Sensory Kingdom - A Complete Record of Alternative Films

Author: Xu SuKui
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: If classic movies are pearls, then alternative movies are black pearls that shimmer with an evil glow. What this book discusses is not so much 100 alternative movies as 100 alternative lives, alternative human natures, and alternative worlds. What is an alternative movie? 100 movie enthusiasts will give 100 different answers. Since the birth of cinema, it has been like a séance, "tempting" the audience's hearts with light and shadow. A good movie can make the audience feel as if their "souls leave their bodies," breaking through the boundaries of the screen and making them believe it is the real world. The understanding of any reality has never had only one answer. To select 100 movies from the vast history of world cinema and label them as "alternative" is clearly an impossible choice, but for this book, it is necessary. This led to ten themes that "decomposed" these 100 movies, ultimately converging on all that human love, desire, psychology, dreams, abnormal relationships, violence, and murder carry within human nature. Every movie reaches the depths of the light and darkness of human nature.
The directors behind alternative movies are mostly individuals who march to the beat of their own drum. They create the movies they want to make based on their own understanding of the world and human nature. They are like those who have made a pact with the devil, never sitting in the audience like a "God" but instead hiding behind the silver screen, using vivid light and shadow to create a unique world. What this book discusses is not so much 100 alternative movies as 100 alternative lives, alternative human natures, and alternative worlds.