Snow Cake - an unmissable movie

Darian 2022-03-22 08:01:03

"Snow Cake" is one of the closing films of this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. Director Marc Evans also attended the screening last night. It is the second and third performance in the world (there were two at the Cultural Centre yesterday), and the premiere is a few weeks. It was also the opening film of the Berlin Film Festival in Germany before. This film is one of my favorites at the festival this year.

As the director once said, "Snow Cake" is not just about autism. , as "Rain Man" said not only about autism, but also about Tom Cruise's character and greed in the 1980s. He said "Snow Cake" is about grief (mourning, grief) and dislocation (dislocation). There's tragedy, there's humor, and it's about forgiveness. Today, in our lives, questions like war and poverty are less pressing than "how to live," really.

One day, you're sitting alone in a restaurant, ready to drive away. Going to see someone, how do you know that a strange girl comes over and talks to you, and it's a bit annoying, the purpose is not only to ask you to take her for a ride, but also for another reason. From this moment on, you and her life It 's different.

The script is very good, the casting is top-notch, and the film uses a lot of music, which makes the film more colorful. The sense of humor plays an indispensable role in the film. The

actor Alan Rickman has been very good in his appearance . , think of his role as Emma Thompson's husband in "Love Actually" (a boss who is somewhat ambiguous with his female subordinates), and his role as a professor in "Harry Potter". This time he plays a bereaved father, a murderer who just got out of prison , his acting skills are extraordinary, and many inner scenes are also played properly, and he can really stand on his own. He has made a lot of efforts for the sense of humor that is often found in the play.

Sigourney Weaver's acting skills are even more undoubted. The young woman is not easy at all, but she doesn't get as much on the show as Alan Rickman's.

There are many touching moments in the movie. When everyone held a funeral for Linda (Weaver) daughter Vivienne at Linda's house after the funeral, she actually told people to leave, played loud music, and danced, causing everyone to be in an uproar. Then what I see in the picture is what Linda sees in the eyes, that is, her daughter dances with her in the snow, making people cry. The song sung by the weird Japanese male singer, maybe it is her and her daughter's music, because her daughter is in On the night of her death in a car accident, after the police officer left, Linda listened to this song alone at home. Seeing Linda's unusual way of mourning, some people will feel sad, but she, who lives in her own world, may be more We are more able to face the unacceptable reality.

One of the funniest scenes should be Alex (Rickman) and Linda (Weaver) playing Scrabbles, which makes people laugh.

Another movie not to be missed.

PS Forgot to say, the story is It happened in a small town called Wawa north of Ottawa, Canada.

link to my blog: http://dorablahblah.blogspot.com/2006/04/snow-cake.html

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  • Casey 2022-03-22 09:03:03

    The film was good, but I wasn't dedicated enough, and I was too sleepy in the middle, so I woke up and watched it again after a while. Since I sometimes feel that I also have intermittent small autism, I think the female lead is too good.

  • Adolf 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    What do we talk about when we talk about winter? We're talking about traumatic films like Manchester by the Sea and The Snowman. When we talk about orgasm, what are we talking about? We're talking about glaciers-digging films like Big River and Big River Love. Why? Just like what the heroine said to the hero who hasn't spoken for a long time: because of need. In fact, this is not a film about punishment, repentance and redemption, but a film about nature. For only nature is immoral: truth is not as contradictory and self-contained as man, nor spring as fickle and unpredictable as fate. To this end, the daughter, who released huge emotional energy, bumped into a father's plan at a fixed time, and the woman with infinite energy also subverted a man's conservative and limited cognition of the world, and completely changed the original life of a criminal trajectory. What are we talking about when we talk about Death at a Funeral? We are talking about the ultimate loneliness of man and the inevitability of communion with man. And, of course, growth towards death.

Snow Cake quotes

  • Linda Freeman: B-A-A-N-G.

    Alex Hughes: You can't have two A's in bang.

    Linda Freeman: In Comic Book Word Scrabble, you can. You can have three A's if you want.

  • Alex Hughes: Being with you. Being with Linda. Being with myself again. Hey, and I'm having sex and these muffins are great. That sort of thing.