I watched "Lost Weekend" last night, and I have seen some of Billy Wild’s works. I am always amazed by the master’s superb shooting techniques. This time, I am not living in the 21st century. Disappointed.
I always have an inexplicable love for black and white films, as if the black and white shadow cloth is clearer, but the color is dizzying. At first I thought there would be plots such as murder and suspense. After all, I was used to watching movies like "The Witness of the Prosecution" and "Double Compensation", and I had inexplicable expectations for these plots. Later I slowly discovered that this is a social reality theme. The film, which lasts for an hour and a half, is all about the story between this man and alcohol, how the alcoholic is obsessed with alcohol, how his personality becomes unstable when he becomes addicted to alcohol, forgets his promises, and sees alcohol. The details of the expression at the time.
The protagonist's acting skills are also very online. The swaying footsteps, sloppy beards, especially the state of holding a typewriter at the Knight Hotel and requesting another drink, and the spirit of a drinker who wants to use the typewriter to change drinks, are extremely vivid and lifelike. Billy Wilder is a master of lens language. Instead of talking about the magic of wine through the mouth of the character, he uses the small circles left by the pouring of wine glasses to create a dreamy and beautiful atmosphere, so that the audience can also understand. The charm of wine.
What impressed me the most about the whole movie was the film’s musical intentions. The soundtrack at every stage, every level, and every scene made me fascinated. Apart from the subtle description of the movie’s use of music, it’s indescribable, really. There are miraculous effects that create the rhythm of music to promote the plot of the movie, sometimes romantic, sometimes suspenseful, sometimes fantasy, sometimes horrible, sometimes heavy, sometimes quiet, and wonderful. When Tang habitually took down the cigarette in his mouth with his left hand and lifted the glass with his right hand to drink the first glass of wine, we were as scared as the heroine whether he would continue to need wine again, he He hesitated for a while, and then naturally the action of throwing cigarettes into the wine glass was really elegant, and the movie was also very elegant when filming this way. His novel finally had a specific plot, and he could dream about it without drinking.
There were many alcoholics in society at that time. After the film was released, it caused a great sensation and received rave reviews. But if you look at this film from the perspective of the 21st century, what I naturally associate first is, don’t we also rely on electronic products in this way? It’s just an invisible addiction. If we lose our mobile phone for a day, we will get anxious and nervous. We will be nervous and panic when we see that the battery is below 80%. Contacting in time and missing a lot of things, this inexplicable idea will take root and thrive, binding us and electronic products tightly. Urbanites now lose not only the "weekends" that should relax their souls and enjoy freedom when they are not at work, but also every peaceful and peaceful night of their own, every minute and every second. From this point of view, the significance of this movie today is also very important. What do we pursue for what. It is like in the film that Tang became an alcoholic in pursuit of a wonderful novel, but forgot that he was a writer and was trapped in a prison of alcoholism. This is terrifying. I also hope that we can have a night of our own.
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