Movie Review SSJ

Recently re-watched the film, noting a number of previously unnoticed details, such as the first obstacle proposed before, Feng Till even do not know what kind of challenge should be set for his teacher, so said casual conversation, the results of the cigar in the hands of Les impromptu association to South America, and asked Les has never been to Cuba, immediately knocked the first obstacle to be set there, seems to be purely to disgust him ha ha. But the result of doing so was that when discussing the second challenge, Les was adamant that he would not reveal any more information, wanting to make him unable to catch his own handle.

Later they discussed about the ethics of filming, what distance was acceptable if they were to film something horrible (the example Von Til gave was filming a dead child), and a second obstacle arose, to finish the shot in a miserable place, but Les obviously wasn’t able to ignore that misery again when he chose to, so broke the rules and still presented it in a way he thought The second obstacle was to finish the film in a tragic place, but Les obviously could not choose to ignore this tragedy and thus broke the rules and showed it in a way that he thought was “good”, while Von Til firmly rejected it, “always trying to do too well” is the comment here

Regarding the fourth obstacle, both men apparently confuse animation with the concept of “cartoon” (as many do), saying that they hate “cartoons” as a form of claptrap, but actually creating excellent art films

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I saw that the “five obstacles” listed in the forwarded movie synopsis were not accurate.

The original text is as follows

Obstruction #1 : 12 frames, answers, cuba, no set

2.obstruction #2 : a miserabel place, don’t show it, Jorgen Leth is the man, the meal

3.obstruction #3 : complete freedom or back to bombay

4.obstruction #4 : cartoon

5.obstruction #5 : Lars Von Trier will make the last obstruction, Jorgen Leth will be credited as director, Jorgen Leth will read a text written by Lars von Trier

In Chinese, this means.

1. change the film from the original frame rate to 12 fps (greatly destroying the coherence and speed of the original material); answer all the questions in the original film “The Perfect Man”; shoot in Cuba (a completely foreign country); no set pieces

2. go to a miserable place; but not show it (challenge Les’s morality); instead (in that miserable place) to complete the feast in the original film; the absence of the characters in the original film, the director can only perform himself

3. Since the second challenge Les did not comply with the “can’t show it” rule, Von Til offered to either go to Mumbai and shoot it again, or stop setting limits and let the director remake his own film (anyone who has ever made art knows how difficult it is to be completely free)

4. make a cartoon – both directors in the film hate and are not familiar with the production of cartoons

5. The director of the film is signed “Jorgen Lace”. The director of the film is signed “Jorgen Les (the original author of the film: “The Perfect Man”)” and he reads the narration, but it is Von Till who controls the content. Till

This film is a “challenge” that Von Til gave to his teacher, Jorgen Reis. Jorgen Reis is in fact a master that Von Til respects very much, and he says more than once in the film that “The Perfect Man” is a perfect work and very much loved. However, the feud between the two seems to be quite entangled, seemingly in love with each other’s emotions. The challenge proposed by Lars, claiming that the purpose is to let Les destroy the work himself, the method is to set up obstacles to the re-creation, the fun is that Les is also very cooperative.

The most interesting question is: How does a master filmmaker try to make a “bad film” and deny himself? Therefore, the audience will see that every time Les “tried” to create a bad film, Von Til was very dissatisfied with “how can you always do it so well?  “The perfect film already exists (referring to the original film perfect people), you have to do so well what is the point?”

Von Til has never been a devil-like director, his film career and its works are constantly creating subversion in terms of content and form, if you simply look at it as a feature film director, it is really narrow, he is a true experimenter, this time the five obstacles, fear is also the result of its playfulness, pulling teacher Jorgen Rice into the pit, that is, subverting him, but also subvert the film again.