The Man Who Wasn't There Comments

Jordane 2023-09-24 05:11:41

8.5 The rhythm of light and shadow in black and white, the sloppy narrative, is realistic but so absurd, the restraint in the front contrasts the insolence in the back, fate is like a closed loop, can break free, but cannot escape, those who are absent will only be absent for a short time (Beethoven). The music for this movie is simply...

Amber 2023-09-18 13:40:32

Numb and mechanized work day after day, the loneliness of life and the indifference after being consumed by loneliness, the sense of non-existence, absence, powerlessness, and the absence of life that cannot be...

Paris 2023-09-01 19:50:12

The male protagonist is really not disturbed, calm and calm, and he is the first person, even an Aquarius...

Vinnie 2023-08-30 00:31:28

The Coen Brothers' film noir taste of the 1940s [The Absentee] is a work whose atmosphere outweighs its content, and it is also an existential interpretation of this genre. Its slow rhythm is to echo the "absent" state of the protagonist, this Mr. Cellophane is a typical "modern person". Such pessimism (no matter how well done through great photography) is always depressing. Where is the rescue? Obviously not on those flying...

Kathryne 2023-08-29 15:45:54

When Betty plays Beethoven's piano, I think of the people coming and going on the street. We passed each other, but it was as if we didn't see each other. We were the only ones walking alone in this world, like an arranged life, with no clue and purpose, but always going in one...

Kattie 2023-08-29 12:08:02

With the perspective provided by the Coen brothers' film, which has close ideological and formal ties to Camus' "The Outsider," I can better understand Yan Bingyan's "Through the Heart" (2012): ordinary people seek revenge on their targets The betrayal of the actor and just doing a trivial thing caused uncontrollable serious chain consequences, and completely pushed the life that was originally dead to a dead end. The use of light and shadow language in this film is very good, and it can...

Hillard 2023-08-19 03:41:25

Existentialist exploration, Billy Bob created an excellent "outsider". The tone of the whole film is slow, sad but not sad, just like Beethoven's music quoted. Numerous elements, complex text (dry cleaning, uncertainty principle, UFO, tribute to Lolita), but well-organized, with a few rhymes: hairstyle at a glance, hair growing to death, shaving legs. Too many good touches: "...a few weeks later she offered to marry", dreams/flashbacks after a car crash, (expressionist) lawyers in the shadows...

Jaydon 2023-08-10 18:14:33

was smothered. The perspective of the protagonist possessed by the soul of Camus is calmly withdrawn. The stunning lighting and composition look and feel like admiring a stunning collection of motion photography. The temperament of the whole film is free, but the handling of several conflicts is full of strength, and it is dazzling and beautiful at one go, and at the same time, I have to be moved by Thornton's very penetrating eyes. The innocuous piano soundtrack throughout is also a...

Talia 2023-08-08 17:21:38

A very typical Coen Brothers script structure, sudden accidents in ordinary life, and then more unexpected developments one after another, but in the end they all fell back to the original point, some black fatalism ~ UFO I really don't understand. Black and white photography is very, very...

Devyn 2023-08-05 16:57:08

Compared to this one, I like the ice-blooded violence a little more. I really like the way the film satirizes the American judicial system. The male protagonist is also...