The concept is exquisite. The narrow frame with rounded corners, empty lens and long lens are just gimmicks. The first half is too procrastinated, and the second half is wonderful. It is suitable for a short film within an hour. The film has elements of experimentation, it is wonderful, but it is not enough to convince the gods. The film aims to explore some of the questions we all wonder: where do people go when they die? Are feelings eternal? Is there endless loneliness after death? With these questions, combined with the strange stories we have been talking about since childhood: the chandelier that suddenly brightened, the book that fell to the ground, the sound of the door opening upstairs, the creaking of wooden furniture, the director talked about such a story. The story of the ghost wearing a sheet. Even the title of the movie is short and straightforward: A Ghost Story. The first half is unattractive, and even the famous five-minute apple pie scene is slightly contrived. The exaggerated love and sadness are not contagious enough, presumably only those who have the same experience can inspire empathy. For an obsessive-compulsive disorder, Rooney's eating method of scratching the plate with a fork is too unpleasant... The real charm is the second half, starting from M moving out of the house, leaving C a ghost waiting in place alone, The new family moved in and out, it was lonely, mischievous, lost its temper, and occasionally remembered the note that M left in the crack of the door. The shot transition is a magic pen. The last shot C was in a daze, and the next shot took time to advance. The most vicissitudes of life are the construction of the skyscraper and the death of the first generation of aborigines. C seems to be trapped in this silent lonely waiting. The setting of the ghost in the house next door is very good. The setting of time reincarnation and the ghost of the ghost is not very exciting, but it tells the story well. If it is limited to a film about love, it is too narrow. It is not only about loneliness. It uses a small story to show many layers of things, but its ambition is not strong, it is just to show. It's like the long speech of the bald physical man in the middle party. As the character with the longest lines in the film, his role is to point out the director's thinking: whether all the creations and stories we have when we are alive have any meaning. Maybe we will be remembered forever, and the so-called permanence seems to be only a drop in the long history, and there is no residue left.
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