This is similar to the feeling when I watched Lao Ma's "Hugo". It's not that "Hugo" is bad, it's just that compared to its previous works, this emotional blockbuster that pays homage to film always feels like something is missing. It's as if a white-haired old horse is posing in front of you with great fanfare, just when you feel that he is about to play a big game, he kindly takes out a box of flying chess
... Well, the Coen brothers didn't break down for too long, and this film didn't become a small, fresh and inspirational chicken soup for the soul in the Hollywood tradition. It's refreshing, but not inspiring, and in some ways, it's more of a documentary. There are many places in the film that make audiences who have been brainwashed by traditional inspirational films feel that the male protagonist will turn around. For example, he came to Chicago to find Grossman, and in front of him, he had a kind of "I was moved to cry by myself" in front of him. Playing his own music emotionally and affectionately, how many people thought that Grossman, who had been staring at him blankly, would say "I want you" and make the male protagonist completely on the road to success, his sentence "I didn't listen to him". What business opportunities are there?" The audience was suddenly brought back to reality. And at the end of the film, the whole story goes back to where it started, and the whole movie doesn't seem to tell anything at all.
There is no ups and downs of the plot, there is no happy ending, this is the reality. The Coen brothers said that the stories of the winners have all been filmed by Hollywood, and we can only make the stories of the losers. In other words, they are filming the end of the majority of the losers in society, and the case of the few who succeed has been filmed time and time again by Hollywood. Dissatisfied with Hollywood, in order to cater to the audience's desire to watch chicken soup for the soul, they use individual people's counterattacks to weaken the failures of most people, and they shoot what they think is the most true story. From this point of view, they are quite similar to the director of "Son of Sol" Las Vegas Nemes.
In the end, Levis compromised. Fortunately, he did not compromise with the audience, but with himself. At that time, the audience was chasing after the multi-person chorus-style folk songs. It can be said that the chorus is a symbol of compromise. Although Levis had been singing with friends before, he couldn't accept joining a group of people he didn't know in order to please the audience. Even when he was really desperate in the end, he was unwilling to make this compromise against his own musical philosophy. If you can't keep going on the road of music, then go back to being a seaman.
But people don't know if he can be a good seaman because he lost his sea permit again.
Sure enough, some people are destined to be the cruelest kind in reality - they are destined to be a tragedy. . .
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