Closer to home, at 9:30 that morning, I went to the AMC Cinema in Festival Walk to see it. When I entered the venue, I found out that there was a third-level film written at the entrance, but it was originally defined as a third-level film in Hong Kong. Entering the theater, after all, there are only about twenty people. . . .
Let's not talk about the plot, as everyone knows, it is based on the protagonist's memoirs. This time, Ang Lee changed the past tragedy or family ethics line, and implanted humorous comedy into the film. However, behind the laughter, I can see other things, such as anti-Vietnam War, homosexual self-identification (this year is also the 40th anniversary of Stonewall in the United States), Eastern and Western Cold War symbols, etc. At the same time, at the end of the film, the group left, leaving behind a muddy patch, I couldn't help asking myself, what did everyone get after the carnival was over? Is it a kind of catharsis, the satisfaction after self-indulgence, or the real communication of love&peace to the society and make some changes to the society. Maybe it's just a collective rave for the hippies? Drugs, nudity, sex and hippie rock music? Maybe Ang Lee also has his own words to say, the music festival started with bright sunshine, but ended with gloomy weather and pouring rain. Only in the end, the young man said that he would start the Rolling Stones. Through the eyes of the protagonist, he seemed to see a ray of light. Perhaps, there are many musicians who have an influence on the future music scene. This is Woodstock. The greatest impact left on the world.
Generally speaking, the editing of the film footage is relatively lively (sorry, I forgot what the teacher taught me before, I made up my own analysis, haha), there are many paragraphs describing the process of planning the music festival, and the editing method is very strange, using It is a cutting method in which the new picture goes in to the right and the old picture goes out to the left, and it is a series of cuts at the same time (professional: split pictures, documentary clips with 8mm camera effects are interspersed with normal pictures). When I came back to the Internet and checked it, I found out that it turned out that Michael Deley's music documentary "Woodstock Music Festival" was very famous. Ang Lee's film also referred to the documentary, so I also tried to pay tribute to the documentary here. .
The music gives people a feeling of rock and hippies, which is very in line with the theme and style of the film. There are only a few songs in the whole piece that I like very much. Among them, the freedom at the end of the film is my favorite. What is freedom? Maybe, it's a complicated question. Not easy to answer.
How many young Americans know Woodstock's story these days, even Americans themselves don't buy tickets, let alone other countries, especially eastern audiences. At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I heard that a certain place in Hebei also held a rock music festival. It was a trick that the local government came up with to stimulate the economy. The turnover for several days was several times higher than usual. Also, the lines between music and commerce are blurring more and more these days, and Woodstock is just a distant legend.
No wonder some critics say Woodstock is dead.
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