"Discover the Moviola is to discover an island inhabited by people, who knows if they are there by choice or chance, that share the same passion, the same taste or even a same obsession. The film has the power to collect, discuss which actor disappoints us, that we found adorable or horrible, and in general, we called the attention of the movie is good or bad. The film has as many nuances as life itself and that and The Moviola is a discovery for me, important in the table to be a university: it gives the opportunity to meet more about what these people of that island have in common: the cinema (or two syllables, film). "
Pablo Hernandez
By Pablo Hernández
Special to The Media Estuduiante
Moviola Audiovisual
This time we will analyze the film alone against all the French filmmaker Gaspar Noé.
Made in 1998, the film tells the story of a butcher, just out of prison and returns to his past life with a wife and her mother can not bear to which you want to see dead. Before, I was a butcher who ran hard and a sheet which Autistic care with a dedication exacerbated her feelings as she was unclear. Away from her and all her past, returns to a hostile and difficult environment where his wife, stepmother of the girl, I remember every day the kind of loser and it's little more than she can keep any work and as give only good for small moments of pleasure. Pregnant, fat woman merely shouting, with the help of his mother, living conditions where they are and how they might be better if the butcher was really good for something. The man has problems with his life since he was sexually abused by a priest when he was young, carnally wanted her daughter and had maintained relations sex with his cellmate, something he had promised to forget. It is by his daughter, and a misunderstanding with her first period, the butcher kills an innocent man is taken to prison.
The butcher comes out of there in 1980, while being a completely different life he had in the past with his new wife pregnant, the man is forced to work as a caretaker in a home for the elderly which it bores where it die, but several observations about life and the state of being human.
One day coming to work tired, and after having a few drinks, the man comes home to fight with his wife and mother. Rabies breaks out in it after being accused of having a lover, takes his wife by kicking in the womb in which this burden to the next child. Threat to the two women with a gun and runs the place, thinking that something must for him in Paris or at least be somewhere else is better to face the authorities soon. Paris returns to the same inn where he conceived her daughter and begins searching for friends, but none are doing well financially and are unable to help you find work. His anger and resentment against the powerful French class grows to such an extent that when rejected for a job in a refrigerator, butcher immediately begins plotting the assassination of "fag" that he refused. Is still angry an altercation at a local bar, where it is taken out, which makes his anger and rage to rise further.
arrives at the inn and start planning to kill. But before anything else decides to go for his daughter to boarding school where they have it and see it one last time because you have decided that the last bullet is for himself. When it comes to the inn with her butcher imagine having sex with her and then shoot bad leaving her badly injured and then ends, lamenting the murder of his daughter and the lack of bullets for their other "enemies." Suddenly, the film returns to the moment where father and daughter had just entered the room at the inn. Although removed from his mind the thought of killing, yet think about sex with her, because "the love between them is pure as the world condemns it."
Let us begin analyzing the direction of this film, certainly the first of Gaspar Noé. The work perhaps more pure and clean of the film is the one who does this actor named Phillipe Nahon. The actor manages to play with your whole body (facial expressions and body gestures, ...) and externalizing the internal monologue that persists throughout the film. The viewer does believe that this man is the same think and speak as you do that butcher and has lived the life that this has touched.
Of course, there is a complete success with all the actors and actresses this project. Bossy and possessive wife not only is she having a physical aspect and a certain dress, are their gestures and tone of voice and strong examples of what hard life has been to the butcher.
area in the picture we can see the impeccable use of medium shots and the frames that respect both the viewer and the character. The camera only comes when there is a "permission" of history to do so, but beyond that it is kept outside the discussions, fights and conflicts faced by the butcher. There are times when the shots were close but they are because they come to talk about the main themes of the film such as rage and forbidden love.
addition, the director Photo Dominique Colin, used here the structure of cities to form their frames. All of them are coupled to the walls, their height, those of the doors and windows of the places that the characters frequent, all to give understanding how her characters and the viewer understand why it is that the butcher hates her existence. They are used all the elements of places to mean positions, for example, the working class as well as positions with the leaders of the country and employment.
The art department and production design was one of the most had to work to reach the audience more easily. Are the scenery and the formation of sets, colors and props that we put in the context of 1980, in a provincial town and then in Paris that seems to feed the workers instead of being built by them or for them.
may at times this work goes unnoticed but it is by how well it is done and not by the simplicity of the work. Perfect examples are the butcher and his wife fat and ugly tenement which is in Paris. Both works seem subtle but had to be a lot of research to choose to put the wallpaper, which was at the house of the butcher, the phone he used and the flowered sofa where his wife spent the whole day. Put rusty pipes, rails with frills and white walls with paint falling off in the room at the inn are details that can pass as "normal" or "stupid" but are those that remind us what time in history we are located and what impediments that have this man in order to advance their lives. The costume comes
the same: the same outfit as always the worker who does not have for anything else, wide floral dresses of the fat layer with abundant hair and makeup as well as the simplicity of the autistic child and weak colors His face and clothes.
As for the sound we can say that is an unshakable foundation in this case. Without the sound of the man's voice telling us how he feels and how he sees the world all the time, the film had not been beaten. There is some ability to capture the sound of some minor movements regularly but what it should be noted is the excellent combination between the word "off" the butcher and the direct sound from the scene. Remember that work is zero musicalización but not significant, which is predicted by the personality of the story and the spirit in which this is told.
We now turn to the second part where we discuss the relationship between reality and fiction as well as the thesis of various types that we can bring about the film, parallels and symbolism.
Let's start by talking to one of the most controversial aspects of the film: the relationship between the butcher and his daughter. In the film, the relationship is one of the few anchors that the character has in his life. Never had anyone else to love him but his daughter and she had to move away just because they do not fit into the life that he prepared for his father. Despite the distance and not seeing her for so long, the butcher will never lose hope of seeing her again. We see in the film as it is the only thing that's worth, the only person who respected with care and love. But here is fiction and reality is opposed to this and to dry the character saying, "that is not allowed in Western society "or the now and less in the eighties. However, in the film note as he realizes that his feelings may not be correct or at least not be accepted by all but still thinks of her in a sexual way and imagine how you would love and would only it, even imagining a positive reaction from him. This in reality is unlikely, at least in the West. The incest taboo is embedded in society and that the bonds of family love (a subsidiary, paternal or maternal) were removed with force from the beginning of sexual love and romantic love. This to society is a fact and that is why the final of the film is so controversial. Not so much the fact that the man to stay with his daughter but says that his love is pure opposition there against him. Many in history have gone against forbidden love or should not exist but none as controversial as emotionally incestuous love, facing all who seek to respect the natural order imposed by the same man, not nature. About
raised thesis that we can see, we can talk first about the eternal conflict between the powerful upper class of society against the working classes who do what they can to stay alive. The film clearly portrays a French working society mired in the despair of unemployment and discontent in the household. It was the persistent experience of a generation born of the Second World War, which did its best to adapt to rapid changes in the world but that just might be caught in progress. In addition, lack of employment for so many had the impact many more people out of work and less when there was no experience. That's what living the butcher, a pervasive discrimination in the work because he never had the opportunity to advance, according to him because that is what the upper classes want to those below can not say anything and have to continue to pass.
Another strong social aspect in the film we see is the beginning of the deterioration of that nuclear family was born in the "baby boom" after the war. It was assumed that Mom and Dad should be happy with their two children, buy things and have stable jobs. But Noah shows how reality was not so for those living in residential workers, along with the factories. Neither the families were happy and the parents were always there and the mothers did the same. There were children in exile and women who took advantage of their status in all fields that could, despite having launched a revolution to be considered equal to men.
As to the philosophical, we can speak of conception Noah posed on the inner self and that everyone has. In no film is so clearly put the "inner voice" as here. Butcher's reflections about his sad life, the abuse he receives from those who decide to rest it, and for him they are all just blows and blows and has been a break in his life is his daughter. A man acting and repeating dialogues that say this is not enough to feel and see how this person feels. The interior, which feels, which means they are sometimes neglected aspects away, as if they exist or as if they can be externalized only with the crude tool of speech or gestures. The inner being of each is a universe where every human being and it is impossible not wanting to know who thought someone right now or she felt when she said something ugly. But this film does not that point of view, let us see who he really is this character.
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All is well here and we see that psychology comes out from the dark side of the character. The desire to kill and revenge are aspects that are linked to the experiences of the character. Wanting revenge on the men in the bar, his wife, the fat or the head of the refrigerator are not feelings that come free are the result of the life he has led this man. Someone being physically abused as a child and always been treated as negligible, it certainly creates an imbalance in a serious emotional person can result in feelings as violent as revenge.
There are several symbols throughout history as tunnels or areas of the city are narrow and dark at once they send you to think about how it really feels like the character and their situation in life. The tall, dark walls of the city that seem to cum on him refer to that huge and horrible world that wants to eat anyone who is not willing to fight to get a respectable place in the food chain of society.
Alcohol is another recurring symbol reminiscent of one of several escapes the butcher elects not to meet her real life and avoid seeing that his life is worse than what he imagines. No wonder that man has frequent problems with alcohol being the only way out of a world that takes him against the wall, it's just obvious that you take this route of escape and decide to be a coward but a coward alive.
not forget that there is an obvious parallel to what happens in the film as well as what happens to people, not just men, here and everywhere with the question of employment and family problems. Although the time of the film is the France of the eighties, the problem of unemployment and the relentless struggle to have as eating and earn money for those you want (in this case the daughter) is something of all ages and a relentless battle both with life and with elements it. Nobody is to blame for being born rich or poor, but the fact is that these gaps exist and there is nothing you can do but fight. Many, like the butcher, they surrender to the life and lower their heads, choosing a job to take something away to the house where their input will be little or nothing appreciated. It has nothing to do to be the eighties, there is never to use around the world for one reason or another. The suffering of this man to rescue what little remains of his desire to life as a butcher to continue to administer are shredded in a city that seems to eat that can not handle it, as happens to many when they reach a large city to seek employment and leave poorer than when they entered.
In this last part we talk about the general subtext of the film. It's just obvious that the subtext of this film lies in the main character's inner voice and it is what gives us all the guidelines to understand what the director and the character they want to communicate. In this case we might think that the director wants all the viewers to think a little about their lives and raise if in fact conform to it, if they are overly happy or if instead they are miserable. It is not just that the character realizes what he wants but is a human reflection that we must all ask ourselves: What am I doing with my life? Do I like what happens with me or I feel like I do more or less? The main subtext is that which tells us to question life even if it gives the best we can ask. It is not required or not required but realize that is the path that we are taking our lives and that, despite religions and beliefs, the only people able to control our lives are we and nobody else can do it for us .
Besides making us think about life, the film also makes you wonder if what's wrong really badly and really good is good. It makes us reflect on those things in life, like love, we take for granted and seen as something solid that does not change for different whatsoever. Even if it makes us think our perversions or tastes are really something to hide or if they are pure and should not be afraid to show them the world.
The conclusion we can remove the subtext of the film is that we should not settle for what comes and what is here now but it is about being inquisitive and know why things happen and not just settle for knowing that happened, for or against us. Of course, the film also makes us see that not make mistakes To begin with, errors so serious as to override all to get where we want. Although the butcher kills just one person intends to do with other shows how it can be a limit to the understanding and like everything after that can be blinded by feelings "on automatic" Alone against all
is a title that reflects the thinking of the butcher, as is remote, isolated from all others by being a frustrated for so many unfortunate events in his life. But who is the title itself alerts us to how we isolate ourselves to improve our decisions about how to live in society, not outside as it did in the beginning the character. At the end he understood that he had no reason to fear and could enter society, raising While his view of the world.
