(1) The less established, more
divergent thinking, the first thing that comes to mind is another "Graduation Exam" that won the Cannes award this year. The corrupt education and medical system, the cold-hearted favors that are in danger, and the broken marriages that are reluctantly maintained for the sake of their children-these negative parallel elements have been codified into a "back door" story in a neatly written and purposeful manner. Theme service.
"American Sweetheart" also has its parallel elements: "religious" (in the protagonist's words, "nothing is missing" and maybe single parent) middle-aged family, middle-aged uncles with sports cars, swimming pools and luxury houses, The rough guys in the small town who got rich from oil "shamelessly", and the last (which the heroine must be very familiar with) the mother who took drugs and stunned and her three children.
An unscrupulous sales group composed of a dozen white scum teenagers wandering around the world, and a self-contained ecological system, a prose-style ukiyo-e that seems to be nowhere to be photographed, and a realism with no central idea at all. (If you have to say it is) MV big mix cut.
In fact, what I want to say is that sometimes, screenwriters can not use too much effort, but can impress (some) people more.
(2) From the point of
view of the girl who "stumbled" for a scumbag , I have to admit that in front of the director's casual, non-centralized, dramatic new work, in "Fish Tank", "the girl was taken away by her mother's boyfriend." I paid the price of growth after the first night" (Well, it's so simple and rude) The plot is really a bit hypocritical to make people blush.
However, after three brushes seven months ago, I still insisted that five stars can not be reduced, because Andrea Arnold is really good at creating emotions: the magnified breath of Mia several times is the best proof.
In "American Sweetheart", accompanied by countless focus misalignments, or random to somewhat blunt close-ups, are Star's exceptionally prominent bright eyes-they are eager, full of hope, or disappointed, confused, and overflowing. (It's so emotional) Tears. (Applause for the eyes of the auntie again!)
My favorite clip (maybe none ) in "Fish Tank" is Mia, who pretends to be asleep, peeking from the gap between her arm and body to take off her pants and cover herself. Those two minutes. (Okay, hypocritical again.) In addition to two paragraphs (timing and handling are just right) on the fourth base of "American Sweetheart", the sprinkler that was suddenly activated when the lawn fell was like a magical stroke.
Compared with "Fish Bowl", which presents the whole process of "love" from encountering betrayal, the two of "American Sweetheart" started with passenger A and passerby B looking at each other in an incredible way, and ended with the close gaze and betrayal in the car. The observer looked back. Whether it is Star's contemptuous fascination with Jake, or the latter's volatility, like falling from the sky for a while, it will be more intriguing. (The mystery of wolf barking is praised!)
(3) The mastery of the housekeeping skills and
photography accounted for more than 50% of the reasons I like this director. Even among her four works, I only played the three-star "Wuthering Heights", half a year ago. I was fascinated by the scenes.
Ms. Arnold, who is over half a hundred years old, is still very fond of backlit lenses, hand-held shooting all kinds of shaky and hazy, these usual tricks do not need to be repeated.
In short, the elements and bridges used in "Fish Tank" seem to be only enlarged and re-enlarged in "American Sweetheart".
Seven years ago, it was the actually a bit earthy "California Dreaming". The new work is the most criticized Yishui Billboard hit song. I think I am the kind of person who has a low tolerance for excessive use of soundtracks and episodes in movies. However, there are so many songs in "American Sweetheart" that I actually feel that there is nothing redundant. (I have to admit that I used Shazam a few times while watching the movie...) The middle song Mazzy Star and the last bonfire song Raury's "God's Whisper" are impressive.
Adolescent Mia cared about the white horse in the junkyard. This time the clone became a variety of animals (in fact, there were also scenes of horses outside the mansion of the uncle sports car)-the bees picked up from the swimming pool with tin foil, The bugs that were covered with a glass and then released, and the turtles whose tails were released into the water.
Then, in "Fish Tank", Mia's uncivilized behavior in Conner's house also came to a sequel-magazine teenagers urinated wildly at the Danxia landform. (Friends of beans left behind by a star's Commentary: Are you sure that "Every shot a look as if to smell of urine are" not because of the play?)
(D) If we must seriously if
each team is Star Big Sister When Crystal, who was also the owner of Jake, called into the room to make a mockery, I couldn't help but fantasize about the two people tearing apart.
Probably, 80% of youth idol dramas will do this.
However, except for the last time she played a little bit of cleverness and took out a banknote to hand it in to the organization, our heroine seemed to be swallowed and submissive from beginning to end.
Why??? With your 18-year-old wild energy, even if you dare not give your eldest sister a little bit of color, you can still get out of the organization, right?
Wait a minute, what is the motivation for sticking to this dignified magazine sales road?
One of my favorite movies in 2015 is (yes, that one is already in the end) "Victoria". I thought that the heroine Victoria confided to the Berlin guy Sonne after she played a piano in the coffee shop where she was working, enough to explain her. Later, the motivation for embarking on the crime road "inexplicably".
At the beginning of the film, Star cried in the awkward arms and kisses of the suspected stepfather. The next second, she brought her younger siblings to her mother in the bar and hurried away.
(5) She got out of the water.
Another thing she liked very much was that she brought the food she had just bought from the supermarket back to the door of the three children of drug-addicted mothers. As soon as the door opened, the camera stopped abruptly.
In exchange for the potential climax that other people can use to make a fuss, Aunt Arnold chose to keep it in advance.
In fact, the judges in Cannes this year are not all blind.
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