Instead of talking about the filming techniques and expressions of the film "Frank", it's better to talk about the typical phenomena and typical characters it expresses.
Watching this film will probably make a lot of literary and artistic youths in particular literary and artistic. Compared with ordinary youths, extreme literary and artistic youths can only survive in their own world like Frank in the film. Once they fall into the real world, They will be at a loss. Even if they are willing to take off the barriers for cover or dependence based on a good starting point, they still cannot find a suitable posture to appear in front of the world.
This situation is more cruel. Such "unsocial" people are often motivated by their respective "literary genes". They are uncomfortable with the world and want to live a life that can freely create and express themselves. However, once they are Forced to withdraw from the state of life they are accustomed to, they are as vulnerable and vulnerable as newborn babies. Any playful joke will completely destroy them.
If the Franks’ music creation is placed in the public’s sight and hearing, it may not be confirmed for a while whether it is a genius or untalented babbling, but at least it is certain that the band produced the so-called in the forest hut. At the time of the new album, the Franks were happy, comfortable, and fearless, like a few elves who want to indulge in their own country, at least as if they were exiled from an alien planet.
Don's suicide in a small wooden house located in a lake and a mountain, with a kind of predictiveness, also represents a complete realization that he can never reach the kind of disillusionment of the heart. This disillusionment is fatal, as if it was foretelling Frank and others in advance. People's participation in the Northwest Music Festival is also a fatal disillusionment. Frank showed people with a big-headed doll headgear all day and night, even when he was eating and bathing. In this way, he avoided unhindered contact with the world, where he was only allowed to walk alone, Jon’s Joining and Jon's way of exposing the band's anecdotes on the Internet made Frank, who was eager to be recognized, mistakenly thought that he had a new way to communicate with the world, but unexpectedly, this way was contrary to his suitable survival mode. The one who knows Frank best is Clara. She chose to leave on the eve of the festival. It seems that it is the beginning of the split band, but it is a wake-up call.
Many viewers think that the film is weird and the plot is extreme. In fact, it is not rare for people to have a Frankish survival mode in their hearts, but many of them can find a balance between their hearts and the world, and they are lucky. To get by. Franks are not so lucky. They can only exist in a corner of their own creation with solitude and paranoia. You can think of him as a genius or agree with the doctor’s diagnosis. He is a neurotic, but it seems that many geniuses are. Neuropathy. The journey of ordinary young Jon in the band is like presenting the limitations and incompatibility of the Frankish survival model from the perspective of an ordinary person.
This time, Michael Fassbender, wearing a doll mask and headgear, gave a good performance. This performance by Farshark is reminiscent of Edward Norton, who played the Leper King in the film "Kings of Heaven", just like Norton. Farshark broke through the limitation of facial performance with only body movements and emotional language. Therefore, although Frank used the image of a big-headed doll most of the time, the audience seemed to see his expression and then caught a glimpse of him. heart.
At the end of the film, Frank, who took off his headgear, sang "I love you all" to his friends with a strange voice, a little cramped, and a little shy. The world is cold and ruthless. Fortunately, they still have each other and each other. The existence and containment of the formed a unique space, allowing them to survive.
(Magazine manuscript)
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