I checked the information on the Internet, and I heard that the director was based on a friend of Bob Dylan, and the memoir "The Mayor of McDougall Street" by Dave Van Juncker, a folk singer in the 1960s. This book's description of the environment at that time, but it is not like bob dylan or dave van junker, it is just a story of a poor and unexpected musician who is wandering around and no one is buying records. In the 1960s, when dylan was red and purple, Dave van Juncker was already a veteran figure in the folk music industry, and most folk musicians had special respect for him.
So the Coen brothers just used one container, one environment, the same bar, and the same era, and put it in a loser!! Instead of dylan or Junkers. Or as one fan put it, the Coen brothers' films highlight a certain era, not a certain person.
So the protagonist of this movie actually did nothing, except being scolded by his girlfriend as bullshit. The movie begins with the protagonist living in a friend's house, then goes to Chicago to find a job to no avail, and finally returns to New York to have nothing to do. In order to show that the protagonist has a trace of blood, when the protagonist heard that his girlfriend had sex with the boss in order to give him a chance to perform, he scolded a female singer who was performing, and the film was finally beaten by the female singer's boyfriend. Is not very useless?
If you don't understand that era (interestingly, Cohen and Dylan were both born in Minnesota, and the Coen brothers themselves came from that era, or were heavily influenced by it), it's impossible to understand what Cohen was trying to convey. Might be misjudged, telling the story of a down-and-out folk singer? But the story doesn't tell the audience that you have to keep working hard, it doesn't express that kind of inspirational spirit. Just telling a story, and the frame of the story is the 1960s, and folk songs are on the rise. If it's just a story, then the movie has no value.
Therefore, my final evaluation is that the meaning of the era in which the environment of the film itself is located is higher than the plot of the film. Maybe this is Cohen's film gameplay.
There is a scene in the movie where the protagonist records "please mrs.kennedy" in the studio, and the background is that the then US President Kennedy strongly supported the space program, so the lyrics joke: don't shoot me into space. bob dylan or the folk singers at that time lived in a turbulent era, the Second World War just ended, everything was left to be rebuilt, and everything was waiting to be rebuilt. It was also in that era that the United States was fighting with Vietnam; it was in that era that Martin Luther King Jr. launched the "March on Washington" in 1963 and delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial; It was in that year that the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted (October 1962), the peak of the Cold War and the closest humanity was to a full-scale nuclear war; while China fought a victory with India in 1962; and in Europe in 1961, Berlin Wall is built.
In other words, each era has its story and its mission. Cohen's film may express the mission of that era, the story of that era, although it is only about music, and the background needs to be interpreted by the audience.
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