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I like this Lynch's work very much. It is said to be the least like David Lynch's work. I have watched " Monster Night Panic " and " Mulholland Road " in the archive, and I really saw people schizophrenic and crazy. Therefore, many people look forward to Lynch's completion of meditation and quickly continue to shoot " Twin Peaks ".
You may be dissatisfied with Cannes in 2016 and feel that high-scoring movies have been unfairly abused.
Then, facing the highest score in 1999, "Mr. Streit's Story", maybe you are like me, and you haven't watched it before. So, why force yourself to catch up with the so-called hot and new movies. Choose a good movie that suits you and be prepared to watch it. This waiting process is undoubtedly crucial.
This movie actually has no story. It talked about a stubborn old man who had to drive a lawn mower trailer for three hundred miles to see his brother who turned his face and lived on the other side of the mountain.
Finally, the two old men met. One can't walk, and one has a stroke at home.
"You came to me on this shit?"
The movie ends.
The story in the film, including the fact that the wooden sticks are tied together and broken, the family changes and the trauma of war are not new. Listening to the old man slowly telling the story, you will find that life has always been like this. The story of one person sounds almost the same as that of another person. Every family has scriptures that are hard to recite. But at the age of falling into the grave, nothing becomes important. There are still some things that are very important, so important that Mr. Zhi must rush over to take a look at his brother.
Lynch is very good at expressing those boring living conditions. Those American rural people who have not spoken for too long are by no means the glamorous capitalist life we imagined. Boring, monotonous, boring, but living in the best of the last century (Mr. Stritt’s experience is a century). Every character’s face is covered with his own story. The movie may only talk about emotions (driving woman), a flashback (daughter), and a close-up (car repair twins), and then tell their story.
The tempo of this movie is slow and scary. It is also completely different from the old literary driver in the Jamush movie. Lynch took pictures of vast farms and wheat fields, colorful forests, and iron bridges across the Mississippi River in almost every transition.
I went to shoot a car brand advertisement before, and wrote a slogan on the copy: Everyone is a small planet, and you want to be a living star. It sounds like a second-year high school, and it's not as good as Gao Xiaosong's poems and the distance. But I want to say that they are actually the same thing. Why do we stand in awe of the starry sky, because it is above our heads, drawing star trails that you can't perceive with your eyes. The background of the stars is a dark but profound universe, unknown and mysterious, and even more awe-inspiring and charming.
In my opinion, the starry sky of "Mr. Streit's Story" is certainly the childhood of my brother and younger brother. The audience didn't know why they quarreled, only that the memories of the past were very beautiful, related to the family and the parents' farm. Although I can't go back, Mr. Stritt misses them very much.
On the other hand, the starry sky is a collection of countless human lives. Some are shining weakly, some are shining, some are faint, and some are simply swallowed by darkness.
Therefore, Zweig called them "When the stars of mankind shine ". So in " X-Men: Apocalypse ", when Professor X uses his main brain to connect to the outside world, every human life glows, just like an intuitive universe. So, I made my pen name "Europa".
This is the real reason why I am still after watching the movie 24 hours later.
With regard to the images of the starry sky, from " 2001 A Space Odyssey " to " Treasure Springs " such hard and soft science fiction, to " Leopard ", " Walle " and " Midnight Paris " which were screened at SIFF last year , they are all related to the stars and the universe. ’S association.
For example, the classic ending of Visconti's "Leopard":
Pious stars, when can I stay away from everything on earth and get eternal life in the eternal and unchanging world?
Many people have watched these movies, and they will say: they are not bad, but they don't have to go to the cinema to watch them again. But I want to say that going back to the cinema is a mysterious contract and connection. That kind of secret, just like when you are camping outside, enjoying the temperature of a bonfire, you can see the starry sky, and the sound of insects coming from all directions.
People who have lived in cities for a long time have chosen to live in a more closed home. Some chose boring repetition and were content with everything they enjoyed. In the face of "Mr. Streit's Story", the movie will take us far away and awaken the emotions that exist in the depths of memory. Even if you have never lived in the country, you will find the satisfaction and happiness of humble life in the contrast between the starry sky of the universe and the humans on the ground.
Perhaps this is the charm of a good movie.
How would you know if you don't go to the cinema?
In the past, there was a slogan from the big fan of the movie, "The obsession with movies is to fight loneliness." Loneliness sounds shameful in this era, so I translate it as: better oneself. Just like you are watching a movie in the first hall of Shanghai Studios, you are watching the stars in the wilderness. You will find that you become less important. You will imagine that there is an audience like you around, like a shining starry sky. Just as you would think, there are still many lives on this earth.
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