Shooting Pianist

Clay 2022-03-21 09:03:26

Although I see that "Four Hundred Strikes" is my favorite now, "Shooting the Pianist" is also moving.
I don't know if it's because I am a person who often deviates from the theme, so the most fascinating place to watch is in the farm, where the pianist and the two young and dangerous brothers reminisce about the past. He was taken off the farm as a gifted musical child, but eventually he came back as a murderer, whether in self-defense or something.
As if everything was doomed to bring you back no matter how far you fled. And it's spring-loaded, the harder you earn, the more thoroughly you'll come back.
On the road you take, it seems that every step is away from your hometown, but in fact, every step is leading you back to your hometown and back to your mother. Really.

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Extended Reading
  • Ambrose 2022-03-24 09:03:47

    It's essentially a love story, and the overall framework is very Hollywood, but when the protagonist's omniscient perspective and genre functions are removed, the movie finally completes the transformation of the rotten into the magical. Reminds me of Steve Buscemi in "Murdering the Green Toes", because you "do nothing", so even trying to escape can't get what you want. So the hypocrisy of genre films is that the most "cowardly" characters are actually heroes in the real world.

  • Wiley 2022-04-22 07:01:55

    Lines and clips, women and music, noir and humor, love and death, identity and life, existence and nothingness.

Shoot the Piano Player quotes

  • Ernest: You've got to admit you females do everything to excite us males. Why the lipstick? Why the nail polish? Why the tight-fitting sweaters? And the short skirts? Why the high heels? And the stockings? Why do you wear stockings? Why don't you wear socks like we men do?

  • Momo: Once, when all my shorts were at the laundry, I put on silk panties that belonged to my sister. Ah! Some funny sensation it gave me! From that day on I understood why they all crave it, why they never have enough. Because we men, we have pants on. But girls, with their short dresses, it's skin rubbing on skin all day long!