If you only look at the title of the film, "Paris, Texas", it is easy to speculate what kind of "A Tale of Two Cities" this will be, but the Chinese translation of the two place names is reversed. What is the purpose?
Texas, America's barren desert, karst landscape, empty and circling vultures.
Paris, the capital of France, is a captivating romantic capital where love reigns supreme.
And the Paris in the mouth of the male protagonist is a small place called Paris in Texas. It is the place where his parents love each other, the place where his life was born, and the place he struggles to find...
The most frequent scene in the whole film is It's the Texas desert, the highway, and the hero's lone walk. It seems that road movies are always inseparable from "searching", but the end of the road extension is a desert, a desertified city or a symbolic spiritual desert, which makes people feel like they are in a desolate environment. The male protagonist, Travis, is disheveled, ragged, with a stubble beard, wearing a little red hood, just like a stinky skin. The director deliberately set it up as an outsider. He has been away from modern society for four years. He does not belong to this flashy world. His return is an embarrassing thing. He is always in a quiet state, walking alone and resolutely. , as if the xinxing has long been emptied, leaving a goal of walking. The desolate and winding guitar sound constantly complimented him, the same lone vulture flew from nowhere, and the gentle camera followed the lonely man walking, and the audience's curiosity continued to accumulate and superimpose.
The director deliberately set it up as an outsider. He has been away from modern society for four years. He does not belong to this flashy world. His return is an embarrassing thing. He is always in a quiet state, walking alone and resolutely. , as if the xinxing has long been emptied, leaving a goal of walking. Until the younger brother found him, he seemed to find a numb and absurd person who seemed indifferent to everything, including family affection. However, he is not a perverse alienated person, but just "himself", just like Camus's "The Outsider", "The world cannot tolerate a person who truly lives his own way and understanding." About Travis' runaway In his own words, he couldn't remember the secrets of his life, and he couldn't even remember the concept that he had been away for a few years. In four years, he said, "Is four years a long time?" The younger brother replied, "It's considered a long time for a child. It's been a long time, half of his life." He was equally indifferent to his own children. No one knows why he got here, and even he doesn't understand, and the film solves the mystery of Travis' runaway for the audience in a slow rhythm.
Travis, who has gradually integrated into family life, saw the home video four years ago at his brother's house. Four years ago, their cordial conversation, play, hug, and mutual love were especially touching. Travis and the three-year-old were especially touching. The family relationship of the child Hunter is in stark contrast to the breakup of the family, the departure of the father, and the emotional indifference of the father and son, and the sincere emotion subsided to a low point. And the two-minute simulated family photography also showed the director's skill, the orange-yellow filter processing, the repeated close-up and long-range shots and the long shots of the follow-up, the extremely romantic rotation and follow-up: Travis, Jane, Hunter , holding hands, like dance partners in a waltz, drawing a graceful curve on the wet beach. This video can be said to be the climax of the film's progress, and it can also be said to be a foreshadowing of the next puzzle. Travis' wife Jane "appeared" for the first time in the form of a record, which is enough to touch Travis' softness. Nerves, evoking his memory of his past emotions, also foreshadowed a "reunion" directed by Travis in the future.
European directors seem to be very fond of setting the end of "seeking" at the two ends of the mirror, a magical mirror in the pornographic service industry. Seeing and being seen, knowing and not knowing, seeking and being sought, separate the two closest to each other. people. The same is true of Pluto's Breakfast, where the disguised son sways and the priest-father watches from the sidelines. Similarly, Jane and Travis four years later in "Paris, Texas", Jane is placed in a delicate and dreamlike scene, making it difficult to distinguish whether it is a prostitute or a virtual place, in any case, the wife of four years ago finally got it all In the bottom of my eyes, my husband who has been traveling for many years is regarded as a strange customer. After a long time, the past four years slowly flow out from the words, and I can vividly remember it. Director Wenders does not hesitate to use lengthy and gentle shots to create this classic sequence. Although he skillfully uses filter shots in other parts of the film, there is nothing fancy in this emotional sequence. The past is unbearable to look back on, and in this "farthest distance", some just look back lightly, and finally turn into affectionate glances, the magical mirror has lost its magical function, and finally after turning off the desk lamp, after the vicissitudes of life couple candidly. Do human beings never know how to cherish the true feelings at their fingertips, and can only complete embarrassing and absurd reunions after the passage of time.
The movie reviews in "Watching Movies" are not the most professional, but they are the most delicate and emotional. Comments other than the columns of well-known movie critics often condescend themselves to be the opinions of ordinary fans, and their attitude is commendable. What left a deep impression on me was the analysis of the empty shots of the ideographic function of "Paris, Texas", which talked about the first empty shot of the film, the shape of the three peaks of a mountain in the Texas desert, exactly like a family of three. The analysis is quite in place, and may be regarded as far-fetched by individual fans. As the editor said, there is no big-name director in the world who will neglect the first shot of the work.
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