The pictures and tunes of the first half, some small jokes and plots, plus the beautiful scenery, will make people mistakenly think that it is another soothing and refreshing music movie. As the story progresses, you will gradually find that this is a melancholic movie. This type of work will generally show the darkness of society or the helpless reality. This type of movie will make you feel very heartbroken after watching it. "Frank" is such a movie.
Jon, a young man who loves music, came into contact with Frank and his band by chance, and was fortunate to join the band. Together with them, he came to a scenic resort village in Ireland to record a music album. The core soul of this band is undoubtedly Frank, who also takes care of the lead singer of the band. This is a neurotic band formed by a group of weird guys: Frank always wears a big cartoon headgear, uses straws for eating and drinking, and sings wheat in the headgear. He doesn't even take off the headgear even when taking a bath or sleeping. , No one has seen what he looks like. Clara is irritable and unfriendly. Producer Don likes to sleep with plastic models and has been in a mental hospital. The other members of the band are also weird.
After going through various "training" and problems, they finally produced their own music album. Jon recorded their usual life into a video and posted it on the Internet. Slowly they started to get popular. Fortunately, they were invited to participate in the South by Southwest Music Festival. This was a great time for them. But the band members seemed to reject this performance. They thought that Jon didn't understand their music, didn't understand Frank, and just used to betray them in order to become famous. When Frank knew that so many people were following them on the Internet, he decided to participate in this festival. It turned out that everything was terrible, everything fell apart. Frank has always wanted to be accepted by everyone. He has always wanted to integrate into this society, and has always wanted to integrate into this world. Just like Jon, why didn't he always want to join this neurotic band, even though he didn't belong here at all, he still deliberately joined in, and finally realized that this place didn't belong to him at all.
No one really loves them, no one really pays attention to their music. Most people who watch videos just treat them as freaks. After all, they are just aliens and incompatible with this society. Prejudices in reality are everywhere, and we tend to look at the marginalized bodies of this kind of society with strange eyes.
We can even see some of ourselves from Frank. The lonely and autistic teenager, the weird obsessed with something that is almost pathological, or the individual who is excluded by someone or a group of people. In fact, everyone is Frank, and we more or less have some of our own illnesses, but he has gotten deeper. Jon is also "ill". He is arrogant and selfish, and his vanity that he wants to be famous has hurt the band, Frank and himself.
At the end of the story, Frank came to the bar, found his partner, and sang the song I love you all. He became the talented Frank and returned to his music and world. In this kind of warm ending and touching song, we still feel the slightest sadness, because after all, he still failed to integrate into this society, this place does not belong to him. He was abandoned by this world. Franks of all kinds in the real world, they are also floating in their own sky.
Life has been so difficult, there are some things that should not be revealed. I can't fit into your world, just like you can't fit into my world, it makes me sad and beautiful in my freak world.
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