I hope we can be brave in the real world | Andrea Anold

American Honey

"American Sweetheart" is a film only watched at the beginning of this year. The 4:3 film format, a lot of beautiful backlighting, the sexy thick lips and body of the protagonist girl Star, and the 152-minute duration is a particularly hearty experience. "Indie Wire" called it "Arnold is the closest to finishing his masterpiece in his blooming career as a director".

Because of "American Sweetheart", I first met this British independent female director. After that, I watched "Fish Tank" and "Red Road". The handheld camera lens and docu-fairtale style make people think of Lou Ye. , Also focuses on marginalized groups, but Anold's stories are all about women.

In particular, Star in "American Sweetheart" and Mia in "Fish Tank" grew up in poor families in poor environments, and were truly close to the lives of many people around them. Although known as a masterpiece of realism that explores universal corners, Anold said that he does not have that big ambition to reflect on all aspects of poor living conditions, but only hopes to show a certain period of life that a small number of people experience. The barrenness hidden behind the movie may be the power of Anold's work. Anold restores the desolation of real life as much as possible. What gathers behind the screen is an uneasy life. Through the film, she confessed that life was not so beautiful, and broke the illusion of love that was easy to fall into during her youth. And when you think back to the emotional frustration on the road to youth, you will find that it is all the baptism of life, so everything returns to peace. [An exploration and farewell to youth in the memory corner] Andrea Anold was also born in a worker's family and is the oldest of the four children in the family. When she was born, her mother was only 16 years old and her father was only 17 years old (WIKI), so young parents naturally could not bear the corresponding responsibilities. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and her mother raised her and three younger siblings alone. In "Fish Tank", Mia, who was less than 15 years old, grew up with a single mother and spoke bad words with her family. She and her sister Tyler yelled at each other at every turn, Bitch, and had a good impression of her mother's new boyfriend Conner. Although she does not have the source of Mia's story creation, I always feel that Mia is more or less mixed with Anold's youthful shadow. Arnold won't say where the story of Mia comes from, but she admits there's something of her own background in the film.'That whole world was something I felt I needed to get off my chest,' she says. Because of the lack of paternal love, Mia in "Fish Tank" is easily attracted by Conner, a gentle and considerate mature man in life, and uses her own youthful way to understand love. The truth about discovering that Conner is married and having a young daughter caught her off guard, and she was even at a loss to urinate incontinence directly at his house (at first I thought it was Mia who did it deliberately to retaliate, but after reading a review, she said that. Looked carefully again. Before she squatted down, she was looking around the room with dizzy shots of Conner’s daughter’s stuff everywhere, with heavy gasps that seemed to be suffocating.) Her short film "Wasp Wasp" in 2003 The setting of character relationships directly adopted his own family background, telling the story of a single mother with four children. (I haven't had time to watch the film, I only read the introduction.) After all, Mia finally left home and embarked on her own journey with the gypsy boy she knew. "Fish Bowl" may be Anold's exploration and farewell to the youth in the corner of his memory for many years. [Establish an emotional connection with reality, and then know how to vent emotions through the film] "American Sweetheart" is the first American film shot by Anold. The dull and messy neighborhoods, gloomy houses, and claustrophobic interiors in "Fish Tank" and "Red Road" disappeared. They were replaced by the vast plains and endless highways of the Midwestern United States. The depiction of the cruel reality of the class "turned to the "large portrayal of marginalized young people" in the United States. "American Sweetheart" was originally inspired by an article about magazine subscription salesmen published in the New York Times in 2007. This phenomenon is real in the United States, although it has now turned into a digital age, young children live on $10 a day, three people squeeze a car and break a hotel, and they will also face the threat of violence from time to time. The original article also wrote that "several fatal accidents and violent incidents in the high-profile reports are related to this group of magazine salesmen." In the 2003 short film "Wasp Wasp", her character relationship setting directly adopted her own family background, telling the story of a single mother with four children. (I haven't had time to watch the film, I only read the introduction.) After all, Mia finally left home and embarked on her own journey with the gypsy boy she knew. "Fish Bowl" may be Anold's exploration and farewell to the youth in the corner of his memory for many years. [Establish an emotional connection with reality, and then know how to vent emotions through the film] "American Sweetheart" is the first American film shot by Anold. The dull and messy neighborhoods, gloomy houses, and claustrophobic interiors in "Fish Tank" and "Red Road" disappeared. They were replaced by the vast plains and endless highways of the Midwestern United States. The depiction of the cruel reality of the class "turned to the "large portrayal of marginalized young people" in the United States. "American Sweetheart" was originally inspired by an article about magazine subscription salesmen published in the New York Times in 2007. This phenomenon is real in the United States, although it has now turned into a digital age, young children live on $10 a day, three people squeeze a car and break a hotel, and they will also face the threat of violence from time to time. The original article also wrote that "several fatal accidents and violent incidents in the high-profile reports are related to this group of magazine salesmen." In the 2003 short film "Wasp Wasp", her character relationship setting directly adopted her own family background, telling the story of a single mother with four children. (I haven't had time to watch the film, I only read the introduction.) After all, Mia finally left home and embarked on her own journey with the gypsy boy she knew. "Fish Bowl" may be Anold's exploration and farewell to the youth in the corner of his memory for many years. [Establish an emotional connection with reality, and then know how to vent emotions through the film] "American Sweetheart" is the first American film shot by Anold. The dull and messy neighborhoods, gloomy houses, and claustrophobic interiors in "Fish Tank" and "Red Road" disappeared. They were replaced by the vast plains and endless highways of the Midwestern United States. The depiction of the cruel reality of the class "turned to the "large portrayal of marginalized young people" in the United States. "American Sweetheart" was originally inspired by an article about magazine subscription salesmen published in the New York Times in 2007. This phenomenon is real in the United States, although it has now turned into a digital age, young children live on $10 a day, three people squeeze a car and break a hotel, and they will also face the threat of violence from time to time. The original article also wrote that "several fatal accidents and violent incidents in the high-profile reports are related to this group of magazine salesmen."

The two employees with the lowest performance have to fight each other, eroding drugs, and stealing things from customers. These plots are retained and shown in the movie, but they are all beautified to a certain extent. The salespeople in "American Sweetheart" seem to be more romantic. Anold and her investigative assistant found this group of people in shopping malls, roller skating parks and urban beaches. Among them, 22-year-old Raymond Coalson also told the New York Times reporter that when Anold was chatting with him, he was very questioning "Is it not pornography? Because if it is, he would never do it." Anold really wanted to shoot this. The moment of the movie was the moment when she left the hotel to the airport at 5 a.m. in Utah in 2012. She was shocked by the bright landscape after the sun rises. At that moment, she was overwhelmed with joy. So as soon as she arrived at the airport lobby, she rented a car and let go of the fight, and began her journey to the United States. In 2012, Andrea Arnold was en route to Salt Lake City airport after an intense two days of press interviews at the Sundance film festival in Utah, where her adaptation of Wuthering Heights had just had its American premiere. It was still dark as she left her hotel at five in the morning, but as the shuttle bus rounded a bend in the road, the sun rose and the elemental landscape around her was suddenly revealed. “I had a bit of an emotional moment,” she says now. “It just hit me that being in this beautiful place for only two days felt so wrong.” At the airport, she checked in her bag, but immediately went to the only car hire desk in the concourse. “When they said they had one car available, I immediately went and got my bag out of the hold and let go of the flight. It was all very impulsive, but it felt so right. I got in the car and decided to explore America a bit. I needed to connect emotionally with it somehow and a road trip seemed the best way to do that.” After that, she spent several years traveling the United States many times, experiencing a real road trip in the United States, meeting "Mag Crews" on the road and staying where they had stayed. , Follow the route they have traveled. This was the result of these decadent young people in "American Sweetheart", who are almost portrayed in both love and scenery. [There is no strong plot, the characters themselves have their own tension] Without the ups and downs of the plot, Anold is good at capturing the details of the characters' lives, and the protagonist's living environment is transformed into a concrete relationship between the characters. The sex between Jackie and her lover in "Red Road" is cold. Attending the sister-in-law’s wedding seems like an outsider. At the wedding, she resists the in-laws and does not want to talk too much with her eyes to avoid escape. Her only hobby is in the "Eye of the City". Watch the lives of other people in the city on the monitor in the surveillance room. When she was determined to seduce a man named Clyde, she looked at her body for the first time in a long time. "When they said they had one car available, I immediately went and got my bag out of the hold and let go of the flight. It was all very impulsive, but it felt so right. I got in the car and decided to explore America a bit. I needed to connect emotionally with it somehow and a road trip seemed the best way to do that." After that, she spent several years traveling the United States many times, experiencing the real road trip in the United States, and met "Mag Crews" on the road. , Stay where they have been, and follow the route they have traveled. This was the result of these decadent young people in "American Sweetheart", who are almost portrayed in both love and scenery. [There is no strong plot, the characters themselves have their own tension] Without the ups and downs of the plot, Anold is good at capturing the details of the characters' lives, and the protagonist's living environment is transformed into a concrete relationship between the characters. The sex between Jackie and her lover in "Red Road" is cold. Attending the sister-in-law’s wedding seems like an outsider. At the wedding, she resists the in-laws and does not want to talk too much with her eyes to avoid escape. Her only hobby is in the "Eye of the City". Watch the lives of other people in the city on the monitor in the surveillance room. When she was determined to seduce a man named Clyde, she looked at her body for the first time in a long time. "When they said they had one car available, I immediately went and got my bag out of the hold and let go of the flight. It was all very impulsive, but it felt so right. I got in the car and decided to explore America a bit. I needed to connect emotionally with it somehow and a road trip seemed the best way to do that." After that, she spent several years traveling the United States many times, experiencing the real road trip in the United States, and met "Mag Crews" on the road. , Stay where they have been, and follow the route they have traveled. This was the result of these decadent young people in "American Sweetheart", who are almost portrayed in both love and scenery. [There is no strong plot, the characters themselves have their own tension] Without the ups and downs of the plot, Anold is good at capturing the details of the characters' lives, and the protagonist's living environment is transformed into a concrete relationship between the characters. The sex between Jackie and her lover in "Red Road" is cold. Attending the sister-in-law’s wedding seems like an outsider. At the wedding, she resists the in-laws and does not want to talk too much with her eyes to avoid escape. Her only hobby is in the "Eye of the City". Watch the lives of other people in the city on the monitor in the surveillance room. When she was determined to seduce a man named Clyde, she looked at her body for the first time in a long time.

When Jackie fell asleep tightly holding the ashes of her deceased husband and child, she wiped the semen from the condom into her lower body, picked up a brick and slammed it on her head to fake the illusion of being raped, yelled at Clyde and begged him to tell her The situation before the death of the husband and the child, crying and regretting that they were blasted out of the house before they were hit by Clyde, your emotions were led along the way, and you followed the camera to understand the whole picture of her cold world. Star’s "characteristic" lips in "American Sweetheart" are impressive. The cosplayer Sasha Lane, who has no professional background, played against the movie star LaBeouf on the first screen, but he did not show any timidity. She interprets the depressed little ecstasy of being stolen by the person she likes, constantly listening to the little news of the person she likes, and confirming that the other party is not relieved after having sex with others. Whether it's Jake or us in front of the screen, you can see Star's covertly like Jake everywhere. The 22-year-old Sasha Lane outside the movie is in the same period of youthful confusion as the Star in the movie. With youthful publicity and fearlessness, he brings us the best looks and best experience of youth, how can we not be charming ?

Mia in "Fish Tank" likes to dance, and often goes to an empty room with no one to practice dance alone, but the level is really not very good; the personality is impulsive and not good at speech, so he habitually counterattacks defensively, loves like a hedgehog but wants to be embraced. She always hurts others and finally hurts herself; there is a rough sister who is more vulgar than any worse. She smokes and drinks in the room and acts skillfully. She talks about everything in a proper way, just like a precocious adult; she never stops. Catching up, and in the end, the hip-hop, her passion for youth, her pride and bravery, became vulnerable in the huge gap between reality and ideals. From a girl to a woman growing up overnight, she experienced not only sex, but also The frustration of love.

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