stills from the conformist
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STILLS FROM THE CONFORMIST
A human being is always suspended between the fickering lights clur !lter"
The camera tilts dwn t meet him
as he runs"
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the street and cars mrning hal#$
light% &erie' cld"
(lse$up"
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Sund bridge links scene in car t
this thing is it an auditin% Lynch' Mulhlland )ri*e%
+,hat will yu get ut # marriage%+
-eah buddy" S the present is nir
the past Techniclr"
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.etween tw wrlds"Stepping thrugh"
.etween per#rmance and
reality"
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The idelgy # #ascism is ne*er truly internalised by Marcell" Always a
per#rmance' always behind a glass screen"
Like /itler at a rally" .arbed mike"
The 0b" Interrgatin rm% One$
way mirrr cuts diagnally acrss #rame"
Like 1e23 45 years ld' insurance
agent6
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The Ministry"
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The minister7s 8ce"
Marcell peeps #rm behind the curtain" .ut wh is n stage%
)lly sht camera draws back as i#
reciling in disgust nauseating speed and re*eals the 8ce"
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.th !lm and #ascism re9uire
prps"
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Marcell is always dwar#ed by
the e:terirs"
The dress" ;uilia is s
bring she is literally part # the d
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Marcell is like a statue in many ways always awkward' his m*ements rigid"
;iulia is de!ned by her sensuality and childlike enthusiasm" Marcell en0ys bth
and yet despises her #r them"
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Obli9ue angles dminate the
e:terir shts"
(anted=
/e7s such a cant"
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Marcell runs away #rm an
appraching car nly t be met with irn bars which lea*e huge dark
laceratins n the screen" (an he escape #rm his past' #rm himsel#%
The mental institutin ;reek
theatre%
Marble tmbstnes and a strngwind"
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Typical noirsht but Marcell
is smehw always >ning ut= /e7s in s#t #cus while the lens is #cused n the
e:terir # the car and the lens drps" Is he real% )es the utside wrld e*er
really tuch him%
The cn#essin" /e nly
ccupies hal# the #rame"
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The seductin"
The priest wants details"
-ung Marcell !res tw shts int
the wall and nly then shts Lin the dri*er" T him' a persn is n mre r less
imprtant than a li#eless b0ect"
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Abut ;iulia3 +I want a nrmal li#e"
Middle$class girl6+
6" ?erceptins # nrmality3 @The
crwds listening t Mussllini in ?la>a ene>>ia+" -et they are nt nrmal their
wrld is grey' cld and rigid"
The hneymn BMarcell desn7t see anything wrng with taking C3
,hps=
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The fashbacks #rm the train 0urney are surreal is this a reliable recllectin #
real e*ents r a neiric hallucinatin% Als' nice !lter wrk there Strarr=
She7s a bit # a cant t descends
aggressi*ely' hlds railing like a weapn" ,ide angle"
The nir wman Anna" Masculine"
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It7s nt #ucking nrmal=
Shpping"
Is it all a shw #r M Bspying
#rm the drC%
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The wmen ali*e' sensual" The men mere shadws in #edra hats utside thewindw" The men are 0ust ha>y silhuettes"
Shiny happy peple" Are they the
nrmals M #etishi>es%
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Marcell in s#t #cus" Instead
camera #cuses n the windshield wipers anything is mre interesting than M%
The murder scene" Trees line
the rad like the lights in )I" Like sldiers' silent nlkers" ?er*erse symmetry"
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1ir"
Shit man= ?etic #allacy turned
noir"
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(n#rnting Lin"
The &nd"