“Victoria” (2015): capturing the essence of a Berlin night in a single sequence – Pajama Surf

“Victoria” (2015): capturing the essence of a Berlin night in a single sequence

“Victoria” rather than a technical feat, it is a film that reencanta us with the essence of cinema: capturing memorable moments intensely.

By: Alejandro Martinez Gallardo – 19.10.2015 at 1:10:03

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If one commonly attends movies featuring commercial billboard -victim of everyday lobotomy or a strong dose of boredom – – is likely, if there is still a modicum of discernment, one stops believing in cinema. Or think that cinema has become something else, in a more similar to the advertising industry or large rides of amusement parks, away from the transformative art experiences, all-permeating, where Time is a vital block is transferred between the work and the viewer. Fortunately, the film still exists, although it is sometimes hard to tell in the great machine of bubble-tautological pseudo-reality that invades via the star system and its collusion with large corporations and the most primitive areas and lethargic from our brains

. Victoria (2015), Sebastian Schipper, is just a movie that can oppose to large waste of technology and Hollywood special effects that dominate industry (because it certainly can not be called art ). We can oppose it, as a medicine, as a need to balance the squandering of time and energy that constitute the great films-pigeon entertainment formulas to which it is subjected to mass hypnotically tonic. It is an elixir especially because it is not a film having an especially exquisite artistic or topic or you want to dazzle with their ideas; It is, like so many other films Holllywood, a thriller: a flow of sensations, dizziness pure moments. But unlike the artificial machinery, props and prosthetics, to feel which is served in an automated manner the Hollywood system, Victoria makes us feel -a much greater intensity – under the sole prerogative of conferring reality and humanity, without resorting to sleight or artifice to which we are so (mis) used. Technical resources and film there are only (should be) for the time being experienced in the camera can be transmitted with higher fidelity and sharpness.

The story of a Spanish girl (Victoria, the great Laia Costa) leaving one party in Berlin-again the great European cultural capital and especially night capital and energy and underground labyrinths (loss and meeting) – is filmed in a single shot in real time. This cinematic feat is not the sly gloating-autofellatio-virtuoso of films like Birdman Gonzalez Inarritu, but the use of technology in the service of art, communication of feelings and emotions that would otherwise not transfer could be achieved with such intensity. The technique must be invented to meet the needs of the artist’s work like the eye born from the desire of truth and not become an end in itself, a loop gimmicky, a mannerism or an empty styling.

The need masterfully used the unique sequence of Victoria plan is to capture the entire night in his frenzy, his drunkenness and desolation in all its layers, the wide night City and emotional night of the characters. We can feel the spontaneity of the people, how it is to be in Berlin, seeking life, fall in love, get high, obfuscate, feel downloads neurotransmitters and let go, miss. Want, conspiring together, the euphoric release of violating the law amusingly stupid, bursts of madness, dancing as if we had won everything … rebasarnos, go to that place we transcend no return. Being young, with good intentions, sometimes fatally same freedom can hurt us and there’s nothing we can do. This is the world, this is the danger of the night and expansion. The energy of the moments is something that is alive, and the film has the power to communicate, sometimes we forget.

I want to especially mention two scenes. The first is in coffee, where Victoria shows us her adorable vulnerability in the same movement which reveals its inner strength, its dynamism and its latent shadow. It is the eponymous moment of infatuation between two people who have just met and are carried away by the serendipity, of spontaneity, of attracting offering contingency awards night and making alcohol. There is a beautiful simplicity in this scene, it is genuinely awkward, in the same way that actors know their mistakes will be similar to the sequence and infatuation occurs between two people who have just met with hesitation and defects to be of be ignored and devoured by time, by the unit that assimilates loose parts and purifies

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The other scene is the euphoric return to the underground techno club. The explosion in ecstatic dance, music abandonment, with this renewed confidence, high and bright party destruction, catharsis without premeditation, cocaine and beats and dripping vessels explode, naked, shit Laughing, freshness kissing in waves. The camera, surfing chaos following this festive moment was really deserved, that can not be faked, because you need a progressive rise. There have lived (suffered) before and something to celebrate so the viewer has lived with them-as in a mirror state dependent memory, revives dearly similar moments of his own life, as an essence, a personal synthesis and collective youth.

Without giving many spoilers, I prefer to avoid talking about the end, but I mean the tension ring closes perfectly in that empty dawn reveals all darkly process as necessary, as a result of his own genius to the limit.

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At the end of the film we see the first credit on the black screen is the name of the cinema Grovlen Sturla, in what appears to be a logical tribute to such a feat. Undoubtedly the work of cameraman of this film will go down in history as one of the most successful ever seen, impossible even before technology allowed high photographic cameras as much mobility and quality. Much of what you feel when you see the film is the result of moving the camera in hand masterfully intimate (that makes us part of the gang) and rhythm of the sequence shot; together they make a kind of psychosomatic film, in which the protagonists live experiences are decanted as if we were in the theater and could even feel the vital signs of the cast. Your tachycardia, your malviaje, spilling his anguish, his pheromones flying.

Unlike other flat-film sequences, Victoria is filmed without reservation on the streets and in dozens of locations, with scenes High complexity, creating an immersive effect in which we actually live what is happening to the characters and got involved at a level of intensity that seems rarely seen, so I repeat both. Victoria is the intensification of experience in the viewer. It happens in real time and, although fiction, what is the reality we live lived or created characters, linger over time. Giorgio Agamben writes in his essay on the nymphs, art does not only register and images in time but time images, pure time, pure cinema.

Mention also the atmospheres of fine Nils Frahm, which are like dream cuts, transitions on the grueling musical plot breathing space or contemplation. For a few moments the music and sound off allow us to observe without participating, live brief melancholy moments, internalize the action, as when we are between people and abstracting us to touch base or imagine alternate realities. Similarly moments of adrenaline and astonishment are perfectly accompanied by syncopated rhythms, we really feel we are on the verge of losing control

. The film Schipper, after all, It is a victory for the true cinema, for film with soul. A win over disenchanted ostentation of films made mostly on computers where the magic and intensity of the moment is not captured but later added as a special effect. It is not a perfect film, but it is a profoundly human and real movie. It makes us realize that we need more really feel more vividly and awakening from the lethargy in which we have plunged inert images among which we move.

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