Cinemas are finally back to work. Sitting in the movie theater today, I remembered that more than 8 months have passed since I watched the terrible "The Rise of Skywalker" in the movie theater last year. Nowadays, all kinds of old films are meeting everyone on the big screen, which is not a bad thing. Choosing a movie premiere after work resumption is as important as a marriage event.
I ended up picking Sing Street, even though it was a 2016 film. This director's works always need to hang their appetites before they can be painted on the mainland big screen. It is said that the previous work "Begin Again" (Begin Again) made mainland audiences wait for a year, while this Sing Street (hereinafter referred to as "Begin Again") "SS") made us wait for more than four years. There are already resources on the computer, but why still come to the cinema to watch it? Perhaps the protagonist's brother's admiration for the contemporary MV in the movie may also be the reason why we come to the cinema: "The combination of light and shadow and music, this is art."
Compared with "1917", which was released in the mainland at the same time (the movie theater I went to has an automatic broadcast function, such as "The following is "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", and the naughty movie theater broadcasts "The following is the movie". The release is a visual blockbuster like 1917"), because it is so old and basically has no publicity, SS's poor box office is certain. According to the statistics of Lighthouse APP, SS only had a box office of more than 200,000 on the second day of its release ("1917" had 15.647 million), which is enough to prove the weakness of SS during this period. However, the average number of people per game is only 1, which also allows us to enjoy The Riddle Of The Model, Up and other good songs alone in the cinema, especially The Riddle Of The Model, God knows why the protagonist can jump out and use the vacuum cleaner tube to mix the sound The idea is to outline the blurred image of the looming model in the whole song like Ma Liang's magic brush strokes.
The MV for this song is also very nice and thoughtful. It reminds me of A-ha's Take on me, the story of love at first sight when a hero meets a beauty - by the way, Take on me is in my life again and again Appeared, even if it was just the hero humming a few lyrics. Nowadays, there are more and more people who know musical instruments, just like people who can operate various software. However, the words of the protagonist's brother are the finishing touch: "Those with Idea are kings."
After watching SS again after four years, I understand something more. For example, I understand why the protagonist's brother is furious at the protagonist after learning that his parents are divorced. For example, the heroine's classic "Your problem is that you are not happy being sad. But that's what love is, Cosmo. Happy-sad." can only be understood after personal experience.
I don't know if it is to prevent the phenomenon of puppy love, some kiss scenes in the mainland release version were inexplicably cut off (the male and female protagonists are all minors). All in all, the public release version is a full three minutes short. Of course, 50% of the three minutes are some content that is innocuous to understand the plot, but some plots look a bit weird (such as the one in Kojima) .
The "futurism" that the protagonist Connor talks about when promoting his band is another aspect of the film that strikes me as new compared to a few years ago. I recently watched a TVB drama "Heaven and Earth", which is also about the spirit of rock and roll. It's just that most of the bands in "Heaven and Earth" cover songs from Beyond. Connor's brother scoffs at the act of covering such "feelings". So under the influence of his brother, "Futurism" was born in Connor's mind, paving the way for the subsequent creation.
"Futurism" represents non-conservation and innovation. In fact, this kind of film can also be applied to our Chinese commercial films. Unfortunately, many of them are just nostalgic at present. If you use them too much, you will be sneered.
After watching it, the most common comment I see is "It's good to be young" , which reminds me of another musical film I've seen called "Unpiloted", which tells the story of a father who lost his son and regained his guitar after many years. Rebuild the band. It made me understand that we actually have the opportunity to choose many things, our destiny, what we want, regardless of age.
Finally, an anecdote, the protagonist's father in the movie mentioned "We will only separate, but not divorce. Because divorce is prohibited in Ireland . " This seemingly absurd claim was actually established in Ireland in 1985. In fact, in 1997, "divorce" only applied to the land of Ireland.
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