"First Cow" is a film describing the history of the American West. It goes against tradition in the hands of female director Kelly Reichardt. It is quiet and delicate, plain and melancholy, like a thin bow that draws out a slow and full chant. Many stories are magnificent or intense, supported by a very full structure. In this film, "slow" lengthens the time, but "fine" fills up this part of time in a certain sense. The audience not only saw the history from the film, but also saw the life in the history. The actors couldn't spare any effort, the audience couldn't drive fast. People completely felt the muddy and cold, the long night, lonely, and very basic to life. The fantasies of dividing, racking their brains to resist poverty. How to steal milk and how to make desserts is both gentle and intimidating, just like the honesty shared by people in the early days. An ordinary life has an ordinary texture, and it also drives the investment of ordinary people. It is not a conceptualized and romanticized West, but is very solid, similar to the subtleties of firewood, rice, oil and salt, cautious and naive. Finally, the sudden disillusionment is the natural sorrow of life, and it is also the rudeness of the early primitive capital era
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First Cow evaluation action
2022-01-20 08:01
Extended Reading
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Berta 2022-03-25 09:01:19
The entrepreneurial history of the western Internet celebrity dessert shop. Unexpectedly, it is a very warm buddy movie, and it is still a very rare Western movie with a Chinese as one of the protagonists. I really like the overall tune, and the scheduling of a few scenes is even more enjoyable
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Gloria 2022-03-28 09:01:11
The two temporarily avoided the pursuit and got a chance to rest for a while in the quiet jungle. Life is so slender and weak... The two are like the pair of friends in "Happy Yesterday", but compared to the previous game, they are more political After a brief stop with the times using broadcasting as a medium, "The First Cow" directly sends them back to the west, so patiently, tenderly and delicately restores the life, work, and emotions before the arrival of "the footsteps of history" industrial capitalism (Especially portrayed through sound), this subtle incision gives us an unprecedented perspective to experience and observe the distant old world, connecting history with the present through our experience and common sense at this time. From "Zama" to "The First Cow", the way female directors observe history and the perspective of thinking really give the film more room for expansion.
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Cookie: Why does a baker like a beggar?
King-Lu: Why?
Cookie: They both need bread.
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Fort Trapper: She's a very fine cow.