I like him, but I haven’t seen any of his works during his time as a handsome heartthrob. It’s said that he should be a superstar of Tom Cruise + Tom Hanks + Brad Pitt in the Western film era, but I don’t have any. I want to see it, because he was a quasi-old man from the beginning when he liked him. It was "The Bridge of Madison County" more than ten years ago, so I can say that I have witnessed the whole process of the superstar from quasi-old to senior.
Walter in "Classic Cars" is a veteran stubborn old man.
In my opinion, a good director should be a good questioner and provide a good platform for everyone to think about problems, not sell answers. The stubborn old man Walter in "Classic Cars" is a particularly good platform. It brings us a series of problems that are too late and hard to think about in the rush of life, such as life and death, such as the new era and old concepts, such as change and perseverance, such as love. And give up, such as tolerance and struggle, and so on.
This time, I was immersed in the "old" problems presented in his story and couldn't help myself.
An old house with his wife for life, a classic car more than 30 years ago, an old dog named Daisy, an old medal brought back from the Korean battlefield, a bunch of old prejudices about race, and a mouthful of them. The old swear words, an old barber shop that I go to once every three weeks, and an old barber who has been arguing for decades...
In the world I live in, the old and the new are always replaced It’s not long after my old tapes were replaced by new CDs, and MP3 was eliminated; the newspaper model that I studied when I was in school was sold to Internet companies in the fifth year after I worked; since I moved here In the three years in the building, the shop downstairs has undergone several transformations from the original barber shop to the fruit shop to the restaurant to the sexual health product shop to the housing agency now. "New" is already an adjective that does not rush. Now, let alone the "old"?
But when I was watching a movie, I was really immersed in the "old". The stubborn old man is an old man in the 21st century who lived in the 1950s. He has not been able to heal the old wounds left by the war in his life, but the part he insists on contains the antidote that we need most in this new era. The concept that has arrived can just deal with the contradictions that are still chaotic today. Is this the so-called fan of the authorities? Regardless of the difference between the old concept and the new era, the angels and demons of human nature will not change much. What is the difference between Walter's final fulfillment and Jesus' righteousness? And those gangsters are lurking in the corners of our souls at all times, lurking more or less, shallowly or deeply.
It's not that I don't understand, it's just that the times are changing fast. This catchphrase after the reform and opening up can only be broadcast as historical materials in documentaries that review reforms, but universal values such as love and tolerance are always worth spreading, especially when it changes. It's not that we are developing fast, but that we really don't deserve an old man in our life.
I think the old Clint Eastwood is not without the answer, but he is not used to preaching. In his aesthetics and values, there will be no flat stories and principles, and he will not create a flat stubborn old man. , Otherwise, wouldn't it be a glorious stone? At the beginning of the movie, we will forget the old handsome Clint Eastwood, but we will truly start to hate Walter, the stubborn old man, but as the story unfolds, The persistence of the stubborn old man and the light of human nature began to shine into the soul, and the universal value was enlightened and sprouted bit by bit.
Even in the kingdom of entertainment to death, even in the years of material supremacy, Hollywood still has such an aesthetic and persistence. This is the glory and dream of Hollywood.
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