(Some words written more than a year ago. Because I saw Douyou Blue Velvet's review of this film, I went back to my space that had been closed for a long time and re-read some of the thoughts I left after watching this film. After a long time, re-reading my own words at that time is not a good feeling. It is like flipping through a photo album, and what I see is some laughter and melancholy that freeze there, while the words are more to freeze the thoughts at that time and take care of the mood at the moment.) This movie is kind of weird now that I think about it. Well, I shouldn't use the word "weird" too often, and it seems like too much of a fuss to easily attribute any chance encounter that can happen at any time in the age of web search to a "weird" phenomenon. It's just that I'm still quite curious as to why I haven't heard of or read any clues about this film for a whole year in 2005. However, fortunately, in the end, I didn't miss it. Seeing Bill Murray sitting numbly, not far away, the blurred figure of a pink woman out of focus—such a still—some of the familiar clips of Lost in Translation and the underlying emotional memories come back instantly . Looking at the title again - "Broken Flowers", it reminds me of Brokeback Mountain again. It has the same meaning as the bright broken broken and lonely, so I must watch it. Then go to BT right away to make up for my somewhat late meeting with this film. In his review of the film, Westi wrote that Bill Murray's boredom in "Broken Flower" and "Lost in Translation" is very similar. He used the word "boring". And I saw Bill Murray in the film again and recalled his state in "Lost in Translation", and the adjective that came to mind was more "lonely". And this sense of loneliness reminds me of the plight of the male protagonist in American Beauty. I don’t know whether the judgment made based on my shallow life experience is accurate. This is the loneliness that belongs to middle-aged people, especially middle-aged men. It includes a sense of failure, loneliness, numbness, and sadness. There is also a sense of trance and absurdity. For a similar film about middle-aged men, I also thought of "Side Away". Quite disappointed. Career or emotional disappointment, or both career and emotional disappointment. However, these three films ("Broken Flower", "American Beauty", "Life with a Glass of Wine") all express this disappointment in a light comedy way, but the intensity of the color is different. Bill Don, played by Murray in the film, begins his pink journey to an old lover because of an inexplicable anonymous pink letter. My personal feeling is that this film is full of all kinds of absurd plot elements, but the narrative of the film is so natural and calm, even silent. Although I am aware of the omnipresence of the absurd, I feel that the characters in this story are understandable, acceptable, and can be really felt. The director spent a lot of film on the way Don was walking, and the camera often stayed on the rearview mirror of Don's car for a long time, so that the green trees on both sides of the road that were constantly receding on the rearview mirror became when Don was alone on the plane. The memory fragments in the sleepy dream have also become very clear image imprints in my mind when I recall this film. These passing green images seem to be repeating meaninglessly, as traceless as a long day, but clearly inadvertently become fragments of life that leave traces. The depths are still so lush and green that there is nothing but a sense of loss. When watching a movie, the scene of walking on the road for a long time sometimes makes me feel like I am watching a road movie. Apart from the interaction between Don's four surviving ex-lovers, Don spends most of the time in a silent silence, alone at home, driving, flying, sitting and waiting. Including when Don went to visit his deceased fifth old lover, he sat alone in the dark shade of a tree in front of Yiren's tomb, and his eyes finally burst into tears, the one-man show, and I think Bill Murray's acting skills are no less than that. Tom Hanks entertaining himself in "Cast Away." But Tom Hanks is an inspirational personal struggle and self-salvation in "Lonely Island", while Bill Murray is more helpless and indifferent in "Broken Flower", lost in the empty void. Bill Murray, or rather, Don is silent a lot of the time. But the background music in the film is always active, and it can even be said that these exotic music are not the background, but the protagonists played by non-characters. I'd say "absurd" anyway. Yes, the music in the film gave me a sense of sarcasm, abusiveness and absurdity from the very beginning. And listen carefully to the lyrics: Words disappear, words weren't so clear, only echoes passing through the night. So the lazy tune exudes a decadent smell. Perhaps this is the smell of the Broken Flower. This film has given me so much association with several other films. And some of the mutual responses in the opening and closing subtitles of the film are also very interesting. For example, A Five Roses Production appears in the opening subtitles, which not only corresponds to the "flower" in the title, but also corresponds to the numbers of five Don's former lovers in the film, as well as to the fact that Don wears a bunch of pink every time he visits an old friend. The roses are also corresponding; there is also the appearance at the end of the film that the copyright of the film belongs to Dead Flower Inc., which is also quite interesting. But I don't know if it's because I'm a little nervous, but it's really because of the director's good intentions and attention to detail. I don't know. To be honest, this old man Bill Murray is really old and not very good-looking, but just like the feeling he gave me in "Lost in Translation", although he in "Broken Flower" is equally old and not very eye-catching, But I was still attracted by a certain temperament in him, especially when he was silent for a long time, and when I felt a little uncomfortable looking at his tired, old and wooden face, he spoke clear and gentle English. , I re-confirmed again that this man is indeed attractive. Quotes from Broken Flowers: The Kid: So, as just a guy who gave another guy a sandwich, you have any philosophical tips or anything, for a guy on a-kind of- road trip? Don Johnston: You asking me? The Kid : Yeah. Don Johnston: Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it , is also quite entertaining. But I don't know if it's because I'm a little nervous, but it's really because of the director's good intentions and attention to detail. I don't know. To be honest, this old man Bill Murray is really old and not very good-looking, but just like the feeling he gave me in "Lost in Translation", although he in "Broken Flower" is equally old and not very eye-catching, But I was still attracted by a certain temperament in him, especially when he was silent for a long time, and when I felt a little uncomfortable looking at his tired, old and wooden face, he spoke clear and gentle English. , I re-confirmed again that this man is indeed attractive. Quotes from Broken Flowers: The Kid: So, as just a guy who gave another guy a sandwich, you have any philosophical tips or anything, for a guy on a-kind of- road trip? Don Johnston: You asking me? The Kid : Yeah. Don Johnston: Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it , is also quite entertaining. But I don't know if it's because I'm a little nervous, but it's really because of the director's good intentions and attention to detail. I don't know. To be honest, this old man Bill Murray is really old and not very good-looking, but just like the feeling he gave me in "Lost in Translation", although he in "Broken Flower" is equally old and not very eye-catching, But I was still attracted by a certain temperament in him, especially when he was silent for a long time, and when I felt a little uncomfortable looking at his tired, old and wooden face, he spoke clear and gentle English. , I re-confirmed again that this man is indeed attractive. Quotes from Broken Flowers: The Kid: So, as just a guy who gave another guy a sandwich, you have any philosophical tips or anything, for a guy on a-kind of- road trip? Don Johnston: You asking me? The Kid : Yeah. Don Johnston: Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it
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