Although Frank is telling the story of an indie band and uses Frank as the name of the film, I don’t think it’s actually a "music film", nor did it intend to pass on a special musician. In fact, its theme is still It's still the old theme: the helplessness of life, and the dream that will surely sober, it's just that the band is used as a carrier to tell the story-but damn it, it tells it really well.
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The perspective of the movie is based on Jon, an ordinary young man. Why should he start? I'll talk about this later. In short, this young man who yearned for music but could only be trapped in the office by Xiao Xiang, by chance, came across a weird band. They lived and made music together.
It was through him that the audience got to know a Frank who has a unique spiritual world. He never shows himself in his true colors, but has a special charm, innocent, kind, fragile, and talented.
In this neurotic band, everyone looks very unreasonable. Don, who has sex with dolls, and Clara, who is irritable, are all weird like Frank's headgear. In the first half of the movie, Jon, who represents a normal society Instead, he became a stranger in that isolated wooden house. But they still maintain a considerable balance to a certain extent. The abnormal ones have maintained their self-sufficiency for a year with the funds provided by normal Jon. The normal Jon depends on the abnormal ones and they look better for the first time in this year. Close to my music dream.
Unfortunately, this balance did not last for long, and the story quickly took a turn for the worse when the band was given the opportunity to perform at the Northwest Music Festival because of the network media managed by Jon.
If this is Hollywood, then maybe the movie will enable this group of weird people to finally shine under the opportunity and complete an inspirational fairy tale that "freaks can succeed".
It is a pity that it is not. In fact, the viewers gradually realize with anxiety that the more the film goes to the climax of the music festival, the more a kind of disorder and derailment will be added.
In the end, this panic was finally confirmed.
Here we discuss a question first, at the last performance of the festival, if everything goes as usual and no one is absent from the band, will this performance be successful?
The answer is no. will never.
There is another question. Why did this film about music never fully present the band's work before the festival? As viewers, it seems that we have no way of knowing what kind of songs are in the album that they have spent a year of hard work and collective creation. We only know what weird elements they used, but we don't know what they will look like in the end.
Because in fact, their album is not important, it will be unheard of, just like they are doomed to fail at a music festival, whether it is themselves or their music, in essence, it does not belong to that place. , They belong to the unnamed mountain, belong to the decadent tavern, belong to the dead silence without echo and cheers.
This is the root of the contradiction. The reason why they are them and the reason Frank is Frank is because they do not belong to a normal society. They are like fish that can survive in a vacuum, in another field that is different from the ordinary world. Li can breathe freely, but once ashore, he can only suffocate to death.
As a member of Clara, she knows this well, so she is so opposed to the band going to the music festival, and against any possibility of the band becoming famous, because she knows that the ending will fail. The other two people actually knew it well, but Frank, the soul of the band, was the only one who worked with Jon, who was an ordinary person, to the end. Until he fell, he admitted that the reality generally tried to cater to him and Jon. The audience’s tasted tunes said, “These music is terrible.”
Because Frank, like Jon, is trying to be a person who crosses boundaries. Jon wants to go into the water, Frank wants to go into the air. Jon wants to get rid of the mediocre mediocrity and grasp the dream he really loves, and Frank, he gritted his teeth and insisted in this increasingly difficult air, the whole person is already tense like a string, but he still leaves Clara to grasp Holding Jon's hand, after hearing Jon say that 70,000 people had already watched their video, he managed to sit up and stayed.
He is always a shy child. He doesn’t want people to see what he looks like, but his dream has always been very simple. He wants to tell more people that he loves the world and everything he understands or doesn’t understand. Things, people with life or benches without life, he is willing to treat them with all his heart.
This is also what makes this character feel very heartbroken. He is a fish that swims to the shore in order to talk to more people, and ends up stranded. With all his efforts, he wants to get close to that world and respond to all "people who look forward to him and love him".
Tell them, I love you all.
But in the eyes of outsiders? Just like what the little brother Jon heard in the restaurant commented, ah, you are those weird guys, ah, you guys are so funny.
Although Jon's response was, "I don't think it hilarious at all." I don't feel funny at all. (By the way, this is what I think about the whole movie.)
But even Jon is still not a person in that world. His creative source of musical genius is always connected with childhood misfortunes and painful experiences, he imagines Frank comes from an unfortunate family, imagine that Frank has a broken face, until later he realizes that there has never been any painful accident or family misfortune.
Frank is just Frank. His musical talent and his mental illness are all talents. They are all objective facts that existed from the beginning.
If there is talent, there will be no. You are this kind of person, or that kind of person, it's all the same, it's all objective facts that have long been set.
Weird fringe elements such as Frank or Don, they cannot integrate into the mainstream of society, not because they choose to do so, but because they are such a person.
A normal person like Jon has no way to integrate into the world he dreams of and works tirelessly for, not because he has no experience of suffering, but because he is not that kind of person.
They each belong to their own world. The two worlds in the mountain for a year, merged and compromised for a short time, but soon they will fall apart and go their separate ways.
This is also the reason why the film is developed from Jon's perspective. The audience following him is experiencing the same process of dreaming and waking up.
All dreams that seem to be achievable in reality are after all an illusion of self-deception. You think you have caught it, but in fact it never belongs to you.
Like Don said, one day you will realize that you can't be Frank. Jon can't become Frank, and Frank can't actually become Jon.
What can we do?
Nothing to do, Frank finally returned to his friends. He didn't wear a mask and sang I love you all.
The innocent love for the world in his chest is good enough for these few people to understand, and the world does not need to know.
And Jon left his dream, his enthusiasm for music, he knew it, it was not necessary to know music.
So can you understand this kind of heart-stuck feeling? Because this is a story that cannot be more realistic, but there is no ending that can be more powerless than reality. Although this movie is wrapped in all kinds of absurdity and cold humor, it is actually just a hidden needle in the cotton, which tells you with a smile.
Admit it, that's it.
In the end, to life, to dreams, but an unrequited love for a destined ending, I love you, and you don't care at all.
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seems to be in the middle of the word......Look Everyone was very heartbroken, and there was a strange sense of comfort-ah finally someone was with me [wait
In fact, looking back this commentary, but also feel a little too pessimistic depression
at the time of writing this when it is so self-refuted, so only the title and the last sentence of deliberately turn write (do not know if anyone can get to)
title It was my negative protest against the last sentence I wrote, and it was also the ending sound that the movie wanted to convey to us when Frank finally sang in the tavern
—the world doesn’t care, but what does it matter, I still love everything about it.
yes ah, although the outcome of life is doomed, but that does not negate its process
unrequited love although there is no fruit, but the heart, love itself is a valuable thing, is not it
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