{"id":593928,"date":"2023-10-10T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-witty-grimy-parable-for-paranoid-times\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:41:02","slug":"watch-a-witty-grimy-parable-for-paranoid-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-witty-grimy-parable-for-paranoid-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Witty, Grimy Parable for Paranoid Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a2cc4167d644\" 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-6a2cc4167d644\" 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\/watch-a-witty-grimy-parable-for-paranoid-times\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Witty_Grimy_Parable_for_Paranoid_Times%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Witty, Grimy Parable for Paranoid Times&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-witty-grimy-parable-for-paranoid-times\/#%E2%80%9CA_Witty_Grimy_Parable_for_Paranoid_Times%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Witty, Grimy Parable for Paranoid Times&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Witty_Grimy_Parable_for_Paranoid_Times%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Witty, Grimy Parable for Paranoid Times&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Witty_Grimy_Parable_for_Paranoid_Times%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Witty, Grimy Parable for Paranoid Times&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s under<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\">app<\/a>reciated \u201cStrange Days\u201d features a line that goes something like \u201cThe issue isn\u2019t whether you\u2019re paranoid. The issue is whether you\u2019re paranoid <em>enough<\/em>.\u201d Although that film is set in 1999, it\u2019s an aphorism that would work equally well in St\u00e9phan Castang\u2018s fun, violent, high-concept \u201cVincent Must Die,\u201d as a punchy summation of post-pandemic \u2014 rather than pre-millennial \u2014 nervousness and malaise. Who among us has not gazed in dismay at a world that\u2019s not just increasingly bad-tempered, but seems to hold against each one of us some focused, individual grudge? The times have doubtless always been bad, but they hit (and hit and hit) differently now, like this time, it\u2019s personal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Vincent (a terrific, cow-eyed Karim Leklou) is initially not paranoid enough\/at all. A bit uninspired, perhaps. Low-level depressed, possibly. And carrying his inevitable thirtysomething disillusionment in a little schlub around the midriff, for sure. But not paranoid; he has no reason to be \u2014 he\u2019s a standard guy, a regular <em>mec<\/em>, a graphic designer who wears T-shirts under his jackets, cycles to work each day and probably thinks about the Roman Empire once or twice a week. Which makes it all so much more perplexing when one day at work, an intern he barely knows comes to his desk for an expressionless moment, then proceeds to beat him viciously around the head with a laptop computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    His co-workers restrain the attacker, and soon Vincent\u2019s back at his desk having promised his boss \u2014 who is also his ex-girlfriend but Vincent is like totally chill with that \u2014 not to press charges. A black eye blossoms, and a cut on his cheek bleeds a little, but otherwise no harm done. In fact, back at his apartment later as Vincent trawls Tinder, he snaps a selfie of his tough-guy injuries and slaps on a humblebrag hashtag. But all it takes is one dog to bite you and suddenly you become the type of person who gets bitten by dogs, and so it goes for Vincent: All it takes is one intern to hit him with a laptop, for him to become the kind of guy who gets spontaneously stabbed by a co-worker, pursued by a homeless man, menaced by a motorist and assailed by usually friendly neighborhood kids, who bite and scratch and kick him in a blank-eyed frenzy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While John Kaced\u2019s excellent score adds a layer of pacy French electro cool, Vincent deduces that his attackers\u2019 murderous impulses, which usually abate leaving them with no memory of the incident, are triggered by eye contact, a difficult-to-avoid fact of urban life. So first stopping by childhood home to pick up his vintage Peugeot, and mercifully not getting filicided by his affectionately irritated Dad (Fran\u00e7ois Chattot) he decamps to his family\u2019s remote vacation roost in the countryside, where he hopes to hole up in relative safety.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There\u2019s an arthousier version of Mathieu Naert\u2019s screenplay where the curse, whether it\u2019s a disease or a manifestation of a persecution complex so intense it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, remains Vincent\u2019s alone to bear. But Castang loves genre and so before it becomes too abstract or thought-experiment-y, the story broadens, taking on shades of zombie horror, dystopian sci-fi, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-breakdown satire, romantic comedy. Vincent meets Joachim (Micha\u00ebl Perez) who has the same condition and who alerts Vincent to an online community of similar individuals called The Sentinel. He tells him to get a dog, which Vincent does \u2014 a lovely gray bulldog who usefully emits a low squeaking growl whenever she senses a person nearby is about to turn aggressor. And just as the movie loses traction as an existential allegory to become a more straightforward survival thriller \u2014 which cues its darkest-grossest-funniest moment when Vincent fights a stranger in the putrid ooze from an overflowing septic tank \u2014 Castang throws in a little bit of heart, too, in the romance that evolves between Vincent and boat-dwelling diner waitress Margaux (Vimalas Pons).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Despite most of their relationship playing out with one or other handcuffed or blindfolded (one does wonder why Vincent doesn\u2019t simply don a pair of dark glasses) it\u2019s easy to root for these two to get it together. And once Vincent overcomes the initial challenge of convincing Margaux that he is not crazy \u2014 by triggering everyone shopping in a big-box hypermarket to become even more aggressive and dead-eyed than the patrons of Ikea on a regular Sunday \u2014 perhaps his condition even helps the passion along. After all, there\u2019s nothing like the fear that your lover might at any moment snap into a murderous amnesiac frenzy to accelerate the trust-bonding process, just as there\u2019s nothing like the constant terror of dying to make one appreciate living. Perhaps Vincent\u2019s affliction will be the making of him, if it doesn\u2019t kill him first \u2014 and even if it does, what even was his complacent, deflated prior lifestyle if not merely a much slower, crueler death? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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