Everyone was born in the world alone, and is about to face death alone.
If there is no last judgment, that day and night change, eternity will be the shackles on the vampire. Loneliness, lingering, loneliness, day and night cycle.
Only Jia Muxu can make a vampire story about loneliness, music addiction, and literary death. If you think about it, if Lynch is making a movie of this theme, maybe it will evolve into Tilda waking up to find that he is Ava, which has caused many fans to speculate for several years. But when Bolton shoots this kind of theme, the cuteness of the characters will be Loneliness erased 7 points.
Fortunately, it is the film of Jiamuxu, all kinds of loneliness, loneliness, blur, the Buddha without a head and no tail, hesitating to speak, but all kinds of dark lines, open lines, deep in the scene, in the costumes, on the props, and In the lines, people can't stop.
The story of loneliness, the lonely person, especially the use of various empty shots, inevitably reminds me of another Wong Kar-wai who has a special preference for the theme of "loneliness". The difference is that Wong Kar-wai's movies always use a lot of monologues to expand the loneliness of the characters in the 16:9 frame. At first glance, they seem to be chattering, but after a few years, I have loved, hated, lost, lost, and looked back. Picking up the DVD, I found out that he just talked about something you might experience in many years. It’s just that, no matter how much you understand in his movies, you always wonder why actors don’t express their feelings directly, they always like monologues and misses. But in the end, I realized that his loneliness is that I want you to understand my heart. The story in my heart can tell thousands of people, but you are the only one.
Without the monologue, the loneliness is poured into the viewer's heart from the picture and the music in Jiamuxu's movie.
Don't forget, loneliness and loneliness are always based on the individual. That is, the lovers in his movie love each other but each endure the pain of time.
The opening montage footage, the rotating vinyl record, the clockwise rotation of Tilda and Tom’s lens superimposed, announcing that this is a man and a woman, as well as a story about music and eternity. It is also a lonely to death story.
Adam and Eve in Genesis stole the fruit, was driven out of the Garden of Eden by God, and suffered for many years. But, stop thinking, the loneliest thing in Genesis is this pair.
In Jamusch’s movie, he named his two loneliest people, also named Adam and Eve, and put the Buddha. The fruit that Adam and Eve stolen was the medicine for immortality, so they deserved to receive it. The suffering of eternal life.
A couple who was banished in time, separated and reunited for many years, even married three times, has already seen the world. Even if one lives in seclusion in the Middle East and the other hides in Detroit to play music, the movie does not explain how many years they have been apart this time, but at least Eve ran from the Middle East to Detroit to meet Adam with a single miss. It can be seen that this kind of love!
The funny thing about the movie lies in the small anti-modern details. For example, Adam saw Eve, the old manners of the two. Eve and Adam’s Facetime, one uses an Iphone, and the other uses a self-assembled display, and this display is an early color picture tube TV.
When Eve saw the photos of their third marriage in the 19th century, he was still as sweet as ever, and exclaimed how handsome he was back then.
But as soon as the lens moved to the wall, the wall was full of photos of art masters of various centuries, which looked so small compared to the wedding photos in hand. Eve understands that he loves her, but Adam's favorite is music.
At the beginning of the movie, the deal between Adam and Ian, he was very precious to the various musical instruments Ian brought. Looking at the scene, he felt that this man, like a mathematician and a philosopher, is the loneliest creature in the world. Come to think of it, if a person has a feeling of love to death and love to the bones for a thing, then this person must be lonely. Like Yu Ji in Farewell My Concubine, the world is incomprehensibly addicted.
Fortunately, Eve can understand Adam. Of course, this understanding is that the two are infinitely close, understand each other's loneliness, but can't share something. And this happens to be a necessary condition for them to spend a thousand years together.
In the movie, what moved me the most was the final ending. Kit chose to end immortality and died. He let go of his literature, because he found his successor, so he had no love.
Eve and Adam were standing on the street with the last bottle of plasma. Eve asked Adam for money and ran to buy a Mandolin to give to Adam. Adam, who was dying, was also addicted to singing in the teahouse that happened on the corner. How much she loves him, how much he loves music. Therefore, the two are destined to be alone.
Men are music freaks, women are book freaks. It seems that human civilization has lasted for thousands of years. Only these two are endless. They are not afraid of the barrier of the Tower of Babel and are full of vitality all over the world.
Eve traveled to Detroit. He had to read the books at home, carefully selected and read them, and mentioned Detroit in a box, but he didn't see the clothes in the box. As for the sister Ava, the director later gave me clothes on the bed, on the floor, and everywhere. Then I got into trouble and drank Ian, and was thrown out of the house by my sister and brother-in-law. She picked up her fur and cursed at the same time.
It can be seen how important it is to change the age of a vampire, how obvious is the difference between a mature woman and a light girl, a goddess and a young tooth.
In an important part of the movie, the music madman Adam secretly hid a pistol filled with special bullets that could end immortality. Eve found his pistol. In order to scare him, he aimed it at his chest. He snatched the pistol and seriously warned her not to make such a joke. Because he knew that if Eve pulled that shot into his chest, that would really take away his desire for life.
Just like the title of the movie, Only lover left alive, if you die, do you think I will suffer the pain of eternal life alone?
If, you and me, can live in infinite time, is our life so dull, endless loop.
Just like Adam and Eve in the movie, no one can guarantee that they will continue to live apart and reunite after breaking up? But the only warm thing is that in this world, there is no other Eve who can love Adam more.
Therefore, we can't blame Jia Muxu for spending 122 minutes to create a dull life between two immortal vampires, but at least it ended well.
With the label of Jamush and starring Tilda and Tom, the picture is hard not to be beautiful. The overall blue tone, whether from the story or the color of the film, implies that this is a story with a sense of distance.
Probably because this film is mainly mid-range shots, there are not many close-ups of the characters, and Tom, in order to get rid of Thor's shadow, tried his best to restrain the performance, and always felt that there was less spark with Tilda. The feelings of the two always present a warm and cold rhythm.
After watching the movie, the result of the discussion with Xu Tongxie in the middle of the night is that this movie is not a fanatical love, but I like it very much. I like every little detail, but there is always a sense of alienation that cannot be lost.
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