The film is Bill Morley's second collaboration with director Jim Jarmusch after Coffee and Cigarettes. Jim Jamush, known as one of the greatest independent film masters in the United States, is a frequent visitor of the Cannes Awards, and this film also won the "Jury Award" in Cannes this year. The "Jury Award" is a little more valuable, but unfortunately it didn't get the Palme d'Or.
Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flower" is a journey through French sentimentality and Bill Morley's trance, focusing on the pain of memory and the difficulty of communication. The plot is very similar to "Letter from a Strange Woman" directed by Xu Jinglei. Bill Morley, an elderly playboy, suddenly received a letter one day from a woman who claimed to be a woman he dated 20 years ago, saying that she gave birth to him. His son was on his way to find him, so Bill Morley, at the encouragement of his friends, began to visit the four girlfriends he had been with at the time, trying to discover the secret.
The story is not new, but Jim Jarmusch is not comparable to Xu Jinglei after all, because the essence of this matter cannot simply be attributed to a woman's infatuation, as Xu Jinglei tried to explore. Jim Jarmush's interest lies in the process. When you touch your own past, the feeling of powerlessness towards all kinds of regrets in the past forms the most powerful sarcasm for the present life. Watching the two films together, what a good teaching material about the difference between art films and romance films~~ As for Bill Morley, since "Lost in Translation", he has once again acted crazy, except for his signature dumbfounded expression. The physical acting skills learned by Sting Hoffman are even more amazing. For example, in order to express the unaccustomedness of traveling, when he was woken up by the phone in the Motel in the morning, he first touched the phone on the other side, Then I remembered that this was not my home, it was a complete mess.
Of course, the inspiration of the four rival female stars also gave him seemingly endless inspiration. Sharon Stone, he asked the director to add a bed scene, but the director only agreed to shoot the part of waking up in the morning, but he didn't let her succeed. Jessica Lange, the erotic goddess who won two Oscars, only used a simple line to deduce a complex mentality, almost stealing the limelight of Bill Morley.
It's good-looking and good-looking. At the end, I remembered a joke said by Shun Lao, who is in the advertising and movie circles: Do you know what the insiders call Xu Jinglei's "Letter from a Strange Woman"? The enthusiasm of a strange woman!
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