Take a step—2018.1.7

Jerrod 2022-04-20 09:02:14

This film is the third of Ang Lee's early films I've seen so far (the first two I've watched completely are "Diet Men and Women" and "Pushing Hands"). The more direct impact of this film is the visual performance - using Documentary and film lens methods, on the one hand, can give you a sense of substitution, and on the other hand, give people a feeling of examining this state. The content and plot push is driven by engineering the festival, around the changes surrounding the festival and Elliot. Because the core is hippies, but hippies are not so full - showing the background and characteristics of the times in some subtle ways, such as news broadcasts, costumes, marijuana, same-sex relations, parades, and implied sexual liberation - said Inadequate, because I feel the lack of content to express the hippie, is it that "love and peace" is its core? I can't answer it myself!

There are a few details in this movie that make me feel relieved: 1) When you choose to turn back when you are stuck with the fetters of reality. Because of something, one day the "fetters" say this is my life and you should have yours. I think we can all go to the "center of the universe" to see the scenery. 2) No matter how dead people are, they always need to make a choice to move forward in order to see the change of things - to choose to invite the boycotted concert person in charge, to choose to try "grass", to choose to pack luggage, to choose to understand . 3) One of the things that makes me feel a little sad, when Elliot asks why his father can live with his mother for 40 years, his answer is because of love! I just want to say WTF!

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  • Beth 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    A three-day quiet and peaceful rock music festival created by a child. As you might expect, the director is calm and the film is still a slow-moving film.

  • Destini 2022-03-21 09:02:55

    D+ / For Ang Lee, it is probably a failed but still encouraging attempt. Although I enjoyed watching the part that paid tribute to the 1969 documentary, I still felt that the psychological clues of the two generations were not integrated.

Taking Woodstock quotes

  • [the Chamber of Commerce discussing tourism ideas]

    Frank: Well, okay. We got a lot of dairy farms around here, right? And a fair number of bulls. Okay, you've all heard of the running of the bulls in that town in Spain, Pampoona.

    Elliot Tiber: Pamplona.

    Frank: Well, no one's doing one in the Catskills. Seems to be a big draw over there.

    Annie: It would be very amusing to see all those Jews from Levitsky's summer colony, you know, the ones with the black top hats and the curls, running for their lives chased by our local livestock. Wouldn't that be a wonderful sight!

  • [Elliot is spreading the white bedsheets into a giant peace symbol on the lawn to flag down Michael Lang's helicopter]

    Sonia Teichberg: Elli! What is this with the sheets?

    Elliot Tiber: What does it look like? I'm making a big cross on the lawn!

    Sonia Teichberg: With the clean sheets? Jake, our boy's gone crazy! Making a Ku Klux Klan rally on our property!