It's hard for creators not to be manipulative. Shooting angles and later colors are cryptic metaphors; the protagonist's lines and story development are straightforward descriptions. In fact, audience emotions and judgments are particularly easy to control. Directors who are skilled and well versed in human nature can always perfectly grasp the audience's tears and laugh points. Therefore, those directors who abandon the habitual mode of using human nature to spread tears and laugh points, and pursue as real as possible, always teach people to admire them. They are usually very recognizable. The lines are gently scratched on the surface of your skin, bringing a subtle reaction, but the emotional storm formed by hindsight is stronger than a burst. "Francis Ha" is such a work.
This is a particularly simple story. The heroine Frances is dancing, not a formal contract, walking like a male basketball player, living in Brooklyn with her best friend Sophie. She is a young man in her twenties who can be seen everywhere in New York. She wears sneakers most of the time. She can throw her backpack on the cafe or subway floor anytime and anywhere. She has a dream job and several money jobs, always worrying about the next month's rent. . She is too tall as a young literary girl, and too cumbersome as a dancer. If she has Tinder, her profile can be summed up in one sentence: a loser who accomplishes nothing. What can barely be counted as accomplishment is the "lesbian" friendship between her and Sophie. They are "almost the same person with different hair." They are daydreaming partners, one wants to become a powerful publisher, one wants to become a well-known contemporary dancer, and they want to buy an apartment in Paris.
Sophie has the standard appearance of a young literary girl. She looks very bookish, but without reading, she knows what she wants and plans for it. Move to a good community first, meet high-quality objects, attend decent parties, and live a life without worries. So she left Frances and moved to Treboka, whose zip code was closer to her target. The Brooklyn apartment after Sophie left, the room was empty, leaving Frances' books piled on the floor. Francis later moved to Chinatown and rented with the two boys.
At a party that drank too much, Frances, who seemed nervous, was slightly sad. She said: "When you are with other people, there are moments like this. They know you love them, and you know them. Love you. You are in a party, talking to different people, all smiling happily. At this time, you look at the other side of the room, the two people’s eyes meet, it’s not that possessive. It means, it’s not the kind of squinting eyes, just because that’s the person in your life. It’s funny and sad, because life will end, but the mysterious world in front of you appears right in front of you. With so many people present, they appeared without warning, and no one else understood. Just as people have said, there is another dimension in the universe, which is right beside us, but we can’t notice it. This is what I think The two-person world you want, or life or love."
At Christmas, I was fired by the dance company, spent the "announcement of the good but not the worry" Christmas with my family, wandering in Paris, refusing the job of the dance company OL, yearning Establishing a "Sophie-like" friendship with others is not understood, etc., the co-renting boy's summary "You are undateable" is even more salty on the wound from time to time. The whole movie is consuming Francis’ failed life in a ridiculous and absurd tone. The whole film is simply shot in emotional black and white, but you can’t feel any gloom from Francis, she Emphasizing that she is not messy but busy; she took the initiative to pay the bill when she was dating a man. After the card was rejected, she ran out of the restaurant to withdraw money from the ATM. She broke her elbow without knowing it; she browsed Sophie who quit her job and went to Tokyo with her boyfriend. In his web log, seeing the photos of food sent by Sophie, his face was relieved and relieved.
Later, the destitute Francis reunited with Sophie. They lie down and chat with each other as before. Sophie reveals that life is not as expected. Life in Tokyo is not as happy as it was on the Internet. She resisted attending the funeral of her boyfriend’s family. . They talked in the dark:
"I love you, Frances."
"I love you, Sophie."
"I've been competing with you." The
next morning, Sophie finished dressing and reentered the preset In life, take a taxi to attend the funeral of her boyfriend's family. Frances ran after the taxi barefoot until the taxi disappeared.
Later, Francis became an office white-collar worker, engaged in dance administrative work. During the lunch break, she wore an adult-like work uniform and danced by the fountain like no one else. There is another plot. She checked the venue for the dance performance, arrived at the destination ahead of schedule, and no one was around. She took off her shoes and started dancing again. Realistic shots are not all cruel, Francis's face is still full and full, with a bright vitality.
At the end of the film, Frances already has the appearance of an administrative staff alone. At an after party where the event ended, she was chatting with the supervisor and inadvertently caught a glimpse of Sophie in the crowd. They did not have a conversation, but smiled at each other. Later, Frances had a good apartment. She remembered that she should write a brand name, so she wrote Frances, but deliberately concealed the word after the last name, leaving only Ha. Frances Ha. It seemed to be self-deprecating. : Frances? Haha, undateable.
The favorite part of the film is that when she just moved to Chinatown, she was running on the street. The background music is David Bowie’s Modern Love. Francis’s heart never seemed gloomy, so she was black and white. She stepped on sparks. When the music started, I just wanted to cry.
This movie is definitely not a romantic love story, nor is it an inspirational self-improvement chicken soup movie. Frances did not have a dream come true, and Sophie did not have to be punished for greed of vanity. After experiencing the diversion of different values, they can still be At the party, they smiled at each other and blessed each other. Friendship is never the best theme to highlight the beauty of human nature. It is not as violent as love, and not as hemolytic than family bonds. It is like a temporary consumable with the lowest cost. It can be activated when fed with a secret, and it will expire if you miss the distance. The possessive condiments can also explode the most terrifying dark side of human nature. But friendship is just needed to live.
Thinking of Lena Dunham’s understanding of friendship, it was quite similar to me. She said: "What I want from my life and what you want from your life are very close but not identical, and the job is to support your vision, not my vision of your vision, and vice versa. Loving without judgment or fear of abandonment is the toughest activity known to mankind and I think with best friend that can be even more pronounced." I might add another harshly: Don’t compare.
In New York, where people come and go, the friends around me change in units of seasons, and they probably all understand that there is no need for affection to meet in peace. People will quickly learn the survival signals emitted by a field, and then adjust their behavior guidelines. Many times, after autumn, meeting friends I met during summer will feel alienated and at a loss, and feel overwhelmed. Once I met a deceased person, sitting in the store and waiting, through the glass window, I saw the other person coming like me. At that moment, I felt that I could not recognize TA, and subconsciously wanted to evacuate. I want to say to every retreat relationship: "In my heart, always like Maugham, leaving you with the best ending I can imagine."
The four seasons cycle, troubles are like broken knees, which heal and fall off over time. I'm so lucky to see the movie "Frances Ha", which speaks seriously about the friendship between the two girls. There are fewer and fewer sincere and clumsy people, so cherish everything you meet.
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