you can only choose one

Deon 2022-01-25 08:07:07

If you go to the city center instead of the county middle school when you are in high school, your current career and life may be different; if you choose to repeat the study, instead of going to a less ideal college under the persuasion of everyone...; if You are studying another major...; if you go to the coast, go to the capital, or stay in the southwest...; if you choose someone who likes you... But time is irreversible, you can only choose one.

On the path you choose, borrow the opening line from Trainspotting: "Choose a life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family. Choose a fucking big TV. Choose a washing machine, a car, a laser recorder, an electric can opener. Choose a healthy, low calorie road, low sugar. Choose a fixed rate mortgage. Choose a starting point, choose a friend, choose a tracksuit and a suitcase. Choose a fucking three-piece suit... Choose a DIY, and on a Sunday morning, he Damn can't figure out who I am. Choose to watch boring shows on the couch and put junk food in your mouth. Choose to be rotten..." Like Mark in the film, he eventually returned to the mainstream. On the only path you can choose, material and mainstream values ​​keep crowding out your dreams, your ideas, your delusional escapes. In fact, most of the time, you have no choice.

Movies about different possibilities are widely circulated such as "Lola Run" and "The Butterfly Effect". "Lola Run" has a clear structure, and director Tom Tykwer puts the happy ending at the end of the three paragraphs. There is no confusing place, and it is still a warm "ending". "No Name" is a complicated and obscure version of "Lola Run", it is not appropriate to say that, except for the possibility of uncertainty, "No Name" is not just content with uncertainty and complexity. form, each part of it, each plot has its own appeal.

The plot is mainly two lines, the protagonist follows his mother to live in the United States and stays in the United Kingdom to live with his father. The plot wouldn't be complicated if it were just two parallel narrative lines intersecting. The director added a lot of other materials on these two narrative lines, which interrupted, interfered, and destroyed each plot. Like the reporter in the film, we couldn't tell the truth from the unreal, the truth itself, and the unreal itself. At first glance, if you don't care about the complicated and ambiguous plot, the movie is quite enjoyable: beautiful pictures, beautiful soundtrack, beautiful actors and comfortable performances. By the end of the film, the different possible plots can be viewed in general terms as the imagination of an eight-year-old. As is often assumed, the film is the completion of a person's imaginary different virtual life course, all the plots are fictional, a fantasy story made up by a non-existent anonymous person.

Life cannot be rewritten with an eraser like handwriting, but life in movies can. Directors can use film or digital machines as containers to conduct a life experiment. The development of contemporary art is rapid and dazzling. In art carriers such as novels and films, creators abandon the traditional classic model and borrow knowledge from other disciplines to carry out structural innovation. For example, use a mathematical model in a novel as the structure of the novel. As for this film, it is like a pile of data to be processed. After watching it, it is necessary to summarize, organize, calculate, and make a model to see the clear structure of the whole film.

In addition to being as complex as a mathematical model, it also borrows scientific principles and concepts, the phenomenon of "pigeon confusion", the butterfly effect, the theory of relativity, time and space dimensions, etc. These elements push the film toward a kind of film that can be called intellectual or intellectual. The general structure of a kaleidoscope and a box needs to be dissected; the skeleton and components that are dissected out can only be understood by borrowing the reserved knowledge. Although the "butterfly effect" that appears many times in the film is in a popular way, too much use of natural science makes the details of the film fancy and brain-consuming.

In the age of film, watching movies like "No Name" and Christopher Nolan's "Memento" was very difficult, and you had to replay it or re-enter the theater to figure out the storyline. These are typical DVD-era movies that can be rewinded and fast-forwarded at will to make sense of the plot. "Memento" is to solve the puzzle, "The Man with No Surname" is to clarify the plot. In fact, there is only one choice in the life of the protagonist, but there are many possibilities. To understand the imagination of the protagonist, or to understand the audience own imagination.

"No Name" encourages the kind of viewer who likes to get to the bottom of things to figure out its plot. At the same time, it also attracts audiences who like art films to discuss various life issues in it. It is a bit complicated, but not too abstract; it sets up an intricate structure, but gives a clearer tone, all choices lead to the same result: the life told by those bright pictures has always revealed the director's pessimistic attitude and reluctant optimism.

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Extended Reading
  • Napoleon 2022-03-21 09:01:32

    The dimensions are too rich, and it can be seen as a peak on the side of the ridge. Play structure: circular or parallel? Is time really going backwards? Play Narrative: How Many Narrators? How many narratives? Where is the line between fiction and reality? Play editing: Just adjust a few shots and a few stories, and it will probably be dismantled and reorganized. Playing with visual effects: It is simply poetic, constructing a mysterious and confusing pattern that cannot be closed by a certain interpretation. Any interpretation can be established, and neither can be completely established.

  • Alexandrine 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    There is really a lot to express. .

Mr. Nobody quotes

  • Nemo Nobody adult: [to/about Elise] I often have this dream. In prehistoric times, I can hear you screaming. I chase the bear and you're not afraid anymore, but when I wake up, there's no bear... but you're still afraid. And I'm not a bear hunter. I'm an executive at a plant that manifactures photocopying machines that just quit his job. I don't dare to move, I don't live, whatever I do is a disaster. I would love to set out to chase the bear away and for you to not be afraid anymore.

  • Young journalist: Did Elise die or didn't she? I don't get it. You can't have had children and not have them.