It's beautiful because it's limited

Arden 2022-10-23 07:15:13

Youdu said that Once was a good movie, and I had to watch it, but I didn't agree with it even after watching the movie introduction. When it really started, it still felt rough, like a video project made by a college student, full of youthful memories. If you think about that girl, go get her back! It's better to play music than to record and try to recommend yourself to the record company! Compared with the boys who are good at work, it is of course better to let the latter go for a day! Astringent but pleasing.

So the first half passed in the position of chasing the camera, one was thinking of the video of foreigners learning Japanese played by the teacher, and the other was thinking, isn't this the making of (our album) that the band indie wants to break through the market...? Chen Qizhen, who is very tight. At the beginning, it was abrupt and unnatural, and it got better in the middle part. As the producer said, gradually the audience gradually forgot where the camera was as the relationship between the guy and the girl deepened, and they really began to watch the drama with the protagonists. Making records together briefly breathes life together.

In the interview, the director said that he didn't need a perfect script, and he was impatient to spend a year and a half to write just one script, so the production of Once was based on only a 60-page script. The film co-produced by the director and his friends gives the feeling of home-made / bedroom or garage production. It seems that it comes from the reason why everyone is thinking about how the story will happen and develop.

Once so touching, melodic's ballad is a natural contribution, and more importantly, the guy and the girl have a short-lived relationship, and the two have concurrent fireworks, ripples and reverberations in a short moment. Yes, the story is useless at all [the protagonist does not need to have a name (the audience will substitute it more thoroughly)], the important thing is to catch the moment that happened - the kind of thing that seemed to happen at the time and should happen, but in the end it didn't because of reason. Let it happen, and in retrospect, I am still moved or excited and reluctant to part with it, or regret how it didn't work out at the time. Later memories are like images under a soft mirror - the afternoon sun is particularly beautiful, and it seems that there will never be another chance in this life.

Beautiful, because of the limited period.


Background Music: Heysatan - Sigur Rós

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Extended Reading
  • Marcelle 2022-04-21 09:02:17

    Love is captivating.

  • Arnold 2022-04-19 08:01:03

    #Addendum# The first John Carney movie I watched two years ago, it is estimated that most people started from this, and it has been 10 years since it was shot. At the time, I felt that there were a lot of problems with the camera, and I didn't really like the story (but it was kind, yes, that's the word), but the music and good actors made up for it a lot. The ending shot is good, but it's hard to shoot at a low cost. Losers in the eyes of others can also live well.

Once quotes

  • Girl: Fuck you, batteries!

  • Guy: What's the Czech for "Do you love him"?