"Ice Storm" - cold to piss eyes

Rosalia 2022-04-23 07:02:39

For my favorite works, it is often difficult to shelve but also unable to bring them up, so I can only watch how it speaks, because a good work is not because of what kind of bitter story it tells, but how it tells a story. . Perhaps because of the narration field and the way of speaking, this film uses the "Ang Lee style" like fire and pure love, and it has become one of director Ang Lee's favorite works.
The joys, sorrows and sorrows of a middle-class family have long been taken away by the mainstream of emotion, and the relationship between people and the subtle feelings between family members also make us as movie watchers feel a little embarrassed.
The same kind of catastrophe broke out in the diatribe of "Watergate" and the defeat of the "Vietnam War", of course not referring to the one-sided "ice storm" of this topic. This kind of catastrophe is a crack in the soul, including deception, affair, fledgling adolescence Sexual contact, play tricks on friends who hurt him, premature ejaculation in the couple's sex life, jealousy, indifference, etc. When parents see their children naked and playing with other children, they can't educate them, just because they are in other people's rooms as a pure sexual relationship. It's ridiculous to pretend to be righteous and Ling Ran to cover up one's own modesty, and treat others as pure Zhou Zhou to play with.
This time, Ang Lee did not use the special marginalized people like "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust and Caution" as the theme, because it is too easy to create the image of a marginalized person. It is not an exaggeration to make him anything. You can find an excuse for yourself to say that the minority in society should always have some people with their own characteristics. The writing and ambition of this time are almost inseparable from the aspect of Ang Lee's choice of story objects. Most middle-class families are like this. They are neither nobles nor those luxurious high-quality interpersonal circles. There is no shrewd mind to maintain all kinds of relationships and balances, and there are just gossip neighbors and square TVs.
Of course, Director Ang Lee deliberately chose the United States probably because Americans are better at grasping their nature, because Chinese families are too good at pretending, they always package themselves as the model of harmony in the No. People can't tell the difference.
I have to say that Ang Lee's technique and vision are really too thunderous. When it comes to tactics, the main lines of the entire film are divided into three: the couple's affair, the daughter's wandering between the two sons in the neighbor's house, the son's troubles, and the means of revenge. The three main lines go hand in hand and none of them are inferior, and it is impossible to see the positive impact of age differences on troubles. In the film, the director of the big concept of ice storm basically did not spend a lot of money on special effects to create the effect of a disaster film, but put such a big definition on the head of the middle class, the metaphor is self-evident. When it comes to vision, the cast must have class hype as the main selling point today. It is the protagonist of "Spider-Man" and the protagonist of "Lord of the Rings". Of course, in 1997, they were not popular, and it was Li Anhuiyan. Know the hero.
After so much chatter, I feel that this is the second movie that uses the mainline parallel method to bring great joy after I watched "Victoria 1". Not to mention the fact that Li An deliberately and unintentionally pretended to be coercive, but the first emotional touch he brought to people was definitely very big.

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Extended Reading
  • Tyson 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    A very profound reveal of the state of the American middle class. The script and themes are very sharp, and it is not only the weather that is freezing cold, but also the state of the people in the play. However, the pieces are a bit broken. Ang Lee is a really thoughtful director.

  • Ladarius 2022-03-28 09:01:05

    The second English-language film directed by Ang Lee seems to continue the family ethics theme of the "Father Trilogy", but the story takes place in the United States, and the so-called family ethics is naturally quite different from the Chinese style. The same is meticulous - Li An is a director who truly integrates the past and the present, and connects China and the West. He shoots Chinese-language films, Spanish-language films, costume films, and modern films, all of which can pinpoint the inner weakness of the characters. The performance of the middle-aged plight is a bit like "American Beauty".

The Ice Storm quotes

  • Ben Hood: Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.

  • Paul Hood: When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world.