This might be the Coen Brothers' best movie.
An artistic youth, a run-down hotel, a trip to Hollywood...
Patton is a screenwriter. As soon as a play he wrote was welcomed and recognized by the audience, he was recommended to go to Hollywood. Although he was smug and hesitant, he still could not refuse the desire to become famous, so...
At the beginning of the film, the camera is facing the wallpaper in the room. Later, it becomes a metaphor. Barton's life is like the wallpaper that is pasted.
The first picture, like a frozen stage still, there is a big mosquito on Patton's forehead, that face is distorted, stubborn and crazy, the shadow of the mosquito is like an annoying life, lingering, he is like a mentally ill patient.
What a movie is, you can tell in the first few minutes that a good movie is straight to the point.
Patton's pain and sorrow came from not being able to distinguish between art and life. He wanted to write masterpieces, and he believed that only works that reflected civilian life were valuable. He was withdrawn and cowardly, and was sensitive and shy by nature. It's a mess, and when I get to Hollywood, I don't get used to it.
In the end, he finally completed the script and actually wrote a wrestling between himself and himself, full of evil and charming imagination, what an unexpected work, but what capital wants is only mediocre and superficial entertainment, with action gimmicks, and the scenes are fun, no surprises , his Hollywood tour ended in frustration.
Life should keep a certain distance from art and should not be confused with each other. Boundaries are like the box that you carry with you. When you open it, you will fall into madness. In the pursuit of truth in art, Barton struggles to find inspiration, but regards his life as real material. , it is easy to burn out a little bit of self. Anyone who writes novels knows that, except for the first novel, most of them are written about their real life experiences, and other works are based on intuition and observation of life. ...better wake up early.
This is a portrait of a typical artistic youth.
To some extent, there is also a shadow of the director himself. We know that the films of the Coen brothers are all independently produced. The older brother Joel Cohen is the director, and the younger brother Ethan Cohen is the co-writer.
Someone used psychoanalysis to analyze a bunch of things about the ego and the id. I don't think it's necessary. It's just like making such a story like a suspense thriller, just to make the movie more fun and beautiful. go in.
The best thing about this film is that the Coen brothers made the reality and reality blend together. From the painting on the hotel wall to the seaside scene at the end of the film, it looks beautiful.
The great thing about a good artwork is that it expresses that kind of feeling. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is classical in that it only ends up in a vast white land and is really clean, while "Barton Funk" is modern.
Life is miserable, not as good as a poem by Tao Yuanming, tossing the self-worth of existence, in the end, everything is like a broken dream, but fortunately there is art to provide consolation.
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