brutal quiet

Adam 2022-04-21 09:03:37

The expansion to see is another year of British McLee. HD.

I want to say a few words.

Many years ago he had a very gorgeous film called "Vera Drake".

Another year wraps up his gorgeous comeback.

I have seen the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the Korean logo director Kim Ki-duk.

The narrative style is very similar, and they are all master-level directors.

After Jin Ji-deok entered the realm of violent aesthetics, he suddenly turned around and came to the spring, summer, autumn and winter of meditation and enlightenment.

The picture is indescribably beautiful.

McLee used another way to express his attitude towards life.

Quiet and trivial bland. A detailed and refined life.

Like water, bit by bit.

Start with the gloomy female patient, Imelda, the acting school.

Mary reminds me of Ouyang Feng in East Evil and West Poison.

Life made her reject everything and everything in desperation.

The two old people are very loving. After being together for a lifetime, they will never give up.

Pastoral cultivation, those bright red tomatoes, green beans.

And hugs. A lifetime of hugs. The years are safe and the sunset is quiet.

McLee is very good at this style of story. People around you, things around you.

Small and sophisticated.

The photography is very good, there are almost no skills, just the advancement of long and short shots. The sense of light can be grasped very well.

McLee's films are all about loneliness with an almost brutal silence.

It is about sadness but not hurt, leisure but not resentment.

Not optimistic, not pessimistic. Faintly put the truth of life in front of the camera.

Probably the life of each of us is like this, returning to plain.

Quietly face the joys and sorrows of separation and reunion. Quietly waiting for the persistence in my heart.

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Extended Reading
  • Mckenzie 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    I can't see the sighs of old age, I can't see the light and darkness, I can only watch and tell, maybe the meaning of life can't be properly explained at all. One year will be another year, and it seems to be the cycle of loneliness in life, the long deadlock between flickering and chattering. Loving Mike Lee's last minute close-up: The Endless Flower is just a movie, self-talk is our life.

  • Mckenzie 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Spring, summer, autumn and winter, ups and downs, life, old age, sickness and death, joy, anger, sorrow and joy, such a calm perspective, telling such an ordinary life, can also have a strong tension, seemingly insipid and silent, but in fact murder is like numbness and invisible; the last scene is frozen On Mary's confused face, everything around her was isolated from her, and the only thing left was silence, which was too lethal.

Another Year quotes

  • Tom: I seem to remember you got banned from a number of pubs in Hull for shouting about nothing when you were a young person.

    Ken: [retelling the event] "Ken, we like you. You're a good bloke, you're good on the darts, but if you talk about politics again, you're barred!".

    [both burst into laughter]

  • Mary: But he wasn't a bad person. He loved me.

    Tom: Sounds to me that he was a duplicitous shit.