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On this planet, it is estimated that no one can take the most boring moments of life so fascinating like Jamux. [Mystery Train] is the fourth feature film of Jia Muxu. He consolidated his relish on "communication syndrome" and shared his unique feelings of drifting and drifting. And the protagonist of this movie is definitely not a certain person or a certain city, but all the rushing passers-by and the short-stayed post station who are destined to leave in a foreign land. Goodbye "Elvis" The three stories in [Mystery Train] are a cheap hotel and a man whose name does not appear in the cast. That is Elvis, known as the "King of Rock". Presley-"Elvis". As an early blues music and rock music enthusiast, Jia Muxu unreservedly offered his personal most sincere tribute to "Elvis" in the film. From the title "Mystery Train" (a classic of "Elvis") Cover song) can be seen. In the first story, a young Japanese couple traveled across the oceans and came to Memphis from Yokohama, not for anything else, but to leave their footprints in this "land of blues", and visit the famous Sun recording by the way. Room (Sun Studio). However, in the face of the "simple and rude" streamlined commentators, they had no choice but to fail. After twilight fell, they stopped smoking a cigarette in front of the sculpture of "Elvis" and arguing about something-a typical Jamusch dialogue scene. Afterwards, they found a cheap hotel to stay and plan to visit the former residence of "Elvis Presley" the next day. In the second story, Luisa, a Roman who accidentally landed in Memphis due to a plane failure, failed to get rid of the trouble in the city. She was first forcibly promoted by the owner of the newsstand and bought a lot of inexplicable magazines. Then he was blackmailed by a local: In the coffee shop, the stranger told her a story about the appearance of the "Elvis" (a kind of inferior trick that specifically deceives foreign tourists) and asked her for $10. For Louisa, "Elvis" is just a famous foreign singer, she obviously loves books more than music. "Elvis" or David Bowie, it didn't make any difference to her, she was just a passerby who happened to stop in Memphis. In that hotel, she met Didi, who was also in bad luck. The two shared a room, and they had another unreliable conversation before going to bed. At midnight, Luisa really saw the ghost of "Elvis", who used "wrong place" to express her apology, which happened to be the same as Luisa herself "coming to a place that shouldn't have come (trapped Memphis). )” experience in contrast. If the first story is to pay homage to "Elvis" and the second story is an unexpected encounter with "Elvis", then this third story can be regarded as a tribute to "Elvis" Dismissively. Johnny from England was dubbed "Elvis" by his friends, but he didn't really like the name very much. Breaking up with his girlfriend (his girlfriend is Didi in the second story) and being fired from his job made him very disappointed, and he made trouble in the bar after drinking too much. Johnny’s best friend Will and Didi’s brother Charlie rushed to take him away from the bar. The three of them went to a wine shop, but they got Johnny guns off because of the boss’s racist words and actions against Will (Will is black) Shot it. The escaped three people drove through the streets of Memphis at midnight like wandering souls. In the car, they drank alcohol while talking nonsense, and finally came to the cheap hotel to take refuge, preparing to flee Memphis at dawn. These three stories each carry three different attitudes towards "Elvis Presley", and at the same time embodies the three-point summary of the relationship between people: pursuit, encounter and abandonment. For Memphis, the three groups of protagonists are all foreigners from other places (Japanese travelers, Roman strangers, British immigrants), and they all left Memphis for different reasons ( The journey ends, the flight resumes, and the accident runs off). Perhaps, in the eyes of Jamusch, all this is just their passing by with "Elvis Presley" and Memphis, which is the normal state of life. Ji Tong Ya said that Jia Mu Xu was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA. After graduating from high school, he went to Chicago to study at university, and then went to New York and Paris to develop. His early career has been spent in these wanderings, and his adaptation to strange environments and communication problems with strangers are more or less buried in his movies. The incompetent person living in a foreign land, the communication barrier between familiar or strangers, or the purposelessness in the dialogue has always been the characteristic of Jamusch. He once said: "I am only interested in the non-dramatic moments in my life. I don't like making movies with dramatic conflicts." So when the film is largely irrelevant, calm, and tepid chat When the dialogue appeared, people who knew him had become accustomed to it. In the short film [Coffee and Cigarette] in 1986, Jamusch showed a rather nonsensical dialogue: two men met in a coffee shop and talked endlessly, and one of them used to see the dentist for the other. The excuse left. This inexplicable and sensible exchange was brought to the extreme in Jamux’s 2003 [Coffee and Cigarette] feature film, which consists of 11 short films (including the previous three [Coffee and Cigarette] short films). In the movie, the characters have no names, only the most common relationships: distant relatives, old friends, strangers...Jamush puts all the embarrassment, conflict, and speechlessness on the dining tables, soaks a cup of coffee, and orders one. A cigarette allows the characters to express their own humor or silence, which is very life-like, and everyone should be able to find their own shadows. In the second story, the actors Shank Lee and Steve Buscemi also appeared in [Mystery Train]. In the short film, their respective roles are all strangers who came to Memphis from elsewhere. If we connect it with [Mystery Train], we will find that they have become waiters in caps and barbershop owners. They have become part of the city to welcome the arrival of new strangers. "[Coffee and Cigarette]-style" dialogue appears in every story of [Mystery Train]. The couple in the first story has different idols (girls like "Elvis", boys like Carl Parkin (S), there are different views on the Memphis train station (the girl thinks it is retro, the guy thinks it is too old), but these differences don't seem to be big enough to affect their getting along. In the second story, Louisa was entangled by people who came to strike up a conversation, and she didn’t know the "King" in the mouth of the striker. It wasn't until she heard Elvis's name that she suddenly realized that she was obviously in a passive position in this conversation. Disagreements and playing the piano are pervasive in these conversations, and compared to the lack of words in the dialogue, the barriers to communication may be more "terrible". Louisa was miserable by Didi’s tumultuous offensive, and throughout the dialogue In the process, she was the one who lost the right to speak; Charlie was even more miserable. He believed that Johnny was his own brother-in-law, but he was involved in a malicious wounding incident and was wanted. Finally, he was shot and injured a leg. , But in the end Johnny told him that he had never married Charlie's sister. The fallacy of communication made the third story a completely black humor. Moke's brushwork [Mystery Train] unfolds the narrative in three parallel timelines, and the story eventually moves towards the same node. This way of telling Kubrick was once used in [Killing]. In that movie, horse racing became the intersection of all separation clues. In [Mystery Train], "Elvis" affectionately played "Blue "Moon" kneaded three different paragraphs. At two midnight, the three groups of people heard the song at the same time in three places (including the front desk duo should be four groups), and this song brought different feelings to them. . In addition, the gunshot in the early morning is also a sign of establishing a point in time. It's just that in Jamusch's movie, the gunshot is just the gunshot, and it will not be the "organ" that triggers the new plot. No one is going to investigate what happened, and they continue to walk their own way. Even people who live in the same hotel and on the same floor seem to be separated by tens of thousands of miles without affecting each other. Whether it's a stranger who happened on the street, a lover who just broke up in the morning, or a sibling who hasn't been in contact for a long time, it's not as good as it is. The difficult feeling of alienation, as the eternal theme of Jamusu, can be expressed at this time. In both the first and second stories, Jiamuxu used a panning camera to track the progress of the characters, strolling through the streets of the city of Memphis, and a panning camera of Japanese couples carrying suitcases one after another. With a somewhat frivolous and a little weird Bruce, this mirror of Jamusch has also been used in [Outlaws]. On the one hand, the panning camera shows the people walking around in the city, but at the same time it is like the perspective of a bystander sitting in the car and looking out of the car. People who are lost in a strange city are like people who are lost on the road of life. Jia Muxu uses this two-way perspective of observation and being observed to accentuate the meaning of the act of "traveling" itself. In Jamusch’s films, music is never a disappointment. As we all know, in addition to film, he also has a career in bands, and his collaboration with "old guys" in the music industry has a long history. [Paradise Mo Ying] Jay Hawkins’s famous song "I Put A Spell On "You" has become the key to the story, and in [Mystery Train], Jia Muxu directly invited Hawkins to appear on the scene, playing the front desk of the hotel in a bright red suit. Although Jamusch’s good buddy Tom Weitz did not show his face in the film, he also gave his magnetic voice to the radio DJ in the film. In addition, the psychedelic blues played when the character is walking on the street add charm to the entire bland scene. The Japanese cool guy in the film told his girlfriend that the reason why he only used the camera to record the appearance of the hotel and the airport is because "those are things that are easy to forget." That means, she experienced this trip with him, he is I will never forget. Looking at it this way, Jia Muxu, who is full of aftertaste, is keen to photograph non-dramatic moments in life, perhaps because that is also something that people tend to forget. Published in the July 2014 issue of "Watching Movies Midnight Show"
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