Strange to my heaven

Idella 2022-01-09 08:02:01

Heaven corresponds to religious propositions, Mo Ying corresponds to social propositions

Chess, tobacco, alcohol, fast food, gambling, material and endless randomness, this is the way Americans deal in the film, morals are reversed, religions are unconventional, (such as a game of gambling, the cross on the wall on the table and the gamblers put i am in I said to be amen) Life goes round and round aimlessly ("Although I have come to a new place, everything looks the same"), interpersonal relationships are alienated and indifferent and lack the possibility of communication (I want to tell a joke but I can't remember it).

Eva, with the imprint of European culture and independent mental state, provided an entrance and perspective, and also brought hope and joy to Willie Eddie, but she was also polished in another way in Cleveland, so despite There is the possibility of mutual companionship and mutual rescue. Silence and alienation are still the norm (such as the silence of three people in the car space, and Eva in front of the three-person bench table in the vast ocean by the sea).

The long shots of neatly divided short paragraphs have the style of New German movies and Godard, breaking life into lonely pieces of garlic skin, using the method of drawing and cutting music to complete the break of continuity, and the sound is used as the end of the paragraph. Or a continuation between paragraphs, deliberately omitting important details in the plot of the drama (such as "What should we do" after Eva Billy goes out of the car, such as betting on a dog and losing Eva "where should we go")

The unique taste of music, seemingly casual and free, but just right, should be the result of careful consideration.

The natural flowing atmosphere of life collides with the intermittent editing style, forming a very strong artistic style.

Spiritually, it is mutual paradise, but the real world is like a stranger, instinctively saving each other, but following the rules in the mud of materialism and nihilism, so that the currency born out of nothing returns to nothingness and repeats itself. This directly points to American society and forms a bitter criticism. In this kind of intense spiritual lack, money, emotions, and beauty have all lost their brilliance, or the last missed each other indicates that they have gone too far and forgot their original intentions.

So what if I have money? For the people who were concerned, they never expressed it. They changed places to earn money for traveling. They had to fly away to find her on the plane, but they saw the empty hotel in order to see them goodbye.

All blunders are actually doomed, whether because of stupidity, because of dullness, because of regret, because of stubbornness, they are all because of this incredible thing, money.

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Stranger Than Paradise quotes

  • Willie: How much money we got?

    Eddie: I don't know. We got a lot.

    Willie: How much is a lot, Eddie?

    Eddie: We got a lot. We got almost six hundred dollars!

    Willie: You're alright, Eddie. You know.

    Eddie: We're a coupla rich men now.

  • Billy: Hey, said you'd go to the movies with me the other night. Do you want to see "Space Wizards" or that foreign flick down at the Olympia - "Days Without Sun"? Do you want to see that?

    Eva: I don't know. Isn't there a kung fu movie?