The three people who should not have overlapped in the prison, but not surprisingly they parted ways in the world of Jamusch.
[Zack]
For men who just want to be DJs, there is a graffiti on the wall at home. Life is about dancing, and the key lies in where it goes downhill, not how bad it can be.
Zack's get down soon came. His girlfriend couldn't bear his unwillingness to settle down and had a big fight. Zack silently chose to continue his unknown DJ dream and restlessness in the room, and ended up with his girlfriend indifferently. But judging from the fact that he was addicted to alcohol and sitting on the street at night, Zack should be quite fond of this girlfriend, and he could also use the formula of strengthening the enemy to strengthen me to show his love for drifting. Sitting dazedly on the trash can on the corner of the street, Zack took a task: driving from one place to another, earning $1,000 in cash. Going on the road in a daze, this section is very beautiful, and Jia Muxu's filming of this kind of alienation and glimpse of the world in the car is a must. Halfway through the journey, Zack was taken to prison in a daze by the police because there was a corpse in the trunk.
The film has no cause and effect, thrilling, just a series of random accidents. Zack's get down is here. down by law.
* As a digression, Zack is played by Uncle Tom Waits (I call him Tom and so on) with a charming voice. After listening to his songs for so long, he unexpectedly saw him who was young and wandering in pointed leather shoes. This opening song Jockey Full of Burben is also his famous song. The lyrics written by Uncle Wait is also the first poem.
【Jack】
Jack is a pimp who mixes with women of all colors, but the black girl who slept with him at the beginning spit out and said, Jack, you don’t know what to do, don’t look at you always saying that you have a big plan for tomorrow, that’s Because your today is a mess. My mother said, America is just a small pot, pour some oil into it and the froth rises to the top, is it like you? Jack, look at what I said so much, you didn’t listen to anything, just like a dumb. It's sad that you don't understand anything. As a pimp, you don't even understand women!
Soon after the black girl complained about it, Jack's enemy came to reassure her and offered to give Jack an authentic chick with a taste experience before entering the trip. Jack finally decided to go to the meeting. Upon entering the door, he saw that she was an underage girl who was taken away by the ambushed police. Jack's life bubble burst and he was down in front of the law.
【Bob】
Another new immigrant who gave himself an American name reminds us of Willie in "The Shadow of Paradise".
Bob seems to have arrived not long ago, and his English is really not good, so bring a small notebook with him to write down the words and sentences that others have said (same as me, hahaha). Bob is the first time Bernini has appeared in an English movie, but his comedy talent has been fully revealed in this movie, and he can't help but press the pause button and laugh for a while.
The first two were both innocents who were framed and imprisoned. Only Bob, an Italian who did not seem to have a murderous temperament at all, was a real murderer. Bob played cards and cheated and was chased, and he threw billiard balls to each other. Black 8 missed the opponent and killed him. Become a murderer so absurdly.
The three men assembled in prison by accident.
Then began to get bored, playing cards and chatting. Jack and Zack have no intention of communicating, but this new immigrant insists on calling everyone my friends. Even if nobody pays him, he must talk to himself in the air. He likes Whitman's set of blades of grass and shouts leaves of glass, listen. It really feels crystal clear and crisp when I look up; I learned a scream, so I scream, You scream, We all scream for Ice cream, which became the slogan in prison for a while, and the collective shouting was absurd.
Bob finally learned from the American movie to escape from prison. After the three people ran out, the first sentence to stop and breathe was, we really ran out, just like in American movies! The process of escaping and hunting are all taken away by absurdity and drama. We see all kinds of beautiful scenes here, no one doubts the logic, busy taking screenshots as the desktop, so beautiful that there is no language. Such a poetic escape from prison is unprecedented.
The three of them came to the hut in the woods and took a look. Oh, it looks like a prison. The upper and lower bunks are the same as the walls of the house. The prison also has quilts and food. There is nothing but matches and candles. There is nothing here. It's better to play cards in the prison. .
The three of them were about to leave the next day, rowing a leaky boat, and turning around in the lake for a circle that had no way out, until the boat sank and there was no way out in life, but the big panoramic lens of this circle was beautiful, I won’t get tired of watching it any longer. At night, after complaining to each other, Zack and Jack walked into the grove, speaking poetic language, thinking about the philosophical life and future. In the end, he was defeated by his physical instinct that he was about to starve to death, and he turned to Bob's tire-like roasted rabbit.
Bob acts as the only person in the film who is afraid of loneliness. He always talks to people, wants to be friends with people, finds ways to escape, finds food in the forest, and then meets the Italian woman in the forest shop. He tries hard to be with people. Intersecting, wanting a stable life, represents secular standards, and represents staying.
In the end, he fell in love with the Italian woman in the shop and stayed in the shop to live (this actress is Bernini who fell in love on the set at first sight, and later really became his wife Blaskey, and also the heroine of "Life is Beautiful").
Bob uses food, sunshine and a stable life to keep his "friends", but Jack and Zack are determined to leave. Bob lost his English study notebook on the way to escape, and his final destination is still a woman from Italy. The United States he wants to work hard to integrate into is an eternal foreign land that can be reached but cannot be reached.
As Americans, Zack and Jack, they are the alienated people in the world of Jamux on the road, and they are strangers to everyone. Zack is going west, Jack is going east.
Even at an intersection with no sign, which side is east and which side Zack says is west?
Jack replied, don't worry, you can go one way, and I'll go the other way.
People meet ridiculously, seem to have a relationship, emotions eventually return to the origin, and gradually the places that they are acquainted with will always leave.
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