The DNA of that trauma exists in the child, but it will be nurtured in a way where it will know of that without living in it.
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And maybe that means it will express the coldness of Alexia, but without this life full of burdens and pain that she experienced because it will be raised by Vincent, who will teach it love.
The director has said the baby born half-machine, half-human is better equipped to handle the world. They hold each other's trauma (Vincent literally doing so in the final scene). They are family, friends, lovers, caretakers for each other, or whatever they need each other to be. And the relationship that they create is one that nobody else has. These two toxic personalities collide and in turn, provide something for each other that nobody else could: solace. And Vincent is dealing with his own trauma, that of a loss. It's what they know, they're equipped to deal with it and return to those patterns of which they are familiar with. And she continues to gravitate towards metal, towards cars specifically, despite it being her injury's cause, like a victim returning to their source of trauma. She has no regard for anything of flesh, including her own. This metal part of her is Alexia's character, and it's why she is so cold and ruthless. She's interested in that metal nipple ring. This is further reflected during her sex scene gone wrong later, where she isn't interested in kissing or really pleasing Justine at all. A part of her is no longer flesh, it is metal, and she identifies that in the car. As soon as she leaves the hospital, she runs up to the car and hugs it. The car accident results in Alexia getting the metal plate in her head. The main theme of the movie, to me, was trauma. Umm, ok, that was, I guess my first, review? Even though, it does not compromise the whole film. Nevertheless, one thing is for sure, Titane is controversial and hard to comprehend. As if like, if you want to love it, then if you think and analyse enough, you’ll find yourself loving the movie. If you’ll ask me whether I liked the movie oh boy, is it so easy to hate or love the movie. Neither about all the violent or disturbing scenes. Taming of a rebellious, independent, sadist, hedonist, libertine animalistic human, by a complex, old, emotional, with all his rights and wrongs, human.Īnd, I didn’t even talk about the parent-child mechanics or gender fluidity of the movie. She does whatever she wants anytime: pulling off Justine’s piercing, burning down the home with her parents in it, trying to kill everyone in the Justine’s house… Whereas Alex is a machine, an animal, a sadist. Vincent is not a perfect person either: giving himself steroids telling his firefighters that he is their god missing of his son because of something bad happened between him, his wife and son … Vincent, with his ego, with his old age, with his feelings is a very real, humane character. Vincent mourns for his missing son, Alex doesn’t have any feelings after her murders. But, cannot succeed, since it happens to be that Vincent is a chief firefighter even though he is old, he still has enough strength. Alex as a wild animal, even tries to kill him too. Vincent doesn’t know that she is an animal and he is taming her. So, what is the story really? Taming(?) of an animal by a human. Yeah, I guess the connection between the tattoos of the car and film itself established somehow :D) (Just like the flame, if you tame it, you can cook meals or else, it burns everywhere.
She has no common sense, she is an addict of animalistic pleasures i.e.
Rather, it tells the viewer that Alex is not a human. the girl has sex with the car, she become pregnant, she needs to change her identity and live with the man who thinks she is his missing “son”, she hides her identity and pregnancy and doesn't want to give birth, and the tension lies in the fact that, man lives with his son, whom will soon, inevitably give birth in front of his eyes. The purpose of that scene is not just a means of tension i.e. It is cold and lifeless (What about the flame tattoos of the car? Can it be that the director wanted to give impression that car is alive?) (Car and Alex were having sex as if they are alive?). Here, I find a connection with the title “Titane”. However, we are sure that she is extremely free, loveless and animalistic. And she can be considered as a hedonist too. However, after a few days, I concluded that it was indeed metaphorical, and poetical as well, how majestic that scene was!Īlex is a sadist. It was not metaphorical, it was poetical. After the film, while I was trying to deduct some “meaning” from that “carsual” intercourse scene, I thought to myself that it doesn’t need to mean anything.
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