Nashville, 1975
In about 18 years, I successively watched Robert Altman's "Short Stories", "Big Player", "Long Farewell", "Hana Village" and "Army Field Hospital". According to memory, I like "The Long Farewell" (I like this novel very much), which is the adaptation of Raymont Chandler's novel of the same name. The era has changed. The kitten who ran away at the beginning is used as a metaphor for the friendship of the story; The song "SuicideIsPainless" from "Army Field Hospital" is also impressive. But I don’t know if I’m not too keen on country music, so I have not been motivated to open "Nashville." And in the movie list of "Imagine My Movie Hall" (Mr. Yan Xiaoping's Top 100 Movies list), this movie is listed impressively. With the advancement of the viewing plan, the 160-minute film was finally watched in two parts. But it’s no wonder that I’m not interested in this film. It is said that the director himself thinks that country music is very earthy, and the idea of this film is just a task assigned by the company. When Altman was filming "Hana Village", the multi-character dialogue overlay seemed to have been questioned, and some viewers complained that they couldn't hear clearly. He thought it was a technical problem, so he asked an expert to solve the problem of sound recording. First, he took the lead in experimenting in "California Split", which created a precedent for multi-track recording during shooting and created 14 different sound tracks. Then there was further practice in "Nashville". The film story itself has a great connection with the sound, full of live music, music recording, interviews, radio, telephone and so on. The lives of the 24 main characters in the film are intertwined, and through disturbing editing and paved soundtracks, they have carried out a bystander-like time and space dominance. In this uneasy atmosphere, relying on voice to maintain their relationship makes the lack of empathy between people more obvious, and it also shows the preciousness of the true feelings. Several times, the character sang the song completely, which made people fascinated. It's like "Since you've gone", which is not included on the original soundtrack, is sung by the folk rock trio Bill, Mary and Tom in the movie. Through the framing of the lens, matching the content of the lyrics, it interprets the tense three-person emotional relationship within the group. Later, Tom sang "I'm easy" alone (this song can be found in all major music apps, and it seems to be a classic level in the United States). This is the next triangle relationship induced from the triangle relationship of the previous song. He Falling in love with the married husband Linnea, He sang for her. It also depends on this kind of group show, and the contrast is readily available. At the beginning, it was the scene of two recording studios immediately after the political broadcast. On the one hand, the disputed American independent two-hundred-year-old music recording, with obvious division of labor, with Hamilton dominating the whole situation, and songs praising the United States; on the other side was the spiritual singer Linnea. Leading a group of black choirs to record their music casually and freely, praising the Lord and faith here. This is the main tone of the film, criticizing American piety, but praising the individual freedom in the chaos, which is why the most moving music of the film is all about personal emotions, even if he is ethical.
Almost all the songs in "Nashville" are made by the singers who sing them, and the new sound effects are used to emphasize the authenticity again. I can finally understand that the appearance of this film in Yan's 100 blockbuster films is of great significance after all: after the sound film, the film has taken a small step on the road of portraying the truth.
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