柜中野兽

现在的彩虹片拍的越来越像青春片 可能因为青春期的人都有自己最柔软的秘密 而柜子里的事又是这些秘密里最敏感的一个吧 取向的懵懂 童年的创伤都是写烂的东西 却因为这部戏迷幻的配乐 素净的配色显得特别的清新 无论是柜子里的人 还是柜子的人 多少都能从这部电影里看到自己的些许影子 对远处的人的敬仰 对梦想的坚持 借鉴「Black Swan」的意象手法在这部戏里成为男孩一次次蜕变的标志 作为处女作虽然青涩的地方不少 但是看得出导演有自己的情节和风格 希望下一部作品不会太远

Taking a leaf from Xavier Dolan’s book, Canadian filmmaker (born in 1989, the same year of Mr. Dolan) Stephen Dunn’s debut feature CLOSET MONSTER flourishes as a coruscating Bildungsroman of a young boy’s coming to terms with his homosexuality, against its own threadbare script mired in corny dialogue and workaday characterization.

An eight-year-old Oscar (Fulton) witnesses a horrific bullying of a gay boy which jolts him into building a carapace over his latent bent, things compound when his parents are getting a divorce, and he is mostly saddled with his homophobic father Peter (Abrams), who intends to chisel a macho man out of him (as if carpentry is the panacea). Ten years later, an adolescent Oscar (Jessup) spends most of his time creating special effects make-ups with his best friend Gemma (Banzhaf), and has his first crush on a new colleague Wilder (Schneider) in the hardware store where he works part-time (Oscar + Wilder, you don’t say!). Battling his internal conflict (a hormone-driven sensation versus the stigmatized horror of getting aroused by a boy), Oscar takes it out on Gemma and the tension between him and Peter strains, after being rejected by the make-up school he applies for, he desperately needs to get out of the clutches of his parents and face his pestering inner demon, one way or another.

Graphic special effects are deployed to galvanize audience like a sub-Cronenberg’s body-horror, there is something visibly churning inside Oscar’s stomach whenever he is aroused, and later materializes itself as a metal pole perforating his belly, when he fumbles around his first sex attempt with a party boy, involuntarily he spews bolts, lots of bolts, of course, they are all figments of his heated imagination, including a talking pet hamster named Buffy (voiced by Isabella Rossellini), whom he cherishes more than anything else in the world since his childhood, because it is his only (imagined) friend knows his true colors. When Oscar finally takes the pole out of his body and is driven by a patricidal impulse, the slo-mo crescendo however, pans out like a bathetic bluff, the fear in his deadbeat father’s eyes can hardly justify all the damage he has done.

The psychosexual aspect bears down strongly on the story, but the rest is nothing but usual suspects, Connor Jessup makes for a passable lead and is at his best when the camera is floating around him rather than staring directly at him; both Aaron Abrams and Joanne Kelly appear too young to be parents of an 18-year-older, and the former fails miserably to even fake a fatherly affection when he is required. A solid start for an up-and-comer, but distinction is nevertheless a paucity in the end product, in the waves of a post-coming-out-of-closet fashion, Dunn’s heartfelt story is blasé but mercifully grafts its emotional charge with something fluctuating between hope and honest.

referential points: Daniel Ribeiro’s THE WAY HE LOOKS (2014, 7.9/10), Xavier Dolan’s HEARTBEATS (2010, 5.2/10).

一部小众(据我目前感受来看确实)的但同样不可不看的同性爱情电影。虽然说是同性爱情电影，不如说是藏匿在主角内心深处的同性爱情欲望的萌芽和爆发。穿插在剧中主角探索和家庭冲突两条线中间的仓鼠，是主角从小的好朋友，尽管从主角小时到长大仓鼠已经死了换了多次，但主角依旧把他们当成同一个，一直在某些情况下和自己对话。在我看来，这从某种程度上就是主角的心理自白，不知他，我们每个人在成长的过程中都总会或多或少的幻想一个伙伴陪着自己，其实长大以后，会发现其实那就是那个时候躲起来的自己。 另外，整个电影里，男主和一个男生在床上喂水，那流淌着透着光的，流淌过的就是那种爱情向往的脉搏冲动。 以及那令人印象深刻的画面。男主和父亲吵架，看到一根钢筋从自己肚子里凸出来，鲜血和腹部破裂，这些画面组装在一起，搭配音乐，确实有达到一种撞击和冲击感，我至今印象深刻。

我很喜欢结尾，当主角用纸船把陪伴自己很多年的仓鼠尸体送进大海，看到仓鼠和自己说着那些告别的话，有一种仿佛和那个被压抑的自我和解的感觉。

看到豆友说：加拿大导演作品 加拿大多伦多电影节获奖 地方保护性质很强。hhh不拿几个奖谁会去关注，每行的都是

这部电影我是在广州lgbt电影节加领馆看的，看的英文版，我的英语能力还不足以支撑我能看懂听懂小部分英文，所以只有一些使我印象深刻的并且我看懂了的，我会写下来

这部片子讲了一个男孩小时候受到创伤，然后导致心理阴影以及性取向变化，最后得到温暖，回到最初还啥也不懂的小男孩

这部片子最有特色的就是他的特效，然后混上谜一般的音乐，二者结合，有一种恍若梦境一般。尤其表现在他去wilder家参加聚会那一段，磕了药，镜头描写他的主观视野：夜店灯光，夜店音乐，wilder亲吻女孩的脸在晃动，一男人过来找他，挡住他的视线问oscar：你在等谁？这时焦点从男人转移到他在意的wilder身上，这里镜头的聚焦非常的有意思；还有后面两人在厕所里的战斗戏，镜头晃到头晕，一股梦幻的效果，他喝醉了，是不清楚自己在干什么，就只是享受这一刻的快感罢了。最后那段他发现仓鼠死了，从肚子里终于掏出了那根年少时候的凶杀现场的铁棍，向正在争吵的父母挥去，音乐加上特效加上不断重复的镜头，节奏是非常的紧凑。

这部片子用的比较多蒙太奇，比如说oscar和wilder在床上准备接吻时，插了波涛汹涌的瀑布画面，这里用了隐喻蒙太奇，第一次接吻一个你非常喜欢的人的时候，你的内心难道不是波涛汹涌，激动的恨不得马上融入另一个人的身体。然后还有重复蒙太奇...

其中oscar和wilder两人开车撞到树那段中，oscar看wilder弹烟头那里的镜头放慢，生活中也是如此啊！在你喜欢的人面前，你喜欢的人所有的动作，都想去一帧一帧的观看，深入地去研究。《Mannen som elsket Yngve》（我爱英格）中英格看他喜欢的人也是如此。片尾男主人公回到开始的梦境，他爹说：闭上眼，你可以做任何你想做的梦。然后睁开眼，又是一个新的人生。这部电影会让我想到《穆赫兰道》，两者都有利用心理、梦境的元素在里面吧。