role in the story, because this determines how the protagonist's life, as in real life, according to the society in which we live is our way of being and seeing things to hate or love. In the story the protagonist lives in a society that turns its back, after leaving his wife lying on the floor of the house with his mother, full of fear, he escapes and goes looking to rebuild his life, but it does not, all in the same company but each in his own world with its own problems. In real life this is also evident, people have to fight for their lives, find ways to get ahead, without waiting for someone to come out of nowhere to want to help. The society we only show us against all is that if a person has had a bad past "such as have been in jail for wanting to defend a loved one's daughter (though everything has been a misunderstood), closes many doors and it is difficult to resume a normal life, because although we are in the XXI century, that is a kind of paradigm and leaves a mark that people will not forget easily. (In this part we have a parallel with the Colombian society, where crimes occur as violations often go unpunished, then we wonder Will we have to take justice into our hands? If the life of a loved one who is in danger Why justice does not work? No matter how miserable life can be thereafter?)
alone against all also makes us think about filial love, morality, loneliness, general society, because the protagonist feels his life is empty, that even if a lot of people around, you're really alone,''believes that relationships are simply a business where everyone plays their part and work is made, a monthly call, a visit to the funeral and go, children love their mother only when she can give them food and when the father can give money, but when all this ends, it is easy for them to leave them in a nursing home and get rid of the problem,''and concludes that''the banal reality is that only live well when pleasure and when this is just nothing makes sense, because life is empty.'' When we turn this into real life, we realize that it is, also depends in which culture is grown in Latin America the family is a very important part, however this problem is noted, the children are fine with the parents if there money until a certain age where two things can happen, one, fail to recognize the value and the efforts of parents, or simply see them as a people which can not be ordered, as to the pleasures and banality, man daily lives for pleasure and not just the sexuality or services but are within that, the joy of reading, the pleasure of watching a good movie, the pleasure of being together, but if there is no pleasure, if there is something that makes feel good, then what sense does it get up and follow a daily routine, work and keep in the same?, a reward is that, the pleasure of eating, resting, meditating.
In this film, the director does not intend to give an accurate view on what is moral or not. With the evolution of French character and the environment, morality seems to escape any consideration to be taken on this. This story does not make judgments or decisions, plans to rob the thinking and way of seeing the life of an ordinary person.
The viewer may be questioning the veracity of justice. In this movie may be shown a large rejection of this by the characters. The butcher makes no assumptions about good and bad, simply remove everything that he considers appearance and dirt.
Each dialogue of the characters especially the butcher, is the self and a comprehensive analysis of society.
Existentialism, is another issue highlighted in this film, according to the philosophers is: "Man exists as that is the origin of himself and makes himself through his free elections, then we can conclude do exist have freedom to be and do whatever we want, but if you live in a society we have to follow some rules to follow and the fact implies that we do what we want, then how is our existence?, existentialists say that man is a being "thrown into the world" and in this film we show clearly that, because the protagonist's life is a bit miserable, living with a bitter woman who every day, he lost his shop when he went to prison, his daughter is at boarding school and when he decides to leave his wife does in the worst way, kill the baby in her womb, leaves, returns to the village where he once had a decent life for help and they all give back, that is where we say that man if he was thrown into the world to fend for themselves, some are lucky and others fail.
In our view Gaspar Noé tells a complicated story, not the argument, but because life is difficult for a man who makes us wonder about the role we play in our lives, we proposed to reaffirm our beliefs and convictions in a society where there is superficial and where it is better that makes everything perfect or That appears to be.
This film is a critique of society, politics, sexuality, philosophy and human relations from the point of view of a character where his frustrated life is governed by a society that prevents you from living without rules or laws but it from its position somewhat anarchic does what he pleases.
we ended up being the protagonists of the story and have a revolver with three bullets, it is our decision if the load and pull the trigger, if we're alone on that or we get someone else, or if you decide to face life as we did and have the ability to change with our actions and daily decisions.
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