Rules euphoria tattoo7/30/2023 I could write pages celebrating the cinematic brilliance of Euphoria - there's just so much to be said. It is in this sense that the music, a string piece from Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, composed by Pino Donaggio, couldn't be more fitting. There is a very brave balancing going on between pastiche and beauty - the dangers of the pastiche is being deliberately, masterfully, toyed with, to ultimately being completely washed away by the heartfelt beauty of the moment one of the reasons being precisely that the scene draws upon and celebrates all that we know of movie kisses. In this scene, the kiss scene, Euphoria brings the classic movie kiss to the screen, a cinema kiss as though borrowed from a Douglas Sirk melodrama. ![]() For all the millenial nihilism that some would say is one of the themes of Euphoria. There's a scene in which - spoiler here! - Rue and Jules (you'll get to know these two) finally kiss. I started watching Euphoria during a state of total depression, expecting nothing, wanting nothing.Ī few episodes later, I realized that what I had selected at random to drain my brain was nothing but a cinematic masterpiece, well and truly. I just wanted to inject my brain with bland entertainment. I still hadn't watched the latest Nuri Bilge Ceylan (which is my favorite contemporary director, surpassing Mallick). I had dropped the project of watching through the Kenji Mizoguchi box set. For me, I didn't want to do anything that involved any brain activity. She is depressed and can't do anything else than to watch love Island for, like, 48 hours straight. I started watching Euphoria like Rue (quoted above) watches Love Island. It's funny, it's dramatic, and I can focus on it. I don't want a novel, or some slow burn, or anything that feels like work. ![]() "People are always telling me about great TV shows. In this, there is also the qualities of collaboration between actor and director found in John Cameron Mitchell's masterpiece Shortbus. In this he works in the tradition of John Cassavetes: in spite of Euphoria being a meticulously planned production there's traces of Cassavetes' fluid improvisation when it comes to the way the actors portray their characters. It's impossible not to get smitten by the laughter, it's a scene that could not have reached this height of actor brilliance were it not entirely improvised (or, at least not rehearsed in any way).ĭirector Sam Levinson made it a point to interview the handpicked actors for hours, and then collaborated - with some of them - in creating the characters. There's a scene in which Kat, a rounded teenager rebelling the world by becoming a webcam dominatrix, bursts out laughing at the tiny dick of the harmless chubby guy at the other side of the laptop screen. More than the masterful storytelling, the visual symbolism, the bold allusions to Brian DePalma, Scorcese, Kubrick and a bunch of halfway forgotten 70's 80's and 90's movies, what I love the most about Euphoria is the characters - and the actors that portray them. Because the playful, rapid and unexpected narration, and, with it, a free flowing camera, could all relate to the most brilliant parts in the cinema of Gaspar Noé. Dreyer is, vividly and boldly, celebrated in a series of perfectly beautiful close-ups of the crying and the tormented. I love Euphoria because the visual storytelling is alongside - and surpasses - that of Park Chan-wook, because the cinematography draws from the expressionist cinema of Dario Argento, because the melodramatic heights is as non-sentimental, heartfelt and on a par with, say, Todd Hayne's Carol. I also wrote a spontaneous essay on the subject a few weeks ago: Kat's One Direction fantasy is being visually replicated as Kat is seduced by Ethan Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odysseyġ0. The television and movie excerpts watched by characters in Euphoria all allude to scenes within Euphoriaĩ. The merry-go-round bystanders as symbolising the crowd by the pool as Maddy seduces TylerĨ. Cassie riding the merry-go-round with Daniel and being seen by the crowd of bystanders as symbolising her skating and being filmed unwantinglyĥ. Jules in her room as alluding to Ophelia painting seen in Jules' and Kat's art classĤ. ![]() A great article, and a lovely celebration of Euphoria! This is my take.Ģ.
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