It was the performances of the two protagonists that made me feel up and down. Their emotions were obviously not exposed, they were about to die, and they made everyone cry with them. On the contrary, maybe the people who cried with them were only very small. The small part of the people. I've never liked too much film and television. To be honest, it's because of the lack of quality. But this play made me worry about the whole process, and felt their loneliness, concern, sadness and happiness (although there was really little happiness) at the same frequency as the protagonist. So as a last resort, I found that I had to write out my feelings, or sooner or later I would be smothered in it and grow bad.
Ivan is really very handsome, and very simple, with such a good voice, the whole monologue seems to be alone, and the loneliness of the character is just right. Olive is an emotionally restrained man, inactive, sensitive and sad. Anna is more active and, likewise, restrained, sensitive and lonely. What happens when two such people meet? I said, they are both people with their own rivers.
Olive's river is obvious, since the gay father and Jewish mother got married in a less open age, his doomed lonely childhood is the first preset of the film. He doesn't get into relationships because he doesn't want to repeat the old mistakes of his parents. The father kisses his mother hurriedly goodbye, and the mother casts a sad look at him. This clip has been interspersed in the memory of the film's male protagonist. It seems to be the tone of his entire childhood, the basis of his sad and restrained character. The game his mother played with him, pretending to shoot, you point i drive, was the game anna played with him. Perhaps, he was so infatuated with anna and finally fell in love with her for this reason. He wanted to help his lonely mother, but he could only hesitate in the long and narrow corridor, watching his mother turn around.
He was not accompanied by his father in his childhood, so when his father was terminally ill, his company was so important to him. Unfortunately, he was not the first person to know of his father's death, but always sat with his father and his same-sex friends. behind. He is indeed an inactive person, and of course he cannot be blamed. When life is filled with so many cold and lonely rejections, who can force a person to go to mindless joy? Childhood memories, accompanied by his late cancer father, are interspersed back and forth in the film like flowing rivers, wetting the relationship with anna in reality over and over again, but the director has been so patiently and meticulously edited into a beautiful love story, which became a beautiful love story. The emotional bond the two share.
I have to say that foreign directors really understand psychology. They are not like domestic boring documents and theories, but more like a nuanced observation. Anna lives an actor's wandering journey from hotel to hotel, place to place because of her father's constant emotional engulfment. Until a makeup party met the melancholy male protagonist because of his father's death, and fell in love with him after seeing through his sadness at a glance. Melanie belongs to the kind of actor who hides her acting skills from the invisible. She seems to be playing herself, her own story, and an experience. She always showed a seemingly shallow smile, and then she shed tears a second later, so that the viewers could not detect the slightest pretence, and there was an illusion that sadness and happiness seemed to be the same thing. French actresses seem to have this mysterious aura that makes it impossible to define. If all Oliver's emotions and sensitive and delicate characters are explained in the movie, Anna's background is more like a fan, and her acting skills alone support all the audience's expectations for the role. You will feel her mystery because of her seemingly shallow smile, and you will feel the same sensitivity because she suddenly penetrates Olive's thoughts about her father, listens to and comforts him. When Olive asked her to live with her, she was stunned for a short time and asked him "did u cook", and found that she was also lonely, thinking that she was strange, and raised a moved smile after Olive expressed her heart. She played with him, accompanied him, listened, but was deeply saddened by the passiveness of the male protagonist. They are all sensitive people. They can see each other's feelings like and dislike just by looking at each other. How can they not be sad? When Olive showed her around the room, he introduced the living room, bathroom, kitchen, stairs, and his parents. They greeted him playfully, but pointed at the two empty cabinets in the bedroom and said "i empty these
I know that for most people who haven't lived alone, these details are really good, especially the part where Anna cried. Many people don't understand why, and they don't feel the need to cry. In fact, I couldn't feel it at the beginning. Maybe a good movie is like this. You don't have to understand its setting, but you can bring your own emotions. After a period of experience with the protagonist, you will understand, not the plot. Instead, I understand myself better. I understand that my heart can be so fragile, I can love like this, and I can feel free, like two freely converging rivers. Why not?
After anna left, Olive was sad alone, and the memory of his father's death came to his mind again. He remembered his father's optimism. Even if he was old and had cancer, he would not give up hope for love. He remembered the last time he spent with his father, and he was not the first to learn of his father's death. He remembered his separation from childhood, the uncertainty and withdrawal of love, and he remembered too much, and then he suddenly woke up that he should work hard for love. So he entrusted his cute dog Arthur to his father's same-sex lover, and went to New York alone to find Anna.
When the Anna door was pushed open, the empty room made me feel empty. The first thing I thought about was that this girl's life was so empty, and then I realized that the reason why the room was not furnished was that her luggage was still there. I have never left la. There is a particularly interesting introduction in the movie, saying that Anna had three serious relationships, all of which ended in her own departure, but she did not plan to leave Olive. Through Olive's surprised and happy voice, I know that they finally found something in each other that they can feel at ease, a place to go home. Like Olive's father said, love always gives people a sense of home. She introduced her room, living room, kitchen, bedroom, wardrobe and window sill one by one as olive did to her. In that calm tone, in front of the flat and straightforward camera, in the slowly moving time, I always have an illusion, as if this is what love should be like, plain, but not strange, penetrating, but not Broken body, heart-to-heart is the rhythm of two people on the same beat, it may not be thrilling, but it must be warm enough to know when you are lonely, the other half will accompany you.
The two behind them sat on Olive's bed and smiled at each other. Olive asked what to do next. Anna said, I don't know either.
the end
PS has a tepid beginning and a tepid end. In fact, I have seen two of Melanie's films, and she is a very type-oriented actor. She seems to have a light smile, but there are a lot of things behind it that others don't understand. Her performance is very natural, and the role she plays is also very pure, but the emotions she performs are extremely complex. Her performance seems to come from the bones. Watching her makes people feel empathy, but it's not through crying and shouting, you don't know how this transmission is achieved, or it's inexplicably infected. She is also very open, the kind of person who can be naturally naked without being pornographic, as if she is only naked herself.
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