I Stand Alone
I Stand Alone
Ohjaus:
Gaspar NoéKäsikirjoitus:
Gaspar NoéKuvaus:
Dominique ColinNäyttelijät:
Philippe Nahon, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Blandine Lenoir, Nicolas Jouhet, Gérard Ortega, Frankie Pain, Arlette Balkis, Laurent Aknin (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
In this French drama, Gaspar Noe, who won awards for his 40-minute Carne (1991), continues where that film ended, beginning with a Carne recap: The Butcher (Philippe Nahon) narrates, telling how, as a war orphan working at 14, he opened his horsemeat butcher shop and fathered a mute, retarded daughter. After the mother and daughter left for life in a Paris suburb, he served a prison term after an assault on someone he mistakenly believed had raped his daughter. The follow-up sequel, set in a Lille suburb, begins in 1980: Obese bar owner (Franjkyie Pain) is pregnant by The Butcher, who is unable to find work. The couple moves in with her mother, but he becomes irritated with the two women and goes to Paris where the humiliation of job-hunting and the sum total of futility and hopelessness triggers thoughts of what he might accomplish with his gun and his last three bullets. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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One of the most intense cinematic experiences ever and undoubtedly the most intense Noé. Irreversible was OK but offered nothing deeper than those two shocking scenes, Enter the Void was visually transcendent and overall terribly immersive, but out of all Noé's work, I Stand Alone wins out for me. Few films can make me sit up in my seat in such a way and few films inspire in me such disgust for the main character (I can take a lot, really, but I can say quite bluntly that I wasn’t far from throwing up during one internal monologue). The main question is to what extent the main anti-hero is "abnormal" and out of touch with the reality of "decent people", because as much as I hate to speak for anyone else, I can't shake the feeling that just about everyone has such peppery inner monologues from time to time. There are a few extremes that (thankfully!) stray from anything that can be considered normal and human (I swear on my dying breath now that I would never shag my own daughter), plus this film convinced me that even French can sound really nasty (as pure and beautiful a language as I had previously thought it was). I'm fascinated by the intensity, the explicitness, and the fact that Noé doesn't pull his punches even a little bit. But the experience was revolting and painful.
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I Stand Alone is a New French Extremity version of Taxi Driver with a pessimistic voice-over monologue by a freak from a slaughterhouse with a tendency to wax philosophical who is, to put it mildly, dissatisfied with his life. Why did Gaspar Noé switch from such loquacious, straightforward and rebellious confessions to meaningless visual masturbation games like Enter the Void? Because he loves Kubrick’s space opera? Pah. With his feature debut, he was able to get the better of Ferrara and reach the heights of Scorsese! P.S.: I also recommend its prequel Carne, where the story of the slaughterhouse worker begins.
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A hard-to-digest manifesto of hatred towards everything and everyone. During the whole film, we hear the uninterrupted monologue of the main character, who is determined to have a fight with the entire world at any cost. Gaspar Noé doesn’t hesitate to touch on themes like nationalism, homophobia or incest, teasing the audience to see how much they can endure, even exhorting us, using a timer for a few seconds, to leave the screening before reaching the final scene. The latter, however, is not that shocking after all that has preceded, and doesn’t tear the viewer apart. I can’t totally figure out to what extent Noé’s violent charade was self-serving; therefore I reserve a potentially higher ranking for a possible second screening. If only I make up my mind and go for it.
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A flawless performance by Philippe Nahon that irradiates anger and hatred. I Stand Alone is one of the least pleasant films I’ve ever seen. I’m really not sure how to approach it. I must watch it again.
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