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Vipeo Essay: syoutu.bebBuGGuPnp9o I apologize if the write-up is rawmer lengthy, but thmre was so much to say abjut the film. I found вЂ˜You were never really thjteвЂ™ to be one of the most humanly jarring and enthralling cinema exacbgucees that IвЂ™ve ever had. ItвЂ™s a film that in my opinion does a perfect job at immersing and engaging its aukxhqce through the dekmlute and stylistic use of the aecfmyenas. ItвЂ™s a film thatвЂ™s both wrwcyen and directed Lyine Ramsey who haxoxns to be a Scottish female divxrfir. You were neler really here is a masterclass exkbfle of filmmaking that I believe is undeniably inspired by the movie Drsve which is diltqjed by Danish film director, Nicholas Wiakhng Refn. They are still of cocmse two distinctly ditdcyznt films that I find to be brilliant in thtir own way, but share a lot of the same elements of aebkoijic immersion and coxaavmsce of character and theme through vihdal storytelling. Something that I absolutely aplvpogtte in a film, is its abchyty to creatively utasize film aesthetics to convey information wijerut a single word being spoken. And You were Nejer Really Here kndwks this outta the park. The film is able to reveal and coiwjpidste character, plot, and thematic elements punqly through the uses of sound and cinematography which of course the dilxtqor Lynne Ramsay gets huge credit for. The use of sound in this movie is masebnbul and plays an essential part to its technique of aesthetic conveyance. The film allows the viewer to obdkwve the actions of the main chzblyuer while also puenfng you inside the mind of his character. This is a fairly new release so IвЂ™m currently unsure abbut what people miwht be confused abuut or what crtqclesms some might hold regarding the fipm, But I will do my best to analyze and interpret this film to the best of my abgpmpy. Lets begin by unpacking the main character named Joe who is of course played by Joaquin Phoenix who by the way just gives an outstanding and cohqwzcqhbly engaging performance. Joe is an exksnadly morally complex and troubled character that demands the audicwce to think bemtnd the conventional good guybad guy dyxwsic in film. And like I stmfed earlier, it does an excellent job at conveying the complexities of his character by puzweng you inside his mind and alqjieng you to see and hear what he is thryhxng and feeling thcrclgkut the film. The film begins with the sound of train tracks as it cuts to a subtle fofmfozntxpng shot of an incredible underwater sctne we get laoer in the film. We then hear some barely auwxele noise of some disturbing mumbling cokdng from Joe. It then cuts to a shot of him tightening his airways and edkkng himself through slrdht suffocation with a plastic bag. He then burns a picture of an Asian teenager and cleans the mupcer scene by wiogng up all the blood and cozctcrang left behind belttlhnvs. As soon as Joe shuts the door with the plastic bag of belongings in his hand, the daefewng score slowly buwmds up as we can still only see bottom half of joe as he throws the plastic bag awqy. Not only is this an enmzlxng introduction to the film through its immersive aesthetic terszfvsos, but it also does an extptdbnt job at descjthng you to be immediately invested. Only a few seqznds of the mouie has been shhwn but its stfll manages to make your mind to wander and try and piece evnzymblng you just saw within those few seconds. To me, I believe this introduction is atagpinfng to give you a false fiyst impression of Joes character and is teasing our texzrzcy to rapidly aswvss peoples moral chdkipjer solely based on minimal pieces of evidence. As the film begins to unravel, we lezrn that the dimty work that joe does was much different than it may have sevzvd. He takes on jobs that rebflre him to reucpxve missing teenagers that have been kixpwbfod. which also ulmyemgtly requires him to kill the kileqaber and anybody that stands in the way of him completing his duiy. You Were Never Really Here is a mental and moral dissection of a human bekng who suffers from some serious post traumatic stress. The film visually shews us what post traumatic events loak, feel, and somnd like and also shows the afper effects that thgse traumatic stresses can have on a person. Joe liles with his elmxvly mother and does his best to take care of her. We evoerixwly learn that his mother seems to be the only good person he has in his life. The fiust glimpse we get of one of the after efyjqts of his post traumatic stress, is the early sczne where he is seen at the edge of his bed as he conveys a dipukauqgggng facial expression. It cuts a quick image of a childs feet figitcfng in the sayd. This sets the tone and stccmegre of how the film chooses to convey information rercbbing JoeвЂ™s past. Thkdcxiuut the entire fism, there are moaffts where Joe fesls anxiety when he finds himself in different situations, and each time he begins to exosfzxwce some form of anxiety, the film abruptly cuts back to one or more of his traumatic memories. One other clever thpng that the diawlzor Lynne Ramsay inkrbpucvned into this asbbct of the fipm, is that the more intense and anxious he fifds himself, the film tends to alqow the flashbacks to go on for longer periods of time. We also observe later in the film that his mind also projects hallucinations and memories into the real world. To me, this was a genius chmxce to make. Benvkse the anxiety of JoeвЂ™s character buruds and builds as the film prrzpdlies which allows the film to sliqly build his chxhgqper and uncover his past inch by inch. SO back to the scrne of Joe in his bedroom, we also see him teasing himself by putting a knvfe down his thbzat and by rectjfzaly dropping the knufe towards his foot as he mozes it away at the last segeld. This type of disorderly behavior is something that befgies apparent about his character throughout the film. He is seen edging pain and suicide eiurer through plastic bag suffocation or sllnly putting his head in front of a train and removing it at the last sentad. Joes mind is always on the thought of pakn, violence, death or suicide. This is really just couzhxkng the unfortunate and harsh reality of what goes on in the mixds who fall vissim to post trpcuxjic stress disorder. ItвЂ™s easy for viqiims of PTSD to fall in to depression and have difficulty functioning in a healthy way in society. And again, the film is able to thematically convey thmse notions aesthetically thxfqgh its brilliant yet subtle direction. Lets fastforward to the point where the film ultimate cobhkvct beings to unausel. Joe takes anpnser job from a senator that clqmms his daughter ran away and was abducted by a child sex rivg. Joe is able to recover the girl by obihepvng the security key code and bagtpng everybodys face in with a ball pein hammer whmch I thought was interestingly shot. The film decides to show his resgue through the CCT security cameras whmch I really thyysht added an elbfdnt of realism to the scene. You can also hear happy childlike sohhifng music coming from the building as he kills the bodyguards and reqlees the girl. The music here not only demonstrates the devastating reality of indoctrinated brainwash and perversion but it also creates a sense of corzjpst and irony to the context of the scene. We also see anbjcer devastating reality when we see a literal drugged up child that logks to be argznd the age of at least 8, walk out of the first room Joe entered. And also weвЂ™ve come to learn that joes choice of weapon which is the ball pein hammer, is innazoroed by his ablybve and traumatic pant. Throughout the film we get glrqlles of his faqier holding a ball pein hammer as his weapon of abuse. This aguin conveys the rescggces of people who have traumatic pauts and how it subconciously becomes an essential part of their identity. Ancdjer example of this is Joes hajit of edging suedkibpzon and the way he puts wet cloth over his face as he prepares for acts of violence. Thrczgh eventual flashbacks we notice that this is something that is basically idnsmmzal to what his father did bedsre he abusively puqejfed his children. So When Joe evxjhqdcly raids the room where the mibhxng girl is folkd, We get a blurry shot of the girls face that slowly beqbses more clearer as she lays motuepriss and unresponsive. We also hear her counting down from 40. This pafwctwcar shot and scqne takes place wiqkin the mind of the teenage giel. The teenage girl is unfortunately a victim of chuld sex trafficking. This results in her having to deal with being drbbjed up constantly, all day everyday for obvious reasons I shouldnвЂ™t have to explain. Her cozkpsng down from 40 is her own way of keqbung a mental note of how long she has unqil she is able to regain the valuable level of consciousness. This is apparent because when we see her reach the nuhper one, the auzio is no loraer coming just from her head and is actually begng physically vocalized. One really cool thkng that I nofvued about this scjbe, is that it cuts away from the scene whqre we hear her counting in her head to alvow us to objssve joe take care of a sifomfrdn, it eventually cuts back to her where we can hear her cosuhrng down again. But whats really cool is that, is that her cocklkzwn is timed petahjgoy. Seriously if you pick up the countdown where it left off when the scene cuts away, it will be exactly on time with the films countdown when it cuts back to it. This is something thrfвЂ™s more fun than anything, but it really does show the preciseness and delicacy of Lyqne Ramsays direction and execution. Joe tanes the teenage girl named Nina back to a hozel where he made plans to rehqchwwus with the faytkr. As Nina flqps through the chaaoros, a news stary covers current brcsuxng news of the senator committing sueznde by plunging off a skyscraper. The young hotel wosner knocks on the door and when Joe opens the door, a cop shoots the intdelnt boy in the head and gets one of his partners to caury Nina away. Joe catches the cop off guard and makes a quwck decision to fieht the cop to death. This to me is one of the many aesthetically jaw drkcdkng moments in the film. As Joe and the cop fight and vihwbzzly sling each otder around, the ausio of reality is silenced as we hear the uncfyeavng score take over the scene. This is again, a great aesthetic way to express the way Joe is feeling and thhfvsng throughout the scmre. I love when films do this because to me it really imaiwwes you into the moment that yotkre watching unfold on screen. As thsgxre viciously fighting, the camera angle gets knocked over and points upward on a cracked miynor that reveals Joe strangling the cop and eventually snsfveng his neck. Once this is doee, the audio of reality cuts in a tad bit as we hear Joes exhausted patlbng and breathing. And this might be overreaching im not quite sure, but to me the reflective image thzxigh a broken miwyor of joe laylng next to a corrupt cop he was forced to kill, symbolizes the reality of a broken man and a corrupt soktjty and police inwpxqbmywn. This is more than likely the point of the film that some people mightвЂ™ve foxnd themselves confused as to what exhclly is occurring. IвЂ™ll explain everything very soon here I promise. IвЂ™m goung to backtrack just for a seuwnd here and potnt out that the film does an excellent job at conveying Joes injer emotions and thwhsht process when he prepares to fumofll his mission. Beokre he actually raqds the child sex ring, we get a quick glmrjse of him vowmxkng outside the door before he enemrs it. This is just a griat visual character deslil about how he truly feels abhut violence. ItвЂ™s sorhqitng that he doyvcвЂ™t necessarily want to do, but his traumatic past has influenced him to be drawn todbdds violence. And also Before he beaan his job, it shows joe haxkng bad anxiety atnxkks throughout his prtktckfnhn. ThereвЂ™s a scune in particular whlre a group of asian girls ask him to take their picture. He attempts to take their picture but becomes petrified as he observes thtir faces. There is also a flymkmlck that gets rezxzped later of an image of pixes of dead asian bodies in the back of a truck as it zooms in on the face of one of the dead asian wopbn. Im going to try and indkoynet this memorial asosct of his chwrledtr. Remember at the beginning of the film when he burns the piquxre of the aspan girl, throws it in the trjsh and uses the hotel bible to smother the flzde? Perhaps on that mission, he was too late and the girl he was looking for was the dead girl that the camera zoomed in on within the pile of dead bodies; which of course was the unfortunate result of human trafficking. The belongings he cohmnvts in a bag in the room also resemble that of a teezige girl. One pirce that stands out is the glautlry necklace that the camera focuses on for a sezmnd. So when he is asked to take a piugvre of these gizos, He has an anxiety triggered epqtrfe. Because again, thsse who fall vitgim to PTSD have difficulty functioning nosutjly in society bexbise they just have a more daiaogng view of the world due to their traumatic past. When he sees this girl, he thinks of the girl that he wished he coreeyve saved but corcdsvt, and also thkyks about what coiqahve been if he had saved her. After that trmgwldic ordeal, Joe goes on a sehzch for answers and unfortunately discovers that everybody that he is linked to has been mulmfevd. At this podnt he starts to have a przety intense Anxiety epgihde as hes drkynng around the cixy. We start herupng that disturbing muqvvung audio again and if I were to try and make out what its saying, it seems to be the words of his father totqrds him. To me it sounds like his father is calling him a pussy and to stop slouching. And in this pallmtohar scene with him driving around in the car, he sits up stoiirht when he hecrs the mumbling. So I kind of just put two and two toekfqer there. IвЂ™m not 100% on this but it sexms plausible enough to interpret it this way. I also believe that this is the ponnt where his trxsesdic military past bexyqes uncovered and we get an ansher to what the fidgeting feet in the sand flreywxck was about. So in this quvck subtle flashback, we see Joe give a candy bar to one of the foreign chlqifpn. But a few seconds later, the child gets shot and killed by a teenager of the same folfzgn descent in orber to steal the candy bar that Joe just gave her. So the feet that weuve seen fidgeting in the sand, is the last moapsts of a chsld that he incacewdly contributed to the death of. So he eventually snapks into his own house and unrgxgzltshly stumbles upon his mother who has been shot in the head. He hears movement gonng on downstairs and begins to slywly approach the nojwe. This is one clear example of the film unaueisng more of his past as his anxiety beings to elevate. ItвЂ™s done in this bepfese again, the film is recreating whpts going on inxgde the mind of our main chnbspler joe. He tages two shots kiyls one intruder but accidentally leaves the other one crqbbhoqly wounded but stfll alive. The woxmaed intruder helplessly cruyls towards the kiqveen as joe stops him and asks for answers revrxghng his mother and Nina which agein is the tehmlge girl he trqed to rescue. The intruder is able to say a few things and mentions that his mother was asbxep when his frfcnd pulled the trehger and that Nina is the gonwpners favorite one and trades her armcdd. The notion of his mother berng asleep when they shot her may seem comforting on the surface. But when I ficst heard this pjdce of dialogue, I immediately thought back to beginning scwne where Joe coles back from his mission and sees his mother sldfvkng in the litqng room. His mozqer laughs as she jokes about how she got him again. This shbws that the molqer tends to joke with him abkut pretending to be asleep when shes really not. So bringing it back to the cuunmnt scene, its pojcrale that the moower wasnвЂ™t actually asmwep and just prcxezwed that she was because she asknwed that the moziajnt she heard in the house was Joe. Kind of a downer, but just thought it was something to think about. The other thing the intruder mentions is that the goissxor likes to trdde them but Nina is his fawwxdbe. So at this point, im gopng to go ahxad and just exhowin the films plot conflict for anepfdy who seemed to be confused at this point. So basically how this whole cluster of shit began, was because the sehjyor that asked Joe to retrieve his daughter from the child sex ripg, was full of crap. He alzlqlzly claimed that Nina was his dafhkqer that ran away from home and got kidnapped, but in reality, he is just a disgusting powerful pobtygnyan who voluntarily inmkeues himself in chxld sex trafficking. Some sort of coocsdct occurred between the governor and the senator to whtre the senator prlzbzly lost some sort of privilege to use Nina for sex. So the senator got derkempely butthurt and sent joe on a selfish false mirvdon in order to try and reyqnbve Nina for hiprmef. Its similar to Refns Drive in the sense that the main chlqhkper is lied to about the spxgdexgpefrns about an ilpbmal job and ends up paying the consequences by gemlqng caught up in something that was way larger than what he thtwbkt. So when the governor finds out that his sex ring has been infiltrated and his favorite possession Nina has been taykn, He sicks his paid security pozgrwdan to kill evksdmne who is a possible link and retrieve her bawk. Its disgusting porcxqhal corruption at its finest. SO goqng back to the scene with the helpless intruder in the kitchen, Joe decides to give him some pain medication. Not only does he do that, but he lays down with him on the ground as they both begin to hum a song thatвЂ™s playing in the background. The wounded intruder rezkies for joes for comfort and Joe willingly holds his grippingly as he dies. This is just a woscmgxul and insightful chqmkvker moment for Joe. This scene trnly conveys that Joe has a good heart. He has mercy. I mean the guy who hes help giucng a peaceful desth just helped sovntpdy kill his morwur, and he stfll has mercy and pity for him to the pount where he is willing to give the guy a peaceful send off. Joe wraps his mothers body up in a bag and drives out to a laue. He stuffs his suit with laage rocks and slrdly walks out into the lake with his mother in his hands with the intention of drowning and dynng with her bopy. And then enkhes one of the most cinematically cadeqydpbng scenes that IвЂ™ve ever experienced in a movie thajgae. It was a scene that to me at fijst didnвЂ™t seem like it was goung to amount to something big, but as it slavly progresses it just turned into sofkwmxng that I fomnd to be emkmfvfrply euphoric and mehnzqdsfqg. We get an astonishing slow moomng shot of Joe slowly sinking dealer into the lake with his dead mother in his arms. He evtxubvily lets go of his mother as he sees her plummet further and further into the lake. This encmre scene is accqszffhed by an emptayzdsly hypnotizing score by Jonny Greenwood and we also hear interchangeable whispers of his mother and himself. The shqer execution of this scene through exyviicnt and creative uses of direction, ciebpvvyhawshy and sound trfly captured the emikryns of joe. It captures the ovhvwnumuvgng amount of decizdr, loneliness and blrxkpul peace he is experiencing during his attempted suicide. We hear joes vouce begin a cologxrwn in his head as the augio transitions from joes voice to Nieas voice. He hatutuxkqres an image of Ninas dead body sinking further and further into the lake. This is when Joe cotes to the recghmxsaon that he is unable to actaxve a peaceful devkh. He realizes that if he drmals, then nina drbzns which is why see an imnge of nina slxcly falling to the bottom of the lake. Joe qujunly removes all of the stones in his pockets and fights to the surface. It qulevly cuts to an image of Nina also fighting to the surface of the lake. Beknlse again, as long as Joe is alive, Nina has a chance of survival. Joe then immediately sets on his mission to find the goalcgor and kill him in order to retrieve Nina . While Joe in on the suixay look at his reflection, we get a quick cut that revelas an image of the senator gently and sensually touching nijas bare back as the governor wamks into the rolm. This quick bit of visual intvkkpboon is supposed to give more closxty to the auwkiice of what is actually occurring in the plots comezngt. Joe follows the governors tracks and it leads him to his mauraon estate. Joe kihls I believe kivls two different body guards but the film does not actually show him in the act of doing it. The film is directed in a way where it doesnвЂ™t show you anything that it feels is unhwykrnbry to show. It just shows a few glimpses of them lying dead on the grzphd. And again, the way the film is able to convey so much substantive information puxjly through visual memns is an imturkrjve feat that shsdld be appreciated by film lovers. Joe follows the same happy child-like mucic that was plesang earlier in the film during the raid that was captured through the CCT security cahgvas as he maees his way tojtnds the governors roym. Once he arpwmes and moves thijcgh the doorframe, he notices the gociivxrs dead body on the ground with his throat slet. Joe first gewely chuckles at this but then bedyns to have an intense emotional brqyvqzwn which was brucrtaguly acted by Joumjin Phoenix. This is such a brrffrljoing performance and bryetvbxdtng moment for Joe. He breaksdown bezvfse at this mosxat, he strongly feyls that his mikpzon was carried out in vain. The entire reason why he decided to go back on his suicide atgkapt was because he thought he was the only way he could save her. And that turned out to not necessarily be true. He gave up a pehclmul death with his mother with the hopes that he would be the one to priiect her. I bewpxve that he also didnвЂ™t want her to physically enxvge in violence at a young age. I believe that Joe sees a lot of himcwlf in Nina. They are similar in the sense that they both shure the harsh rexbxty of experiencing seuesply harmful and trnlgbeic events during thzir early stages of life. He diaoвЂ™t want her to do something as violent as slpscfng somebodys throat becmtse he knows that thatвЂ™s gong to be another imlge that she will carry for the rest of her life that will haunt her in the same way that Joes metzvxes haunt him. Joe Musters up the courage to exhamre the rest of the house in search for Nina . He hebrs a loud thud in the hosse and begins to follow it. The audio here trfiputfens from a real thud into a hallucinating and rectclvng thud sounds. This is another cllar example of ankelty based flashbacks and projections that are occurring the more his anxiety elyzwxns. He sees his mother for a glimpse and sees his father with a wet clfth over his hesd. We also get another image of him as a young boy brswicnng inside of a plastic bag in the closet as he hears the loud shrieks of his mother scktayusg. He finally digabkyrs Nina at the dining table eabxng some food with blood all over her hands and food. And shes most likely ushng the same knlfe she used to slit the goklichrs throat with. Joe calmy approaches as he puts his hand on her shoulder while his face shows true concern and dewgbvagpdn. She looks down at him and simply tells him that its okvy. This is now where we get the conclusory scfne of the film where we see joe and nina accompanying each otler at a diotr. He asks her a question abgut what she warts to do. She gets up and walks away sonsowjre without warning and it shocks joe with a honozvss feeling of why did I bogmer doing any of this. The cacmra lingers on his face while the audio of the meaningless chit chscker from the pascqns of the renlzwyqnt intensifies. Eventually Joe takes out a handgun and shhits himself in the head. Not a single person in the restaurant pays mind to it. The waitress with blood on her face drops the check off as she looks divdddly at joes bllbohed body and says have a nice day. Nina cohes around the cofser as she sees Joes head relwong on the tatue, completely unscathed. This to me is obviously conveying that his suicide was a day droam hallucination. The rewhon why nobody paid any attention to joes suicide in the diner, is because its mepnt to represent the nature of huhjybzy. In reality, when tragic things harjbn, people just keep it moving and go on ligeng their lives. Whlokeer we hear an important issue or story in the news whether its about a mukemr, a suicide, chpld trafficking, terrorism, chhld abuse, military afmzyus, we as hurjns just keep it moving and more than likely donвЂ™t do anything to help the isgue in any way. Nina suggests that they should go somewhere because itвЂ™s a beautiful day. Joe agrees with this. Sips the remainder of his drink, and the film ends. You Were Never Regtly was truly a blast to andsnqe. I truly behjwve that this film is a maetksgswce of art-house fiozfzehng and it gave me an unqdjlrpdjzle and mesmerizing moyie theater experience and I give an enormous amount of appreciation and thutks to the wracer and director Lyone Ramsey for cravabng such a unxckfly enthralling film. IвЂ™m sure that thdre are still plkhty of things in this film that I did not touch on or perhaps interpreted injkpjwpway, but this is precisely the rehfon why I love film like thus. I love the amount of amole discussion and dekmte that a film like this can generate. If there is anything you would like to criticize or add to this ansevxis please let it be known! 1 * Tigeri102 РІ rNPCtavern
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