documentary "Listen to Me Marlon" uses a lot of Marlon Brando's self-recorded video and audio, and has been organically interspersed and integrated. In other words, this interleaving and integration is done reliably, giving the film a meticulous and exquisite structure and a relaxed rhythm, as if an orderly sorting out of Brando’s large number of self-talking. Make it more charming and illocutionary, not easy to feel tired of watching movies, and more conducive to understanding. At the same time, a large number of timely news pictures and editing of Brando's studio photos make this documentary full of a lot of words have A more detailed and credible image background.
In the list of screenwriters, in addition to the name of the film’s director Steven Riley, we also saw Pete Edgar, the first screenwriter of the 1999 version of Onegin, based on Pushkin’s classic original work, Appropriate analysis and extension of human nature, love, marriage, environment, etc. have made this film directed by Martha Fiennes, the talented woman of the Fiennes family, and starring Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler. The film is full of unstoppable temperament.
Most movie fans are familiar with the experience of Marlon Brando, a great actor. He has heard about his unfortunate personal life and surly and extreme personality, but his depth of thought, philosophical awareness, and deep inferiority worries and fears About what many people don’t understand, this documentary seems to have made a useful supplement in this regard. Those profound words are delivered by Brando himself, and it seems that there is a kind of intimacy of listening to the conversations of the elders. Most of the life insights are also worthy of reference, combined with reminiscing about Brando's life, it can not help but increase the sense of sadness. Perhaps the soul of art is mostly lonely and stubborn.
At the beginning of the film, the audience was told-"Marlon Brando recorded many hours of private recordings in his life, and it was only now exposed for the first time." So everyone will find that this documentary is similar to "Amy", using private video recordings, Make it a major part of the narrative, and use it to support the objective viewpoints extracted by the film creators. Of course, it is undeniable that their private video recordings themselves have a certain degree of attention.
Like many sensitive and thoughtful entertainers, Brando had a very unfortunate childhood. In the recording, Brando confessed his childhood experiences and said: "When you were not popular when you were young and you did not get love, you would look for someone An acceptable identity." Through his own experience, Brando reflected on these words: "It took me a while to understand that you have to be your own psychoanalyst. Unless we explore our own heart, we will never be able to see clearly. In the world, no one is inherently evil. Most people just want to overcome the bad emotional habits that they have accumulated before the age of 10."
For the human world, this master of performance who is naturally shy and self-esteem has a natural curiosity. Heart, "I always have endless curiosity about people. I like to walk on the street and look at the expressions of passers-by"; "Faces can hide many things. People are always hiding things. I always like to guess that people don't understand themselves. For movies, Brando said: “The reason why the cinema has no lights is because you are watching movies with your own fantasy.” For performances, Brando sees more deeply, “We all act, but some people Rely on this to make money"; "Actors really contribute to people. They give us gifts that money can't buy, inject strength, beauty and majestic things, beyond their own things, and we need those." For more and more Brando is also very insightful for a popular type of film expression. He is worried that digital technology will become the main trend of film development. Those faces and expressions that are copied by computers will replace the actual experience of the actors. .
For this world full of false pretense, the honest Brando has a heartfelt disgust: "I am beginning to worry that everyone is dead, but still pretending to be alive." And he loves Tahiti, which was far away from the crowd at that time. , It seems to be a kind of love and maintenance of pure nature, "You hear the singing of the Tahitians, the laughter from afar. The sun has just set, a star appears, the first star in the night sky, Peace and love. I watched the endless, indescribable night, and thought to myself: "God, I am not important at all, no matter what I do or don’t do, or what anyone does, nothing is better than me. The grains of sand under him are more important.’” However, one of Brando’s daughters committed suicide at his home in Tahiti. The paradise he used to escape from the world became a place of boundless sadness, and the son was accused. The sensational news of the court also made him physically and mentally exhausted at that time...
About Brando’s performance achievements and maverick words and deeds, the media and good deeds favored him very much. Under the attack of all kinds of random discussions and wanton reports, this old man, who is born with low self-esteem and has a deep sense of fear of the world, becomes more and more simple and simple. Through self-made recordings, he expresses his thoughts and insights, "I want to keep mental health. It’s difficult to recognize reality. Success will deprive you of these two things.” “You can imagine reopening your most painful wound every night, and how painful it is to make yourself sad.” The
big screen shines brightly, The innate superstar style, the extraordinary strength in characterization, and the tragedy of personal life, all these seem to be a drama full of hardships, confusion and worry, and it is more dramatic than any screenwriter's writing. Brando selected in the documentary. On the fragments of life, the audience saw his life and reflected his own life, so people couldn't help but burst into tears...
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