Beyond language, it is also very moving

Cleve 2022-03-22 09:02:22

No subtitles, no background.
One afternoon in early spring in Beijing, I was dizzy with drinking in my small room, and the film was playing over and over again on the screen.
No subtitles, no background. In the shaky camera shake, I felt jittery.

Her long hair was scattered across her naked chest, and sweat was glistening on her skin. Slightly parted lips, blurred eyes. Voluptuous and sexy. His waist twisted like a water snake. Sing in a low voice.
I didn't realize that she turned out to be him.

Another bottle of wine. On another replay, I saw that image again:

the voluptuous boy, topless, dancing frantically on stage. There was something wild hidden in his body.
Bits of shiny shards flew out of the jar in his hand, floating in the air. Like all things that are beautiful and fleeting, people can't take their eyes off it, look obsessively, and disappear in the blink of an eye.
He became manic. Shake the jar wildly. Put the jar between your legs and do the obscene gesture of jerk off.
But innocent and sexy.

He quickly took off his jeans in the festivities of the fans offstage, unconcernedly exposing what was dangling between his legs. He turned his butt to the stage and yelled violently.

The crowd under the stage got even crazier.
Not far away, his eyes with long hair and a shawl flickered, his eyes fixed. He encountered the devil in his life.
His friend laughed happily behind him. Yeah, how ridiculous.

Some instincts beyond language are awakened. I glanced at the cover of the CD and remembered the warm name "Velvet Goldmine" in this frenzy.

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Extended Reading
  • Ivah 2022-03-24 09:02:53

    She said: I lost our youth, all because of you. He said: We want to change the world, we did not expect to change ourselves.

  • Jeremy 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    In recent years, biopics of rock figures seem to have a trend of blowout again, but as long as they are compared with this one, they are too pale and naive, and they are all just to complete the task of explaining their lives clumsily. For a movie looking back, does it really matter who the character has whose face, just use the movie's time machine to bring back those highlight moments again. What makes Velvet Gold Mine so advanced is not only its stream-of-consciousness narrative and near-perfect interpretation, but also the establishment of Bell's line itself, because this line itself is a process of returning to the high-light moments, which is more direct than the audience's dryness. Much better as a first time recipient. It's hard to have another actor like Joey Van Bell, not to mention that the era of glam rock will only get further and further away. It's been like this for 20 years. A love letter. Having said so much, in fact, my first thought after watching it was that a face so similar to Cobain appeared on the big screen just four years after his death. What was the audience like at that time? feeling.

Velvet Goldmine quotes

  • Mandy Slade: [voiceover on New Year's Eve '69] And in crowded clubs or hotel bars, this shipwreck of the streets rehearsed his future glory. A cigarette tracing a ladder to the stars.

  • Brian Slade: [meets Curt for first time at bar] I just wanted to say... I think your music is tops, really, smashing, the best of the lot.

    Curt Wild: [Curt lifts head] Smashing, top hole, jolly f...

    [Curt's head falls back and he passes out]