"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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Leo 2022-04-24 07:01:22
The unnatural opening of the girl who unearths two poignant corpses after the unintentional discovery of skeletons in the jungle continues until the beginning of the 19th century when the two men find themselves in the perils of the sinister jungle and the perils of capitalism. A pure relationship where a man survives like a vacuum...
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Louisa 2022-04-22 07:01:48
It turned out to be a female director, no wonder the angle is so soft~ The rhythm is slow and crazy, but it has a good sense of humor! These people eat fried fresh milk as if they were filming "China's Little Master"! The night scene was deliberately darkened , the artificial trace is actually quite strong
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King-Lu: History isn't here yet. It's coming, but we got here early this time. Maybe this time, we can be ready for it. We can take it on our own terms.
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King-Lu: I see something in this land I haven't seen before. Pretty much everywhere has been touched by now. But this is still new, more nameless things around here than you can shake an eel at!
Cookie: Doesn't seem new to me, seems old.
King-Lu: Mm. Everything is old if you look at it that way.