Smoke Comments

  • Abigayle 2022-09-21 08:17:44

    To borrow a line from the film to Paul Auster, "To make up a story, you have to know what a chain is. You're a master, I'd...

  • Alphonso 2022-09-14 22:35:04

    The script is...

  • Vaughn 2022-09-09 04:34:05

    Didn't watch a good movie. ....

  • Kamron 2022-09-07 09:49:42

    Standard four and a half star movie. This is probably (almost certainly) my favorite of Wang Ying's works. A bit of a Jarmusch and Ang Lee hybrid, holding just the right line between alienation and warmth. To put it bluntly, it is the story of an ordinary New Yorker, but his shooting method is too delicate, so the charm is long, and you can't help but think that every passerby who may pass by has his own story that is not told to others. BTW remember this golden sentence: Bullshit is a real...

  • Armando 2022-09-03 08:09:07

    It turns out that this is Paul Oster's "Christmas Story". God will naturally arrange for every middle-aged man who is kind to others to be his father. . In this movie, Harvey Keitel is really an angel and beautiful. The story of soothing the black orphan is obviously a special Christmas story, but it is very right to tell him in the end, and the last black and white shot is superfluous (although It was Tom Waits who came to sing the Christmas song) ps Jared Harris played the role of a small...

  • Abagail 2022-09-03 01:02:36

    Wang Ying’s fragmented narrative records the entire story from the perspective of a lonely writer. The original author’s skill is fiction (he often throws out some memorable short stories), so the whole story is more like savoring a warm and moving novel , Especially the black and white narrative at the end, the finishing touch. The comparison between black and white youths, plus the details that the grandmother actually knows that Auggie is not a grandson||The screenwriter is Paul Auster, no...

  • Nikolas 2022-08-08 21:46:09

    The story that William Hurt's character tells about the son who found his dead father's body frozen on a mountain is the same story that Paul Auster uses in his novel, "The New York...

  • Gabe 2022-08-08 21:39:57

    Each short story is very simple, but you will see yourself in a certain short...

  • Leonard 2022-08-08 21:35:18

    One flaw: How could Auggie put such important things that require a dry environment under the water bucket? Showing traces of...

  • Lysanne 2022-08-08 18:47:55

    Warm christmas...

Extended Reading

Smoke quotes

  • Thomas 'Rashid' Cole: If I'm getting on your nerves, you might want to think about hiring me.

  • Ruby McNutt: You didn't write to me for over a year. What was I supposed to think?

    Auggie Wren: Yeah well, I lost my pen. By the time I got a new one, I was clean outa paper.