Apartment Adventure

Megane 2022-04-19 09:01:42

Billy Wilder's films are captivating for their hilarious performance designs, but the story told in this film is hardly a comedy, with an almost absurd tale of a man growing up through a crush . There are many classic lines in the movie where the characters pour out their love. For example, the boss said, "Why does a man like me go out to chase girls? Because I feel lonely at home, this is the real reason." This sentence shows that many cheating men Another example is the doctor's wife saying to the heroine who committed suicide: "Girls like you should form a happy family instead of taking sleeping pills." People just don't know how to do things that are really good for themselves, right? And the heroine also has the classic line "Why didn't I fall in love with someone as nice as you?".

In addition to the above-mentioned straightforward expressions, the film also uses a lot of one-word puns to express the characters' thoughts. For example, the hero mentioned that his girlfriend who broke up before will still send fruit cakes, and the heroine also sends fruit cakes. The description to the lover humorously expresses that he has ended the relationship with the other party, and the female protagonist wants to ask the male protagonist if he has attempted suicide, but asks "Is your knee okay?" Because the male protagonist once did not commit suicide when he committed suicide Be careful to hit the knee; of course, the most classic is when the male protagonist expresses his love to the female protagonist at the end of the film, the female protagonist responds by saying "shut up and deal." Deal has both the meaning of playing cards and making a deal, and its significance is self-evident . The last sound, similar to gunshots but actually opening champagne, was the director playing a little joke with us. The bubbles in the champagne gradually calmed down from intense, which also implied that the mood and life of the protagonists finally came to an end. To come to an end from the storm.

That's right, although the movie ends with a happy ending, the hidden sense of disharmony in the relationship between the two still makes the audience feel uneasy about the future lives of the protagonists. This is what confuses the audience the most. It seems to have explained something to us, and it seems to have explained nothing. The protagonist finally chose the latter in career and emotion to educate us not to be trapped by material things? As if it wasn't that simple... It's hard to judge the value of this movie from the script's value. But what I want to say is that the movie "The Apartment" is far less valuable in terms of plot than the movie itself. From photography to editing, from scene scheduling to performance, it is a good movie that is worth learning over and over again for future generations. .

83/100

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  • Kelsie 2022-01-27 08:06:59

    The quality of Billy Wilder is that it will not be outdated for fifty years.

  • Randi 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    What a masterpiece. The love between the vain clerk and the blue-collar female worker who can't write is so pure and lovely. Chinese men and women who have also entered the era of market economy can only be helplessly "represented" on the screen by a bunch of stupid screenwriters.

The Apartment quotes

  • C.C. Baxter: I know how you feel, Miss Kubelik. You think it's the end of the world - but it's not, really. I went through exactly the same thing myself.

    Fran Kubelik: You did?

    C.C. Baxter: Well, maybe not exactly - I tried to do it with a gun.

    Fran Kubelik: Over a girl?

    C.C. Baxter: Worse than that - She was the wife of my best friend. And I was mad for her, but I knew it was hopeless. So I decided to end it all. I went to a pawnshop and bought a forty-five automatic and drove up to Eden Park. Do you know Cincinnati?

    Fran Kubelik: No, I don't.

    C.C. Baxter: Anyway, I parked the car and loaded the gun... Well, you read in the papers all the time that people shoot themselves, but believe me, it's not that easy. I mean, how do you do it?

    [cocks his finger, and points to his temple]

    C.C. Baxter: Here?

    [points to his mouth]

    C.C. Baxter: Or here?

    [points to his chest]

    C.C. Baxter: Or here? You know where I finally shot myself?

    Fran Kubelik: Where?

    C.C. Baxter: [indicating kneecap] Here.

    Fran Kubelik: In the knee?

    C.C. Baxter: Uh-huh. While I was sitting there, trying to make my mind up, a cop stuck his head in the car, because I was illegally parked. So I started to hide the gun under the seat and it went off - pow!

    Fran Kubelik: [laughing] That's terrible.

    C.C. Baxter: Yeah. Took me a year before I could bend my knee - but I got over the girl in three weeks. She still lives in Cincinnati, has four kids, gained twenty pounds. She sends me a fruit cake every Christmas.

  • Dr. Dreyfuss: Nice veins.