Born in 1970, Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian Mesozoic director and a direct descendant of the Cannes Film Festival. He has made a total of 9 films, 6 of which were shortlisted in Cannes. It is a major contractor of the Palme d'Or, and has won the 57th, 59th, 61st, and 64th Palme d'Or, and "Youth and Vigor" also won the 68th Palme d'Or.
Some media introduced the film as follows:
"Youth and Vigor" is Sorrentino's second English-language film after "Vengeance for the Father". In the end, it has inherited the fine tradition of "City of Beauty" in the use of music and cameras, and the lyrical trailer alone has attracted countless praises. He also invited veteran actors like Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, as well as the beautiful British girl Rachel Weisz and many other stars, to add sparkle to this already beautiful film. of stars and highlights.
"City of Absolute Beauty" was watched when "Youth and Vigor" could not find the resources. After reading it once, I felt that I didn't know how to start. From the story level, the latter would be easier to understand. The picture is so beautiful that little fingers can't stop taking screenshots, and the music is so beautiful that after watching the movie, I will find the original sound and listen to it again and again. Except for some metaphors in the plot, it is difficult for the viewer to understand the director's intention at once. Outside of going around in the general framework, it seems that literary films have nothing to criticize.
Don't be fooled by the argument that the so-called name is "youth", but the actors are some old gangsters. Strictly speaking, what the film itself wants to break is age, wrinkles and other physical and objective definitions of old age. What he proposed was a state, a state called "youth".
The story is entered in the setting of a senior nursing home. The old camp: Fred, Mick, the young camp: Jamie, Lena. The number of people is 2 to 2, and there is no emphasis.
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Fred's obstacle was escaping the situation, emphasizing that he was retired and no longer playing; Mick's obstacle was refusing to accept his old age and wanting to create his final film work; Jamie's obstacle was always It's playing characters she doesn't like; Lena's obstacle is not knowing how to accept the failure of her marriage. The four of them are woven into an environment, and each is a witness to the other's change.
Fred and Mick: The best friendship is mutual joy
This is a pair of old buddies who shared the same goddess needs in their student days. After a few decades, they can still walk, talk about the past, and recall who the original goddess ended up with.
Fred used his relationship with his daughter Lena to persuade Mick not to be too obsessed with the movie called "The Last Day of Life" that was given a perfect ending to his life. In addition to movies, there are many other things in life besides the identity of the director. Efforts to achieve a purpose often backfire in the end.
Mick would suggest Fred's relationship with his wife to seek reconciliation with his wife. Escape is a way to make oneself comfortable temporarily, but it has to face the toss and turns of sleepless nights. The same is true of repression. Repressing your interest, repressing your emotions, repressing your thoughts, repressing your own expressions, these different degrees of self-deception will collapse in an instant when you encounter something you really love to do.
So when we see Fred immersed in his own world, the red piece of paper that plays music in his hand seems to announce that he can withdraw from the real world anytime, anywhere and return to his own. world.
There is one of the most beautiful performance scenes in the movie: Fred sits on a bench and uses the breeze, the bells on the cow's neck, the sounds of flowers and plants and other substances that are completely natural to compose the most relaxed and beautiful song. music.
And after reconciling with his wife, he accepted the Queen's invitation, stood on the stage again, and conducted the "Ode to Jane" written to his wife, and then burst into tears.
Fred and daughter Lena: Love is to accept all your questions
From 34 minutes to 37 minutes, the three-minute, densely lines came from daughter Lena's accusation against her father Fred. This accusation is the beginning of Lena's freedom. Lena in the camera picture seems to have returned to her mother's womb. After embracing a sense of security and feeling great courage, she burst out with her decades of dissatisfaction with her father.
She was wronged for herself, and the source of this grievance was to hold injustice for her mother.
After encountering her husband's absurd reason for divorce that "she didn't have a good time in bed", she reconciled with her father and began to embrace her own life. When her body was floating in mid-air and the earth was far downstream, she overcame her fears, embraced bravely, made her body lighter, and could fly freely.
Mick and his co-writers: Past and future are two ends of time
Together they came up with the script and made up the story. Stuck at the end where everyone expresses their opinion and cannot convince each other. From age, from the individual differences between people and the richness of their personalities, they are different from each other, because their interests are attracted to each other, and because their personalities are different from each other. Here's a really nice rotating shot that lets us see a full circle.
When looking at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, Mick had an argument about "far" and "near". It seemed that he was telling young people, but he was actually telling himself. Everything looks "close", representing the possibility of realization. Life is long, time is long, and everything is full of hope; it seems very "far", from the urging of the end of life, in addition to constantly saying that it is too late, there are also traces of life and yesterday's that are also constantly pulled away. memory.
We are all just extras, and our destiny is not our own.
People always know a lot of truth, but they can't convince themselves. It was the director's malice to let Mick commit suicide by jumping off the building, and it was the director's goodwill to give Mick a focus at the end.
Jamie: There are many choices in life, either choose to fear or choose to desire
Jamie was one of the audience members that the director stayed on at the film. His eyes are everywhere, and he pays close attention to what the people around him are going through and their changes, and then joins them in a timely manner.
He played a character he didn't like, someone who didn't know what to say, and was extremely disgusted with the labels people put on them.
The Miss World champion shattered his mask of helplessness.
This younger girl has a stronger and purer rebellion, telling him that anyone can choose to be themselves.
A person always changes because he meets someone else. The small house that I worked hard to manage or built with no choice but to live in, was instantly wiped out.
You get older, you get loose skin, you get deep and shallow wrinkles, you get calluses on your hands, your joints get worn out, your eyesight gets weaker, your memory gets worse, and your breathing gets shorter and shorter. Maybe you will never dream again, your mind is getting more and more blank, and the waking hours are sieging the city and occupying the deeper night.
But even so, it does not mean that your youth has retired.
Young people are arrogant and arrogant, and
old people are always conservative and stubborn with prejudice.
It seems that young and old are like the past and the future. They
can sit on both ends of life forever, and old and dead do not communicate with each other.
Everything is just a pattern,
just like when you are used to language communication ,
it is difficult to find the joy of touch communication The same
being young is an irresistible temptation, and it is also a misinterpretation
of the non-stop walking time in which there is no answer.
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