First cow

Brown 2022-01-20 08:01:15

The melodious background music slowly leads to the story of the two men. The rhythm is really slow, and at one time I thought it was a little difficult to stick to it. I don't know why looking at the details of their lives and the bridge section of the pastry business, there is always a sense of sight in the western double forest. But the more warm and loving the interaction and the popularity of the cake brought the first pot of gold to the success of the two, both reversely set off the dangerous situation of the two people’s tight-rope-like wealth and danger... the end of the film two People finally meet again. The wounded cookie and the exhausted Jin are taking care of each other and fleeing. For us who saw the ending of the two from the beginning, the slow and hopeful walking scene is too torturous. The director gave them to follow them. There are not many shots of the boy with a gun, but from the first shot, we have been tortured waiting for the gunshots in the quiet jungle... At the end Cookie couldn’t hold on to lie down, and Jin, who wanted to guard the guard, eventually became tired. Lying next to him, conveying the message of safety and only a short break to the audience, and then the camera freezes and the scene of the two lying together comes to an abrupt end... We never heard the gunshot, how did the two die? I don’t know, I just think that they have gone through hardships, lived diligently and earnestly, used all the wisdom they learned in that dangerous and greedy place, and still have sincerity and kindness. In the end, it will be a short dream... Maybe the only thing to be thankful for is They still have each other...

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  • Cassandra 2022-04-23 07:04:03

    Fixed camera and natural light photography, oil painting-like cool-tone filters, square format and slow and pure everyday empty shots - at the level of viewing, the film has been expressed as poetically and completely as possible, from the first frame onwards. Still very useful. Compared with the dark humorous story, it is too bland, and the presentation of the wild and the establishment of the characters are also slightly delayed. It can be called a surprise, but it is really not a classic.

  • Orin 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    4.5; It seems to be an alternative variation and delayed echo of "Yesterday's Joy", once again moved by Kelly Reichard's naturalism. In the “enclosed” forest space, there is always hope to look to the outside (corresponding to the composition and line of sight separated by the door and window frames), and there is always the influx of capital power that affects and changes the fate of the characters. The “first cow” becomes a glimpse of the pioneers The fulcrum of economic structure and personnel distribution in the period-from the early "development" of the two male protagonists with commercial awareness, to the final match and nurturing of the "master". The cruel westward journey presents a small part of history with the mutual sympathy of meeting by the water, not without warmth and humor, rippling with fine and shallow tenderness, like a rustle stepping on a fallen leaf field, like a beep of a flame rolling over a branch, like a stream of water Hey Nao who has been able to use the oars (the daily shots are so good!), they met in the vast world and never abandoned each other, and they sought mutual dependence in the greedy and wild land. They embraced the earth with the drive of flesh and blood. Intersection.

First Cow quotes

  • Fort Trapper: She's a very fine cow.

  • King-Lu: I think we should test the waters. Next batch, Cookie, we'll take to market. I've heard a fortune is made on this.

    Cookie: That seems dangerous.

    King-Lu: So is anything worth doing.