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Watching film notes-"Five Easy Pieces"
Milan 2022-04-29 06:01:04
1. On the road is the tradition that the counter-cultural movement inherited from the Beat generation. Generally speaking, this film is still an extension of that tradition in the 1970s, but in this film, the movement has spread to upper-middle-class young people who run away from home. 2. In fact, the counterculture at the beginning of the new Hollywood has been declining downwards, and it has long been predicted that they will blow it. 3. Why do you want to go on the road is actually divided into two factions. One group is Easy Rider. They are portrayed as Jesus in this world, set off aimlessly, spread their love by traveling far, and prove their right by sacrifice. Another group of people, like this film, feel that they can find meaning and love on the road, or they can escape meaning and love, but some of them actually lose the ability to love. 4. In fact, the most interesting thing is Forrest Gump, 15 years after the conservative beginning of neoliberalism, it provides another conservative perspective to look back at this period of history. Forrest, this young man who was never angry and sensitive, also ran aimlessly on the road in the 1970s. The Jesus-like appearance also inspired a group of followers, and finally stopped aimlessly. Forrest Gump's attitude towards that period of history was rather ambiguous, and he couldn't avoid it and couldn't sum it up. It simply came to no cause and no effect. Another example is "Big Fish". The film can be regarded as a reinterpretation of the angry youth of the parents. Its ideological coding ignores the changes in social values at the time and the sometimes radical and violent social movements, and it is attributed to contemporary times. Young people love to hear and hear the journey of pursuing love and creating a legend. This kind of coding completely eliminated the left-leaning tendency of the year, and it definitely represents the neoliberal narrative strategy than the Twilight series.
Extended Reading
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Rogelio 2022-04-29 06:01:04
The profligate talent, the beat generation, the lonely soul; the tone is very good, but it's just a little bit scattered.
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Larissa 2022-04-29 06:01:04
There is no resistance to this type of story. Tired of the boring hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie and the inability to integrate into the trivial and mediocre working class, gradually losing their belonging and identity in the mezzanine state, and only in constant escape can they get a moment of respite. On the way, the Lace hitchhiker looked directly at the camera and denounced consumerism and believed in the pure land of Alaska. It is the same as the literary youth who deviated from Beishangguang and poured into Dali in the past few years. The story is always repeated. After the last hippie years passed, a large number of films of this kind depicting nihilistic exploration and absurd life appeared in almost the entire western film scene, but they were always dominated by men. I quite hope that these kinds of stories will be sexually transformed. Seeing this from "Passenger", Nicholson, in his 30s and 40s, was almost born for this kind of confused seeker role. The 70s really belonged to Nicholson's era.
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Bobby: You keep on talking about the good life, Elton, 'cause it makes me puke.
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[first lines]
Rayette: I'm gonna play it again.
Bobby: You play that thing one more time, I'm gonna melt it down into hairspray.
Rayette: Let me play the other side then.
Bobby: No, Rayette, it's not a question of sides. It's a question of musical integrity.