I think that after watching "Ice Storm", any audience, regardless of whether they have empathy for the story or characters in the film, will feel a little bit of sadness from the depressing atmosphere created by the film. It was a penetrating cold.
When it comes to the narrative level in the film, Ang Lee uses his "speaking story" technique, which he is good at, to focus on two American families in the 1970s from the perspective of a bystander. A father and another mother have an extramarital affair, and a daughter and two sons of another family make attempts at "love" and "sex" beyond their age. It may be against the social background of the 1970s in the United States that such bizarre stories happened. Including the movie's almost absurd "pick the key and match" game, this morally challenged approach completely equates humans with ordinary animals. The most terrifying thing is that similar stories may have actually happened in the real world.
Before the "ice storm" came, all the contradictions and conflicts had been brewing, until the freezing rain at the end came as promised, the accumulated emotions all broke out. As a result, "death" came roaring, and the neighbor's eldest son was finally hit by a power line and died on the deserted road in the desolate wind and rain. In this regard, the director used the unique Chinese method of "fatalism" to connect the theme of "death" with "thunder and lightning". Such an ending and the soundtrack that has been embellished in the film brought the emotions of every audience to the bottom. I have to say that this is a very "sad" film.
The biggest inspiration from the movie "Ice Storm" is probably: cherish the people in front of you and use less crooked brains. Plain and simple is true.
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