My
fourth screening at TIFF was by Olivier Assayas with his newest movie starring Kristen Stewart, called
Personal Shopper. I’ve never been
familiar with Olivier Assayas’ work, so this was definitely a testing
experience of what his movies conjure. I was excited to realize Personal Shopper is an observant venture
that begs you to take from what you’re experiencing, and as much as it proves
enthusiasm towards making a statement; it’s as enthused to have you piece
together your own with unconventional attributes to a ghost story.
Kristen
Stewart plays Maureen, a personal shopper to a celebrity in Paris, buying her
boss dresses, necklaces and anything else needed within the fashion world. Part
time Maureen is a medium, escorting ghost from newly bought homes. Maureen’s
deceased older brother Lewis was a medium, which leaves Maureen to believe she
made have conjured his abilities to speak to ghosts, but what confirms she’s
capable is her recent encounters with her brother from the spirit world to the
present world.
Personal Shopper is a deliberately stagnant observation
of our connection to technology and our subconscious desire to relate to
something from a pre-technological age that requires only the human soul to get
in contact of; IE ghosts. Olivier Assayas
does a neat uncalculated view on how someone in modern times does research,
through watching videos on Youtube
and searching online on an iphone, creating a visually absurd display of
disconnect and commerce with advancement and convenience; the result could be
that our minds could develop
Personal Shopper also delves into the fact that
fashion and material items have gone up in interest in recent years (due to
technology), and with the advent of online dating turning relations into order,
inanimate objects have replaced sex and intimacy, and being current Is what now
excites people the most. The connection with ghosts in Personal Shopper and fashion has to do with Assayas suggests how
easily technology can trick us into thinking we’re experiencing something
organic, the more we rely on it to get us by, the more we can forget it’s a
machine and capable of dysfunction. The idea that technology can erode a soul
by making everything so service based and instant, to the point where one loses
their imagination and one’s sense of wonder of a natural world, with an obsession
of wealth where you can change one’s self with clothing and shiny items in
place of a self core.
Kristen
Stewart is a great choice to play Maureen, as a subtly manic reserved actor as she
easily portrays the symbolization of a personal shopper: the link between tech capital and the self, as
she Is the medium between her boss and her bosses self, therefore Maureen also being
a mundane machine who transfers an item to another, like an iphone.
Personal Shopper has some strong intriguing
themes, and just when you think it doesn’t know what it’s doing as a movie, it
waits for you to realize it’s intentions by giving you straight ideas purposely
distracted with a ghost tale, all-the-while being truly frightening with the
reality it suggests of our present day.
- Maurice Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hghXP4F3Qs
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