Can't tell the boundary between love and sex
Indistinguishable between the worlds of adolescence and adulthood
Betray the mind with the body
Tear the hypocrisy with resistance
medicine, alcohol, sex, music, feeling no pain
Home is your antimatter
Destroy you and make you fall
A door opened at night,
We all run to that warm place
when you look in a black hole
Every drop of rain that falls from the sky turns into ice
How many times do you have to destroy yourself to understand love
When you get on the bike and run, you're free
"I can't read any more" by David Bowie
June 5, 2017 Second time
Deleted the first film review update. Looking back, I found that I understood a more complex world, although it was very slow, what can I see in the next 10 years?
2009-10-04 23:34:53 (first time)
undercurrent
I don't regret not attending Ang Lee's meeting. I can't think of really valuable questions that could be asked at a meetup. Don't even believe that other people will actually ask any witty questions. If you see the director, you just slap and applaud, or ask the creative mind, I think it is best to avoid such boring questions and answers. In 1997, Ang Lee was able to make such a good film, which seemed to be ahead of the Chinese director circle. From the plot point of view: This is an undercurrent story. Everyone at the center of the storm is troubled by the same problems. In a seemingly peaceful social circle, no matter the sexual repression of teenagers and the uncoordinated tension in the adult world relation. In a standard western-style middle-class family (note that this is not a Chinese-style divorce, there is no such thing as crying, making trouble, and hanging yourself), everyone's physical resistance and cover-up to invisible repression are tepid. It is shown (perhaps the excellent storyline depends on a good screenwriter), but Ang Lee has seriously considered the selection of materials. In fact, the rhythm of the film is very-very-fast-.
In terms of material selection, the perspective is directly inserted into the day before the start of the ice storm, and there is no long foreshadowing introduction. Even in the course of the story, there is no recollection, and the audience is not told why the two couples already need to participate in group psychotherapy, what school the son is studying in, why the daughter is very aggressive, and so on. In this way, the time saved is a large-scale display of various contradictory reactions of various people in the invisible suffocation situation. In every scene of "cry without tears, pain without blood", I secretly applauded. The more mutual harm and the bizarre behavior displayed by trying to break through the repression, the more people feel the cold current that hangs over the characters at the center of the storm. The best scene is the one where the little girl takes off her pants in the bathroom to show the genitals to a boy a few years younger than her. --- Not the tumult of adolescence but the utterly unethical instinct of obedience.
In the climax stage of the second half, it is handled with a typical drama: all conflicts are concentrated on the night of the arrival of the ice storm, and the characters are described in parallel (in fact, the whole film is based on this framework - the outbreak). This approach is debatable. Although it makes the plot more tense, I feel that there are too many artificial arrangements. I prefer the evenness and seamlessness of the entire story progression of "Brokeback Mountain".
The same is true for the character of the eldest son, whether his settings are reasonable or not is also debatable. His idiot-like mysterious smile has become the only character in the film who is not affected by the storm, and is even full of determination (the little bitch who didn't even take sleeping pills makes people suspect that he is mentally unsound). He read the antimatter world of the apocalypse aloud, and appeared in front of the family in the sun the day after the ice storm, still wearing his Mona Lisa smile.
This makes people feel that although in the film, there is a shepherd who participates in a wife-swapping party. But this eldest son, the living substitute of Jesus was reincarnated. At this point, the setting of the plot is again classically dramatic.
From the shooting technique: Ang Lee's handling is delicate and low-key, and the proportions of dialogue and pictures are properly controlled (a problem that is easy to make in adapting novels). With the right dialogue, a long shot goes beyond more dialogue meaning. I personally think that the handling of the pictures and dialogue in "Brokeback Mountain" is smoother. I especially like this theme, good works are not about being black or white (commercial films can fully provide this function), but trying to show the gray area that we can't tell (and please don't provide answers on behalf of God -- I think this It's a flaw in "The Thumb Sucker"). Although there are still some flaws, this film still deserves five stars.
View more about The Ice Storm reviews
