Maybe my request is a bit too much, because there are two different stories, and one is about love, the other is about friendship (for the time being), and there is even an abnormal person among the two protagonists of the latter. But for a story involving music, or a movie with beautiful music, I always hope to get a lot of beauty from it. Besides, the director is someone who has combined music and story so perfectly, so it's no wonder I have expectations.
However, I said that I only knew who the director was after the fact, which means that my expectation was should have done, which I would have expected, but the fact is, after watching the movie, I didn’t sigh “no wonder”, some were just “no wonder” Thought" regret. Not that the movie was bad, but at least the music wasn't ideal. First of all, the performance of several music-related plots was not outstanding enough. When the feelings reached that point, I always felt that the filming should be better. A picture similar to the visual effect on WMP to express Els's inner world, I can't say that this method is inappropriate, but it does not bring out much of my feelings. The second is the biggest problem. After watching the movie, I have a feeling that the musical element has completely become a pretense in this movie. Although this is an adaptation of the real thing, if Els's talent is not music but painting or other, this movie can still be made like this. Lopez wrote the story of Els because he was a genius and a vulnerable, mentally ill, homeless person, and the whole point of the story was not about music. It can be said that I was deceived.
So I re-examined, and I realized that the meaning of the soloist is a genius living in his own spiritual world. Els's world is lonely, although I don't understand where his illness came from in the end, but it is certain that since he became ill, he began to reject contact with the complicated world, and began to be hostile to the people around him. And resist the psychology, shutting yourself in a spiritual space isolated from the world. Until Lopez forced his way into his world and forced him to open the door to the outside world, there was only music in his world. But even so, he has been unable to accept Lopez's "kindness". He said he loved Lopez and called him God simply because he was grateful that Lopez had given him a better musical opportunity—a cello, and a vague sense of caring and helping his life. But he still had doubts, wondering whether he should live according to other people's good intentions, so when Lopez's good intentions rose to the point where he asked him to admit that he was ill, Els, who touched the deepest pain in his heart, finally got angry. Then, when he calms down, when he reunites with his sister, he finally understands what a friend is. When he shook hands with Lopez, his world finally opened a crack.
The film ends with Els listening to the symphony with his sister, and Lopez and his ex-wife. Now that the movie is over, Els is finally able to sit quietly in a crowd listening to music, which is an improvement compared to listening to rehearsal. Els's sitting with his sister shows that he's starting to accept her, and Lopez's sitting with his ex-wife shows that they may get back together, which is also an improvement since listening to the rehearsal. Listening to the concert twice has become the two memory points of the film, and the change of the two memory points connected together is the story to be told by the film. No matter how many stormy seas pass through the middle, it will eventually return to a peaceful state. There are no drastic changes in the story, nor is it touching. Deeply provocative words, Els' story will continue in peace.
Don't care if this story is designed to promote the government to improve the lives of the disadvantaged, or how Lopez got back his lost marriage from Els, because none of that matters, it's just a story about the lives of people with mental illness. Like a beam of sunlight shining into a dark room.
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