Many independent literary and artistic films are not very popular among people when they are made, and often form an impression that literary and artistic films are not very good-looking. This independent film is different. The director combines the elements of road films, romance films and detective films into the same film, which perfectly combines viewing and artistry. Personally, it looks good and five-star recommended.
About this film, say three key words: the correct way to open a literary film, an old lover, and Jim Jarmusch.
Keyword 1. Art has a threshold for the correct way of opening literary films
. This sentence is not pretending to be a fact. The threshold mentioned here is the basic knowledge and basic perception of art. In October last year in Beijing, a friend of literary fan invited him to the National Centre for the Performing Arts to listen to a concert. The symphony sounded like a countryman in town for me—the first time, I didn't understand it at all. When I came back, I was very frustrated. I went to listen to a course on Western music in the 20th century. I listened honestly and wrote my homework obediently. A general understanding of the rhythmic structure of music, the relationship between movements, the performance of the theme, the coordination of musical instruments, etc. After doing these homework, I went to guide and listen to the symphony, and I felt that I understood a little bit. Although it was not too deep, I began to appreciate the beauty of music and felt that I had stepped into the door of music. These lessons are, in my opinion, the threshold of the art of music.
Similarly, as an art, cinema also has a threshold, but this threshold is relatively low. It seems that everyone can understand movies, but in fact it is not the case. Everyone is complaining that there are no good films in China. In addition to various subjective and objective reasons, the growth of good films also requires good audiences.
For example, in terms of the artistic value of the film itself, the master Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Nie Yinniang" is not sure how many times better than "Monster Hunt", but in terms of box office comparison, "Nie Yinniang" is a mere 50 million, which is significantly lower. "Monster Hunt", which is young, has a far-fetched plot, and has no clear values, has a box office of 2.4 billion yuan and is the highest-grossing film in Chinese film history! It’s too obvious to be market-oriented. It’s easier to make money by making movies that cater to the audience’s tastes.
The so-called "no gentleman, no artist", we don't pay for good movies, we don't spend money to support those who focus on making movies well, in the end, we have no right to complain that good movies can't grow on the soil of Mao China .
Specifically, the threshold for the film "Broken Flower" is very low. If you know Bill Murray, and you have seen one or two of his works before, you have a little bit of humor about his performance style and other humorous expressions. The more you know, the better you can appreciate this movie.
Conventional comedy movies use exaggerated expressions of characters, intense plot conflicts, and witty lines to express comedy effects. For example, in Stephen Chow movies, the laughter and lines in them are called iconic things. Stephen Chow's comedy films are called comedy classics, and they can still achieve comedy effects. However, most of the domestic comedy films are not fully emotionally rendered at present. When you watch them, you don't want to laugh at all, but you forcefully scratch your armpits to force people to laugh, which is very uncomfortable.
This movie, for us, is a comedy movie. From beginning to end, we laughed a lot and found it extremely witty and humorous. But the protagonist Tang played by Bill Murray in this film has few exaggerated and intense expressions. There is almost only one expression from beginning to end, and the performance is reduced to almost "no performance".
If you are used to watching regular comedies, you may not appreciate Bill Murray's humorous, calm, almost expressionless. So the correct way to open this movie is to do your homework before watching it, and adjust your viewing frequency when watching it. If you never get on the beat, you might end the film with a scolding and angrily walk away; but once you find the river of consciousness that comes close to it, it's a deep psychic surf.
Key words two, old lover.
This movie is the perfect combination of road movie and romance movie. The story is very simple. At the age of fifty, the protagonist Tang, who is suave and suave and still does not consider getting married and having children, is nicknamed Don Juan by his friends. After he once again got angry with his girlfriend, he received an anonymous pink letter. The writer claimed to be Tang's lover 20 years ago, and told Tang that she was pregnant when they broke up 20 years ago, and now this 19-year-old son has left home and embarked on a journey to find his biological father. But there are five old lovers twenty years ago, who wrote the letter? Under the instigation of his eager neighbors, Tang, who has always been disgusted with marriage, embarked on a journey to search for his former lover and find his son. Among the five old lovers, one of them has passed away, and the other four are a beautiful widow, the wife of a real estate tycoon, a doctor who can communicate with animals, and a metal girl who rides a heavy motorcycle and wears horse boots.
The film uses the theme of the road movie "Finding" to perfectly combine four different love stories in one film. Finding a son is a structural chain, and the love entanglement with an old lover is the focus of the film. Avoiding the conventional expressions of romantic films, it tells the scene of the reunion of old lovers after many years, allowing the audience to imagine the love story that happened between them from the conversation between the characters and the conversation, leaving a rich imagination space for the audience.
While watching this movie, the yahoo that I saw years ago kept echoing in my mind! A commercial of Qimo "Searching for an old lover", its copy is still remembered to this day:
Your old lover, how are you now?
Whose shoulder is she leaning on?
Whose dog are you walking?
Or who's child is she pregnant with?
Maybe she's crying?
Looking for someone else?
Or, looking for you?
With this kind of confession, I started ten short stories about old lovers, each for two or three minutes, which is more flavorful than many films, and Ogilvy's advertising is really powerful. The species of old lovers, once we shared all the secrets, now you have become the unspeakable secret of my life, how are you doing now? Combining the curiosity of "wanting to know how an old lover is doing" and the marketing of search engines skillfully combined, this commercial won the grand prize of the Longxi Advertising Awards that year. It is not only a successful case of marketing, but also a work of art.
Keyword three, Jim Jarmusch
Immediately after watching it, I went to check the director, Jim Jarmusch, an independent film director with an accent, not many works, but a great influence. My usual way of watching movies. If I like a movie, I will go to see all the works of this director, and I will often find that many of my favorites are unexpected. I have already brushed Spielberg, Polanski, Amo in this way. Dowa, Wes Anderson, etc., have gained a lot. This National Day holiday, just brush Jim Jarmusu.
Whenever I find a good movie, read a good book, hear a good song, or see a scenery I haven't seen before, I can't help but sigh: It's good to be alive. Although real life is full of tedious and boring things, there is no lack of surprises in this discovery, like the sparkling pebbles in ordinary life, I have never been disappointed in life.
Jim Jarmusch has always been focusing on making low-budget independent films, and his works are characterized by images of indifference and alienation and a wandering complex, which is also vividly shown in "Broken Flower".
First of all, structurally, although it was a trip to visit an old lover, it did not follow the dramatic film routine to lay out the complex. The director just followed Tang to relive the reunion of him and the four old lovers. The experience is presented on the screen in an objective manner, and as always, it adheres to its narrative strategy of "presenting only facts without expressing attitudes", allowing the audience to experience the theme for themselves.
Secondly, the director expresses his indifference and alienation through the image of the lonely and lonely protagonist. The protagonist is almost indifferent to everything in life, which is a kind of indifference; the director does not want to tell us anything through this film, he only presents it objectively The image, let us interpret the film ourselves, this is the alienation and indifference in the narrative.
Specifically, what theme does this film express? The protagonist returns to his life after visiting a circle of old lovers. It seems that nothing has changed, and it seems that something has changed. You could say that as time passed, his youth withered, and with it the love he once had. You can also say that he has been on the road of wandering, and in the end, only loneliness will accompany him.
I am more inclined to summarize what the protagonist said to his suspected son at the end of the film: "Grasp the present, after all, the past has passed, and the future is still in the future." Of course, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. For this film, everyone's feelings and thoughts are different, and the established ending is no longer important.
Finally, the music in the film is also very good, because the director himself also plays in a band, and his grasp of music is very good. Most of the music comes from the work of Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke. He is the father of Ethio-Jazz. The playful and brisk Ethio-Jazz sounds inexplicably pleasant in the lazy sunshine of early autumn.
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