As far as American movies are concerned, when I was in high school, I regarded Forrest Gump as a bible and I watched it no less than twenty times. Later, when I went to the university, I told others about "Forrest Gump", and I was sprayed with disgrace—that's because the United States was promoting their values! I thought about it carefully, so I turned to chasing after "Stimulation 1995" which was produced in the same year as "Forrest Gump". What does "Stimulation 1995" mean? Two concepts-freedom and hope. In fact, for a long time, Lao Mei is talking about her own values. A-Gump is a benchmark, and Andy is also a benchmark. There is Jenny standing next to A-Gump and Redman standing next to Andy. This is an obvious contrast. The director pointed to this comparison and said, Hey, A-Gump is correct/Ann Di is correct. Then, in this way, it served the purpose of educating the people (the SARFT should learn it hard!)
In fact, whether it is a movie or a novel, the usual approach is to establish a correct character first, and this character has the "very correct" values. And the people around him who acted for him must show inadequacies, even ugly. Just like in "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", you only have to look at Gong Li, then she is not beautiful, you have to watch with other maids, then you will feel that Gong Li looks like a fairy. (Of course, there are also people who do not establish a righteous master, and use contradictions to verify their values. For example, Jin Yong's "Lian Cheng Jue", even Di Yun, the so-called righteous master, is not that righteous, and writes all about it. It is the sinister heart, and in the end Jin Yong wrote about these people devouring golden Buddha statues at Nan Tianning Temple in Jiangling City. This is the highlight of Jin Yong's values.)
That's why I think the Coen brothers' stuff is weird. Because the main point of their movie is not to establish a value, and there is no righteous one that represents the value. There is no righteous person in "Old Nowhere" (not to mention the values it represents). The movie talks about the police, the criminals, and the cowboys. No one is the protagonist. "Burn after Reading" is the same, and "Burning After Reading" is even more destructive than "Old Nowhere to Support". "Old Nowhere" is still exploring the possibility of beauty. Human nature is still habitually divided into good and evil. There are edges and corners. Javier Bardem is so evil that he can wear a cowboy hat to be cool, but "Burn after reading" There is no dividing line between good and evil, and no one can be cool (Markovich is wearing a red pajamas with his legs bare, holding an axe and aggressively descending from the yacht in the afterglow of the setting sun. It is a cool shot in theory. , But why is it so funny?!) Everyone has become a ball, big or small, funny, even if BP has an unparalleled heroic face, in Cohen, it is just a headshot gym coach, and It is not an American hero who repels unidentified aliens and saves the people of the world.
Oh, it turns out that no one can be cool.
In fact, this sentence should be said: In this fuck Coen brothers fuck movie, no fuck person is a fuck hero.
2. Not getting married is a problem. Getting married is a problem (I have to admit that this sentence is copied from Zhu Tianwen).
I discussed this with July. I always think that I am too self-conscious to help others. Those who make sacrifices, it is best not to get married. I have been thinking, how frank about it to my mother (my mother would say wiping away tears with a handkerchief, her daughter ah, you will not be gay bar. I was an embarrassing first.)
HOWEVER, this "After Reading "Burning" makes my back feel cold. I don't need to cite any examples to say how powerful Americans are of their self-awareness. Moreover, depending on the entry of American films and TV series into China, the Chinese people's self-awareness is awakening day by day. My parents still think that "family" is more important than "self", but I already think that "self-happiness" is more important than "maintaining the form of family."
Personal happiness and interests always come first, far more important than maintaining a "harmonious" family.
Two couples, the women are busy cheating and dealing with their husbands, the men are busy hunting for sex and their ideals are disillusioned. George Clooney is basically a typical man, working hard in the morning, staying in shape and strength, smiling, and knowing how to talk love. He bought steel to go home, beat and beat, and there was an instrument similar to a tiger's head in the lens. I was shocked. I thought he was going to kill his wife, but I didn’t expect it to be a tool for female masturbation. So useless.
Women aggressively pursue their own interests, and men cowardly face life (drinking, stealing pleasure). What women always yearn for is a "hero" (this is what Fairy Zixia said), but in the end it is a fugitive who only knows how to buy a plane ticket to Venezuela under his real name. Unfortunately, this movie is very close to real life. No one is a hero, no one is really cool, and no one is perfect. Just like Linda reviewing the photos of men on the Internet one by one, they are all losers, even if they are like Clooney, they are also losers.
Since they are all losers, who do you want me to marry? !
Well, in fact, the word loser is a bit useless. Everyone is just a normal person. If you are targeted by the National Security Bureau, you are not sure that you will be assholes. If you want to get a divorce, you must also be fully prepared to divide the property first, regardless of the life and death of the other party.
It's just funny in the movie, and when it comes to real life, it's the cruelty that everyone has to endure.
3. The smile of
the Coen brothers . There is a scene in this movie that really made me laugh ——Linda took the CD to the Russian Embassy to negotiate, and Putin with a weird smile was hung on the wall behind the Russian official. picture.
Actually, I don’t know why I laugh, but I just think it’s funny. I know that this lens must have political content, which is the political orientation of the Coen brothers. But none of us know Cohn. The ghost knows what it means to only appear in such a lens (it must be a mockery, but what is it to laugh at?)
Of course, I don't need to verify this single lens. In fact, this movie itself is not worthy of research, because the Coen brothers did not put any "central idea" or "meaning" in it.
"Writing is to convey the Tao"-this is the education I received since childhood. Movies are the same. It seems that every movie must have a central idea and must have educational or enlightening significance (so there is a film interpretation school). However, the "article" in "articles" refers to "articles", and when the term was born, articles referred to essays with stereotypes. "Articles" column. Therefore, those who write novels and scripts do not have to worry about whether they want to "carry the way." For example, "Fu Fu Tuan", full of spring love, at the end, it is very simple to write the truth of "color and emptiness". This ending is necessary or not, and it does not affect the content of the main body of the novel. Novels do not need to contain Tao, and movies can also be without Tao.
Both "Old Nowhere" and "Burn after Reading" do not contain the truth, so it is very difficult to summarize these two films. Both movies are awesome, where is the awesome? Go to the movies carefully.
I can't tell you.
The Coen brothers didn't tell me anything, they were just laughing.
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