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Want to come to Jean-Pierre Jeunet should be regarded as the 90s director with the most global box office potential among French live-action film directors. The production speed of his film is basically a meticulous work that only took a few years. From Micmacs à tire-larigot to this TS Spivet, it has been four years.
This is his first live-action 3D movie. Come to think of it, in addition to animation directors in France, in terms of live-action movies, only Jeunet's movie scenes, colors, patterns, and composition are the most suitable for making 3D movies. Early works such as Black Shop Rhapsody and Night of Lost Souls in Tong Meng all have the potential as 3D movies.
As a French and Canadian co-producer, the film was made in English. I wanted to come for global box office considerations. After all, the cost of 3D is completely different from the Titanic and the small sailboat compared to other French literary films.
Okay, let's start with a little spoiler.
The storyline is basically the same as in the trailer. TS has a pair of parents like day and night. His father is a cowboy. In TS’s words, his father lived more than a hundred years old and lived a life completely at the end of the 18th century. , Riding horses to graze, hunting with guns, and driving the pickup truck that may be a Ford brand. And his favorite moment is-in the evening in his living room, leaning on the sofa, breaking the chocolate in half, sandwiching the half on his feet, and letting the family dog lick it. Then, while drinking whiskey every 45 seconds.
His mother, Helena, (well, considering what Haijie always acts like,) is an entomologist who is obsessed with making various insect specimens.
TS has an older sister who likes acting and dreams of participating in MISS USA. As for her older sister, she always likes to complain about TS, just like every technical house has a Drama Queen sister.
Most importantly, TS also has a fraternal twin brother, Layton. Layton is a little cowboy, who inherited all the advantages of his father, brave, active, and love to play with guns. Because of this, Layton, when they were 10 years old, accidentally wiped a gun and went off fire on the horse farm at their home, and died in an accident.
And this makes TS, who is also only 10 years old, obsessed with science and created a shy technical mansion, hides the pain in his heart.
A large part of the trailer is about how TS escaped into the van, then evaded inspection and successfully overcome all difficulties to reach Washington. But in the movie, this is only about 1/4-1/5 of the movie. (This kind of movie with children as the protagonist is easy to accidentally be made into one of the series of The Home Alone.) Since it was made by Jeunet, it was just like in the long marriage contract between Emily and Emily. The story is actually as simple as a straight line, but it is constantly in the main line of the story, flashing back to the past stories, and the short stories between parents, brothers, and sisters. It's like, in a plane, there is only one straight line. When the straight line slowly extends to the distance, many rays join in, gradually constructing a three-dimensional story.
We see TS's crystal eyes, there are always waves. Why does a 10-year-old child carry sadness on his body?
The director is very clever, passing Layton's death for a while, and the absence of a child, letting the Buddha have no effect on this regular family? Do they still love each other?
Why didn't TS tell his family that he went to Washington to accept the award, and he went on the road alone?
Why did he declare to the academy and the media that he was an orphan before accepting the award?
These questions in the normal logic, the film is constantly inserting narratives, slowly solving one problem after another, lightly. At the same time, it also solved the knot of the little genius.
As far as the core concept of the whole story is concerned, it is not the path of French movies, but the mainstream value of the United States, about "family" and "love."
In the first half of the movie, watching the beautiful scenery of the American West in IMAX, and the soundtrack that Jeunet never disappoints, is like a love letter written by a French director to the American West.
However, there are always doubts in my heart, the French never really fall in love with the United States. Even eating McDonald’s, drinking Starbucks, watching American blockbusters, I never forget to stuff popcorn into my mouth while watching. But, after all, I never loved America in my heart.
In the second half of the movie, that is, before the TS award, the group of upper-class society flattered 10-year-old children; the secretary who seemed to be friendly and caring about TS, emphasized in front of everyone that this science award does not set an age limit, and how the reality is. Woolen cloth?
As a result, the film began to ridicule the media hype and propaganda. He even drank a handful of the American Academy of Sciences and the American Talk Show.
At the end, parents and TS are getting along well as before, and they are always the best of family members and care about themselves the most.
I don’t know if this movie will only be shown in France or will be shown in the United States.
If, if possible, please choose to watch IMAX as much as possible when watching this movie, so that you can realize the director's good intentions in choosing to present the beautiful scenery of the western United States in 3D.
Just as Jeune has always used warm-toned images to carry stories in movies, even with a trace of sadness in this film, it can't stop the warmth that overflows in the story, as well as the strength and carrying energy in the little back.
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