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 Posted: Sun 12:02, 01 Sep 2013 Post subject: Battle in Heaven-spun2 |
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Battle in Heaven
When I realized the guy who made Silent Light - one of my very favorites of 2007, a particularly strong cinematic year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and one I wrote about for 3QuarksDaily - had done a movie set almost entirely in Mexico City,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I made peace with Netflix Instant's inferior picture quality and got right on it. I didn't know to expect, given the shift in milieu: where in 2007 Reygadas filmed Mennonites in remote northern Mexico,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in 2005 he filmed a kidnapping security guard,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his trinket-selling wife,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and a dreadlocked rich-girl hooker in brightly grim stretches of Mexico City. At a mere 98 minutes, Battle in Heaven can't quite match Silent Light's mythic feel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend both with the same force.
Gearing up for my trip there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I've sought out every artistic depiction of Mexico City I can. dystopian move and go overboard with the chaos. ("It's really not Man on Fire there," a director friend who often goes there recently explained to me.) The city does feel more than a little ominous through Reygadas' eyes - even the highway-spanning "CIUDAD DE MÉXICO" sign the protagonist drives under feels like a portent of doom - but the man seems fascinated, above all, by human grotesquerie,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though I don't think he himself considers it that. From a distance,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the movie looks like a parade of the obese, the infirm, the nihilistic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the militaristic, and the tethered-to-bags-of-urine.
In an interview in BOMB, Reygadas mentions the common accusation of Battle in Heaven as just "monstrous people making love." Though two of these people kidnap a baby and one sells herself out of sheer manipulative boredom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "monstrous" remains open to interpretation. I do admit no small interest in the way Reygadas sees his characters making love - or in the way Reygadas sees anything. Like all my favorite filmmakers, he uses the story - in this case, the story of the ultimately botched kidnapping - as little more than a framework for personality and sense experience: a surreal field of passengers passing through a subway station,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a fanatical religious procession through the streets of Mexico City, Bach blaring at a gas station, and, yes, sexual relations among the dreadlocked and the severely overweight. From the same interview:
Some people think that my films lack plots-they don't, it's just that for me the plot is a skeleton from which things are hung,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and not the whole point of a film. When people talk about a film being "a good story" they don't get it. The story is there so everything else can be structured around it. The Surrender of Breda by Velásquez is famous not because of the story; it's much more interesting to read about it in a history book. It's about how it's painted. The same can be said about Rubens's paintings of mythological figures. So when writing Silent Light (I'm talking about it simply because it's my more recent film),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I had in mind a character who causes his wife so much pain that she dies. I, more or less, had imagined who he was, where he lived,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but had avoided describing what he looked like because I wanted the human being I encountered at a given moment to fill in that part. I'm often asked about how I cast people. It's very simple; there's no technique. It's as if someone asked me how I go about liking a woman. There's no science to it. You've had certain experiences in life that have determined your personality, and so you simply see a woman you like, and know that you like her, you don't need to rationalize it.
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