Just like a long poem by Su Dongpo, you will always want to drift in the Huanhai way.
Whether it's North Dakota or Montana, it's the western world by the Canadian border.
, the United States claimed to be fighting to conquer the West 150 years ago, but it was actually conquered by the West. The people there live a desolate and desolate life,
The cold seemed to seal their mouths. . The wind here is surprisingly strong, the largest wind in the United States, and this film was originally meant to be called the wind is blowing.
In any case, the film is a handcrafted masterpiece. The colossal loneliness of being embedded in it will always have a revelation for us, just as Dostoevsky writes a novel.
The first story, Tome, is about a legal client, Fuller, who Dern represented for 8 months, went mad for not getting compensation, hijacked security guards in the building and ended up in jail for himself. There is nothing to look forward to in a normal life anyway.
The second story Native Sandstone: The man who committed adultery with Dern had no job and helped his wealthy wife build a wooden house. His wife is always jealous because her husband and daughter are better. The director believes in his heart that every woman is flawed, ambitious and curious, but all things are biased. According to the director's explanation, here is to talk about the capital injection of California into Montana. So a lot of people don't quite understand the story because he didn't say anything.
The third story, Travis B., is a little girl of Indian descent who went to night school at the age of 20. She fell in love with a young and beautiful tutor, but she didn't know how to express it. After two meals together, she suddenly found out that she did not come to school. She drove across the state just to take another look at the teacher, then talked a few words and walked away silently. The only music is rising at this time, and this is also the most emotionally powerful moment in the film.
——Although the plot is bland, but after reading it, you will find a kind of existential moving. This story does not select the skyscrapers of New York, nor does it select Central Park, nor does it select the Los Angeles Police Department, but the West that is not noisy In a small town, people really live in their own state.
In fact, whether it is a crazy cowboy, a lawyer or a little teacher, they all live with warmth.
They don't have many words, but their hearts are very rich. They are always alone, but they are always eager for warmth. The crazy cowboy Fuller in the first story, he finally released the security guard, which shows his kindness in his heart. In the third story, the heroine seriously feeds the horses, because if it weren't for these horses, her teenager would have died in an insane asylum due to polio. In the second story, the heroine enjoys the thrill of smoking in the fresh woods and eats a piece of chewing gum to cover her breath before going home. Like her husband's adultery.
Yes, I think the director has adapted these three short stories so well because he has found their commonalities, and this inner loneliness must be learned to dissolve in continuing life.
Going back to the success of this film, in addition to the soothing rhythm, the scene selection is very critical, it is the external presentation of our inner state. The huge mountains of Oregon also make us feel its loneliness for thousands of years.
Just like a documentary filming a train coming from afar, we entered the station of loneliness.
——In 1994, she was very bold with her debut film "Green Grass River", which was also a challenge. She tried to enter the mainstream as a female director, and the whole filming process was like a frustrated struggle. Did he and the producers start to stay away from New York, for example, to fall in love with the dusty city of Portland. "Old Dreams," which I made with John in 2006, was a lot going on in the West at the time, and it made something that felt like it could nurture our lives. So the three stories in a certain woman in 2016 are all about a relationship, and their lonely, problematic life. Relationships are always incomplete, so talent is lonely.
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