How to gain beneficial growth in the event of change is a required course for many people in this life. Self-organizing, self-resolving, and self-digestion, then you will definitely gain a lot of cultivation in terms of emotional intelligence, but in reality, there are not many people who have this kind of self-cultivation ability. Oliver in the film "Beginner" is obviously a A person with good fortune, although his self-study process is full of melancholy and anguish, he is savvy after all, and he has also encountered an opportunity to help him comprehend. Comprehension and opportunity seem to be the necessary conditions for completing a period of self-study.
The film as a whole seems plain and sloppy, but inadvertently reveals a delicate, elegant, fresh and timeless atmosphere. It can be said that this is a literary film full of touch and perception. Between the flow of light and shadow, it is embellished with the real life insights of the film's director and screenwriter Mike Mills. Being able to put his own private affairs on the big screen, and be so indifferent and casual, shows the unhappy married life of his parents, after the death of his mother, his father was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 75 and announced that he came out of the closet, and passed away five years later. Mike has digested and absorbed the "privacy" of the Mills family and the sentimental pain it brings, and has gained a certain sense of detachment.
The content of the story is not complicated, and at the same time, the narrative structure is not complicated. The past moments and the current situation are alternately carried out. Maybe sometimes all kinds of switching and insertion tend to be frequent, as if there are scattered memory fragments everywhere, but this is not at all. It does not affect the viewing effect, because the fetters are a kind of knot, a variety of emotions and gradual understanding, which makes every transformation and performance come true and reasonable.
Ewan McGregor, who plays his son Oliver in the film, expresses an unprecedented melancholy, which is not only locked in the depths of his sunken eyes, but sinks into his bones, when he is in love with one. When the rather cute Russell dog talks, a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, which is at a loss, nowhere to find, and no attachment due to the changes, arises spontaneously, and this deep melancholy also shows Oliver's mood gradually changes. taste.
Undoubtedly, Oliver, who is engaged in artistic creation, is a sensitive person. He is also a child who is willing to dedicate himself to his parents. When he was young, his mother who could not receive a loving response would always play a kind of shooting game with him. Little Oliver cooperated actively. When his father Hal announced that he was gay, came out of the closet at an advanced age, and fell in love with young Andy, Oliver didn't understand much at first, but he still silently supported his old father. After his father passed away, in his painful memories of his deceased father, when he met and fell in love with Anna, who also had a shadow of growth, and realized this emotion, he gradually understood his father, and finally faced it bravely like his father. own heart.
Xu is due to the scene design and character setting. The two male protagonists in the film are very comfortable and comfortable. The old father played by Christopher Plummer has no trace of performance, and the matching with Ivan is natural and smooth, while Melanie Roland The female protagonist, Anna, shows a state of detachment, which may be a trait caused by Anna's special growth environment.
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