Inspired by Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler's novel "Round Dance", director Fernando Merrills made this warm spring movie "360 Degrees" (also translated as "Round Dance 360"). He integrated the modern and ever-changing spiral narrative in the original book into an organism, and skillfully connected it through the characters in different stories, along the different trajectories of the earth, forming a 360-degree circle, and affectionately narrates one by one. In reality, it is full of suspense and touching legend.
The film starts from Vienna and connects Slovakia's Bratislava, Paris, London, Colorado, Denver, Phoenix, Rio, Moscow and other cities one by one, skillfully weaving a simple, vivid and touching scene. screen. The film finally ended with the beautiful singing of "A Deep Kiss", which produced a graceful and warm touch, and I couldn't bear to stop thinking about it in my arms. It is reminiscent of films with narrative structures such as "Babel," "The Thirteen Crossroads of Destiny," and "Antares," where seemingly unrelated people and events are actually related to everyone. It is said that if you choose any six people on this planet, you can find the possibility related to each one.
Simple sister Anna, accompanied by beautiful sister Chanxi, came to Vienna from Bratislava, Slovakia, to complete a sexy photoshoot. Then, the so-called agent will put Chanxi's bright and sexy photos online for customers to choose from. Chanxi's pseudonym Blanca, of course, the dirty agent used coercion to try her first. On this day, the broker, who had set a 50-50 share, notified Blanca by phone that he had a business. It is said that at the Vienna Motor Show, a car show owner named Michael Daly selected her and asked her to wait in the bar of the Steigenberger Hotel. So sister Anna accompanied Blanca to Vienna. Blanca came to the bar alone to wait and searched for various men. Among them, Daly, the car show boss played by Jude Law, came into her sight, but at this time, a businessman from Berlin, Peter, said to Daly first: "Look at that. By the way, that girl must be a prostitute." And she quickly searched for her photo and screen name from her mobile phone, which made the good man Daley disgraced.
In fact, this is a game set up by businessmen like Peter. Good people sometimes feel lonely and vulnerable. But Daly doesn't seem to be a man who rises up easily like this, and he returned to the hotel alone in frustration. He called his beloved wife, but no one answered, so he had to leave a message, expressing his longing for his wife. At this time, Peter called: "I just had a good time with Blanca. She was originally here to make an appointment with someone named Daly." In order to preserve his reputation, Daly had to deal with the cheap business. to Peter. As the saying goes, there is no adulterer, no business, and this kind of fraud is not uncommon in the business field. Just as many officials fell for this kind of rosy news.
And in London, a beautiful Brazilian girl named Laura left a video for her boyfriend Louis who just came back from outside: "Louis, you are still not satisfied with me, and you have to have a tryst with someone else, this is the woman who has a tryst with you. I'm gone, don't need to look for me. Back then, I left stable Rio for you. I was very happy there, but now I can only go back there with pain." Louis, a 25-year-old young photographer I regret it, but it is not too late. In fact, the lover of Louis's tryst is Daly's beloved wife Ruth.
Ruth, played by Rachel Weisz, runs a gallery and meets the enthusiastic Louie because of her work relationship. The appearance of Louis filled her lonely space. Daly is away from home all year round because of business, which makes Ruth unbearable to be alone. But this time Ruth decided to break up with Louie and she told him we had no future. And cut off contact with Louis at work. What Louis faces is what is often said to be a lack of money and manpower. And Daly's message to Ruth was a factor that contributed to her decision to break up with Louis. She told Daly, who came home, that the message touched her. They were as good as ever. And went to see the little daughter's performance in "The Fiddler on the Roof".
On the plane, Laura, who was going back to Brazil, met John Hopkins, an old man who also went to Denver. The cheerful John calmed down Laura, who had been extremely depressed. It turns out that John is going to Phoenix to find his daughter Julia, who disappeared many years ago. Back then, his daughter was hated because of his extramarital affair, and she ran away from home. There was no news when she left, and it was unknown whether she was dead or alive. This made the old man unable to let go of it all the time, and he went to inquire wherever there was a clue. The two of them flew to Denver, where it was snowing heavily, but the flights they were going to transfer couldn't take off, so they had to stay at the airport for one night. The two agreed to meet at a restaurant outside the airport in the evening.
Laura arrived on schedule, John was late. Sitting across from him is Tyler, a rapist who just got out of a Colorado state prison. After six years in prison, he was influenced by an Olson woman who agreed to go to a school in Louisville to see if he could change his ways. Ms Olson encouraged him to have confidence. It's just that Tyler is terrified of whether he can control his sexual urges to the opposite sex, because he really doesn't want to go to jail again.
The world is impermanent, but there is a charming and beautiful girl Laura sitting across from her. Besides falling in love, she falls in love with Taylor, who is a little shy. In addition, after drinking a little wine, she is a little bit uncontrollable and trying her best to seduce her. The restrained Taylor was so fascinated that she followed her into the hotel room like a fascination. The loudspeaker at the airport was calling his name, and he could no longer hear it. John hurried to the restaurant and found that Laura was not there, but the old man was anxious, for fear that she would be seduced by the bad guys. In the hotel room, facing the beautiful Laura, Taylor struggled between restraint and desire, but fortunately, rationality overcame the devilish impulse, and he did not listen to Laura's drinking. He rushed into the bathroom and rinsed his hot face with cold water. When he came out again, the girl fell asleep. He wanted to touch her, but as soon as he got started, he shrank back, and he quietly left. Through this incident, at least it shows that Taylor is changing in a good direction.
The next day, John saw Laura in the terminal building who was about to leave for Miami. The two were very happy and hugged tightly like a father and daughter. The old man smiled and said to her, "Protect yourself well, be honest." Laura nodded happily. When the old man arrived in Phoenix, what he saw was not his daughter's body, and her daughter might still be alive in this world. He was at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Center and told the students about his experience of quitting drinking in the past, hoping that they could be reborn. Among them was Valentina, a Russian woman from Paris. She said it gave her the courage to go back to Paris and make the right decision.
Back in Paris, Valentina said to her husband Sergi: "I have a new love, let's get a divorce." Sergi, who was so busy, said that he would wait until he came back from work. Valentina, wearing a red hat, came to the dentist's clinic with high expectations, but the 36-year-old boss told her: "You should find another job." cut love. When he was in the psychological consultation before, the female psychologist told him: "If you decide to let you do it yourself, you will be responsible for the consequences." In the past, the boss's love for her was so inextricable that he had to seek psychological counseling. Although the new love is hopeless, Valentina has not stopped there, and she will continue her new life.
Meeting in life is a miracle. The encounter between Sergi, who is a bodyguard, and Anna proves this. Ana is outside the hotel, waiting for her pseudonym Blanca's sister, and Sergi is anxiously waiting outside the hotel for his underworld boss, Sasha. At the same time, Sergi has to face his wife who has proposed to break up and a boss Sasha who treats him rudely. At this time, he repeatedly paced in front of Anna's eyes, making her unable to help but say a few words. The ensuing rain brought Sergi and Anna together, and she ducked into his Mercedes. They talked about reading, a hobby they both shared. Ever since Anna went out with her sister, every time she was waiting, she was reading quietly with a book in her hand.
Gradually, Sergi discovered that she was a very innocent girl. Ana offers to let him drive around Paris. This brought them closer. He said: "The boss is not as good to me as a pig and dog. He doesn't like reading. He said that people who read books are all dreamers. Haha, we are all poor dreamers." Such a dialogue made them happy. Coincidentally, Sergi's boss, Sasha, is in the hotel room engaged in a sex trade with Blanca. In the originally scheduled one hour, Sasha actually played a rogue with Blanca. For this hour, Sasha lost his life, and Blanca was able to escape. All of this is due to Sergi's determined "inaction", letting Blanca's black-hearted agent go to Sasha. Now Sergi can only think of his own happiness, and he must hold happiness tightly in his hand.
The relieved Sergi was finally freed. He came out of the hotel and greeted Anna who was still waiting: "Come up." She asked with a smile, "Where are you going?" "I don't know." "When will you be back?" "I don't know, come up." Anna went up with joy. car. Full of sweetness, Anna said to her sister in her heart: "Dear sister, I have encountered a fork in the road in my life. I made a choice and I did it. Sister, I pray for you, and you bless me too."
The film's voice-over is accompanied by beautiful music: "Maybe one day, the three-fork road we chose, and the other three-fork road, will lead us to the same destination." All the characters in the film have found what they want or are looking for on the road. Of course, there are also new "Blanca" who will continue their indecent and adventurous life journey. Forget the past and learn to let go. Around the earth, fate makes it possible for everyone to encounter good luck and bad luck, but the opportunity is fleeting. Even so, in the face of a fork in the road in one's life, as long as one embraces beauty and kindness, life is full of inexhaustible nourishment and endless hope.
2012, 12, 12
From the film critic collection "Invisible Movies" published by Haitian Publishing House
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