It's natural to start watching "Once". Only then did I find out that Glen's songs all hit me like this, making my heart flutter, making me want to stop, and making me miss it all the time, but the most commendable thing is that "Once" doesn't simply show off Glen's talent. Tells us a true and regrettable but very warm little story. While reveling in their music, I inevitably look forward to fullness, but in the end that's probably what once means - there's only one "once" in my life.
In this film, music is no longer a gimmick, not a trick factor. In this story, music has become a natural protagonist. His appearance is so natural, yet so shocking, and he "stands" with a pivotal role. It's probably because the director (sorry, didn't remember his name) understood the music completely. Writing here, I remembered that I watched Hugh Grant's "K-Song Lover" a while ago because of homework. It seems that music is also the main line, but I can't watch it anymore when I'm tired. Music is "ignored" as a "condiment" for commercialization.
Now we are getting tired of commercialized movies, and gradually "Hollywood" and "big production" have become the main terms that are off-putting. After Cameron's "Titanic", big production has become an "engineered" job. I doubt whether there is a process management similar to "software engineering" in the current mainstream film industry, modularization etc. But what about art, do you still care about the vitality of art? Those who have a flash of inspiration, those arts full of wisdom, have nowhere to say goodbye under the "blood pot mouth" of "big production"?
Thanks to Sundance, thanks to the vitality of small-budget films. In these films, there are often unexpected surprises, exciting flashes of wisdom, endless regrettable beauty, and representative works with strong personal thoughts. And isn't the private thing of a movie just being self-indulgent in such and such expectations? I thought it was art that made people feel.
Let's talk about music again. I don't remember that feeling of being hit a lot. ColdPlay and Linkin Park in the past few years "drilled into" my eardrums in unexpected scenes. To be honest, Glen's voice is not as clear as Chester's, and the music is not as avant-garde and fashionable as ColdPlay's, but it always seems to have a meaningful meaning, and it always seems to be telling me something, so low-key and tactful. Glen and Marketa are going to be big hits, making mainstream music and making records, happy for them, but—music won't be as free-spirited anymore.
Ireland, in 2008, it seemed as if a hand of God opened the cultural picture of "Ireland" for me. From Yi Shu's "Real Men Don't Cry" to watching a part of "Ulysses" that can't continue to be arty; from Dai Lewis' "In the Name of the Father" to "Once"; from U2 who have loved for many years to Glen Hansard . Ireland is really a unique, simple and very dynamic nation.
Thanks "Once"!
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