生育的世纪

A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself?


　　The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery.


　　The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues.


　　By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.

如果观看的版本本身并不存在问题，那么电影中大量的声轨丢失与混音失效则刚好回应了影片中对于导演的自嘲：电影始终处在未完成状态。那么，我们又究竟是以一种什么样的方式在观看这部电影？当中的次级故事，Homer正在制作的电影，以两种方式呈现，或是用遮幅形成的画中画并列在第一级叙事中，或是以FCP的预览窗口附属在表层叙事之下，于是，它既是在线性进行的，又在被非线性预览。有趣的是，整个原教旨主义Cult洗脑式的歌颂与传播体系，几乎就是后来《恶魔时节》的预演，在此反复唱着赞美歌的Virgin，后来又以队长身份继续传唱着Marcos的宣传口号。而另一处也近乎洗脑的段落却出现在演员Aquino反复背诵台词中，探索存在与真实的电影制作又何尝不是另一种Cult呢。



4.5 补标.很奇妙的与历史暧昧性进行深度互文 长发飞草朋克文艺青年便是导演的过去 布罗卡式的大远景附具形式意义 巫性神谕带来的仪式感与达兹内里深处的电影美学追求相得益彰

4.0。1.我只能说，拉夫·达兹只且只可能是他自己的世纪领袖，或许足矣。2.在这场河流般盛大的东南亚诗篇里，我看到阵痛也看到煎熬，还有点隐隐的巫性神谕。3.无论如何，拉夫·达兹都算是一位绝佳的自然捕捉者与艺术体验者，即便无人问津。

修女的fuck me致敬塔可夫斯基，节日大远景致敬布罗卡，导演的角色不就是拉夫达兹个人的写照吗。另外，第一个镜头的神父貌似是魂断城西里的侦探吧。

东南亚电影逢林莫入，一入丛林才开始，一入丛林深似海，一入丛林魂魄至，一入丛林神附体，极乐丛林治愈一切热带疾病——但是说的不是此片~

看到第三张碟就有些受不了了，这种电影怎么能成为epic呢？分明是empty。太长，太没必要了

监视器式长镜省了不少，片中片的交缠非常有意思，借他人之言，表个人之意，或是他最为私人的作品。