“Vortex” Review!

“Vortex” Review!

Director: Gaspar Noe

Cast: Dario Argento, Francoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz

In "Vortex", director Gaspar Noe moves to pursue the lives of dementia sufferer Elle (Francois LeBron) and her husband Luigi (Dario Argento), who are confined to a crowded and dilapidated Paris apartment.

While Elle is in the bathroom, the director Noe presents "Vortex" entirely on a split-screen, with two scenes playing simultaneously, allowing Luigi to see and speak in his study. Sometimes the director allows both cameras to capture the same scene, which is so close to each other that it distorts the image and reality of the film. Overall, some sudden lesions, mixed with a snap-like black frame, indicate a "break" that one might imagine as a reaction to dementia.

As another European writer with a passion for the pain of old age, Michael Hanek's learning distance is not entirely excluded. Of course, he is not one of the main extremists in the film: a man who despises aesthetic subtleties, and his work is the best he can be. Though less than his previous works, this one is definitely a film that draws attention to its stylistic choice.

While Noe's view of humanity as a whole remains cold and distant, his view of individual human beings is different. In "Vortex" emerges an understanding of the shortcomings and complexities of our heroes who are not ready to face the current situation. What is unique is how deeply the director feels his material. Here Director Noe's approach is effortless, chaotic, and unorthodox. It was incredibly soft and intimate — instead of putting his characters under a microscope and watching them burn, Noe washed them gently and lifted the film from its dark background.

It is not clear where this moisture film is placed. Every nook and corner of the couple's apartment is filled with books, records, VHS tapes, and body gloves, and on the sofa and dining table is not only a collection of objects but also a real collection of emotions and experiences. We do. Each item has an individual story attached to it that someone chooses for the rest of their lives. Not surprisingly, one day while talking to Elle Stefan, Luigi reacts very angrily, suggesting that her son moves to a care home, where they can "pick up" some of their belongings.

This thought frightens Luigi, because for him, perhaps selfishly, how these objects separate aspects of him and his life. Items represent choices and mistakes that mean something to you in your final years, you only make a few decisions, but you have plenty of time to think about what you have done.

As the material media slowly fades from our daily lives, we wonder if the homes of our generation will ever be like this. In the last moments of the "vortex" there may be another thought that is a little scary: the end of your life, all these, all your decisions and choices, nothing. Someone else will come and start their own story. The cumulative impact of the film is like a slate.

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