It's been a long time since I've seen something I like so much. It's very suitable for a person to watch it patiently. The previous understanding of director David Lynch was in Mulholland Road, and this film is completely another way of telling a story. Every scene is fully displayed, and the white space is long enough, and the whole length is warm. As well as the sense of loneliness and escape from the theme of the road, the emotions and emotional changes of the protagonist are slowly impregnated, making this film completely romantic.
Mr. Street's story gradually showed its brilliance in this long journey, and this long road of honing is actually the road of Mr. Street's self-redemption. At first, I thought that Mr. Street was just escaping from the current and aging body, but when the story reached the middle stage, when Mr. Street revealed the conflict with his brother, it showed the meaning of redemption. And Mr. Street's performance before and after the trip was indeed different. The word "growth" may be a bit inappropriate for an elderly person. It should be better to be "complete". Mr. Street has learned to understand himself and his surroundings. understanding. One manifestation is that the first broken lawnmower, Streeter, used a shotgun to inflict anger, and finally when the new lawnmower broke down again, he was calm and just said, "He is tired of running." ”. In fact, it is quite sad here, just like a good song sung in A Dream of Red Mansions, you may really want to be "good", and you can only do it when you no longer want to resist. Otherwise, even if you know this principle, you will still be very It's hard to control your anger.
In the last two pictures, the two old gentlemen looked at the starry sky with tears in their eyes, as if returning to their childhood. Maybe when a shooting star falls, it also disappears with all the memories of a person.
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