The gossip is over.
The English name Taking Woodstock, the first thing I saw was "talking Woodstock". The Chinese literal translation of "made", I would prefer to see another picture: in a crowded pub, a group of elderly people are sitting in a group, holding up the frothy beer, with red noses, Fascinated by the memories of the colorful life experience. They sighed that their youth is no longer and time flies, but no matter how stingy time is, it cannot take away the memory that has always flowed.
There is a saying that every line is like a mountain, so I have always wondered whether the words "this film is a promise made more than ten years ago" that film people often say is true or not. Pixar's "Wall E" and "Uptown Travels" both broke out similar stunts after their critically acclaimed. The grandfathers laughed and told people that in fact, this character and story existed as early as ten years ago, or even earlier, but it has not been put into action. It also made people feel more hard-won about the success of the film.
The same goes for Ang Lee's "Making Woodstock." Ang Lee said this was what he promised James Shamus 13 years ago, "to one day make a lighthearted comedy without any cynicism."
Probably Ang Lee is Chinese, and at the same time I have a good impression of his works, which makes me easily believe that what he said is true. My problem is that if I find it, I will try my best to find the conditions on my body to go along with this argument. If you want to achieve your dreams, you have to bury yourself in making money first, not everything you like from the beginning. Thinking of this, I completely believed that this movie was really a color that existed in his mind as early as 13 years ago. Sincere things are often more moving, I also firmly believe that Ang Lee 13 years ago must be more sincere than he is now. Therefore, all the pictures in this movie are probably sincere pictures, at least most of them.
"This movie isn't a particularly funny comedy either. My films can't escape emotional involvement. These are all solid things. If they're too funny, they'll be distracting and uncoordinated, so it's okay to have humor."— Ang Lee
I thought it was funny, from the beginning. Of course, it may also be because of watching "Yiyi" before. A stubborn mother, a father who is silent but never ambiguous when it should break out, and the so-called male protagonist, when encountering everything, he will not say a word, staring at people with wide eyes without blinking, and then his face is blank. The expression "please". Like me, so I have always had a good impression of him, especially when he paid for the lens of the application form during the meeting.
There are a lot of characters in the movie, regardless of the protagonist and supporting roles, everyone is equal. Some people just flashed past the camera, but I saw them all. Everyone showed off their acting skills in a second or less, which can be summed up in one word, maybe it should be called "true performance". After the heavy rain, it was muddy, people selectively walked forward naked, middle-aged women burning women's underwear, young people jumping over the clapboard naked, couples resting on the spot when they couldn't walk, they passed by, and the camera always followed. Elliot Tippo's walking and forward, but everyone who passes by is portrayed in detail and without being cumbersome.
Ang Lee's films have always been delicately shot, and all the burdens are packaged and tucked into the gaps in the plot. Simply put, his personal emotions are rendered "light". His humor and affection are silently permeated throughout the film. When Tipo suggested hiring a store clerk for his mother, his mother sullenly replied, "I gave birth to you for this." When someone came to collect the protection fee, Tipo's father brandished a stick, risked a dangerous fight to the waist, and said "don't try to succeed". These plots are extremely simple, and it is a bit boring to retell them like this, but when I see them with my own eyes, the pictures are so vivid, and an intangible emotion pours into my heart. I've never been abroad, and I don't know much about that shocking music festival in 1969, which has never been seen before or will never come. However, as the plot of the movie progressed, I felt a strong sense of substitution, and I was easily captured.
It seems to be more like a somewhat long song without the most basic story script, and when we are facing the screen, we are actually a group of people who are watching the music festival again, once again enjoying the "pure" "The lucky one. A piece of music is always silently inserted in the movie. I'm an idiot, and I can't name even a single song, but they all sound so good, that every time it ends, I realize that there was an interlude just now.
When I wrote it, I realized that it was actually very difficult to write a film review. Many of my feelings were limited by the lack of talent and learning, so I didn’t express them. When I think about it, it seems that there are things that are not expressed.
The most beautiful part of the movie, I remember two. One is that people are camping in the mud, and after dawn, a shirtless boy carrying his girlfriend on his back walks in front of the camera with dazed eyes. I admit that at that moment I was hit, and I suddenly wanted a girlfriend who was not too heavy to let me walk through some jungle with her on my back; another, of course, was Tippo and a couple on drugs in the trunk of the truck. in. The music jumps cheerfully and lightly, from time to time. The three people lie side by side and lean against each other. The pattern on the roof of the car is instantly lit up like glass washed with water. The Virgin Mary, the man with big eyes, the flowers and plants, all flow, and they are covered with water. With bright colors, it rises like smoke. For someone like me who has never taken psychedelics, the temptation was too great, and I wanted to follow the phone on the stairs to buy a few pills to try.
The girl, who forgot her name, got out of the car when the drug's power receded a little, spinning in the moonlight, and stood on the top of the mountain with Tipo to watch the stars and lights on the opposite side.
I have to mention the word "immersion" again. For the entire movie, I was like a drugged child who was kidnapped, and there was literally no other way but to follow the movie. When the credits at the end appeared, I was still looking for Michael Lang, who was riding away.
"Three Days of Peace and Music", this is the slogan of this music festival in 1969, which is exactly the same as the spirit of the hippies, "peace, anti-war, fraternity, equality". People came here desperately, and they did arrive, but "instead they forgot the purpose of coming here." People are like being charmed by perfume. Once they step into this enchanted land, they will wash away all the superfluous hypocrisy and copper odor and return to the original. We take off our cumbersome clothes, money is useless except for tickets, happiness comes from the simplest things, mud, grass, cows, everything. Without the filth, even taking drugs is just to see the dancing Madonna, or the brighter moonlight. Just like the cop who was going to "catch one or two hippies and get back to the game", he forgot his duty in a blink of an eye and couldn't bear to disturb anyone here, so he carried Tipo and sounded the siren to open the way.
Everyone should have such "pure innocence" at least once in their life. If you suspect that it is difficult for you to have it, you should spend at least two hours watching this "pseudo-documentary", I dare not Saying that everyone will love it, but at least, it gives you more than a movie can contain.
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