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• 来自网友【他他】的评论Title: Pearl Year: 2022Genre: Horror, DramaCountry: USALanguage: English, GermanDirector/Editor: Ti WestScreenwriters: Ti West, Mia GothMusic: Tyler Bates, Tim WilliamsCinematography: Eliot RockettCast:Mia GothDavid CorenswetTandi WrightMatthew SunderlandEmma Jenkins-PurroAlistair SewellRating: 6.6/10Title: MaXXXineYear: 2024Genre: Crime, HorrorCountry: USALanguage: EnglishDirector/Screenwriter/Editor: Ti WestMusic: Tyler BatesCinematography: Eliot RockettCast:Mia GothElizabeth DebickiKevin BaconMoses SumneySimon PrastGiancarlo EspositoBobby CannavaleMichelle MonaghanLily CollinsHalseySophie ThatcherUli LatukefuZachary MoorenToby HussRating: 5.7/10The second and third entries of X trilogy, Ti West’s slasher-inflected, genre exercises, PEARL is a prequel to X (2022) taking place in the early 20th century whereas MAXXXINE is its sequel, amid a neon-lit, seedy Hollywood where a sinister serial killer lurking in the dark corners to rub out young women in the 1980s. For an origin story of a homicidal psychopath, PEARL, befittingly aestheticizing its WWI era’s retro flair, is beguilingly and captivatingly tinted with a vivid palette that harks back to the vintage Technicolor’s radiance and richness, best illustrated in Douglas Sirk’s exquisite melodramas. Shot during the Covid-19 pandemic with strict interpersonal restrictions, the film is self-contained within a small crew and cast (conveniently on the strength of the Spanish flu plaguing the New World), and re-utilizes the same location from X, viz. the isolated farm where dwells a young Pearl (Goth), the geriatric villain in X, and her parents, one paralyzed, one mercilessly orthodox, who hobble her ambition to be a “star”, which amounts to be a chorus girl touring around the country, maybe the Continent, a hankering kindled by a handsome local film projector (it is a cakewalk for a mustachioed Corenswet to play a smooth operator). So it is just a matter of time before Pearl goes parricidal. An incapacitated father (Sunderland, registering fear and incredulity with wordless and motionless eloquence) is a defenseless deadweight and a puritanical mother (Wright)’s Teutonic tough love cannot stop her from pursuing her dreams. The origin of Pearl’s “bad seed”disposition is well expounded via a heated mother-daughter confrontation (where Wright is terrific and flintily frightening) that betrays the pernicious corollary of ill-equipped parenting. It is axiomatic that it is far easier to attribute Pearl’s anomaly to her “nature” than to a parent’s failure. However, after her dream is brutally dashed and she is thrown back to the status quo, Pearl has no one but only her (dead) parents to cling on, until her husband Howard (Sewell) returns from the frontline. The rancor of Pearl’s abortive ambition and her uninhibited jealousy, the couple’s folie à deux, all ferment and culminate into a vicious killing spree in X decades later. In MAXXXINE, Maxine Minx (Goth), the final girl escaped from Pearl and Howard’s claws in X, fetches up in Hollywood and finally lands her very first “serious” film role in a sequel of a horror picture after dabbling in the adult movie business for a few years (echoing Pearl’s once envisaged career in stag films), while the city of L.A. is bedeviled by the grisly Night Stalker murders (a back alley scare showing a ball-breaking Maxine is the wrong one to be messed with). Maxine cautiously gains the trust of the glass-ceiling-breaking film director Elizabeth Bender (a Junoesque, unflappably egocentric Debicki), but her own past, fostered by a rabid televangelist father (Prast, superficially demonic) begins to catch up with her, endangering those who are close to her. Grisly killings, a sleazy gumshoe (a repulsive Kevin Bacon, inanely slimy), LAPD detectives, erotic passages, the whole paraphernalia of a tawdry whodunit is there. But the mystery lacks any suspense to begin with, even Maxine seems to meander into the climax without any agency, only to be nominally emplaced as a sacrifice for the vice of the entire city by a demented group of fanatics, then brandishing the recurring typos of parricide with more brouhaha. MAXXXINE is all hat and no cattle, wallowing in the old-school superficiality, West doesn’t have enough mojo to bushwhack through the stock scenarios and uninspired mysteries. If PEARL profits from a distinct visual lushness and is anchored by Mia Goth’s extraordinarily engrossing performance (Pearl’s confessional monologue scenes are a superlative showcase of this distinctively looking actress’s performative range and line delivery), MAXXXINE feels like an obligatory patchwork to complete a trilogy, even Goth looks lackadaisical and cannot be arsed to fully invested in Maxine’s fake-blonde dumb-and-smart-ness. Regarding the entire trilogy, while West’s fondness and deference to the vintage slasher pictures is genuine and meritorious, these 3 films are still predominately in thrall of the old-fashioned narrative methodology and time-honored tropes, each is a pastiche of a sub-genre (X, rustic slasher, PEARL, psychodrama slasher, and MAXXXINE, urban slasher), but sparks of innovation are few and far between (for example, JT Mollner’s STRANGE DARLING 2023 is a cogent case for its narratological sleight of hand). There are exquisite moments hither and thither (the Bates Hotel references, Pearl’s a roll in the hay with a scarecrow, etc.), but overall they are rather unexceptional, with the exception of establishing Mia Goth as a new slasher heroine of Generation Y. referential entries: Ti West's X (2022, 6.2/10); Halina Reijn’s BODIES BODIES BODIES (2022, 6.1/10); JT Mollner’s STRANGE DARLING (2023, 7.8/10); Yann Gonzalez’s KNIFE + HEART (2018, 7.7/10); John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978, 6.8/10).
• 来自网友【Superbia】的评论和《X》一起为迷娅高斯量身定做的片子（米娅本人也是编剧之一），大量长镜头情绪宣泄，虽然完全没有很多人说的那么恐怖，但确实将一种病态解构做的淋漓尽致。PS哪有这么hot的放映员啊喂