Angel hanging from the building

Christy 2022-03-23 09:02:19

Todd Haynes, the director who will record the scene, after the flirtatious beginning of "Velvet Goldmine", he put on the idea of ​​deconstructing Bob Dylan's past and present. The amount of information in "I'm Not There" is quite large. Six characters alluding to Bob Dylan explain Dylan's creative period and life status in a chaotic time and space: Woody Guthrie's precocious political sensitivity, Arthar Rimbaud's freedom and Poetry, Jack Rollins' value transformation, Robbie Clark's family relationship, Jude Quinn's transformational confrontation, Billy the Kid's hidden difficulty, all six separate characters constitute Bob Dylan's dazzling multi-facetedness, making the film's sense of form ready to show . In addition to the chaotic time and space, the alternation of color and black and white, the intersection of modernism and traditional records, a large number of folk songs from the 1960s and 1970s, and the overlapping records of riots and political turmoil, the biographical and narrative implications of the film are inseparable. Thinking of the time when I copied Bob's lyrics in the summer vacation, the people in "Time" who are James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Jack Kerouac cannot be perfectly explained by one person, but through the index of other people's values ​​and states Instead, there is a tender reflection on Bob Dylan's past and present. Neither fans nor the public can accept a second Bob Dylan, so never play a character, just play the state. This is where Todd Hines gets smart. None of them are Dylan, but this is a film about Dylan. I love the role of Cate Blanchett. It's so similar to Dylan, smoking a cigarette, touching her nose, and smiling. A woman who is too cold can play Elizabeth, and when she is too cold, she can play a man's neutrality. "Those of you who are trying to metaphysical shame, accusing all of your fears, bury your faces in your handkerchiefs, now it's your turn to cry." This self-aware, demonstrative, idealistic salesman seems to be at Kate's There is a bit of a transformational loss. So in the end there will be a scene where Kate is hung upstairs by a rope, which is probably a reflection of Dylan's "Angel Hanging from the Building".

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  • Orland 2022-04-20 09:01:56

    Brilliant! The exploration and revolution of music. Kate and Bell are amazing, and Kate in particular is so gorgeous. Ben and Ledger liked one too.

  • Felipe 2022-04-22 07:01:38

    Haynes's "Velvet Goldmine" got me hooked on Bowie, and "I Wasn't There" got me into Dylan. Remember Bowie has a song called, is it a coincidence? You are not present, but your soul is.

I'm Not There quotes

  • Jude: [looking up at a giant Jesus on the cross] Do your early stuff!

  • Arthur: Y'know, it's nature's will. And I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all.