Carre Blanc [Blu-ray]

[Machine Translation] Those who put themselves in the sack don't deserve to live. A near-future dystopian science fiction tale of ruthlessness and despair that reflects the "brave new world" of "company animals" and "livestock," a dark tale of the near future in the genes of "THX1138" and "A Clockwork Orange. Carr Blanc" takes a grim view of the world of control and offers great hope through the love between husband and wife and the preservation of humanity in this environment. The film does not explicitly mention "authority," but instead suggests that the cause of domestication is not external, but individual human consciousness, by introducing "paralyzed people = cattle and livestock" and "those who have realized it. Directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, a 44-year-old Paris-born filmmaker who made his feature film debut with this film and won the 2011 French Film Critics Association Award. He carefully conducted location scouting in various European cities and depicted the gray landscape of modern cities symbolized by linear concrete buildings as a future society filled with a sense of darkness as he imagined it. The vision of ruthlessness and despair reveals the true "biological underdogs" who cling to authority. Reviews in France and at film festivals around the world have been enthusiastic in their praise for the visual expression of a new director who is faithful to his vision and fearless. However, despite the absence of excessive bloodshed, sex, or drug use, the film has been designated "R" for "presentation of psychological violence," and has been shown in only a few cinemas in France. -a society with no room for the weak to live. When Philippe's mother commits suicide, he meets Marie, who is the same age as him, in a classroom reserved for orphans, and together they receive an ideological education. They eventually become an adult couple, and Philippe leads a comfortable life as an executive for an organization that forces its "livestock" to take unreasonable tests of their abilities. However, their marriage is on the verge of collapse as their hearts, which were supposed to be connected, grow cold. As Philip hopes to restore their marriage, he recalls a cruel tale his mother told him long ago about a father and son, a wild polar bear....

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自ら袋に入る者に 生きてる価値はない。『社畜』と『家畜』の「すばらしい新世界」を映す、非情と絶望の近未来ディストピアSF。『THX1138』『時計じかけのオレンジ』の遺伝子を受け継いだ近未来・暗黒譚。『カレ・ブラン』は管理の行く末を厳しい世界にとらえ、その環境における夫婦愛と、人間性の保持による大きな希望を提示する。また明確に「権威」を登場させず、「麻痺した人間 = 社畜、家畜」と、「気づいた者」を登場させることで、家畜化の原因は外的なものではなく個々の人間の意識にあるということを訴えている。監督はパリ生まれの当時44才、本作で長編映画デビューを果たし、そして2011年フランス映画批評家協会賞に輝いた驚異の新鋭、ジャン = バティスト・レオネッティ。ヨーロッパ各国各都市に入念なロケハンを敢行し、直線的なコンクリート建築に象徴される現代都市、その灰色の風景を自らのイメージする暗黒感に満ちた未来社会として表現。VFXを一切使用せず、冷徹なカメラ・アイで切り取った現代と地続きのディストピア、その非情と絶望のヴィジョンは、権威にすがる真の「生物学的弱者」をあぶり出す。本国フランスのレヴューや世界各国の映画祭では、自らのヴィジョンに忠実かつ恐れを知らぬ新人監督の映像表現に、多くの熱狂的な賛辞が寄せられた。しかし過度な流血やセックス、薬物描写がないにもかかわらず、「精神的暴力の提示」を理由にR指定を受け、フランスでは数館しか上映されていない。――弱者が生きる余地なき社会。母親が自殺したフィリップは、孤児だけが集められた教室で同じ年頃のマリーと出会い、共に思想教育を受ける。成人した2人はやがて夫婦となリ、フィリップは、「家畜」たちに理不尽な能力テストを強いる、組織のエグゼクティヴ「社畜」として何不自由ない生活を送っていた。しかし通い合っていたはずの2人の心はいつしか冷え切り、結婚生活は破綻しかけていた。そして夫婦関係の修復を願うフィリップの脳裏に、はるか昔、母親から聞かされた野生の白熊親子の残酷譚がよぎった・・・。

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