Red Beads (He Jianjun, 1994) [Ch]

[Danyyyy]

Título: Red Beads Título V.O: Xuan lian Director: He Jianjun Año/País: 1994 / China Duración: 90 minutos Género: Drama Reparto: Liu Jiang, Shi Ke Enlaces: Subs Ficha de: Danyyyy

[Danyyyy]

Descripción momentánea en inglés. Tony Rayns, VIFF 1994 catalogue wrote:
The Red Beads is a proudly independent first feature from He Jianjun, who assisted Zhang Yimou on Raise the Red Lantern and Tian Zhuangzhuang on The Blue Kite. Made for around $10,000 on locations in Beijing, it's framed as an extended reverie. While waiting for his girlfriend in a noisy restaurant, a pale young man named Jingsheng fantasizes a scenario in which he is hired as an orderly in a mental hospital. Just as he starts work, a young woman named Yijun is committed to the hospital by her mother. Jingsheng overhears Yijun's sessions with the doctor (she speaks repeatedly about her dreams of red beads) and becomes obsessed with her, secretly stealing her files. And then one day Yijun comes to his room...

Open to any number of interpretations, the film is finely balanced between nightmare and black comedy. It makes grimly humorous play with long takes and manic patterns of repetition while pushing slowly towards its longed-for sexual encounter, achieving a genuine oneiric charge along the way. Everything is dominated by the sights and sounds of the hospital—the squalid rooms and corridors, the creaky trolleys, the cavernous shower-rooms empty but for Jingsheng—but the core of the film is Jingsheng's entry into Yijun's delusions and his gradual identification with her sickness. This brave and uncompromising film ends with the question "Is it going to snow?"—and I don't think it's talking about the weather.








https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108615/

[Danyyyy]

He aprovechado la traducción de Peanut para poder verla. Me ha parecido brillante, magnífica dirección, creo que los recursos empleados están inteligentemente manejados, esos pasillos, sonidos, espacios, el uso que se hace de la cámara, la luz, la ambientación lograda, aspectos cíclicos y las variaciones dadas, ese estado de pesadilla que la alimenta. Desde mi parecer se expone un sistema de sociedad de manera simbólica con evidente carga crítica al sistema, también me atrevería a decir que algún trabajo de William Edwards Deming se ha leído y ha tenido influencia sobre este film, he estado mirando si había alguna referencia al respecto pero no hallé nada. Las interpretaciones correctas, lástima que la calidad de la copia no fuera la idónea.

Me ha parecido una película muy interesante, aunque no la veo apta para todo tipo de público.