Just as Gibson’s lazy electronic sound always reminds people of the slow-flowing clouds and the gilded 70s, the best thing about this movie is not its plot, but the good weather and BBQ party, nostalgic country folk soundtrack. , The humanistic scenery of the port city, the plot of the prodigal son turning back...from the beginning to the end, there is no negative role in the pure sense. The only obscurity comes from the unsatisfactory past deep in people's hearts.
Imagine Paslin's life outside for several years. Lack of soothing and caring childhood, a deviant girl who grows up, despises education, fools with her boyfriend all day, eats chocolate beans dipped in peanut butter, and kills the time on the TV-all this until she decides to rush back to her hometown to join her mother The funeral just ended. There always seems to be a part of life that must be wasted. Because of laziness, vanity, childishness or all the ignorance given by youth, some people spend two or three summer vacations and then fully wake up, while others ruin the entire adolescence. Paslin is a smart girl. Although she can't control her life well, she occasionally feels empty and tired, hoping to improve. When she returned with a mess of reality, maybe she only thought of changing a place and changing her boyfriend to a job like a barmaid. She didn't expect her mother to leave anything for her. She is accustomed to making difficult metaphors for hateful guys (such as Bobby who has just met Bobby), but she is not the kind of person who is happy and eager to express herself. She understands the rules of the world, and understands that insignificant ridicule is better than sentimental. A confession can protect yourself better. One day she sat at the door and carefully told Larson her wish to be an X-ray doctor. At that time, her beauty and low self-esteem were all apparent. While she gradually established trust with Bobby under the same roof, her understanding and goodwill for her mother also appeared in her eyes, so after learning of Bobby’s deception, she was so angry that she was afraid of what she had just got. Will be lost again. She is a stubborn and witty girl, with a perfect temperament. In addition to the gradually clear childhood memories that her hometown gave her, she also had the opportunity to live anew. Like mother Laura Yin, the door to her heart is always open. No one's heart is always just a revolving door.
As for old Bobby, a bohemian poet, a coward who eschews reality, a drunk who is dangling—these images are actually aggregated on the body of a lame old man. He can talk endlessly and become the focus of a summer barbecue party with friends, he can indulge in the world of alcohol and arrogance, he can occasionally dial the phone at home in the middle of the night without being able to restrain his missing, but finally he dare not. Make a sound. Bobby's experience gradually dried up his expectations of the world, making his sense of judging life dull and numb. There are too many responsibilities for him to face or avoid, so that seemingly endless biography became his only reason to deal with life. When he was young, Bobby was favored by the public, but after he was old, he continued to be cynical and self-intoxicated. Paslin's arrival gave him a sense of threat, because the old house was his only refuge, so he chose to conceal and delay, as long as the delay could be. Later, Larson's plan to move to his old house broke his heart. He thought he had lost his only follower for a long time, and lost the partner who had always shared his bleak life with him for many years. Therefore, he was full of hostility towards Larson's girlfriend, and when he returned home, he cried like a child about illness and loneliness. The cuteness of Bobby is that he will always live in an ideal world. Such a person will encounter misfortune in his life, because he never wants to overdo the reality. The Bobby-like image makes me feel so apt, the story of every person's life is always half regrettable. Life stagnates because you have lived through your own time. It's like Molière's famous saying that Bobby loves to quote from the scriptures: We only die once, but for so long.
Larson, this loyal friend of Bobby, this gentle man. When he was a student, he must be a soft-hearted and introverted young man. Bobby is obviously popular with the public because of his charm, and Larson must be the closest person to Bobby's brilliance. Larson even thinks it is his honor to know Bobby. When Bobby got into trouble for Larson and lost the good life before, Larson was burdened with love and guilt for Bobby and followed Bobby's life in Alabama to New Orleans. In the heavy old house, abandoning love and future, spent nine years quietly with sentiment. He saw with his own eyes how Bobby went from being so charming back to today's muddle-headedness. In particular, Bobby kept talking about the trauma he had left for Larsen, emphasizing that the deterioration of his life was all because of the fact that Larson was going to get ahead of him. Started to get tired of resisting Bobby like this, but still indulge in maintenance. When Bobby clashed with his love, Larson finally chose to return to his old house to accompany the lonely Bobby. But Paslin's appearance dilutes the burden of memories on Larson, and the three men heal each other's scars about the past. Larson finally began to try to conceive this Bobby Long story.
Although the image of Laura Yin never appeared, her mellow and lonely figure always runs through the movie itself. All the memories of her are accumulated from the experience of Paslin. The Laura Yin in Paslin's impression was just a ridiculous and humble singer who left her hands alone when she left her to her grandmother, and had no sense of responsibility at all. The mother did not live to understand for a lifetime, but ended up forty years of life because of drugs. This is the life of a standard drug addict, a very poor creature. But when she returned to the place where her mother lived, her friends and even Bobby gradually understood the once beautiful Laura Yin, and she began to have a little curiosity about her mother's story. For Laura Yin, Bobby and her daughter Paslin, the most important in her life, are far away from her. Bobby has maintained the dignity defined by him throughout his life, so he is used to ignoring the people around him and ignoring Laura Yin. After enjoying Laura Yin's outstanding singing, he will return to his home in Alabama, where he has his wife and children, and that is his life. The helplessness towards Bobby and the guilt towards her daughter only allowed Laura Yin to face the exhaustion of her life alone. She wrote one letter after another that could not be sent out to Paslin, and left her only cabin in trouble. Bobby. In fact, she is the loneliest person in this story, just like the "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" that Bobby gave her, she extended her loneliest wait for a short life. After Laura Yin left, her shadow was everywhere in the small town. As a singer, her "my heart was a lonely hunter" was finally sung by people.
Any movie I like has a reason. Although Paslin and Bobby’s late father-daughter relationship is obviously weakened in length, the easy-going people, retro furniture and small southern towns can all remind people of the golden age of the United States. For the New Orleans story, the main theme of the soundtrack has abandoned Armstrong's joy. This is probably because the beautiful scenery in the movie is more suitable for the nostalgic country folk and blues, which is originally a nostalgic movie. People are full of nostalgia for the past, and the slow return of the movie makes everyone feel relieved and finish the last dance on the open grass. Maybe it's really just that we don't know how to live, so we leave regrets and years to the past.
One day, when I walk through the promenade with flower stands, walk through the long and long railroad tracks, walk through the old dilapidated walls, walk through the manicured gardens, walk through the lush towering trees, and come Before a small tombstone, listen carefully. In those grassy afternoons, there is always a love song dedicated to Bobby Long.
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