At the end of the film, Francis accepted the position of executive of the dance troupe, which was a small compromise to life, and the story came to an end. So the stories that happened before may all be regarded as Francis's "struggle" before compromise. What's touching is that in this struggle, even if the situation is often bitter, Francis always maintains her humorous, weird, truthful, and easy to fall personality. When you get a tax refund on hand, you happily invite your male partner to dinner, and even ran two streets to find a cash machine; when you were penniless, you said to leave and went to Paris; when you didn’t have a job, you also told your friends that you were busy on the Christmas tour. ; When it seemed that he could not go on, he still resolutely said no to the administrative work and insisted on dancing. These "struggles" seem somewhat stubborn in the face of reality, after all, a compromise must be made in the end. However, it is the process of her "struggle" that constitutes the most moving part of the film. Compared with other movie heroines, Francis’s charm is that the happiness she shows does not come from love, or even friendship, from luck falling from the sky, or any thing that happens to her, on the contrary, she The story is a small step of mundane compromise. But because of this, the charm of the characters themselves is amplified here. This is very similar to another independent film "Juneo". The two movies, which are also named after the heroine, tell stories that are not enviable in themselves, but become interesting and moving only because of the protagonist's personality. The personality here refers to Juno's courage and Francis's happy and persistent attitude towards life. The black-and-white photography and the literary atmosphere make this film known as the contemporary "Manhattan" or "Annie Hall". Francis obviously has fewer complaints and whispers than Woody Allen, but he does not have the heroine of his own that Allen yearns for. Diane Keaton's free and easy temperament, some of her can be in the same embarrassing situation. The "silly" spirit of self-satisfaction. At the end of a Christmas dinner scene, Fran touched all the "decent people" present with a drunken mantra after saying countless wrong sentences, but it showed a kind of cuteness. She can actually feel the pain in life, including moving away from her best friend, her financial situation getting tighter, and the more she sees her dreams, the more unreal. But the film does not give people the feeling of despair for a moment. The most impressive is the part of her running on the street with David Bowie's "modern love", which is so happy that she is really likable. The 27-year-old Francis made a small compromise after this fragmentary and bitter growth, and at the same time achieved a more satisfactory ending. But as long as life continues, she will continue to run...
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