It is not uncommon for Hollywood movie stars to change careers as directors. The most successful one is Eastwood, and Clooney has also attracted everyone's attention with "Good Night and Good Luck". In contrast, Tommy. plum. Although Jones's "Three Funerals in Escada" in 2005 won praise from the film industry, it is still unknown to many people. This film tells the story of the Texas cowboy Pete keeping his promise and bringing the body of his dead friend Escada back to his home in Mexico. This process is also accompanied by the redemption journey of border guard Norton. In this film, Tommy can be said to have adopted a large number of film narrative techniques that have been popular in recent years, such as interspersed narratives in the sequence, multiple expressions of the same event through different people’s perspectives, multi-threaded narratives, etc., any single mention It's not new, but the comprehensive use and the familiarity show that the veteran is not simple.
There are many clues at the beginning of the film, with Pete looking for the "murderer" who killed his friends as the main line, as well as the past years of Pete and Escada, the experience of the patrolman Norton who mistakenly killed Escada, the experience of the wife of the cafe, Norton's wife And these clues are intertwined with each other, fully expressing the accident and the inevitability behind the relationship between people. Pete is a typical cowboy image, rough appearance, free style, while maintaining a cowboy enthusiasm and stubborn personality. Therefore, he reached a friendship with Escar from Mexico, and was obsessed with the promise of his friend's request of "If I die, please take me back to my home in Mexico", and even madly brought the body of his old friend in front of him. Go find that piece of home. On the way, he was not alone because he was accompanied by Norton. Of course, this was not Norton's original intention. At the beginning of the film, it can be seen that Norton’s life has a problem. He appears irritable and irritable. His marriage to his wife has also been itchy for N years. They have made love mechanically, while Norton can only rely on reading pornographic magazines. Looking for the pleasure, and his wife can only find other men to have fun (coincidentally, I just found Escada). Perhaps it was this unfavorable situation that made Norton nervous, killed Escada by mistake, and was dragged on the way home by Pete, who was "revenged" by his friend.
It should be said that "The Three Funerals of Escada" and "Falling Leaves Returning to the Roots" have the same commitment to his friends. In order to keep his promises, Pete can disregard the law and let ordinary people pull up Norton and bring the corpse with them. Shuttle on the desolate border between the United States and Mexico. He has always seemed very peaceful during this journey, and his emotions only have twists and turns when he thinks of a lover in a tryst after getting drunk in Mexico. His commitment journey should be said to be quite smooth, Tommy obviously does not want to attract the audience through the twists and turns along the way, but wants to show a cowboy's persistence in keeping his promises through this process. Finally, when he found what Escada called the dilapidated "home", he smiled. Under the warm sunshine and music, the plot of him and Norton repairing the dilapidated house for their friends is warm and touching. Yes, the important thing is the process. Perhaps it is not important whether this is Escada's real home. The important thing is that Pete can bring a peaceful funeral to his friends and let him calm his heart. Compared with "Falling Leaves Returning to the Roots", this film has more meaning of redemption, and Norton is walking on the road of redemption. After being kidnapped and forcibly taken away by Pete, he was full of resentment and fear towards Pete, but gradually, Along the way, he experienced hardships and met the kind-hearted Mexicans who had been beaten by him. His mood began to change, especially when he saw the TV series that his wife used to love, he cried, and he realized that at this time. What he did wrong, he only understood what the concept of home is at this time. The scene where he finally confessed to the photo of Escada’s "family" was quite moving. His soul was redeemed, and Pete said to him, "You You can go now," Norton shouted to his back, "You go back too, right?", the film ends here, which can be said to be just right.
In terms of narrative, "Falling Leaves Return to Roots" appears to be much more crisp, directly starting with Zhao Benshan's journey home with the corpses of his coworkers. At the same time, it is also more "daring", unlike Pete carrying the corpses of his friends on the inaccessible U.S.-Mexico border. Shuttle, Zhao Benshan directly took the body of the worker on the road. Although the reasons for pretending to be drunk to solve the identity problem of colleagues and using earthwork to solve the decay problem are far-fetched, it also allows the story to go on. With Zhao Benshan’s journey home along the road with the corpses of his coworkers, this movie also has the taste of a “road movie”. If "The Three Funerals of Escada" is a direct reference to human nature, then "The Fallen Leaves Return to Roots" More “scenes” are shown along the way, car bandits, road tyrants, love-lost drivers, lonely old people who rely on suspended animation to find the lively, roadside shop owners who cheat money, hair salon girls, loving couples who have experienced misfortune, and blood sellers. Women can be said to show many realities in China. Of course, it is not about revealing reality profoundly, so it is more of a glimpse of light and shadows, but it is full of Chinese flavor, which can easily arouse the audience's resonance and make the film go beyond the general meaning of New Year's film. In the film, Zhao Benshan also has a stubborn spirit. He wants to send his workmates home. He looks earthy, but because of his kind and persistent heart, he can always "turn good luck" and realize himself step by step. Promise of.
The place with Chinese characteristics of Falling Leaves is a strong expression of the "roots" of the hometown. In the film, along the way, the protagonist encounters different accents, people from all corners of the country, who leave their hometown to make a living, and travel around. , And he and his dead co-workers are just such people. The release of such a movie on the eve of the Spring Festival undoubtedly arouses everyone's expectation of going home, which also adds a bit to the audience's mind for the film. In the end, like "Eskarda's Three Funerals", the protagonist actually did not completely take the body of his co-worker back to his hometown, but again, this is not important, he has kept his promise, and he has done his best. The ending of the film is also very good. It puts the background of the Three Gorges Project, which has caused large-scale immigration. In the end, when the protagonist finds the worker’s "home", he finds that it has also been abandoned and the worker’s family has moved to another. In one place, this will make the ending of a homecoming journey paradoxical. Have the dead workers go home? It also makes the story a touch of heaviness at the end, but it is more intriguing than a happy ending.
Although the stories are similar, the two films have different styles due to cultural differences and the director’s expressive intentions. "Three Funerals in Escada" is more directed at humanity, and it also carries the Western characteristics. The religious overtones often found in similar movies, coupled with the magnificent and desolate western background, make the tone of the whole film a bit depressing. But Falling Leaves Return to the Roots has more rustic flavors and more comedic elements in the film. The whole process of returning home seems to be twists and turns, and it is very lively, but from time to time it brings out a touch of bitterness, and the comedic shows some heavy content. The two films do not value the result, but the process, but the former shows more the process of the soul, and the latter more shows the actual process of the journey, but the different paths lead to the same result, both of which are full of drama in an unusual event triggered by a promise. Personally, I think "The Three Funerals of Escada" is more flavorful and worth chewing. The locality of Fallen Leaves makes me feel even more, especially its realistic style under the color of comedy, which impresses me. It is not as exaggerated as "Crazy Stone", but it still does not lose the meaning of black humor. The first domestically produced blockbuster in 2007, "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots" made a good start, making people feel the touching power of "a promise of gold" in the laughter from time to time.
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