{"id":487672,"date":"2022-08-24T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/halina-reijn-explains-why-bodies-bodies-bodies-is-our-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:53:35","slug":"halina-reijn-explains-why-bodies-bodies-bodies-is-our-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/halina-reijn-explains-why-bodies-bodies-bodies-is-our-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#Halina Reijn Explains Why &#8216;Bodies Bodies Bodies&#8217; is Our Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36888663711\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36888663711\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/halina-reijn-explains-why-bodies-bodies-bodies-is-our-problem\/#%E2%80%9CHalina_Reijn_Explains_Why_%E2%80%98Bodies_Bodies_Bodies_is_Our_Problem%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Halina Reijn Explains Why &#8216;Bodies Bodies Bodies&#8217; is Our Problem&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHalina_Reijn_Explains_Why_%E2%80%98Bodies_Bodies_Bodies_is_Our_Problem%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Halina Reijn Explains Why &#8216;Bodies Bodies Bodies&#8217; is Our Problem&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;We chat with the director about her new film and discuss whether she loves or loathes her characters.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bodies-Bodies-Bodies-Halina-Reijn-interview.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bodies Bodies Bodies Halina Reijn Interview\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bodies-Bodies-Bodies-Halina-Reijn-interview.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bodies-Bodies-Bodies-Halina-Reijn-interview-768x319.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;A24&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Brad Gullickson\u00a0\u00b7 Published on August 24th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;Check the Gate is a recurring column where we go one-on-one with directors to uncover the reasoning behind their creative decisions. Why that subject? Why that shot? In this edition, we chat with Halina Reijn about transforming Bodies Bodies Bodies into her own damn movie.&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>When <strong>Halina Reijn<\/strong> first received the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> for <strong><em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em><\/strong>, the characters, settering, and narrative mechanism were radically different than what we finally saw on screen. In place of a hurricane was a snowstorm. The threat pursuing the young friends in the house was much more traditional, and the message drilled into its audience was entirely different.<\/p>\n<p>Reijn responded strongly to much of the film and was itching to make her genre movie, but before she could do that, the director needed another stab at the screenplay. The film had to be hers through and through. She did not see this as tampering but as evolution. It\u2019s a process not too dissimilar to what she would do as an actress working for Belgian director <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0396994\/\"><strong>Ivo Van Hove<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I would approach it the same way we approach all the classical plays that I used to do with Ivo van Hove as an actress,\u201d she says. \u201cYou take a hundred-year-old play, and then you deconstruct it, and you make it super contemporary. I thought that would be a great key into [<em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em>].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film opens with two girlfriends invading a hurricane party. Their romance is fresh, new. Sophie (<strong>Amandla Stenberg<\/strong>) seemingly wants to show off their relationship to some old pals, and Bee (<strong>Maria Bakalova<\/strong>) is nervous but willing. As evening falls, the group launches a murder mystery <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> called \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies,\u201d where someone is the killer, who strikes when the lights go out. Then, one amongst their group actually winds up dead, and the remaining terrified parties quickly turn on each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pitched it like <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em> meets <em>Mean Girls<\/em>,\u201d says Reijn. \u201cI thought it would be about group behavior, but mainly the question of, \u2018is the killer inside of you? Is it outside of you?\u2019 Hence the ending. I don\u2019t want to speak too much about it, but for me, it was really, very, very important \u2013 the nihilistic, hedonistic ending, if you will. It is about human nature and not about an evil ghost or a serial killer or some revenge theme or whatever. For me, it was all about human reaction and intimacy and really looking at what\u2019s going on instead of just looking at your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> tears into its protagonists. Frequently, you\u2019re left wondering whether the filmmaker likes or loathes her characters. Where are these knives and this contempt directed?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all,\u201d she says, \u201cI am very addicted to my phone. Of course, in my own grandmother kind of way, where if you want to show me a TikTok, I would be like, er uh\u2026I text like this [pulling the phone close to her face] because of my eyesight, but I\u2019m super addicted. I grew up in a commune, and I\u2019m totally obsessed with any group or cult \u2013 with sports clubs, with friend groups, like any subgroup. Also, with youth, so of course, it fascinates me the way they communicate and the way they use their phones. This is just part of their bodies. But they have so much knowledge; they\u2019re smart because they can Google anything, and you and I had to look it up in a book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, if older audience members are separating themselves from the youth savagely tearing into each other, they\u2019re probably missing the point and fooling themselves. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> in our pockets is changing all of us. A gulf is growing between our physical interactions, and whatever fingers we\u2019re pointing should be aimed backward at ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that it\u2019s not as much that I\u2019m mocking them,\u201d says Reijn, \u201cbut I\u2019m sort of making fun of the human nature in all of us. It is a little bit of a cautionary tale for myself, like, \u2018Please, woman, stop looking at your fucking screen.\u2019 Because also, I\u2019m avoiding intimacy. I need to go out on dating apps and all of that. I hate it. I hate it! When are we going to sit with another human being and really look into each other\u2019s eyes? I\u2019m making this film to warn myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reijn sees her time as a filmmaker on <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em>\u00a0as an anthropologist. The experience rejuvenated her, and for whatever horror or disgust we might find in the film, Reijn found an equal amount of hope. Her cast puts her in a state of awe, and some jealousy is mixed within.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir vocabulary is so interesting,\u201d she says. \u201cThey have words for everything, and they have rules, all these different rules that they have to go by. There\u2019s lots of pressure, and they will talk about mental health all the time. When we grew up, it was like, \u2018suck it up and be tough.\u2019 When I would have a panic attack, I would never share that, which, of course, you have as an actress on stage all the time. You wouldn\u2019t even know that it\u2019s called a panic attack. You literally thought you were going to have a heart attack and go to the hospital. The fact that they talk about all of that, constantly, constantly, constantly, is because they also grew up in front of cameras. They\u2019re so self-aware, and that\u2019s a little annoying and maybe feels like, \u2018Jesus Christ, toughen up.\u2019 But on the other hand, there\u2019s also beauty in it. I admire it, and their feminism and their wokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One gets the sense that there was absolute freedom on the set. <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> has a loose vibe; it doesn\u2019t feel heavily chained to a script. While that is certainly true, the director is quick to celebrate the screenplay and its writer. Determining which lines were made up on the spot and which ones were written is rather tricky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Sarah DeLappe<\/strong> is a brilliant writer,\u201d says Reijn. \u201cThe fact that the movie is a murder mystery and, at the same time, is so contemporary. She\u2019s technically really, really good. But a lot of the other stuff, like the ableist line of Amandla, she ad-libbed that. \u2018I look like I fuck\u2019 is an ad-lib. Or <strong>Rachel<\/strong> [<strong>Sennott<\/strong>] going on about body dysmorphia, that\u2019s an ad-lib. The whole thing, \u2018Do you know what it takes to make a podcast?\u2019 So, yeah, there\u2019s a lot of improvisation in it too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Halina Reijn and her cinematographer <strong>Jasper Wolf<\/strong> spent several weeks, without the cast, rehearsing and blocking the film. Her goal was to treat the set like a stage. She never wanted her cast to know where the camera was going to be, which meant they had to be present and in character for every scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to create the same atmosphere as in the theater,\u201d she says. \u201cWhere you always have to be at your best game. You can\u2019t think like, \u2018Oh, the close-up is on my scene partner, and I can go to sleep for a while,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m just here to feed him the lines.\u2019 I like to create the same tension so that they\u2019re all on high alert at all times. Then they feed each other way more interesting energy. The camera is just moving intuitively. Of course, we have a plan, but they don\u2019t always know what we\u2019re going to do with those really long takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shooting this way sends electricity through the frames. The on-edge quality of the actors works its way into the characters, which translates immediately to the audience. The process works exceptionally well for thrillers, and it\u2019s a vibe the director was chasing for her first American feature. Although, narrowing <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> down to anything beyond a genre picture is troublesome for Reijn.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not interested in where the film ends up on the video shelf or whatever streaming category. That\u2019s our problem. She also finds that placing labels on your film is a fool\u2019s errand. The audience is the ultimate decider of where your movie will end up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a movie once,\u201d says Reijn, \u201cas an actress, called <em>Zus and Zo<\/em>, which was nominated for an Oscar. Can you imagine? For Best Foreign Film. A friend called me the other day, and he found the movie in a sex shop! I never know where my movie is going to go afterward. I only know that I really enjoyed making this, and I give it to the universe. I hope with all my heart that people will enjoy it and maybe take something away or have a conversation after it, get inspired to make their own film. If it\u2019s still here after hundreds of years or if it\u2019s gone tomorrow, it\u2019s all fine. It\u2019s like pop art. I give it to the gods, and let\u2019s just fucking get on with it. Make a new one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie gods have <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> now. They will do with it what they must. Halina Reijn is excited to see what they bestow upon it but obviously not too flustered over their decisions. There\u2019s another movie already in the works, and her attention is needed elsewhere. She\u2019s gotta make that one her own too.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em> is now playing in theaters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Bodies Bodies Bodies, Check the Gate\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/brad.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Brad Gullickson is a Weekly Columnist for Film School Rejects and Senior Curator for One Perfect Shot. 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