But when the last shot ends on the timeline, soft music plays, and it's vivid in my mind.
Aside from the influence of Trump and Asgah, including various political factors on the Oscars, this "Tony Erdman" seems to be more embarrassing than most public media's sighs that "La La Land" did not win an Oscar. . Under the plain photography, the story is like an arrow from the string, penetrating the story with twists and turns on the surface, and hitting the deepest heart. The most powerful part of the movie is the setting of the characters of the father and the daughter, which makes it very routine and dramatic, and even plays family cards in China. The same pretentious plot becomes less annoying.
This story is probably about a father who loves performing arts, visiting Fuckface's daughter, the father is like an ordinary second-hand tourist, the daughter routinely takes her father on a "responsible" trip every day, and the farewell is so politely sent to the elevator mouth. Dad was unhappy, the big move was full, and the subsequent cos performances were as small as paying to hire a luxury LIMO, as big as falsely claiming that he was the ambassador of the German consulate, making his daughter and friends around him stunned, until the end. At the naked birthday party, the daughter finally put down her fuckface, realized the skill of her father's exaggerated performance, and took off her ugly coat.
1. I "believe" that these two people set up their
daughter and father as two segregated worlds. This segregation was broken by the violent intrusion of the father into his daughter's work. This is the source of all comedic conflicts. The two originally dull worlds began to lose their balance, stirring up a series of comedy-rich plots.
The most interesting is the contrasting aspects of the daughter and father's character settings. One is sacrificing ordinary life to pursue success in the values of the flashy world, while the other sticks to life and is complacent in the mundane world.
If the father is the "id" in Freud's theory of id and superego who wants to exile himself, then the daughter is undoubtedly the "superego" who suppresses the id, which is why she deliberately chats with important clients. Pretend you don't know your dad, or let him go to high-end parties, thus maintaining the perfect impression of filial piety and responsible work in the minds of clients.
At that party, my father told an inappropriate joke. This scene couldn't be more exciting. From here, I slowly forgot the existence of the camera and was completely led by the real emotions of the characters. Later, he fell from the sky at his daughter's best friend party, swiped his credit card to pay with a swollen face, toasted with her friends, and when her daughter cried silently to the loud nightclub music, I was moved, really, a cliff Beyond the breaking point of the biggest tears in "Manchester by the Sea".
The simplest and most intuitive feeling, I believe in these two characters, and I also think that a successful character design does not need too much argument, as long as you feel that you "believe", it is enough.
2. The desperate father-daughter relationship
In fact, the film keeps reminding me of Ozu's Tokyo Story. To a certain extent, it can be seen that the director puts the discussion of the relationship between the two generations in the context of a specific society. , just like some people may think this movie is a warm father-daughter drama, but in fact, aside from our general understanding of family movies, the movie actually conveys a sense of despair. The two protagonists are There are profound and irreconcilable intergenerational contradictions. This contradiction is not a simple personality opposition, but a paradox rooted in the disintegration of society's feelings for relatives.
For example, the hug between the daughter and the father on the grass at the end looks like a reconciliation of the father-daughter relationship. But I am more willing to believe that this is a helpless compromise in the relationship between family and confrontation. It can be seen that the daughter is willing to try to accept her father's values. Therefore, she put down the illusion of a regular and boring life before at the birthday party, and took off the carefully planned life. Putting on the coat, being naked, and facing everyone calmly, the process of "undressing" has a symbolic meaning of identifying with the father's values. But the ending was not so happy.
The paragraph after the funeral is the best of the whole film. We see that even with the hug, the daughter still failed to catch up with the last face of her mother before her death. The lines in the back also tell that even though she resigned from her last wandering job, She is still wandering around the world, and her next stop is Singapore. Father's previous education about "ordinaryness is happiness" came to nothing, he said:
"You asked me the question in Bucharest, about the so-called value of life. I think the problem is that most of the life Time is often occupied by trivial matters, do this, do that, and time is like flowing water, how can we really grasp all the moments?"
Chicken soup is placed in this situation, I do it, everyone is free. Isn't this another heart-piercing accusation from my father? Isn't the subtext: why are you so stubborn, you can't even take a look when your mother dies, I have been raising a fake daughter for so many years? White raised, fuck!
Then there is a symbolic montage. I don’t think it’s an over-interpretation. The daughter reached out and took the initiative to take out the dentures from her father’s shirt pocket and put them on herself. It's like telling my father: I can't help it.
The camera stopped abruptly before my father took the camera, and there was no room for thinking about the father and daughter. I dared to write the story after the movie:
it must be a cycle of quarrels and hugs forever, until In the other coffin lay the father, and a few tears fell. God drew another full stop in the collection of sad songs about the family love of countless fathers and daughters.
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