Great panorama of country music

Helmer 2022-01-11 08:02:37

A trip to noisy country music, including music, love, family, marriage, politics, entertainment gossip, death, murder... the
whole film can’t say who is the protagonist: old country star, new rock star, dead star, star Assistants, agents, reporters, new styles, star chasers, ordinary residents, waitresses who want to become celebrities...Everyone's pen and ink is similar, and it is even unclear why these people gather here. It is difficult for the director to explain clearly what everyone wants to do.
This kind of network narrative is no longer novel. What is rare is that these people seem to have no common goal, and there is no serious intersection between them. There was no specific event that had an effect between these people... The final murder brought an end to the story and time, and people will continue to live like that. But these seemingly disorderly conditions drew a sketch of that society, chaos, disorder, lack of goals...just like Forrest Gump will have a group of followers when he runs.
The director's skills are embodied in the interweaving of pictures, sounds, plots, and characters, and the transition between them is smooth and random. Everyone alone seems to be full of stories, put together without being abrupt.
The use of sound is the most exciting. The same song brings out different plots in different places, live, in the recording studio, in the bar, and on the radio. Singing singers on the racetrack, stars who have lost their tune from singing to striptease, and reporters who are chattering...
stupid girls, bastard men, slutty rock stars, and bewildered housewives...
through cluttered movies. Shooting social reality, a great achievement.

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Extended Reading
  • Kole 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Everything in American society in the 70s was here

  • Isobel 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    A satirical panorama of America with blurred boundaries between politics and entertainment, boasting multilayered plot and cogent characterization, done in unique dazzling style with remarkable improv-ensemble performances. A work of unprecedented audacity and prodigious talent.

Nashville quotes

  • Barnett: [In Barbara Jean's hospital room] Now, where's Barnett goin'? Where am I goin'? Hmm?

    Barbara Jean: King of the Road.

    Barnett: Why am I goin' there?

    Barbara Jean: To see Connie.

    Barnett: And why am I doin' that?

    Barbara Jean: To thank her for singin' at the Opry.

    Barnett: Now, who am I doin' that for?

    Barbara Jean: You're doin' it for me.

    Barnett: That's right. Now, I'm walkin' out now. What do you say as I walk out? You say bye-bye.

    Barbara Jean: Bye.

    Barnett: Bye-bye.

    Barbara Jean: Bye-bye...

    [He leaves her]

    Barbara Jean: ... Barnett?

  • Opal: [speaking into a micro recorder as she walks through a school bus parking lot] The buses! The buses are empty and look almost menacing, threatening, as so many yellow dragons watching me with their hollow, vacant eyes. I wonder how many little black and white children have yellow nightmares, their own special brand of fear for the yellow peril... Damn it, it's got to be more... positive. No, more negative! Start again. Yellow is the color of caution. No. Yellow is the color of cowardice. Yellow is the color of sunshine. And yet I see very little sunshine in the lives of all the little black and white children. I see their lives, rather, as a study in grayness, a mixture of black and... Oh, Christ, no. That's fascist. Yellow! Yellow, yellow, yellow. Yellow fever...