In just three shots, PTA completed the display of the triple structure of the film narrative: Los Angeles Beach at the junction of the 1960s and 1970s, where hippies began to dream of the "counter-cultural" dreams that had been intoxicated for ten years; Sortilège's voice-over narration With the past tense from beginning to end, the nostalgia effect that the passage of time can bring is maximized; and the two core characters played by Joaquin Phoenix and Katherine Waterson are involved in a plausible story. In the end, Doc was covered with blue and turned from the Los Angeles beach outside the window to the erratic eyes of his ex-girlfriend, whom he hadn't seen in a year, and played the first note of the two and a half-hour City of Angels trio.
Ivresse, a
Californian’s PTA, has installed almost all of his films here, the poor towns of Southern California in the late 19th century and early 20th century in "The Blood Is Coming", Los Angeles in the 1950s in "The Master", and " The contemporary Los Angeles suburbs in "Private Love Disorder" and "The Evil of Nature" fills the gap in the 1960s and 1970s in the centennial history of PTA's private California. Born in the summer of 1970, PTA had never personally experienced this unfettered to crazy age, but he could not stop him from putting Thomas Pynchon on the big screen when he was in his middle age.
At that time, none of the hippies gathered on the beaches of Los Angeles were not "drunk", just like the two Doc marijuanas in the movie reading the dossier, because enjoying the best products almost died in the hands of the members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Alcohol, but all kinds of drugs. The movie follows the drunken Doc investigating a case related to his ex-girlfriend. He travels to the misty hippies at the time, and visits half of the clinics that repair teeth that were broken due to long-term use of heroin, and half are reselling heroin." In the weird building of the headquarters of the "Golden Sails", we met Cory, a hippie who was a former poisonous worm, jazz musician and spy, and finally found Mickey Wolfman, a large real estate developer who was lying in a trance in a mental hospital. Doc, with long hair and beard tangled together, is concentrated on the typical image of hippies at the time. His grotesque conversations and experiences have broken out the "intoxicating" picture of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
Nostalgie
Sortilège’s narration bears the responsibility of expressing Pynchon’s original language style. PTA has never stingy to express its admiration for this contemporary American literary master who has a maverick writing style. The long and difficult sentences quoted from the original work are used by the supporting characters in the original work in the film in a lazy tone. Reading it out is probably the ultimate way for PTA to express "love".
Sortilège, who is told in the past tense, has a nostalgic magic, just like the meaning of her name. Her appearance in movies other than voiceovers confuses the narrative effect of this nostalgic magic on the audience. In the paragraph in which the fortune telling disc indicates a place of drunkenness, the image of Sortilège and its voice-over narration are carried out at the same time, but this memory is caused by the postcard that Shasta sends to Doc, which says "I miss those days, I miss you too "It was a long summer without drugs to take. Everyone was desperate and suffered from a lack of judgment. The emergence of a series of phone numbers can only be explained as a place where drugs can be found. Doc and Shasta He ran towards 72723 Sunset Boulevard in the rain, only to find a clearing. (That vacant lot really became the "Golden Sail" headquarters in the next scene as a drug hiding place) Drugs were the greatest pursuit of hippies at that time, and the perfect way to escape meaningless reality and run towards pure freedom was only in that era. The pursuit of freedom is all condensed in a drunken dream. When the background thinks of Neil Young's "Journey Through the Past" (Journey Through the Past), PTA expresses all the nostalgia for that era, because in our era, a brief stay after a rainy noon is lost It has the meaning.
Paranoïa is surprisingly
similar to Robert Altman’s adaptation of Chandler’s novel "The Long Farewell" of the same name. The private detective Doc is entrusted by his ex-girlfriend Shasta to find a large Los Angeles real estate agent with whom he has an affair. He also has a British Wife, this investigation involves the police, the prosecutor's office, drug gangs, barristers, mental hospitals and other institutions from all over and below Los Angeles. This kind of story, which is very socially tough in detective novels, has been clouded by a mist of delusion by PTA, and it has become both true and illusory.
When Doc is investigating surrounding people, he will write "not an illusion" in his notebook from time to time to remind himself; driving away from the "Jinfan" headquarters, deliberately speeds up the playback of the repetition of multiplication and closing the door, with The jumping background music gradually accelerates, and the hallucinations caused by drugs are vividly on the paper. In the opening paragraph, after Doc sent Shasta into the car, Doc's uneasy eyes rolled around, looking around, it seemed that the entire Los Angeles city was an illusion. The same look reappeared at the end of the film. Even though all the dust had settled and the lover was at his side, Doc's subconscious movement of constantly looking at the rear mirror revealed his unstoppable doubts about the authenticity of things around him.
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