In fact, normally speaking, people's impression of him should come from the "Motorcycle Diary" adapted from the biography of Che Guevara. What is more confusing is that I have owned this disc for a long time, but it has never been opened. I don't know if I want to keep the cool image of Che Guevara smoking a cigar in bed, or I'm afraid that this motorcycle can't carry the weight of the red era. In short, I followed Gael García Bernal through a different process than others.
When I like him, it's in "Y tu mamá también". The cover of the disc cover shows two boys and a woman. The Chinese translation is "Paradise Lost". In fact, Mexican is a foul language, similar to fuck your mother or something, so When it comes to the English translation, it is a very direct "And your Mother too", so is your mother. It was not until I watched this film for a long time that I knew that it was the famous film of the famous Mexican ghost director Alfonso Cuarón.
Gael García Bernal plays a teenager who is tortured by adolescence and falls in love with a mature woman. The movie is not as boring as the title expects - at the beginning of the movie, two pairs of young boys and girls are stripped naked and making love in sweat. Then the boys' girlfriends all go on vacation to Italy, leaving two teenage boys with a lot of energy and a long, idle summer. During this period, Gael García Bernal had full nudity shots, which were intense summers in Mexico. So it doesn't seem erotic. On the contrary, with the development of the plot, there is a sad woman who only knew her husband was having an affair before she got married, and the director played the bridge section of a road movie. Just like the aimless impetuousness, sadness, ambiguity, vulnerability and kindness that we have all experienced in adolescence. The answer was not revealed until the end, leaving two boys who grew up all at once. This is about youth, and at the moment of growth, it means abandoning the excuses without any scruples and entering the sentimentality that can no longer spread, and from then on will bear the helplessness of the adult world.
Gael García Bernal is almost in character in this film. Youth at that time, shy, handsome, mixed with the indescribable enthusiasm that Mexicans are born with, but not slutty. Somehow this Gael García Bernal always reminds me of Brad Pitt in Hollywood.
This idea was confirmed a year later. In the late 2006 Hollywood blockbuster "Babel", Babel, director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who had shot 21 grams, invited Pete and Gael Garcia to star in the American section and the Mexican section respectively, but only Americans were killed in Morocco, while Mexicans were mistakenly apprehended at the U.S. border. It is worth mentioning that, in terms of styling, Pitt has changed his appearance as a handsome boy in the past, leaving the same sloppy beard, which is similar to Gael Garcia's Mexican-style appearance. It seems that everyone has the same impression of Gael Garcia.
In fact, in "Tower of Babel", Pitt and Gael Garcia don't have many scenes. Because the plot is divided into several segments, the stories that seem to exist independently are actually inextricably linked. I love this movie very much, although the propaganda says that the tower of Babel comes from mythology, which means that human beings need to listen and communicate to survive. However, in the various problems between nations and countries described in the play, it can be seen that cultural transmission methods such as movies have carried philosophical awareness. How should we face the current crises? Or the turbulent instability of world trends? This time American culture did not promote the American spirit of saving the world as usual, but such a blockbuster is incomparable to a thousand golden armors frying ten thousand old scripts. They are making movies, and our current movies are making gimmicks.
Turn back to Gael García Bernal. Later, when I checked the movies he acted in, I found out that he is also featured in "Love is a Bitch", and Almodovar's famous work "Bad Education", but I didn't pay close attention to him. While looking through other films that I haven't seen or heard of, almost every one is a low-budget Mexican film, but the brief introduction is enough to entice me.
I still like these low-key small country films. For example, Mexican films and Spanish films have some imagination in terms of technique and color, and French films and Italian films have some similarities. As for the British black humor common in British films, it is often A species that I relish. Compared with those movies that are under the banner of blockbusters and succumbed to others, such small movies are purer and more sincere. The human nature discussed in those films, whether it is dark or decadent, is just a portrayal of the real soul that you and I usually use to cover up with appearance.
I gradually remembered that I was moved by Gael García Bernal because of his ignorant, impetuous and arrogant appearance, but a slightly shy smile.
I really want to collect all his movies.
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