I thought of an interesting thing. I think Haruki Murakami, the representative of bitter coffee literature. Since it is a friend's favorite, I asked him if he had read one of his recent books. He said no, he would keep it, otherwise in the future How can I live.
It turns out that reading a book is not necessarily to understand. You just feel it, that's enough.
As Thomas Mann wrote: "Only the indifferent are free. The strong personality is not free. He has been stamped, restricted, imprisoned by his own mold..."
Watching movies, too.
You will shout in your heart that you are a true master of filming, but when you come to your senses, it may be a technically capable product, a somewhat interesting wonderful product, and a superb human-powered product, but it is not a masterpiece. Similar to pure religious experience, like nature, it is no longer from the point of view of quality, but completely believes that it is not human, and requires talent and fate. Meet the right person at the right place at the right time. That’s right, that’s because God has favored you, and you can stay and see the world.
The ice storm just caught up with the right time and place. After Ang Lee filmed "Diet Men and Women" and before "Hulk". The United States of the Watergate incident in the 1970s was the best era, and the prospect and retrospect of the new millennium turned out to be a lost lamb in the eyes of the pastor. The best actors, the most restrained emotions, as if expressionless can express the most complex emotions. It is difficult for a horror movie to tell a child to play, and the love scene of a child is made into a lonely fascination for middle-aged people. More difficult.
Personally think Ang Lee's best work, the ambition and group portrait are much larger than "Food Men and Women", the various sexual chaos is similar to the character design of "Thunderstorm", and the death at the end is also similar, but there is no artificial sense of fate , this kind of ingenious nature, the traces of genius are also clumsy in comparison. The script and editing are natural, and the photography restrains emotion and leaves no trace. At the beginning, I thought the monologue was too much, but I was immersed in it, and to understand the relationship between the characters, there are literally countless Marvel universes. The motifs of father-killing and returning home can be big or small. There is inheritance and development from the top, which is really rare.
The poetic passages in the film, sleeping pills and confessions to other people's girlfriends, the death of a young man and the return of a hero, and the naked witness to each other's infidelity are all at the level of gods in my opinion.
Ang Lee's films are precocious, and "Pushing Hands" has established the future motif. What Ang Lee was thinking about was "The Virgin Spring", a film about religious experience, the most important thing is feeling. What a good master of long shots, good scheduling, and good lighting, in fact, these externalized techniques are not what Ang Lee is focusing on in my opinion. The sense of human existence is too strong, and it is like an adolescent child who is addicted to expressing himself, which is naive and selfish in the eyes of Easterners.
After the second brush, like a zombie activated by the current of the ice storm, I came to life again. The moment the teenager came back on the train, it was not his son Paul, but a middle-aged man who came out. I instantly understood Ang Lee, Ang Lee's family trilogy, and the end of American style painting! If I insist on giving Ang Lee a theme, I would like to communicate. Pushing hands is incomprehensible, wedding banquet is incomprehensible, food and drink men and women finally understand, and ice storm is giving up understanding. Because walking into the family means hurting, and the kind of feeling that your loved ones can't understand you can only numb yourself by lying.
The intertext of two families, the interaction between two generations, the matching clips of various actions, one person is the inner world of another person. In fact, it is not so different, it is all lonely and lonely. But they both gave up communication because they both lost the ability to love. Faith collapses, ritual collapses and music collapses, all being ruined by lies and doubts. Isn't this the terminal to which contemporary Chinese family trains go?
Like the Karamazov brothers I just knew. It turns out that families can also be coincidental.
The main characters, two families and two generations, 8 people, are lifelike and express family emotions.
Husband Ben Hood (played by Kevin Klein), the father rescued the family from the collapse of the patriarchy by cheating, Elena Hood's mother rescued by stealing to increase the guilt, the son Paul (played by Tobey Maguire) ) There is a hero in my heart, but the return is a poem-like death of young McKee Carver. That scene was shot so beautifully! Gliding and jumping, it turns out that the song in the rain can also be a song in ice and snow. Daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci) precociously understands politics among the two boys, Mackie Carver and Sandy Carver, who seem to know everything, the desire for sex, the infidelity of their parents Not surprisingly, this is another emotional death that forms a connection with the cold and cruel Sandy Carver. This is millennials, gaming life and video experience (TV in film). Janey Carver, played by Sigourney Weaver, is busy numbing herself during sex. George Clare is the man who wrote it right away.
At the end, the sex scandal of the Hood family was clearly seen by the politician's daughter Wendy. After witnessing the death of McKee Carver as a teenager, the ice storm finally symbolized the destruction of love and dignity of the family. At the end of their journey home, they learned how to focus on how to love, and their son, Paul, is no longer a teenager who believes in Marvel heroes. Even the family can't be saved, how about saving the world. So it's all lies in the name of love. And the worst is not to talk about changing the world, but that we have lost the ability to love and can only let tragedy be born more beautifully. Because we have long given up communication, because we don't believe in everything.
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