energetic, after reading it, I felt like a bird, and I felt that I didn't understand anything. now it's right. Because there are too many elements in this film, the narrative is very evenly laid out, and the aesthetics of the lens have always focused on distracting the audience. Nothing on an element can emphasize, repeat or highlight that part. (Including jumping off the building seems very inadvertent). As Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine say in the film, when it comes to life, I can't remember anything. In fact, when you watch the entire movie, it's like reliving your life, but you can't remember anything.
If you insist on analyzing this movie, you only need to analyze the two protagonists. The other characters are flat and meaningless. Their essential role is to confuse the audience and distract them. Because none of these characters have contributed to the plot, including actors like Messi, Daughter, Bracers and Maradona. They are like flies and they just do their job and they're done. They are all the same without them.
There is a contrast between youth and age in almost every shot of the film. This is another effect of those previously formulated roles. Of course, the most implicit comparison is actually that of Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
Harvey Keitel is really old, but he doesn't think he is. His obsession is to complete his last posthumous work before admitting that he is old. Because the real prostate problem is that he is the only one who cannot urinate. We preconceived that as a great director, his last posthumous work must be great. Actually wrong, his last drama should be bad. When he was beaten by Jane Fonda and admitted that he was old. Then his life came to an end. When you are old physically, you also admit that you are old mentally. So go to die. The role is meaningless.
And Michael Caine is a man who is not old. Except for the ending, he once thought he was a person who was physically old, and he also admitted that he was old mentally. So he has nothing to do. And Harvey Keitel was going to write the script. This is an obvious contradiction. After it turned out that he was not physically old, he regained his youthful mentality and made himself very meaningful. (To visit graves, to see wives, to play for the Queen). The contrast between the two protagonists is simply not too obvious.
In addition, prostatitis is an important clue, not just a sexual suggestion, it is the only clue repeatedly emphasized in the film. It is also the only clue that reveals the fundamental difference between the two main characters. The sexual suggestion in the first half of the movie is very frequent, so I thought I had understood the movie for a while, but in the second half I just put it on hold, which is a clever trick.
Anyway, what this movie is going to talk about is that it doesn't say anything, and you don't have to struggle to figure out what the director is going to say. It's enough to appreciate the aesthetics in the movie. ps: that scene of Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel was so beautifully shot.
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