This is a film about a painter made by a painter. The film has director Julian Schnabel's thoughts on Van Gogh as a painter, his understanding of paintings, and his call for people to experience reality more deeply. I personally like the film "Diving Bell and Butterfly" before the director. This "Gate of Eternity" feels a bit superficial in terms of emotion and meaning, lacks depth and novelty, and feels a bit rushed.
The best part of this film should be Willem Dafoe's performance, coupled with the photographer's large number of hand-held and extremely close-up shots, giving people a feeling of being with the characters. The costume and make-up props are also very careful, like a praise.
At the scene I went to, there was a Willem Dafoe Q&A session after the film.
It feels like a very sincere and meaningful actor. After the host has said a lot of beautiful words, he will say "you've said many nice things, but I don't know", and then talk about your very real experience.
Regarding painting, he said that he learned to paint for this film. Every stroke in the painting is connected with other pens. In these connections, the whole painting has vitality. Regarding the special photography technique of this movie, he said that in some movies, you need to be aware of the camera, you have to get a kind of performance tension from it, and the other, you need to forget the camera, you forget that you are performing. , This film is the latter. For performance, he said that "pretending" is a very beautiful thing for performance. You make yourself transparent and let the characters infiltrate in, but you do not abandon yourself. Finally, when everything is naturally integrated, performance is a natural performance. . Regarding the choice of film projects, he said that what he values most is the film maker. If he is a very interesting and thoughtful person, then his film has something he thinks he can contribute to, he will take it without hesitation , As for the company, contracts, etc., he hardly considers things.
I didn't want to write a film review, but I really like Willem Dafoe's style. Under his influence, I wrote this gentle and honest film review.
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