I watched Ang Lee's production of Woodstock in the movie theater. It was the morning scene at 11:10 in the morning. There were only three people in the entire Gaumont hall where I watched this movie, including me. When I bought the tickets, I saw two other people in the same hall with me. They were a couple. When they chose to watch Quentin’s unscrupulous bastards or to watch this movie, they chose Li Ang, male. Said to women, would it be boring to watch Quentin's movies? So they and I walked into a hall.
What was the color of America in 1969? It can be seen that in this movie, Ang Lee wanted to say a lot about family, Vietnam War, freedom, music, rebellion, young generation, Jews, homosexuality. . . Perhaps everyone participating in this music festival will have a different impression of everyone, and each person will have a different description of each person, like a blind man touching an elephant, and everyone can only see part of it. I admire Ang Lee's courage and leap, he can play with ease on any subject in the East and the West. This time I chose the United States in 1969. 40 years later, a Chinese director looked at the United States in 1969. He brought us more ease.
What impressed me the most in the movie were the little people, like the cape. Of course, Elliot's actor Demetri Martin also had the temperament of the Americans in the 1960s, but those little people, especially Elliot's parents, left me the deepest. impression. Sonia Teichberg, who likes Elliot's mother, is played by Imelda Staunton. She immediately reminded me of Duane Hanson's sculptures. He was shopping in the supermarket in 1969, or the statue of the housewife and the shopping cart, which brought us the American women of peace in 69 years. The impression of Elliot’s mother has deepened. This mother’s temper, character, cuteness, and hatefulness have been portrayed vividly. Of course there is the equally wonderful Elliot father Jake Teichberg played by Henry Goodman.
The photography of the film is also remarkable. It was done by French photographer Eric Gautier. He also worked with many French directors before, Alain Resnais (Les herbes folles 2009, Coeurs, 2006), Arnaud Desplechin (Un conte de Noel, 2008) , Olivier Assayas (L'heure d'été 2008, Paris je t'aime, 2006) and so on. The color of this film is what I like very much. It will not be too gorgeous, not too plain, in short, it is just right.
There are also two impressive long shots, everyone on the way to the festival and on the way back from the festival, reminds me of Godard’s weekend for the first time. Ang Lee brought us the United States of 1969 that he chose, his colors, then 40 years later, (thinking of the 2009 Zhangbei Music Festival), we are still on the road, still pursuing music, freedom, and reality. What will we do? The color?
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