be well
How many people still remember the brother in "Little Miss Sunshine" who swore a dumb oath, didn't speak to his family for nine months, and the first sentence he said was "F**K"?
His actor Paul Dano has been known to the public since then, and then he played with Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" and starred in the film festival's hit work "Youth";
In 2016, he starred in the brain hole fantasy film "Swiss Army Knife Man" with Daniel Radcliffe, and later also performed well in "Okja" directed by Feng Junhao.
Paul Dano's selections are mostly high-quality independent literary films, but his role is never limited to a fixed trajectory.
He is mentioned today because he is now officially a director.
Last year, his debut was the opening film of the Cannes parallel section, for which he was nominated for the Caméra d'Or (Director's Debut).
It can be said that the results are very dazzling, the film is cold and restrained, the audio-visual language is rich and skilled, and it is not as mature as the debut work.
This is the video that I want to recommend to you today-
"Wild Life"
The film is adapted from Richard Ford's novel of the same name. Although the name is "Wild Life", it actually tells the family story of a poor couple, Pepsi.
After a teenager moves with his family to Montana, he gradually witnesses the story of his parents' marriage in crisis.
The father left, the mother cheated, and the originally quiet and happy life was surging and falling apart. For a 14-year-old boy, such parents and such a life are wild enough.
In addition to the director's attention, the other cast members are also very star-studded.
The male and female protagonists are Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan. The goddess and goddess played a couple this time, and their acting skills were very exciting.
Another very important role is the young Joe, and many comments say that his actor Ed Oxenbold is simply looking for the director's mold.
Indeed, not only the appearance, but also the melancholy and serenity are somewhat similar.
Gyllenhaal (left), Joe (middle), director Paul (right)
His role runs through the entire film, but in the opposite scenes with Gyllenhaal and Mulligan, he does not show any stage fright at all, but is "mature" like a child, just like this film.
Through Joe's perspective, the film witnesses the fragility and collapse of a family in the turbulent social environment of the 1960s.
A 14-year-old boy is experiencing the confusion of youth, the world has not yet opened, and everything around is full of temptation and danger.
The world also seems like a teenager, with virgin hormones that lure people into adventure.
But before Joe has time to explore the truth of the world, he is forced to become a calm adult.
Because of his family, the parents who were supposed to play the role of adults suddenly began to be "rebellious". Instead, they were like two children, ignoring Joe's vision, weak, evasive, and profligate.
Gyllenhaal's father frequently changes jobs, and Joe's family of three frequently changes cities with each change.
This time, they came to Montana, and my father got a job on a golf course.
Originally, my father was out to make money, and my mother took care of the housework. The husband and wife were loving and the family was harmonious, but he couldn't stand "natural and man-made disasters".
There was a forest fire not far away, and the fire was endless, and the air was filled with invisible dust.
The school taught protective measures, but classmates told Joe that it was coming, and you couldn't stop it.
This seems to be a metaphor that life tells Joe in advance, but who knows that the unreachable fire will burn so quickly.
His father lost his job on the golf course, he was reluctant to go to the supermarket as a salesman, and his mother protected his self-esteem.
But within a few days, the family's source of income was cut off.
The mother still forced a smile, cheered up and proposed to find a job to support her family, and she would resign when her husband found a good job.
A family always has to have money to maintain, and this method is not a bad idea.
No one started out as a housewife. The mother was a teacher. At the suggestion of her husband, she stopped going out to work after getting married and having children.
Today, she still gave up the opportunity to recruit teachers and found a job as a swimming coach who was easier to let go in the future.
My father went out every day to look for a job, but he found nothing, or that he had been devastated.
A few days later, someone on the golf course called, admitted his mistake, and wanted to hire his father back to work.
It was a happy event, Joe ran over in a hurry and woke up his father who was sleeping in the car. The father was happy at first, but then turned down the opportunity to show his arrogance.
But is everything under his control? not at all.
The atmosphere at home has undergone subtle changes, and it seems that her mother is happy to be able to work outside the home, and her excitement is beyond words.
The self-respecting father finally decided to find a job, or, in the face of the family burden thrown at him, he chose to escape with another, more high-sounding reason.
He joined the forest fire brigade.
The mother collapsed immediately. When she knew that this job was not a high salary, not only would she have to leave home, but also risk her life, she knew that this was undoubtedly a kind of abandonment.
But Dad had made up his mind, and he seemed relieved to sit in the cargo box of the truck heading for the fire zone.
The mother seemed to be disheartened by this marriage and confronted with her father. She quickly cheered up, but the direction of the cheer began to shift and became mysterious.
She said to Joe:
"I think I should wake up, but I don't know what to wake up from and what to face when I wake up."
She was in a situation she knew she was lost in but couldn't get out of.
Joe often doesn't see her in the morning when he wakes up, and she occasionally forgets to cook for him.
She was very well dressed one day, and when Joe came home, she was sitting on the sofa with a man talking.
His name was Warren Miller, a former soldier, now fat and old, with a limp, but he spoke maturely and had an air of security that women might feel better.
More importantly, he is rich.
He was his mother's student in the swimming pool, and he didn't know what his mother admired more about him.
But at the very least, she was completely tired of her father's "willfulness".
Every time my father changed jobs, the family moved with them. For a family, they had no hometown and no roots under their feet.
She is no longer willing to help her father's self-esteem, and she sees the difference between her husband and Warren:
Warren is "striving for success," but her husband is "striking for shortcuts."
So she can only seek new ways to protect herself.
From this time alone with his mother, Joe re-acquainted with his mother.
He looked at this usually gentle and optimistic mother, but now she changed into simple home clothes and became more wanton, bold and emotional.
She took Joe to the burning forest, and it was the first time Joe really faced the fire, and his heart shook.
His mother wanted to tell him that his father would rather come to a place like this than be a salesman.
But for Joe, all he wants is that his father doesn't die in the fire, that he'll be back when it snows, and that when he gets back, the home can be restored to its original state.
But my mother couldn't wait.
One day, my mother put on her prettiest dress and took Joe to Warren's for dinner.
After drinking, she started dancing, which she said she used to do a lot.
She said to Joe:
"Your parents weren't what they are now."
But when revealing her true self, in front of her still young children, she lost some sense.
She and Warren openly kissed in front of Joe, and they had sex at home for the rest of the time.
Joe passively endured all this, facing this mess, he was overwhelmed and did not dare to act rashly.
Finally, it snowed and my father came back as promised.
But the mother was unwilling to maintain the harmony on the surface, and she had a complete showdown and said that she would move out and live alone.
The father was furious when he found out that they had been messing with Joe's face, and filled Warren's house with a bucket of gasoline, lit the lighter, and the fire knocked both of them to the ground.
The father got a fat beating from Warren, and Warren has been replaced by other women.
Joe couldn't believe his father could do such a thing, and finally couldn't take it anymore. He refused to pull his father off the ground and ran away.
He runs with all his might on the streets late at night, like Antoine's confused in "The Four Hundred Blows," and this seems to be the only moment in the entire film where he can catch his breath.
Eventually, he ran into the police station, where he thought his father would be.
But fortunately, Warren gave up calling the police, and the family of three reunited in the broken home again.
After a long period of resignation, Joe finally questioned his parents: What will happen to our family next?
But in front of him are two adults who can't afford and solve problems, they screw everything up, but no one wants to clean up the mess.
All they can do is separate.
Later, Joe and his father stayed in Montana. The father became a supermarket salesman, and the mother left, and she finally became a teacher.
During those days of poverty, Joe also found a part-time job and worked as an apprentice in a photo studio. He pressed the shutter for countless families.
When his mother came back over the weekend, Joe, who had already left the school, brought his parents, sat in the middle, and took a family photo that belonged to him.
The forest fire was finally extinguished by the heavy snow, and it spread wantonly into Joe's family. The fire was finally reduced by a broken family, in exchange for the precocious maturity of a teenager and the growth of a pair of incompetent parents.
Life has returned to peace again, and everyone is well, but the residual power in everyone's heart will play a role in the whole life.
-FIN - Public account: Xiaoxianmovie (xiaoxianmovie)
View more about Wildlife reviews
