Broken Flower

Fredy 2022-04-19 09:02:00

Bill Murrey's immobile face and sitting upright are almost a symbol of a sensitive, lost midlife crisis male. Don's life has never changed, women come and go, leaving him expressionless on the sofa in the big house. Lying down and getting up again, listening to a sad opera alone in a room with lights off He also stood innocently at the door when his woman left him.



Pink is the color of women. Sending 5 different pink flowers to 5 different women, Don's journey begins on the American road. Whether they have ever been with Don What kind of story has there been, time finally sculpted them into a different look after 20 years. Just like the photo that Dora's husband showed off, the hippie Dora is no longer there, ironically leaving a real estate developer's perfect little wife and them A marriage that tastes the same. Don and his women met in the best time of each other, and time flies, and things are different.



The most special thing about the movie is to find these women from Don's perspective. Women who have experienced time are being lived When the vortex engulfed him for a long time, he suddenly encountered Don, a person whose life has never changed. It was as if everything in the past suddenly rushed towards him, re-seeing his original passion and dreams, and suddenly realizing that he was lost in this world. How deep, the women at this time can only ask their husbands to put the photos back like Dora, or just yell at Don. And our protagonist Don can only listen to how his former woman lost her husband. Lost passion, lost dreams, lost life. He is like a fish trapped in a whirlpool, far away from the tide. When he leaves the whirlpool one day, he realizes that his original companions have gone too far. He is expressionless. Michelle, who was stopped for the same time, said "hei, beauty" and then had tears in his eyes.



For Don, who has never been married and never been a father, when he realized that he might have a son, it was as if life gave him A chance to catch up with ordinary people. At the end of the film, the only time he went to actively chase was lost at the crossroads, and the camera rotated 360 degrees. We were also lost,How does one live to be lost? Like Don, stubbornly guarding an empty big house, listening to opera alone, or compromising life and going with the flow?



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Broken Flowers quotes

  • Don Johnston: I think your father's real name is Sam Spade.

    Winston and Mona's Kid: My father isn't Sam Spade.

    Don Johnston: No? Think he's Sherlock Holmes?

    Winston and Mona's Kid: No!

    Don Johnston: I know he's one of those famous detectives. Mike Hammer!

    Winston and Mona's Kid: No! Not Mike Hammer!

    Don Johnston: Oh, I know, he's that Dolomite guy. Right?

    Winston and Mona's Kid: No. Not Dolomite

    Don Johnston: No?... Keep your eyes open, he may be Dolomite.

    Winston and Mona's Kid: Nooooooo.

  • Winston: You are the Don Juan.