Although the director's intention is to explain the realm of autism, Lost youth, the damage of war, etc... But, in the complicated Vietnam War film, this film is not the theme of Vietnam War at all. Given the personal tastes of the writers and directors, I always thought that they just wanted to make this film the ultimate in ambiguous and bad taste. When the pink and lovely Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage hugged tightly again and again, I couldn't help but wonder: the director really liked this one.
Well, while there aren't any confessions that make gay gays cheer, Modine's Birdy is a quirky boy who definitely has the potential to be the ultimate kid. Modine was only 25 years old at the time. A man only has one flower in his 30s, but this bud is enough for the director to deliberately place the camera on his face, eyes, and body. . . It's like foreplay with a camera. But the camera did not show any charming meaning. Obviously, this little Shou didn't want to take the temptation route yet, but just raised those otherworldly eyes that had no trace of time, and stared blankly at the sky. Or according to the requirements of the plot, show his youthful and tender body without hesitation (also said that it is not a lure!!)
I can't think of any reason, Cage plays the high school student Al who likes to play horses, fights and hangs around with him. To be so familiar. Birdy repeated stupid things, and Al gave him back again and again, accompany him to the end. More than once, Al stared at the clear face of the other party and said to himself: you're scaring me.... When he said this, Cage's hair was not bald, and the messy hair was flying like thatch domineeringly. .
I didn't expect Modine to have short hair better than long hair. When I watched "Full Metal Jacket" at the time, I thought that the protagonist Joker he played was just cute, a very normal American soldier with a funny round glasses on his nose, which completely concealed the beauty revealed in this film three years ago. Although he only spent a few minutes on the battlefield for this film, it is strongly recommended to watch this film together with "Full Metal Jacket", or the "Memphis Belle" in the future (both are classic war films), so that it can be straightened out. Impression of Modine: He is still a very healthy American man, not a European white and tender boy. The taste of this stunner at the time was different from that of Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Leo DiCaprio, Ed Furlong, etc...
And although Cage's acting skills made the last monologue a little thin, it can already be seen that his neurotic style in the future. At the end of the film, the director played an old routine: he shot the ending he wanted, but added an extra ending. In fact, the ending didn't go anywhere. Birdy said it very early: I want to die and be reborn as a bird. Now, he has regained his friends, but he will not be able to reincarnate for a while.
I saw some great people commented that in the end, Birdy was suddenly normal and smiled brightly, indicating that he had nothing wrong with him at all, but he was just obsessed with "I'm too lazy to talk to you"; it was the whole society that went crazy. Al also mentioned by the way: People who live in Philadelphia are really not normal. But watching the description of the blue-collar life in Philadelphia before the film, I always feel that there is a kind of nostalgic flow of money in it, and there is a feeling of youth. Baseball fields, abandoned construction sites, beachside playgrounds and high school proms are the best memories of everyone's ignorant era. Moreover, the parents of the two young people also have their own delicate warmth. Life isn't perfect in a rundown neighborhood. Birdy may begin to imagine escape, imagine flying. But I can't figure out the purpose of that morning "accident" shot. The physiological reaction of his body shows that liking birds is not only a psychological attachment, but a problem in his head. In a slightly more hopeful, slightly more forgiving world, he would be the boy in Dead Poets Society, Nash in Princeton, or the sweeper in Good Will Hunting.
So, I guess, the director did not want to focus on the Vietnam War. They also want to express their helplessness to the society of the 1960s and their fear of a certain low-level living condition. The Vietnam War merely elevated Birdy's autism to a qualitative change. As for the end, Al finally agrees, they really don't have anything in this world. "Loser don't hurt." Hearing this sentence, my heart skipped a beat. How many failures did the person who wrote this line have to go through to sum up such a succinct sentence? Al finally understood Birdy's distress. But what's the use of knowing? Birdy has been searching in vain for a spiritual Eden, and now he's pulling in Al, who used to have a little bit of dynamism. This time, the two of them were completely dead.
Personally, I have always disliked this kind of beautiful pure literary film because of despair, but for such a seductive Modine, it is worth continuing to review.
Plus a flower arrangement: I didn't have a "full metal casing" film in my hand, so I had to review a few clips on the Internet and found that Modine's Joker was really funny. From the initial training in the military camp to the smoky Vietnam battlefield, Joker has always been the kind of cynical, following the locals, but kind and sensitive. The scene in which he and the Animal Mother are scolding each other is regarded as a classic scolding, and it is worth remembering! :)
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