really loves the ending story. The black and white playback like an old movie made me almost cry. Seeing the vicissitudes of life written on the gully on the old woman's face, and half of her eyes closed, a hint of happiness was revealed.
The smoke reminds me of the ridiculous things in Brooklyn, but the warmth in the smoke is even greater. I personally think that Paul Benjamin is the incarnation of Paul Auster in the film, and he always likes to play such word games. The somewhat neurotic writer raised his glasses and looked at everything that happened around him, using a ticking typewriter to change them into black and white. This is the magic of the writer. He looks like a typical intellectual, but he is not shy. And the story about the weight of the smoke and dust at the beginning is a knowing smile. You think there are too many things in life that cannot be measured, such as the sky or the human heart. However, if you have the intention, all of this can of course be expressed by measurement. Even if it is filled with smoke in the air, it will still retain the original quality, the most authentic thing. At the end of Auggie's story, the writer's red eyes, but tears did not fall after all. Such a detail makes me seem to have touched the softest part of his heart.
Auggie is also a character I like very much. He is just a simple citizen who runs his own cigarette shop. However, his four thousand photos of the same scene are a kind of extraordinarily sentimental and waiting. I can’t help but think back to the thought that I had also moved to record those people and things in the same space at the same time, but after all, I didn’t have a “story” camera, nor did I have the same perseverance and determination as him.
The movie is divided into five segments, which connect all these events in New York into a complete story. Although the relationship between the characters is complicated and intertwined, this form is not messy, on the contrary, it organizes a clear image in the viewer's mind. Those human affairs that emerge are diffused like smoke, but if you concentrate on one point, you can still see the clear faces of the characters in the smoke and the recurrence of the story scene.
I can't say how novel and interesting the ending story is, but from Paul Auster's writing, there is a warm and charming charm. The close-up of Auggie's face made my mind move only with his narration, so I put myself in that scene completely, to feel the warmth of the old woman's embrace.
New York is a big apple, but also a big stage, condensing Pepsi in life, condensing the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of life.
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