The three stories of birds coming out of the birds happened on the same day in the same city. If there are clues connected by the characters, how can they evoke such a strong sweetness and emptiness? Where are the iconic things we know about the so-called movies?
The title of the first story:
A couple of Japanese boys and girls away from Yokohama , to the hometown of Elvis Presley, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. As fans of early black blues music, they came to the pilgrimage as tourists and went to the cat. Wang made his first recording at the Sun Company’s recording studio, then wandered around the street until the dusk found a hotel, and he heard Elvis’ song "Basket Moon" on the radio's midnight show. He woke up the next morning and heard another sound. The gunshots, and after the two went to the former residence of Graceland Elvis, they boarded the train and left Memphis.
Personally, of the three stories in this movie, the one I like the most is this one. The film was originally called "MYSTERY TRAIN", and the literal Chinese translation should be "Mystery Train". In a fixed-camera shot at the beginning of the film, a pair of Japanese boys and girls face each other, seated on opposite ends of the train seat, and the train is centered. In the car window, the hills, groves and plains of the southern United States flashed slowly. The two people in front of this background, the girl has innocent expressions, the boy has a cool face, and from time to time, he plays with the lighter and wipes his bright light. hair.
The director of the film, Jia Muxu, was once known as the master of American independent film. He said this: "Technology and taste should not be the criteria for evaluating the quality of a film, but should be viewed Did not enlighten anything evocative". In this first story, I saw a boring atmosphere always covering the characters and plot. Two foreigners who are not proficient in English walking on the streets of southern American cities, with a fresh and curious mood, from the camera Going from the left to the right on the street, and then from the right to the left (this is the most commendable set of shots in this movie), like walking in circles and back and forth. They stepped on the dangling blues music, and all their actions seemed to be motivated, but in fact they had no purpose. In the train, the boy told the girl that Memphis was only two days away, and it didn't take long for Memphis to arrive, showing that he was absent-minded. The two argued that they wanted to go to the former residence of Graceland Elvis and then to the Sun Studio. They accidentally passed by the Sun Studio and went in. The singer in their hearts---------Elvis Presley’s The legendary experience was expertly finished by the narrator in three or two minutes. The two sat on the street very empty. The girl stared at the statue of Elvis and the boy played with the lighter. They didn't seem to find what they wanted.
A more exciting hint is that at night in the hotel, when the girl was playing with the photo album, she suddenly found that Elvis was very similar to some of the other people she had collected photos of. There was even a profile that looked a lot like Madonna, and the boy was right. All this is still indifferent and expressionless. He rarely speaks. Only when the girl keeps saying that Elvis is great will he say: "Kalpakins is better!!!"
It seems that these two people are completely Came to Memphis for a purpose that is not particularly caring. It is a passer-by of two standards. They also had sex in room 207 in that cheap hotel, and had a little unpleasantness over the hair and beard problems. To cope with the black doorman who was waiting for a tip, the girl gave him a plum brought from Japan. When the two left, they had to take away the bed towels from the hotel. For the girl, they had to put a few T-shirts in the suitcase on them to make room for the bed towels. These were extremely trivial. , It seems meaningless. Only what the boy said when he stood by the hotel window contained some meaningless meaning: "The space in Memphis is larger than Yokohama. In fact, Memphis is very similar to Yokohama."
This sounds sad enough. For travelers, what is more frustrating than finding that they can't get out of their hometown? Reminiscent of their sex (the girl clearly remembers the eleventh time), life has to repeat and walk aimlessly, and has set up these two lonely teenagers like a shadow, perhaps only in Elvis In the illusory dream, they have some real passion.
When the girl went to bed, she also said something like this: "I really love to sleep, because I can dream, and I am really afraid of dying, because when I die, I can't sleep anymore, and I can't dream anymore." Impressive clip Also: the girl put her lipstick on the boy’s mouth out of boredom, so bright red lips appeared on the boy’s bored face, but he still had a bitter face, the girl asked him why he was unhappy, the boy said no , I am actually very happy, but I have this face, no way.
The name of the second story: a ghost
This is the shortest story among the three stories. In fact, this story is somewhat related to the third story, like a foreshadowing.
Tilly, a young woman from Rome, Italy, had to stay in Memphis overnight to consign the coffin because of the sudden death of her relatives. She first encountered a local rogue in a bar, then walked into the hotel where all the characters in the film gathered, and lived with Didi, a Memphis girl who ran away from home and couldn't pay the full room rate. In the evening, the two heard a gunshot when they got up early the next morning (that is, what the two Japanese boys and girls heard in the first story), and then they broke up and went on their separate journeys.
The focus of this story is the "ghost" story about Elvis that the rogue told Tilly. This story Tilly later learned through conversations with Didi that this is a well-known story by the locals in Memphis. Come to lie. The general idea is that when someone drives back to the city one day, all the people who want to hitchhike look like a person, and the person who finally hits the bus asks to get off at Graceland, the former residence of Elvis Presley. The driver only discovered this after he got off the bus. The man is Elvis himself resurrected. Legend has it that Elvis still left the driver with something to pass on to the people who listened to this story. At the same time, the driver can ask for a tip from the listener.
The rogue who told Tilly this story cheated Tilly’s 20 dollars in the cafe, but it’s strange that Tilly, who knew that she was cheated, actually believed the story in her heart, although she had just been taken by the local Memphis before that. The hawker bought a bunch of magazines under hard sales. Out of a little bit of insecurity, when she met Didi who was leaving her boyfriend to live abroad in the hotel, Tilly invited her to live with her. Didi, who talked a lot, talked to her endlessly about her differences with her boyfriend. In the middle of the night Here, Tilly suddenly came out of her body, saw Elvis in the room in a daze, and had a brief conversation with her.
Compared with the previous two Japanese, Tilly came to Memphis more accidentally. She did not expect this to be the birthplace of Elvis, but she spontaneously entered the legend of Elvis and believed in illusion. The existence of is like a ghost meeting another ghost. Her experience is exactly the opposite of the Japanese.
The name of the third story: Lost in the space
This third story is completely different from the previous two. The characters in the story are all natives of Memphis. Johnny, nicknamed "Elvis," because he broke up with his girlfriend Didi and was unemployed, he brought friends to drink. After drinking too much, he drew out his pistol and played with him, like a drunk who hopes to be very powerful, accompanied The person called and asked his friend Will (black) and his girlfriend Didi’s brother Charlie to drive him home. When the three of them got off the car and went to the lounge to buy alcohol, the owner of the lounge was rude to Will (racial discrimination) ), Johnny pulled out a gun and wounded the boss when he was drunk. The three of them drove away in a panic, drank in the car, and finally came to the hotel (still that hotel) exhausted and took refuge in room 202. It was dawn. When Johnny attempted to shoot himself, Charlie blocked the pistol and wounded Charlie’s leg. This shot was heard by the people in the previous two stories (two Japanese, Tilly, Didi) At this point, the three had to drive out of the hotel in embarrassment.
This story feels like an unprovoked riot, accidentally causing people to panic and a kind of inexplicable excitement. After the accident, the three of them drove aimlessly on the street with excitement, driving, It's a bright red truck like an alarm.
There was a very interesting dialogue in the hotel. Johnny told Charlie, who had always considered himself his brother-in-law, that he did not actually marry Didi but just lived together. Charlie was frustrated and angry, and yelled: "So I am not you. Brother-in-law, why should I get into this muddy water?!" The
film is coming to an end and everyone embarks on their own journey: two Japanese boys and girls and Didi are in a carriage, and the Italian woman Tilly goes to rush By plane, the three people who committed the crime heard the sirens fleeing hurriedly, and the train on the railway bridge behind them happened to pass by.
Like several other films of Jamush, the end of this film once again shows some of Jamush’s personal worldview: people always pass by, and if there is no relationship and influence between each other, everyone All do their own things, like passers-by and passers-by.
A few additional notes:
1. Gunshot: This gunshot in the three stories has been heard by everyone, but such a violent and logically shocking gunshot did not have any effect on the people in the play. The Japanese boy said that this is in the United States. No one cares about the whole story or how it ends. It seems that everyone in the movie lives in numbness and illusion. After listening to the gunshots, people in different rooms scattered.
2. Music: It is not an exaggeration to say that music is definitely the soul of this movie. The blues music of the characters walking on the street in the first two stories has a psychedelic rhythm. In particular, the Elvis Golden Melody "Blue Moon", which was aired on the Memphis radio midnight program, appeared three times at the same realistic time (midnight 2:17) in the three stories, including the host DJ's three times. In this way, the song becomes a symbol of the audience’s psychological time. Moreover, for each person in the story, the catalysis of this song in different moods subtly presents different expressions on their faces, like the revelation of three different destinies, but the origin comes from the same Elvis voice.
At the beginning of the film, two Japanese teenagers were listening to the Walkman on the train, and then the music was amplified into the entire screen space and into the ears of the audience, turning into a kind of montage of music, as if let us follow the hearts of the people in the film. the sound of.
3. The waiter and doorman of the hotel: The hotel is a concentrated place for the characters in the whole movie. They are kept in different rooms. Even people who are implicated in fate like Didi and Johnny do not know that the other party is nearby. .
The two black people in the hotel, one old and one young, appeared repeatedly in three stories. They were always sitting there like the hands of time, running monotonously and boringly. They were no strangers to what happened, just like puppets. The boring conversation between them about the length of the sleeves was repeated twice in the movie.
4. Narrative method: The three-story series is not surprising now. This film was recorded in 1989, and may be ahead of Quentin’s "Pulp Fiction". Generally speaking, the narrator disintegrates in this method. A one-dimensional subjective perspective presents the audience with a more complex and objective thinking, but this is not the focus of this film. He is more concerned about the game of time and space and the situation of each person in different games. , After the same life has been copied and emphasized many times, a more illusory fog is born, which makes you doubt the authenticity of what you see.
5. The location of Memphis: As an avid fan of American root music, Jamusch must have a peculiar feeling for Memphis. He has captured some very peculiar sights in the movie, such as waiting for a vintage train seat. This kind of train seat is also in the rooms and cafes. The characters seem to travel everywhere, and there are old but clean streets. When the protagonist walks, he can hardly see other pedestrians, as if walking in a deserted city with no one, like falling. Dream.
6. Unfamiliar situation: In almost all of Jiamuxu's films, the characters must be placed in a strange environment and beaten as a stranger. It seems to him that life is always strange and blurred. There is no truth, and it is impossible to stop and think. How many things we think we know are true or fixed? Just like Charlie has always thought that he was responsible to Johnny, and when things came to him, he realized that he was wishful thinking, and that others had nothing to do with him.
Everyone is actually a passer-by in other people’s stories. What we face is actually just the illusion of countless blue moons. The song is repeated repeatedly, and the voice and melody of Elvis Presley remain the same, but after years, The feelings of seeing and listening to these at the beginning have long since been wrong. The scribbles on it are used to commemorate the days when I was with Big Fat, or to give myself a kind of inspiration for the journey.
In 2002, I wrote a narrative poem, the source of inspiration is this movie, attached here, I hope I can still feel the freshness and mystery from the mediocrity.
"Three Flesh Moons"
-------- Tribute to the American director Jia Muxu
1.
Wang Carpenter was called to the county to
be questioned by German artists.
They treated him only square wood
for decades
. bed
was inexplicable surprised
this neighborhood every bed
and every time he hit into
the table, like
the back of each bed
are engraved with a
small "King"
Wang carpenter said he
worked as secretary of the brigade
popular with good
cultural centers of people say
Asians Westerners
physique is not the same
in the end how
many years ago
the king carpenter will play
the first such bed
no one to say it
German for
this result
is very satisfying
German was gone
that night, almost eleven of
coquettish charm Liu The widow
sat on the side
of her bed with her ass and
stared at her
and said viciously,
"You can make the bed round for me,
it's about the same
as the moon." This sentence
immediately blew across the village like a gust of wind
2.
He made an appointment with her at
the bar on Hengshan Road . The bars were all red
like organs in rut at night. The
car arrogantly slipped on the belly of the
men and women being sucked and vomited by the lights.
These all made him tired.
11:30, exchange location on the phone
0: 00, meet, buy a flower from the entangled little girl
0:30, talk, smile at each other
0:15, find a good place
1:20, talk, keep
1:30, she said, "Let’s withdraw "
1:00, separately go to the bathroom
that night, no one watch
it before they know each other
Japan and South Korea entered the second round
he had not reached her battle
online he gave her a shout
" I hope next time,
put your Remember the appearance clearly."
3. At
two o'clock in the night,
my daughter coughed
very deeply and deeply and coughed up all the
food she ate during the day
.
She coughed up
all the strength in her five-year-old body.
Finally I found
this made her
grandparents.
The fact
that she had been in fear for two months was directed by her herself
.
Before that,
I refused to accompany her to sleep with her.
I took her to the window and
told her about her uncle when
her uncle was young.
In order from my father
for more
horror stories
have been coughing non-stop
last cough blood to
the throat coughed up a big hole
, "Well, just like the moon."
I hand out finger
found misdirected
she has returned to his bed
light It's like a cat.
I'm sure she didn't see
the moon. It
was big and dark.
At five o'clock in the morning,
I heard a strange sound and
found that my daughter
who was supposed to be asleep was
covering her mouth with a quilt
and coughing
and coughing again and again
like a sap in the head
this time it was already pale
moon will be withheld
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