Although this film is dressed in comedy, it may be influenced by cultural differences. The legendary belly laughter at Cannes is unique to me. With a length of nearly three hours, a large number of hand-held long shots and trivial details of life extend slowly and heavily. The reduction of music makes dialogue and natural sound the only way to assist the image to advance the plot and thoughts, making it extremely realistic, but also more uncertain.
The film starts from the setting of the father and daughter, showing two completely different life modalities.
The contrast between the old man and the capable woman is a test of water in Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro's "The Intern", but it is another kind of normalization in "Tony Erdman". The combination of the relationship between father and daughter brings Winfred and Inies together naturally, but the geographical barriers and the conflict of life concepts are increasingly showing the difference between the two generations. Relationships connect each other, and dialectically separate each other, as if only by reaching a tacit understanding of non-interference, not strict but accurate barriers can it be difficult to accommodate all unsatisfactory and continue to maintain a stable status quo.
Therefore, when the divorced father reunited with his daughter Inies at a party, the seemingly warm atmosphere in the house and the busyness of her daughter listening to her mobile phone were separated into two parallel worlds by a glass window. The current situation of my daughter's life is known from other people's mouths. The more complete the information is pieced together, the more I realize that I don't know anything about her.
Before that, Inez had his own orderly life as a corporate executive. He was busy with work, tired of socializing, indifferent and rarely breathing. Her senses are paralyzed by the fancy life, and she can only find stimulation through extreme methods such as drugs and unspeakable sexual fetishes. The landscape of commodities will gradually dissolve the broad thinking about the existence of life, but she does not care.
And just like when Winfred appeared in the secular world of common sense with a clown makeup that was out of the context of farewell to Mr. Dudin, it implied that Winfred had the ability to cross this world as an alienated "intruder". The potential of road barriers. The death of the old dog Willie is undoubtedly the end of the first paragraph in the film.
The double introduction of the film may make it possible for Inies to be on top of Inies's mood. Winfred's arrival is to "invade" her original order of life as an "intruder". Winfred's first "break-in" not only left Inez disorganized and overwhelmed in her fortress, but even in Inez's eyes he acted like a clown.
In this world, Winfred's desire for companionship is as evident as the awkwardness of being in it. His attire and demeanor are at odds with these artificially divided emerging orders. The process of trying to fit in is comical and awkward. In fact, only his daughter can rely on him. But her daughter Inies gave her one of the few smiles to her customers, and achieving the goal is more important than everything else. The "execution" that she repeatedly emphasized with the female assistant includes the communication element only between official business and clients. Yan Xiaoyan, who was exchanging interests, was only impatient in the face of family affection. Even if his father was close at hand, he was left with only a busy and indifferent back.
Thus Inez's pragmatism and Winfred's sensibility are opposed. Pursuing and thinking about the present, the abstract concept of "happiness" has become an antonym. Love is forbearance and restraint, and it is also incomprehensible and subconscious needless to say, which has evolved into a gradually irreconcilable contradiction. However, the two people who are incompatible have to coexist reluctantly because of their inseparable kinship and emotional attachment.
Winfred's lonely loneliness lying on the railing is exactly the same as Inez's reluctance to part when he bids farewell to his father. They trapped each other in a family siege, witnessing the first "break-in" ended in failure. The fetters under the identification of the identity have led to an endless cycle of this problem, so when Winfred broke into Inez's life again as Tony Erdman, he broke off the original shackles, and then there will be gradual progress. The breakthrough has avoided the helpless sigh of "Tokyo Story". Winfred's dentures that keep taking off echo his transition between the two identities, fully reflecting his humor and his good intentions calling for the return of family.
This premeditated intrusion made Winfred's actions no longer limited by waiting and subordination. Instead, Winfred began to dominate the advance and retreat of the communication. Attitudes will start to migrate around these troubles. The inherently irreconcilable contradictions still cannot be resolved, and the warmth in life is inevitably infected.
Under the pressure of Winfred, Inez had to sing somewhat reluctantly due to the long-lost piano, but the imperfect scale is actually an emotional catharsis or a way. For the so-called pragmatism, she Depressed for too long. The slightly overpowering nude party also seems to be an extension of release, an idea that can be achieved overnight in the predicament of the muddy water, and externalizes the program of returning to the basics.
In the end, the "humor" in Winfred's mouth can't solve any problems in Inez's work, and the two are destined to be unable to achieve intimacy and warmth, but after another "break-in" with ulterior motives, Winfred's The attitude of life did indeed affect Inies, let the hugs and weeping on the lawn reach a reconciliation between the two, and let Inez at the funeral complete the reward to his father through the props of dentures. This is presumably the measure of tenderness and communication that Tony Erdman seeks in its trivial, slow narrative.
It is true that there are still many problems with "Tony Erdman", such as its unsophisticated composition, and his slow narrative rhythm, which makes it easy to give up on this long three hours, and the indifferent atmosphere also once made me suspicious. The script, which was obviously a thousand miles away, had the slightest chance to come back to life. However, the script's thinking on the double complex relationship reflects the shadow of many people's life in this world.
Without deliberate intrusions, the irreconcilable confusion and the relationship with each other continued.
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